Need some advice

My plants are at 16 days of flowering and they wont stop stretching. They were started at an average of 11" and now they are at 31". I know that some strains can triple in height but damn! This is only the second week.

The seeds were given to me and were supposed to be NL but who knows with free seeds. They could be (and most likely are) F2's or beyond.

I have been keeping the 400 HPS a lot closer then I normally would to try to stop the stretch but it hasn't helped at all. I keep telling myself that they'll stop growing vertically and start working on buds any day but whenever I look in on em it seems like they're 3" taller then last time.

When I started flowering them I was planning on some 20 - 25" plants at the end of flowering and thought that my pots would be big enough but now that I have these four monsters I'm thinking about putting another one outside and repotting the best looking three into bigger pots. I've read that you can safely repot up untill the 3rd week of flowering but what do you all think?

They have tons of fresh cool air blowing on them enriched with CO2. They are fed using "Earth Juice - Bloom" every other watering.

Anyway they are forming nice flower clusters but if they dont stop growing they'll be 12' tall when they're done. lol

I'll attach some pics. The first will be them at 1 week of flowering and the others are ones I just took today (16 days). Sorry but the HID was on while I took these pics.

If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate them.

Laterz

That's funny, I hope that doesn't happen to my first serious grow. I've read that the red spectrum of light causes stretching, and switching the light cycle to 12/12 will stop veg growth. I presume you know that already though.

Don't worry about the stretch Sativa, this is completly normal, even in your case. The plant will stop very soon. Once that main strtech is done, all the plant will do is bud now filling up those stretched out budsites.

Don't fret man, they look good! Completly normal. I've had some plants more than triple their height before, but yours are shwoing some main bud on top now. That is a good sign that the main strtech is done, and now the calyxs will start forming and swelling...creating buds.

Peace :)

It will stretch for up to 30 day's. Most slow the stretching after 21 day's but they normaly stop at 30 day's. If they stretch after that you have the lights to far away and they feel they need to reach for it.

WOW, they look nice for a 400watt
good JOB


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HE FLOWERED at 10 INCHES and they are already 31 inches TALL
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Thanks for the replies all. I'll be posting some more pics this Friday and we'll see how much more they've grown since these pics.

Thanks again

Laterz