Diary PCBuds mini-grow

[PCBuds]

Do an heavy stress training to the top.
Take with your thumb and forefinger the stem and move them left and right many time (each time with a little more force than the first one) until you hear a "crack". Tha you can point the top down side. In 1-2 days she recover.

Like tomato, an adult cannabis plant can substain a brutal ammount of damage.

The problem is that I don't know if I need to limit her stretch.
My last few plants have all been too short.

I don't know if she's going to stretch 20% or 100%.

Reiko's last plants were on the window sill and ended up at 32" tall but I'm not sure how much of that was stretch. (I'll check my thread and see if I can find the numbers), but it may be a different rate in the closet.


I intend to keep growing Reiko's in the closet, so I think I'll just leave this one alone to see what happens to try and set up a baseline for the next plant.

 

[PCBuds]

I scanned through my thread and I couldn't find any measurements of the window plants when they started their stretch, lots of pictures though and I had measurements of the closet plant.

I found one post where the window plants were 19" and 21" but they were well into their stretch by then.

 

[Sampas92]

If you get just the ceiling strips running harder maybe you will limit her stretch in height?

Let her go buds, let her spread her wings

 

[PCBuds]

If you get just the ceiling strips running harder maybe you will limit her stretch in height?

Let her go buds, let her spread her wings

Yeah, I've got all the lights just past the test current now. (they get too hot if I turn them up any higher.)

If I find that she ends up getting too tall, I might put a bunch of 5000k strips on the walls for the next plant.

I think I'm going to run all the lights from start to finish for my next grow.

I'll turn the ceiling lights to max right from the start again because I was only getting 8000 lux at the soil.

My new lux meter should help me keep an eye on things when it gets here.
Right now it's hard to get a sideways lux reading with my phone.

My bottom side lights are 10.5" from the center of the planter and would probably be too bright at full blast for a seedling.

 

[ReikoX]

Oh man !!!
I dunno about that.
I really don't think I could pull that off without snapping my plant in half.
I don't want to be practicing a new technique on a plant that is looking so awesome.

The beauty of this technique is you do it wherever you were going to top. So if you snap it, its the same as topping it. You can do this all the way through flower if you need to. So continue to LITFA until you run into a height issue.

 

[PCBuds]

I'm curious to see what kind of ReikoX plant I get in the closet.
A sativa type, or an indica, or something in between.

What I liked about his two window plants was that they ended up at the exact same height, even thought they stretched out completely different from each other.

 

[PCBuds]

The beauty of this technique is you do it wherever you were going to top. So if you snap it, its the same as topping it. You can do this all the way through flower if you need to. So continue to LITFA until you run into a height issue.

Oh, OK.

I thought I was supposed to do it now.

That's fine then. I'll give it a go.

How much of the top do I bend.

 

[ReikoX]

Depends on how tall it gets.

I'm pretty sure you will have plenty of room.

 

[PCBuds]

Depends on how tall it gets.

I'm pretty sure you will have plenty of room.

OK, I'll wait and see how she grows out.

I'll make sure that I'm sober when I decide to do any orthopedic plant surgery. Lol

 

[PCBuds]

The window plant is coming to life...

 

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[PCBuds]

She's opened up and flattened out.
She's kinda tall and skinny.
I swapped the 2700k bulb for a 5000k daylight bulb to try and keep her from stretching too much.

 

[PCBuds]

The closet plant is really stretching. She's 29" tall now.
I want to help reduce the stretch so I changed my light timing from 16/8 to 18/6.

I'll keep an eye on the plant to see if she starts flaking out well before lights out time, in case she's getting too much light.

She's getting really thirsty now too.
About 1.5 liters a day.

 

[Sampas92]

 

[PCBuds]

She's almost 32" tall today.
It looks like I might have to do some height training?
She's got 13" until she hits the lights.

Should I think about bending her top over soon?
Will she grow at all after I LST her top?

 

[Caio]

You can do it at any time.

If you do it now, and the plant is still streching, the top will grow.

 

[PCBuds]

Yea, she is stretching like crazy right now.

How long does a plant tend to stretch?

It's been stretching 1.5"-2" a day.

Maybe I should start now?

She's got about 10" total that I am comfortable letting her grow.

 

[PCBuds]

I assume that she will stop stretching above the break, but keep stretching from below.

Maybe I could bend over a small part of the top where the stem is softer, then she can still stretch 10 more inches from beneath that point?

Then I'm not risking as much of my main cola.