Is It Too Late??

[rickblaine]

I am in the middle of my second attempt at successfully harvesting a crop. My first time around, I had temperature problems that resulted in buds that were so wispy that they literally disintegrated after a few days of drying. A contributing factor was the height of the plants. I had intended to try low stress training this time but, for a variety of reasons, I wasn't able to do so. Now, I've recently started flowering and am probably six or seven weeks from harvest. Is it too late to do anything to keep these girls shorter and more compact?

Based on what I've read, supercropping is supposed to be done during vegetative growth and I'm assuming that it's too late for LST. What else I can do?

[max11max]

Originally Posted by rickblaine

I am in the middle of my second attempt at successfully harvesting a crop. My first time around, I had temperature problems that resulted in buds that were so wispy that they literally disintegrated after a few days of drying. A contributing factor was the height of the plants. I had intended to try low stress training this time but, for a variety of reasons, I wasn't able to do so. Now, I've recently started flowering and am probably six or seven weeks from harvest. Is it too late to do anything to keep these girls shorter and more compact?

Based on what I've read, supercropping is supposed to be done during vegetative growth and I'm assuming that it's too late for LST. What else I can do?

Regardless of strain, the growth or stretch after switching to 12/12 will continue for about 1/3rd the entire length of the flowering cycle. So if they finish in 8 weeks, you have at least 2 and a half weeks of vertical growth to contend with after flowering.

Tie the top shoots down now! You don't have any other option if the plants are too tall for your space and you're already flowering... it's too late to trim them back and if you can't raise the light or lower the plants you have to tie them back.

Get some good staking points either on the plant containers or in the tray and pull down the tallest shoots until they are at a managable canopy level. They will revert back to top growth and be pointing up a few hours after tying them down. You won't get the big huge top colas but you will likely increase your yield.

And.. is this in the correct section?

[rickblaine]

Thanks. (I posted in this section because I felt that this is a "problem" situation.)