Plant shooting past the others!

Ogracious

Ogracious

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I have a problem...

One of my plants is shooting past the others and I have to keep raising my lights. I don't want to raise my lights too far from the canopy, but my options are pretty limited going into the second week of flowering. Any ideas?

This is a week old pic, but you can see the tall one (has grown 5.25 inches since two nights ago!):

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It is directly (6 inches away) under a 1000W HPS!

-Sap
 
Crankyxr

Crankyxr

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Ogracious said:
I have a problem...

One of my plants is shooting past the others and I have to keep raising my lights. I don't want to raise my lights too far from the canopy, but my options are pretty limited going into the second week of flowering. Any ideas?

This is a week old pic, but you can see the tall one (has grown 5.25 inches since two nights ago!):

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It is directly (6 inches away) under a 1000W HPS!

-Sap
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Topping and SC'ing is a bit out of the question if you're in flower already. Your only option is to LST to keep an even canopy. Just tie her down, you won't regret it.
 
Ogracious

Ogracious

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Thanks for the response! I hadn't even considered that, don't know why. I will do that when the lights come on in the morning (although, I did just pick up some Czech night vision goggles...)

-Sap
 
Crankyxr

Crankyxr

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Ogracious said:
Thanks for the response! I hadn't even considered that, don't know why. I will do that when the lights come on in the morning (although, I did just pick up some Czech night vision goggles...)

-Sap
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No problem.
We all have our moments. I even forget about my seedling cab sometimes. :roll:
 
sheldonblack

sheldonblack

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Ogracious said:
Thanks for the response! I hadn't even considered that, don't know why. I will do that when the lights come on in the morning (although, I did just pick up some Czech night vision goggles...)

-Sap
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B Careful when tying down, at that age even on top of the plant the main branch is usually somewhat firm, if bending B careful not to bend it like 90degrees so you have to use tape to straigten it again or something, I hope this makes sens, just B careful and B easy on it.
 
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spek9

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sheldonblack said:
B Careful when tying down, at that age even on top of the plant the main branch is usually somewhat firm, if bending B careful not to bend it like 90degrees so you have to use tape to straigten it again or something, I hope this makes sens, just B careful and B easy on it.
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The process you described is called supercropping (a High Stress Training / HST technique). It is normal to do, and healthy too. I just did it to 4 of my plants that have been in flower for 3+ weeks. The only time you have to tape is if the stem actually breaks, otherwise the plants start looking back upward within a few hours.

Also, I don't know if it's true in this case, but any time I've had one or two plants shoot up well past the others early in flower turned out to be hermies. I hope not in your case :)

-spek
 
Ogracious

Ogracious

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spek9 said:
The process you described is called supercropping (a High Stress Training / HST technique). It is normal to do, and healthy too. I just did it to 4 of my plants that have been in flower for 3+ weeks. The only time you have to tape is if the stem actually breaks, otherwise the plants start looking back upward within a few hours.

Also, I don't know if it's true in this case, but any time I've had one or two plants shoot up well past the others early in flower turned out to be hermies. I hope not in your case :)

-spek
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I have been highly suspicious of it from the start, as it was taller than all the other seedlings. Because of this, I have gone over it with a fine-toothed comb many times and still no signs of herm...knock on wood!

-Sap
 
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