Fim it or Top it

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Keeping the lights closer will create tighter nodes. Keeping them farther away will cause her to stretch. You could have 10 nodes on a 2 ft plant or 10 nodes on a 5 foot plant. Taller isn't always better. But that's just my opinion

 

Dont touch it....just take your hand and push down on it everyday. ..itll grow bushly on its own

 

lst it

 

So? They still have some bend to them lol Just grab a pipe cleaner or something, pull her to one side and tie it down.
Personally a fan of topping and LST

 

I've got plants twice that size and I still bend the tops down and lst them. As long as u don't break the stem in half they will repair themselves lol

 

I say LST as well - opens up the plant for the lights. 
 
Do it a few hours after you do a good watering and tweak her over more and more in increments - it's easy and the plants seem to like the attention. 
 
Pull towards the side then tie off and guide her around the perimeter of your 5 gal.  The lower nodes will get the light and climb towards the lights and you'll be amazed how the lower branches put on bulk and speed upwards. 
 
This will bush out the plant and as you tie and train her she'll get a "forest" of flower sites all getting nice, even light - a good thing with cfl's - plus popcorn down below if you want it with some strategic leave tucking and a minor tweak to the LST here and there. 
 
If you are set on topping or fimming, I liked fimming because while you're convincing her she needs to put future flower sites into overdrive because of your "attack," you're not losing the center flower site in the process, which is what happens when you top. 
 
I topped my first cfl grow for a scrog, fimmed by 2nd cfl for another scrog, and the next two I didn't even bother with a fim, top, or even a scrog.  Just tied her down carefully , trained her into a bunch of flower sites looking up at the lights, went into flower and they all grew evenly up at the lights - worked out great.

 

trial and error lol. I honestly never read anything on lst or training plants. I just bent the tops of my plants at a 90 degree angle and then when the start growing up again I bend them a different way. It allows all the branches underneath to catch up on height to the top and gives you a more even canopy

I have broken shit to where I needed tape to fix it but I think everyone's done that before. When you realize how much abuse they can take you'll be suprised lol
If you do just start bending shit just start off slow. You'll be able to tell if and when it's gonna snap

 

fim that bitch right in the pussy


I vote fim

 

Just pinch it m8 😊

 

This! If you pinch it you'll weaken the stem and then you can bend it over. No need to tie it down. She will start to grow back up towards the light and u can do it again

 

What kinda light you using? I have a 1k and I use it to heat my whole apartment. If the power goes out i hook up a generator to my light and I can let my plants live and have heat haha