6 weeks of Veg, Lemon Skunk

Been vegging for 6 weeks, just switched to flowering. Monsters! How they looking?

huge man, I'd start tying those girls down or you're going to run out of headroom in that space.

How do I tie them down?

very carefully, if you tie down too aggressively you could have a problem with the stalk splitting so it is best to tie down after you have watered them as the stalk will be more pliable.
Those are MONSTERs and you will very soon run out of head space (within a week or two). Get some cheap gardening wire, carefully attach to one of the stalks and attach to your pail. You need to drill about 6-8 (about a 1/4" bit will do) holes in the lip of the buck to attach. This will open your plants up a bit and help to control the stretch you are going to start noticing.

Have fun and good luck

I'm going to take a single wire and connect it to the bucket lid, run it up through the plant, over the top, through the split top, (i topped them), and back down and connect it to the other side of the lid. At least this will keep it from growing up, I hope. Let me know if my theory is wrong.

Hey guy I'm not really following what you want to do....What I would do is drill holes all around the rim of your buckets. Then take some twine or green gardening string and loop it through a hole, pull a branch down low but not where it's going to snap and tie the string around the branch so that it stays pulled down. Try and get the main top half of the plant bent over aswell or you will be overwhelmed soon. After a few hours it will start to bend back to the light, just tie it back down. Next grow remember that when you flower your plant will "stretch" an avg. 2-3x it's size from when you flipped it. Vegging for 6 weeks is fine too but you need to use methods of training early on to keep the height down and form a more even canopy.Stay up.

I just tried doing that. It's so thick it won't bend, it just leans and doesn't really shorten. I was thinking that I should just top it again, but about a foot from the top instead of the top node. There are so many branches that it doesn't seem like it would affect anything. And I think that it's so big at this point, that something drastic needs to be done, fast. It got out of hand because I left for a week and in that week it went crazy, didn't think it would grow that fast. If I don't get any other suggestions, then I think I'll just cut a foot off from the top. [What I was trying to explain before was putting wire across the gap between the previous topping and connect both sides down. Therefore it cannot grow past the length of the wire. But will it grow so tight that it will eventually just start to rip into the stalk and split the plant?] Either way, I think I'm going to cut the top foot off. Thanks for the heads up guys.

When did you make the flip to flowering? If you did it today or yesterday your fine to put them back in veg....Which would make them awesome mother plants, take clones from them and then start another tent if you can..... or put those things in a closet and use your tent as a flower box.

I have another smaller tent for a mother, but I don't have the light ready or the other hydro systems set. I think I'm just going chop off the top foot and hope for the best.

Good luck! keep us posted...

Just cut the top foot off of each. Also started tying down every branch to its lowest point. Didn't tie down the top two branches because I don't want to snap them, I'll wait a couple more days. I'll take pics once I'm done with the second one. It lowered the plant a lot, and all the other branches seem to be at the same height, kind of scroggish without the screen. It looks like a good size now.

They're already starting to turn up. Here's a pretty awful pic, but you can see them shorter and more spread out. (Not sure why the pic is sideways, I rotated it, but apparently didn't upload that way.)