Running out of headroom, what are my options?

Hello! I'm a noob This is my first grow and I'm growing in my crawlspace. I've got three healthy plants and have just switched to 12/12 on the 1st. Should have started flowering sooner...Everything is looking great, but I have a feeling I will soon be running out of headroom. What are my options? Please help!

I have had the same problem with some 6 footers. What I did was wait until I knew I could safely bend them over and I took a curtain rod and placed it across the middle of plants from wall to wall ( 3x3x8 ) then I pulled the limbs over and tied them down to curtain rod. It worked.

pinch and bend --supercrop da bitch

I don't know if it's because I'm a girl, but LST sounds scary. I've done a little reading on the subject, but the actual pinch and bend process terrifies me. I would be afraid to break off a limb. Can someone direct me to a video or really good instructions? GoldenGanja, did you just pull the limbs back and secure them or did you bend them? What would be a good material to use to secure the bent branches? Thanks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBjZYWS2ItA . As basic as it gets my friend. Hope this helps.

From my experience tieing down the main colas from early veg helps to combat this issue from the start, and it also helps to strengthen the branches. Good luck to the end.

cheapCO2 said:

GoldenGanja, did you just pull the limbs back and secure them or did you bend them? What would be a good material to use to secure the bent branches? Thanks

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Too late for a LST
The best thing to use is a green plastic garden tape. It stretches so you don't have to worry about un tieing and re tieing .
What I did was pull them over and tie them down (flexible green garden tape) and gave them enough room to bend up. It worked and I was able to pull 7 oz off one plant.
Let me see if I have a old photo of the bent stalk.

Here you go, you can see where the limb was forced down and grew up.
Once they are growing long ways the buds grow up towards light. Look close and you can see bent limbs.

So would I bend the branches, lets say, in the manner a fishing rod would bend or?

Yes! I see the bent limbs. Thanks a lot!

Yeah nice and easy, don't stress them.

being a girl no excuse -- LOL

here look at this link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FmXHhKFA5U


dam i wish these links were adiff color


her read this to
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=2214345#post2214345


goodluck-keep em green--1Luv

wow! u have some serious shit going on there bro! nice looking ladies!

ive had exactly the same problem with a 2 meter high strawberry haze i should have flowered earlier but he ho ive had to bend it rite over and it aint showing any bad signs or that

Supercropping or topping will do the trick.

how far into flowering do u reckon u could safely still top without damaging plant??

Wow! Excellent links! Thanks so much

glad i could help a lttle girl seeing as you want to use that

serrious i like helping use it well and im happy happy happy you must have a clue to have plants going into your lights but if you need hlp dont feel like you alone i notice your new here but always feel free to ask and when poss put up a pic you will get more hlp dont play the girlie card though

good luck --keep em green--1Luv

staffy said:

how far into flowering do u reckon u could safely still top without damaging plant??

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Probably better off supercropping at this stage.

Didn't mean to use the girl card, certainly not the little girl card. Was just trying to put some humor into it Can't take normal pics as they all come out with lines because of the light I'm using. Thanks for everyone's input! It's appreciated.