My plant stretched like crazy

ndogg

ndogg

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So I have a nirvana special strain that I am growing, I put it in my flowering room when it was 17". Within two weeks it had grown to 38"! After that I had went on vacation for a week, when I came back it had stretched to 56". I have since then tied string across the room and tied it down. My question is right now it is in a three gallon pot, should I transplant it to a five gallon pot?
 
hellraizer30

hellraizer30

Rebel From The North
with a stretch like that I would assume its not going to yield much. I would look into a strain that has a shorter genetic profile
 
warfey

warfey

Active Member
I'd leave the buckets alone.your already 3-4 weeks into flowering.The streching should stop and then just continue on with the 3 gallon buckets
 
darkdestruction420

darkdestruction420

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is the 3 gallon filled with roots? i regularly transplant my plants to larger containers when they fill up the 3 gallons. if you'd like you could do it to one and see what you think for next time, or you could transplant all but 1 of them. Either way i say if the roots have filled the 3 gallon its time to move up, i dunno why but some people have this phobia of transplanting in flower, i do it all the time and its perfectly fine, i would do it within the next week or 2 if i was you, the sooner the better because it will be able to have as big of an effect as possible.
 
ndogg

ndogg

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Yeah it looked like a dang chrismas tree before I bent her down. It stretched so much that the one day I went to check on it and it had grown three inches above my HPS. I usually like to keep my plants around the three foot size, but this was a seed from nirvana's indoor seed pack. The roots still have room to grow seeing how I transplated it right before I flowered it. Just to give you anodes of my set up, my flowering room is 4'x4'x8, and I am using a 400w MH and a 400w HPS. I am also doing all organic, using a super soil.
 
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kepitgrn

Active Member
omg! that plants a monster..lol..yeah,for sure re-plant it start with a minimum 5gal bucket,or bigger for any plant the more room u give the roots the better..i would go with a 10gal for anything that is 3ft or more...amazon.com sells nice 10gal nursery pots that are @ $6.00 a piece...
 
Dirt Bikin Buds

Dirt Bikin Buds

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When you say stretch do you mean just the stems or did it keep filling in too? Can you post a pic?

If I were in your shoes I would transplant to a 5gal or 7 gallon bucket or bag. Try to be very careful and dont stress the plant.
 
jrinlv

jrinlv

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Get some phosphoLoad, it's expensive, but I only use it for 3 days and it helps a lot. Just give it to your flowering plants when they get the height you want them to stay at. A buddy turned me on to it and I think it works. but like I said it's about 50 bucks for the small bottle. So it's not for everyone....JR
 
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Project Arc

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Correct me if im wrong people but this is just suggesting a little help im not sure what his problem is:

Your current problem may be:

a) Your using an underpowered light for the marijuana your trying to grow - try something more powerful like an hps found at your local hardware store for a couple hundred bucks.
b) You have came across something that you have been scammed on if you have the correct lighting and you planted the seed correctly etc etc... -.- sucks to be you buddy, good luck next time maybe look into your seed seller before you purchase it. Could be a dud!

Proj
 
jrinlv

jrinlv

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Project Arc said:
Correct me if im wrong people but this is just suggesting a little help im not sure what his problem is:

Your current problem may be:

a) Your using an underpowered light for the marijuana your trying to grow - try something more powerful like an hps found at your local hardware store for a couple hundred bucks.
b) You have came across something that you have been scammed on if you have the correct lighting and you planted the seed correctly etc etc... -.- sucks to be you buddy, good luck next time maybe look into your seed seller before you purchase it. Could be a dud!

Proj
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Wow good first post j/k
welcome to RIU, look around and read a lot.

I would say he has a good light seeing how he said this strain is giving him problems, ie he has grown others fine..

But believe me, you are preaching to the quire about dud seeds, The last three I have tried blew for me.. Again welcome. JR
 
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Project Arc

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jrinlv said:
Wow good first post j/k
welcome to RIU, look around and read a lot.

I would say he has a good light seeing how he said this strain is giving him problems, ie he has grown others fine..

But believe me, you are preaching to the quire about dud seeds, The last three I have tried blew for me.. Again welcome. JR
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I appreciate your ediquit in depth use of your capitals on JR it really makes me feel somewhat important that you labelled me with capitals. Maybe you can call me captain for now on and get outta the spot light for a little :) your mouse is in your right and your dick in your left switch it up so your arm doesn't look so fucked. Im no preacher a helper i may say and your the quior or queers reading it at 5:30 in the morning right :) let buddy take my advice he posted it up and i replied thanks weiner

proj
 
jrinlv

jrinlv

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Now your at post 10, good job much better than your first post.

we can sword fight if that's what your into I guess, but what?

and I put JR so you don't think jr. That's all. Take off the pantyhose I said welcome after all.. jr (better?)
 
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Project Arc

Member
blah blah tisk tisk nice to meetcha all get used to it...i could sit here and flood the forum and get 700 whatever your posts are idc doesnt matter what your rep is on a site its what you know my friend... good luck in your cultivating long roads ahead
 
ndogg

ndogg

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Just so you all know all the othe strains I've grown I have had no problems with. I have plenty of light for the space that I am growing in Project Arc, and about the straight it isn't a great strain for everyone it's pretty much a pure sativa so this is gonna be a long grow, it also explains the stretching. Soundes like to me that nirvana threw this strain in thier mix pack to get rid of them. I wish I could post some pics but all I got is an iPhone and it won't let me, or I just can't figure it out. I also just transplanted it to a five gallon bucket. It was perfect timing, the roots had just reached the pot. If anyone has some pointers on posting pics with an iPhone please let me know.
 
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