how to fight the stretch

d0rk2dafullest

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There is also a product called Phosphoload. also banned. Your hydro store MIGHT carry it. but bushmaster is an alternative.
 

abe supercro

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Get many tops, make a bush. keep topping it. Keep yer veg lights on 24/0. Twist, crush and smash the stems so the plant diverts energy to healing and strengthening. there's more but that's all yer ready for now.
 

Squidbilly

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Yeah, bushmaster es no bueno. I would bet it is strain dependent.

I've never ran a strain that keep stretching 6 weeks into flower, damn! Usually mine stretch for the first couple weeks, then only grow MAYBE a couple inches after that till harvest.

Like others said, 18" is pretty far away for your light, but if you have sativa dominant plant that might not even matter, they can just be stretchy mofos.
 

Squidbilly

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Get many tops, make a bush. keep topping it. Keep yer veg lights on 24/0. Twist, crush and smash the stems so the plant diverts energy to healing and strengthening. there's more but that's all yer ready for now.
Pinch/crushing stems is the shizzzz! I do it all through veg and during the first couple weeks of flower. You crush and pinch like your going to bend or super crop the branch but don't actually bend it. It slows vertical growth(again, strain dependent-it doesn't slow my headband down at all) and creates crazy strong stems/branches. It also turns them into highways instead of roads with bigger channels to get nutes to your buds. Good advice abe.
 

abe supercro

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which will stretch more? A plant w 3 tops or one w 9?

to slow mine dwn in veg I keep em root bound and only baby food. Plus that good shit above
 

Beblunted

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Get many tops, make a bush. keep topping it. Keep yer veg lights on 24/0. Twist, crush and smash the stems so the plant diverts energy to healing and strengthening. there's more but that's all yer ready for now.
oh dude I did like crazy they're wide also probably two feet wide I have one that looked like a savana tree haha
 

Beblunted

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Yeah, bushmaster es no bueno. I would bet it is strain dependent.

I've never ran a strain that keep stretching 6 weeks into flower, damn! Usually mine stretch for the first couple weeks, then only grow MAYBE a couple inches after that till harvest.

Like others said, 18" is pretty far away for your light, but if you have sativa dominant plant that might not even matter, they can just be stretchy mofos.
they're not like rediculasly stretching anymore but in the begining it was a bit exseive.
still in two weeks put on 4"

I think the plant is heavy on the sativa side. Thinkin she's ganna run 14 weeks the buds are decent size but not huge but looks like they've got alot more to do and leaves are pretty thin strong plant also
 

Beblunted

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Pinch/crushing stems is the shizzzz! I do it all through veg and during the first couple weeks of flower. You crush and pinch like your going to bend or super crop the branch but don't actually bend it. It slows vertical growth(again, strain dependent-it doesn't slow my headband down at all) and creates crazy strong stems/branches. It also turns them into highways instead of roads with bigger channels to get nutes to your buds. Good advice abe.
yeah man imma fan of topping and super cropping i did almost their whole life ha
 

polo the don

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Another thing people don't realize is that too much P will cause excess stretch. Keeping your N high and your P low during transition will help. Also temps but that been said already.
 

reddiamond

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i wonder what's a good way to do that?? I don't even go around the rooms when the lights are off so I don't know what the temps are.
I like to know EVERY detail about what my plants get, light strength (lumens per foot), food strength/amount, PH, air flow in and out and temps.
I have 2 min/max thermometers in my cupboard, one above each plant, so I can check what my high/low temps are every day.
You can get cheap ones from ebay but at least you would know :D
 

abe supercro

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^good point...

DIF is the difference in temp between the high temp lights on and low temp lights off. The greater the diff, the more internodal stretch. The greenhouse commercial floriculture industry has to watch this variable closely.
 

Beblunted

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Another thing people don't realize is that too much P will cause excess stretch. Keeping your N high and your P low during transition will help. Also temps but that been said already.
I knew there was something with the NPK that may be causing it just wasn't sure thank you
 

Beblunted

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I like to know EVERY detail about what my plants get, light strength (lumens per foot), food strength/amount, PH, air flow in and out and temps.
I have 2 min/max thermometers in my cupboard, one above each plant, so I can check what my high/low temps are every day.
You can get cheap ones from ebay but at least you would know :D
I've got a thermometer. I just never check it at night so I don't disturb the sleeping girls.
 

Beblunted

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^good point...

DIF is the difference in temp between the high temp lights on and low temp lights off. The greater the diff, the more internodal stretch. The greenhouse commercial floriculture industry has to watch this variable closely.
ah i see i guess ill have to just go in and chec her temps at night to really see whats going on
 
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