5.5 weeks old i feel like shes really small
Not gonna lie I didnt know much when I first planted it I have tried to learn as much as I can it is a pain to water
Kamau42
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Well it looks good so you're doing something right.
Thank you I know she's short because I had my light 2 close at the beginning and she didn't have to reach I just feel like she's short and bushy
DancesWithWeeds
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Here's an easy way to tie it down. It's works really well. Use rubber bands and pipe cleaners. The rubber band keeps constant tension on the plant. If you just tie it down you have to keep adding tension.
Here is an example. There's a rubber band holding this. leave it like this for a day or two and then tighten the rubber band. Be careful not to break it. If it breaks tape it up with electrical tape.
You can keep tightening down until it is horizontal.
This took about three or for days. You can tie the whole plant down like this. It's easier if you drill holes along the top edge of the pot to tie to. This isn't my pot so no holes.
Here is an example. There's a rubber band holding this. leave it like this for a day or two and then tighten the rubber band. Be careful not to break it. If it breaks tape it up with electrical tape.
You can keep tightening down until it is horizontal.
This took about three or for days. You can tie the whole plant down like this. It's easier if you drill holes along the top edge of the pot to tie to. This isn't my pot so no holes.
DancesWithWeeds
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It doesn't take much stretch of the rubber band. Use lighter rubber bands and pull easy.
It doesn't take much stretch of the rubber band. Use lighter rubber bands and pull easy.
No! Your light was not "too close". The fact that she's short and bushy indicates that you gave her a good amount of light.
Light is how a plant makes food — your plant received enough light so that it didn't have to "reach for the light". Instead it's got a lot of (smaller) leaves and branches.
After three years of traipsing around three cannabis sites, my view is that many (most) growers don't give their plants near enough light and then end up with tall, slender plants, with large leaves, large "internodal space", and limited yield.
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Once the plant is flipped to flower, it will fill most of the tent (that's why I grow only one plant at a time).
A look into the foliage. The metal "ring" is how I do LST - I hang lead fishing weights from shower curtain hooks to bend the branches down. Most of the branches in these photos have 2 2 ounce weights on the branches.
This grow is from a year ago.
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Nugnewbie
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I know this is an old post, but I am curious what approximate weights of fishing weights do you generally use? I assume they might vary with the thickness of the branches you are weighing down, so not sure if you use a variety of different weights or not.
The weights range from ¼ ounce to 1 ounce. The ¼ ounce are for the early stages and they don't get much use. I end up with a lot of branches with at least 2 ounces on the branch.
And, from my Amazon order history, it looks like I'm well supplied with hooks to hang the weights
Those hooks work well for LST and they also come in handy to during harvest when I use them to hang small branches from paracord.
Nugnewbie
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Thank you. Lol, it's a good thing the hooks are cheap, or you'd be broke, heh. I grow in SIPs, so not easy to tie down anywhere, so this is a good solution.The weights range from ¼ ounce to 1 ounce. The ¼ ounce are for the early stages and they don't get much use. I end up with a lot of branches with at least 2 ounces on the branch.
And, from my Amazon order history, it looks like I'm well supplied with hooks to hang the weights
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Those hooks work well for LST and they also come in handy to during harvest when I use them to hang small branches from paracord.
Yeh, where did I put all of those S hooks?
SIP's look like a great way to grow. The fishing weights should do a good job for you.
