To Keep Stretch During Pre-Flower Down Raise Lights

To keep the stretch down to a minimum during the first two weeks after changing the lights for flowering, raise the lights a few feet higher than normal. This will give the plants enough to survive but not enough to grow rapidly. Then, when the stretch period is over, lower them again and they will bud the normal amount.

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You don't think the plants will stretch to get more light? Like they do during every other period of growing.

blimey said:

You don't think the plants will stretch to get more light? Like they do at every other period of growing?

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exactly what you should be doing is lowering your lights all you do if you raise them is get fast week growth you know the type that can;t support buds then your into tieing buds up as buds want to fall over lol

I know they don't. Try it before you knock it. This was more for the noobs than those that actually use the stretch to grow (very short veg times).

That's always been my take on it lol

DrFever said:

exactly what you should be doing is lowering your lights all you do if you raise them is get fast week growth you know the type that can;t support buds then your into tieing buds up as buds want to fall over lol

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No, if you keep the lights low they will stretch like crazy! Raise the lights so high they just don't get enough to grow at all. Plants can't grow if they don't get enough energy so starve them for that energy.

It might be more effective to just tell noobs to anticipate the stretch.

blimey said:

It might be more effective to just tell noobs to anticipate the stretch.

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I've tried to anticipate it myself but those sativa types grow way more than you can expect. Those suckers will add 2' on in just two weeks. Then with budding they can go another foot. Crazy. With light starving I'm keeping them down to less than 1" every 2 days.

True enough sativas can be hard to tame. I prefer lst but to each his own.
So this is actually working for you? Do your branches end up skinny?

I sure got lucky with my sativa, it grows the same as all the rest of my plants, since it looks like some sativa's respond exactly backwards to the same input.
This must be confusing. Do they look any different so you can tell them apart from the normal sativa's?
What ever works, but with more than one strain I prefer my budroom to contain plants that all respond similar.

Do what look any different than normal sativas?

secret to nice buds is keeping nodes close no matter what some strains will stretch others not so much even if they stretch for me i still get some really nice final buds also i might add your lights being 12 " or 18 inches from tops your pretty much giving them same amount of lumens
so its brings me to plants switching to flower that stretches tells me imma going to have nice buds ) heres a few pics of some stretched plants that will become huge buds