my plant has overgrown my room, will it stop ? 2 weeks into flowering

[noty johnson]

I realize the first two weeks of flowering is the stretch phase... What about after that?

I let my WW go 5 weeks in veg (long story) and now after 2 weeks of flower it is out of control. The 3" net pots in my aero system can barely support it, and i'm out of room to raise my light.

Will it stop getting taller or does it continue to grow the entire 8 weeks of flowering? If i have to start pulling it over a bit, is this going to screw it up? The buds are starting to form nicely already

I'll get pics at 7 when the lights go off

[xxxhazexxx]

if has got to big then bend it and tie down inplace

[noty johnson]

just measured, its 4 feet tall.. but its been topped twice so it has 4 mains and is very bushy.

If i tie the "colas" down it wont screw anything up, this late into flowering? If it doesnt grow anymore i'll be ok, but if it goes another 6" or 1 foot im screwed

thanks

[GaGrown]

If you tie them down or at least back! You would increase the light to them as well as get a bit more yeild.

Ga Grown!

[fasts102376]

i agree with gagrown make sure u r carefull not to break them.. i do it all the time and you'll be surprise how many budsites u end up with... just pull it apart alittle one day come back the next day do alittle more. just be very carefull,if u break it tie it back up and tape it.. i hope this helped alittle... godd luck..:-)

[noty johnson]

the plant already has buds growing! you guys are sure its not too late to do this? can anyone answer when/if it will stop growing?

this is my first grow,

thanks

[Abattoir Dream]

no, it will still grow, it should grow better actually, if you tie it down so the budsites are more even and so they get more light, your buds will be much better, but dont go overboard, do it gradually if you have to, if you tie it down to fast, you could stress it into being a bit of a hermie, which would suck..

If its 2 weeks into flowering, it should stop growing soon anyway, so just tie it down gradually, and keep us posted :) - good luck...

[noty johnson]

here is a picture, a little over 4 feet

[brookerosebud]

either bend them down (always fine, even in the last days b4 harvest) or pinch the stem till it cracks/crushes, and it will fall over. in about 4 hours, it will be healed and growing toward the light again.

bend them, you still have a week or two of stretching to deal with...

love, brooke

[GaGrown]

I've used Brookes,suggestion on many outdoor grows and seems to work well! But the reasons behind me doing it is for the fact that they are harder to see! It'll shock them for a bit but they seem to bounce back and it increased my yeild as well! So in your case it may be best to take cuts and toss them.It's space you seem to be concerned about and not yeild or hiding them.They are in a room!

Ga Grown!

[TheGreenFog]

Well, I wouldn't necessarily call 2 weeks "late into flowering", but you definitely have a couple more weeks of stretching to go. Sorry :( You can try pulling them over gradually, but I would be very careful not to break them.

Below I posted pictures of one of the plants we broke and taped back together. You can see how it repaired itself...

Then it went hermie and pollinated the whole crop. Becareful.

Maybe this strain was just sensitive to that, but I'd becareful anyway. Pulling them back will help you with your height and possibly shine some light on the rest of the undergrowth for a better yeild.

Brooke, isn't that "mashing" of the stem (supercropping) similar to snapping it? Wouldn't it produce the same type of stress when done during flowering??

Good luck, noty. Break a leg...:p



The Fog :rastasmoke:

[noty johnson]

im not gonna break it, sounds too risky.

i'll just gradually pull them over.

I know two weeks isnt late into flowering, but i meant is it too late to start LSTing.. just like its late to cut a clone.

thanks for your suggestions.. it hasnt seemed to get much taller in the last day or so, so hopefully i can do nothing. Buds are looking nice... bud sites all over the place

[Weedhound]

My last batch I list'd three weeks in. I did have a problem in that I was not prepared for the jump in growth they went through once light hit everyone equally. Had to do a very quick increase in nutes to keep what I think was an iron def or something on the run....then they did great....doubled my yield. This batch I just started bending yesterday and upped the nutes in hopeful anticipation. I was hoping to wait until they had shown sex and then only do the females but they are just getting too bushy. Here is a tip I found to be true in bending which is probably a duhhh to everyone else. If you tie one side down it seems to bend quite far without a problem which made me think the other side would bend equally far. NOT true! It pays to be gentle.

[noty johnson]

updated pics. 3 weeks into flowering.. was able to tilt it over and make it grow somewhat sideways, which saved me from running out of room

comments?

[mrberrys]

hey noty johnson.. well i must say your plant looks very nice and big.. i hope you have plenty of light to penetrate that bitch.. if so you will be fine.. keep us updated :rastasmoke:

[harris7]

im not gonna break it, sounds too risky.

i'll just gradually pull them over.

I know two weeks isnt late into flowering, but i meant is it too late to start LSTing.. just like its late to cut a clone.

thanks for your suggestions.. it hasnt seemed to get much taller in the last day or so, so hopefully i can do nothing. Buds are looking nice... bud sites all over the place

hey man i'm kinda in the same situation
i put a nice big plant into flowering and it's just exploded. it's about 2ft tall from top of pot now. Not as big as yours. I just a problem cus it's bigger than all my other flowering plants; so they all get shitty light intensity now.

Anyways. Lst away. stress isn't always bad, little amounts of stress make your plant grow faster and LSTin really thickens up the steams.

The pinching tech. brook talked about is good. I've never used it,but only because i fear hurting the girls (same as you)
but i've seen pro growers in videos pinching and snapping the steams of their top colas when they get to close to the light.
it's acutely a good think. A horizontal cola gets way more light than a vertical one, so it'll boost the yield of that cola.

[noty johnson]

good deal.. i have a 400W HPS right above it.

I had a couple small other plants but they were male. So surely a single 400W HPS is enough for 1 big ass plant. Its about 4.5 feet from base to top if stretched out. It also got topped twice so it has 4 main colas.

This is my first grow, we'll see what i get.

I know this is an annoying question, but seeing what you see anyone got a guess on Yield? its white widow from the internet, grown aeroponically.

I just want some sort of ballpark.. i have no remote idea what to expect!

[Weedhound]

GROWING NOW FOR YOU ISN'T IT NOTY???:D

[noty johnson]

yeah its come a long way from a dying sprout! thanks everyone for your help and patience. I'm sure as it gets closer to harvest time i'll have a lot more questions.

[kindprincess]

my 2 pennies on super cropping.

i pinch the stems until i "feel" it crack, and the branch goes limp at that spot. no true injury, no weeping, no shock. they seem to recover within a day... pinch too hard, and.... well, i'm sure you know.

kp