MedicatedGrow
Active Member
Some strains don't react well to late supercropping but you can just tape the ones that done heal back in 2 weeks and tie them with some string to hold them up.
I remember doing it to my G-13 4 weeks into flower and it refused to fully heal, it just sat like that for 2 weeks but it kept growing regardless. It just looked like a limp dick.
I remember doing it to my G-13 4 weeks into flower and it refused to fully heal, it just sat like that for 2 weeks but it kept growing regardless. It just looked like a limp dick.
). Be very careful. In veg if you snap a top off, no biggie, just let the nodes below it grow out - just an unplanned topping. But in flower you really lose something, so take things super slow and use lots of support around the stem with your fingers as you bend and gently twist to make sure you do the right kind of damage (crushing the fibers and cell walls of the stem without making any tears or separations) and not the bad kind (significant stem damage that can cause fatal results to everything above the bend site). Also, really understand your plant. For instance I have a Sour Diesel plant that does not like to be super cropped at all. She is that hollow-stem chronic and has a tough time repairing the damage - I tried several times and had to do some serious first aid with tape and whatnot and it took days and days for her to even start showing some recovery signs. So I have to LST her to control height as she stretches because super cropping is stressful to her. But then I have an HSO Bubba Kush that you have to crank down on to even crush her stems when young and she fixes herself up in like hours it seems. Usually I try it out on a smaller, less significant branch (something I would probably cut off eventually after the stretch is done anyway) to see what the structure of the stem is and how the plant responds. Pick something mature enough to be a good representation, but not so big that you would be bummed loosing it.
