PROBLEM: Long Veg, Big Ladies, No space to flower??

[Pops]

Really, with 45 plants at 6' tall in a 77 sf area, you have no chance of flowering them all. You are going to just wind up with spindly plants with little yield. best to cut down the number and work with what you can fit into the room.

 

[Guest]

a six foot veging sativa alone will become a monster in flower but 40 forget about it...now you with these little indicas saying look what i can do...apples to oranges my friend...

nothin beats lst! supercroping will stunt them b4 they recover, LST is LOW-STRESS check this out.... 3 plants, heavy lst, plenty of tops [but never 'topped'] pic is end of week3

plants are only like 3' vertical height and were vegged for 6-7weeks.

 

[Guest]

The room is 13' x 9' x 9', I just double checked. I have about 2.5' above the two tallest tops, everything else has about 3' to go. The really weak ones (6-8) will be plucked. I have some space to play with so I'll be separating them some and tying them down. They have stakes that are 3' high so they will probably get tied down at 4' . I'm not sure if I should tie them down before I go 12/12 or as soon? How much time for the bud sites to look up?

I normally run a lot of plants in a small area, large scale SoG of sorts. This is my first run in dirt so I wasn't sure what to expect with the timing, they stretch like mad in rw and gh. I was planning on using 2gal buckets, in kiddie pools, but then shit got busy in real life (hah) and I had to put it on hold.. Transfered to 3gal, then 5gal.. But they are going 12/12 this week, or next (depending on what y'all suggest). Btw, they don't look as great as they did a couple of weeks ago, they were really bushy and scary (in a beautiful-i-dont-know-wtf-im-gonna-do) kind of way.. Sort of glad they had a bit of an over dry and shed some leaves.. I'm going to trim them 1-2' from the soil bed up.

Any way enough ranting, im baked, as I hope all of you are...

 

[Guest]

again butcher them and have as you say mad clones for next round...dont worry you can cut them down to 2 feet and they will still be 4-6 ft plants before its over...the hard part is over

 

[Dignan]

My advice... look up an old thread on here by a guy named Herbologist... he did some Pot of Golds using his method of "cutting back" like 60% of a plants growth right before flower... the plants turned into enormous bushes, but short. I haven't tried it and can't vouch for the method, Im just saying you might want to look up the old thread.

 

[capthardbud]

to tall lay her down

to tall lay her down

flooid if she is in a pot get yourself a bigger pot or a big grow bag pull her out of the old pot or just cut the pot away put her in new pot laying her down then tie her down in a few main areas and wala now she will send her tops up,cut some clones and share with close friends,

 

[Guest]

Do the smart thing bro like I said way earlier,all these other options are non starters.Take preferably pistilless cuts from near the bottom of the phenotypes you want to keep,that is the smart thing to do.If you throw those into 12/12 LST,supercropping and the erbal gods combined wont be able to help you.You may find in the future that seedplants are not worth growing out under any circumstances,like I did.Chalk this up as a lesson and do the intelligent thing.

 

[DumpsterDiver]

Paclobutrazol will stymie the vertical stretch.

Worked for me.

 

[Dignan]

Do the smart thing bro like I said way earlier,all these other options are non starters.Take preferably pistilless cuts from near the bottom of the phenotypes you want to keep,that is the smart thing to do.If you throw those into 12/12 LST,supercropping and the erbal gods combined wont be able to help you.You may find in the future that seedplants are not worth growing out under any circumstances,like I did.Chalk this up as a lesson and do the intelligent thing.

This is obviously the most intelligent option. Genius. All the other options posted are utter silliness. What a bunch of non-starters!

:wink:

 

[Guest]

Do the smart thing bro like I said way earlier,all these other options are non starters.Take preferably pistilless cuts from near the bottom of the phenotypes you want to keep,that is the smart thing to do.If you throw those into 12/12 LST,supercropping and the erbal gods combined wont be able to help you.You may find in the future that seedplants are not worth growing out under any circumstances,like I did.Chalk this up as a lesson and do the intelligent thing.

These are clones, one pheno, all from the same mom. I normally flip them early, I let them root and veg for a couple of weeks. This is why I need help with the extra lights, I need to use the whole space now since ive let them over run the room.. I know what you're saying, its just I can't.... :\

I can't bring myself to trim them all down, I may cut a few up for clones and make more space but I doubt I'd be anywhere under 45. They take about 75-80 days to finish once they start flowering.

Light mover is in on Monday..

 

[Guest]

I know,it took me awhile to realize growing out seedplants is a mild form of insanity,clones or seedplants what you're going to have is a vertical stretch problem,the way you describe it I see no other real options.Moving the light on a mover will result it you whacking the tops of em once they start stretching.I hope I'm wrong bro,good luck

 

[Guest]

If I top them to like 3' ill have like 1' of bush at the tops.. If I give them 2 weeks to heal/veg, you think they would do alright? I don't think that is enough time to let them grow out new tops... :\

i'm burning the midnight oil.. ill be back later to think out loud..

 

[Guest]

By the time you mangle the tops off the plants,put them into 12/12, let them recover and flower out,you could have vegged rooted cuts and almost flowered them out.Whatever you decide to do, take pistiless cuts from near the bottom of the plants for future grows.I wouldn't "top" a plant unless I had a very minimum of 10 days veg left,I like a couple weeks.EDIT Thats another option,whack the top couple feet off,veg for 2 more weeks then flower.I'd just take cuts and chalk it up to a learning experience

 

[Cr0n0]

What about using bushmaster? That should halt all vertical growth and induce flowering. Anybody who has used this should chime in.

 

[Guest]

I'd like to see the miracle product that could stop a 6.5 foot haze plant from growing through an 8.5 foot ceiling and into the apartment or attic above after 12/12 or 11/13 commences,that would be a trick.You know impatience can be a real ball buster when you're tryin to be successful,there is really only one logical route to take in a situation like that.