Sorry dude but you're fucked.

If they have only been in flower for one week and they are now touching light, wait til about another 3 weeks and see how tall they get.

In other words, the worst is yet to come.

A tie down at this point is indeed the only logical solution, but with so much more stretching to do, I not sure even that will suffice.

You may want to consider radical changes...lie the plant horizontal and let her flower from that position.

The buds will find a way to turn up towards the light...and...being its only one week into flower, they will do quite nicely.

Another option is doable, but takes balls of iron.

Snap the main Kola. Dont break it off, just snap it so it falls over. However, this may not be enuff either as the majority of the stretching is to come still.

Plan on 3/4" a day in height growth, if your plant is healthy and vigorous.

If I were you...

I would lay her on her side, OFF the floor or table. Simply run a series of shoe strings or cushioned twisty ties and suspend her from the ceiling, under the lights. She should be relatively completely horizontal.

Position either the plant or the light so the plant and the filament of the HPS run parallel to each other. Focus the main light on the top 2/3 of the plant and get some CFL really close to the lower 1/3 and keep a fan on the soil container.

Good luck.
HARDDON Reviewed by HARDDON on . HPS Question for flowering... urgent! I am flowering for the first time. My plants were left in veg state for a long time because I was going to clone to determine sex. My clones died and I decided in my impatience to just flower the plants. By this point, one of them is over 5 feet tall. They've been flowering for one week (I think they're both female). My problem is, the tall one is almost touching the bulb of my 400W HPS (which is hung as high as it can possibly go). The top parts of the plant are dying off because of Rating: 5