almost 3 weeks from flip had to tie my buds up

are my stems weak or are my buds wieghing to much for my stems. i walked into my room today and all my branches fall over, wtf. so i had to fix them to tomato stakes.

Well if your plants are big, like two ish or longer month veg the branches can get heavy enough to break without any buds on them at all. The biggest factor is how wet the plant is usually. Dry plants break much more easily than wet ones. every time ive come out to an 80 dollar branch laying on the ground its been when the plants are dry. The other thing you can do is add silica. Read into it and youll see the possible benifits. Im no plant biopsyer (made THAT word up ) but i know what the literature says about silica. I think it works often in one application. But i never did side bys and biopsied the plant after

Alienwidow said:

Well if your plants are big, like two ish or longer month veg the branches can get heavy enough to break without any buds on them at all. The biggest factor is how wet the plant is usually. Dry plants break much more easily than wet ones. every time ive come out to an 80 dollar branch laying on the ground its been when the plants are dry. The other thing you can do is add silica. Read into it and youll see the possible benifits. Im no plant biopsyer (made THAT word up ) but i know what the literature says about silica. I think it works often in one application. But i never did side bys and biopsied the plant after

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im trying out lst for first time, yer the plant had more heads but weaker stem, im also trying a new product the hydro store told me put more wieght on my buds. so i dont know.
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thats normal… I go into flower knowing I need to or don't need to stake (9/10 times I need to stake, a few indices can hold their own though). You have to plan ahead to stake to ensure no brake age… if you have access to tomato cages place them in veg when the plants just 12 inches tall or so and let them grow around it, I've done this with much success.

I recently ran a strain I hadn't flowered for almost 2 years, totally forgot about it's growth style (and had no notes on it on my notebook)… any who… the day I planned to stake it up I walked in to not only find a broken, beyond repair branch but a branch I had pollenated just 2 days before…. luckily as I harvested it i found out my sloppy ass pollenated a few other lower buds that came through so pulled about 15 beans or so so far between trimming and rolling 2 joints.

i tie mine up, but to keep them more uniformed. i did have to tie some up my last grow. much like alien said, i opened the tent and a couple of branches with super nice tops where damn near on the ground. lol...oops. tied those bitches up

i usely only have that problem in week 6 of flower not week 2