Plants are too tall - 3 weeks into budding - help

[NZ_]

Basically every day I have been tying them down and pulling them away from the lights and they just keep growing closer and closer and in the space of like 2 hours I have to pull them back.

[M_C]

There are 2x 600w HPS and 1x 400w HPS.

There is 1 light per plant (3 plants total).

Someone isn't telling the truth....!

[NZ_]

Someone isn't telling the truth....!

What do you mean? Do you want me to show you lol? I had 8 plants and 5/8 were male or hermie. I am left with 3. The photo you are referring to is from before I switched to 12/12 and got rid of 5.

[Jingo]

So that's why you were clearly showing us more than three plans, I figured about the only reason a person would have for being dishonest about numbers is if they were over the limit.

So when people talk about a super crop maybe you don't understand exactly what that means. What you do is you pinch and squeeze the stems until they soften up to the point where you can bend them over easy and then you tie them down, after that they grow pretty much horizontally for a while.



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My 2020 outdoor grow autos and photos in pots

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[NZ_]

So that's why you were clearly showing us more than three plans, I figured about the only reason a person would have for being dishonest about numbers is if they were over the limit.

So when people talk about a super crop maybe you don't understand exactly what that means. What you do is you pinch and squeeze the stems until they soften up to the point where you can bend them over easy and then you tie them down, after that they grow pretty much horizontally for a while.



J

My 2020 outdoor grow autos and photos in pots

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Hey, yeah I totally understand, sorry I should have detailed that the photos were from different times. The one with the small plants - was showing the size all the plants were before I switched.

This is the current situation:






In terms of super cropping - just watched 10 youtube videos on that - I see now.

So the answer is:

- Don't cut them shorter
- Supercrop the big stems and hold them in place
- Pray to the gods that it works

Next time - change the light cycle to 12/12 when the plants are like 40cm tall - cos these went from 70cm to over 2m in 3 weeks.

[NZ_]

My only other option is to break cover and move the plants to my garage and bud them out there for 3 weeks and nobody come over and lose all stealth.

[Lowrollerbean]

Agreed with above I'd be pinching them bitches and bending them straight over, strains can double or triple during flower, how is temp between day and night?

[NZ_]

Agreed with above I'd be pinching them bitches and bending them straight over, strains can double or triple during flower, how is temp between day and night?

18 celcius at night - 64f for those who don't use the metric system and 24-26c (78f) when the lights are on.

[Jay_GY]

You could remove the rope ratchets... Hang the lights with very short chain or wire could give you an inch or to more of height adjustment looking at the photos could also try and bend the reflectors to the shape of the roof but I'd only do that if they are cheapy ones. Other than that others have covered everything

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[NZ_]

You could remove the rope ratchets... Hang the lights with very short chain or wire could give you an inch or to more of height adjustment looking at the photos could also try and bend the reflectors to the shape of the roof but I'd only do that if they are cheapy ones. Other than that others have covered everything

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Haha funny you say that - that is exactly what I ended up doing as well as super cropping.