My plants are too tall
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Hidden Agenda
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you should have been tying them down or something..
Hidden Agenda
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What are you growing with light wise anyways? they look like the lights aren't/weren't close enough or something. those are fairly stretched.
LOL mann..... those will be fucking gigantic if you have HID lighting...
I hit the 12/12 when my Jack Herer was 2 and a half feet tall and now it's over 6. What size pot are you using?
i will look into supercropping....so I just break the plant at every node and plant it as if it were a clone?
1000w MH...i planted more seeds that needed because I if to find out which ones will be females
Tattooboy37
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Why did you veg. for 2 months to begin with? You only need to go 2-4 weeks for larger plants even. At this point i'd do like a few other guys said and hack it in half or so where you see the biggest branches below. As you cut it back take clones using the cuts you remove. Take some of each plant as it sounds like you started w/ seed. This way you can still flower the ones growing now to at least see if they are females are not. Scrap all the clones that are males right away. Then keep the rest and see which of the mother plants yields best, roots quickest, seems generally the strongest. Now you have a mother and can use it for years . Lots of people will trade you cuts too if you know people in the business, generally they wont give one away. Do the same right away w/ the other seeds as well and you can select the best ones to keep. Next time top your plants once early on and it will help big time. Other than that you can use Bushmaster to stop a plant almost overnight (sorry its too late for ya this time)
GidgetGrows
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You can turn the pots on there sides and put your lights on the side and see if they will turn and grow up. Just an experimental idea. (Basically lay them down on one side)
I vegged for so long because my partner was suppose to buy all the equipment/materials for the flowering process....turns out he can't so I'm stuck with additional purchases...I took clones from all my plants 3 days ago (will see how that turns out)
TreesAsMedicine
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I am saying if I were you, use your lower branches for clones. Clone, or cut everything south of the canopy. You are fine with your vegging time, but i think its time to put them in 12/12. You will probably get a better yield because you vegged for so long, however, look into FIM and supercropping pruning techniques. They look healthy! Good luck!
So...Can I supercrop the main stem?
TreesAsMedicine
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I never have, nor would I supercrop the stalk. I have never heard of doing that to the main stalk, you want the nutrients to hit bud sites. You are basically tricking the plant to send all the nutrients to the damaged fan leaf, but they all go to the bud site. Supercrop the fanleaves to induce nutrients/help form the stem bypass the leaf, and hit up the bud site. zWhere you are now, check into FIM. FIM will give you more top buds, which are the main buds. I could go into a lot more detail, but im high as a kite. Both work, but on the lower leaves will give you little yield. If you know the sex and strain, and want to clone it, use the lower stalks for that. Its your grow, I am just telling you what works for me.
GidgetGrows
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FIM = F*ck I missed