I've had two mother plants under some t5 fluorescent lights and they are a solid 3 feet, my set up is only about 6 ft in height and im afraid of the plants getting too big. Can someone either give me some insight or refer me to a page that has techniques on keeping your plants low but still getting a solid yield. thanks, disorder
Low stress training. i know there is a post about on advanced techniques but all you do is tie the plant down so it grows side way and let the side branches grow up. Instead of having one main cola the side branches all turn into colas giving you a better yield
i would say just chop the top half, and take clones until you cannot get any more. Then let the clones take root and just flower them all!
Yea what law said^^.... Its a bit late to LST, but Im sure you can do it, I'd be darn sure and be extra gentle with such a healthy main stalk though
You know... come t think about it...... LSTing a mother that tall is an awefull lot of stress and just may make her go hermie! Id really think about doing that
DO NOT LST!!!. Very stupid for a mother plant!!! CHOP it right now. Go in with scissors, and chop it a few inches to a foot lower. You'll thank me later. Thin your bitch out pretty good and leave the healthiest shit that is sticking straight up and nice and rigid. Any that bend just cut and trash or make a clone. In two weeks, she will be bigger than she was right now, I promise. If not, you are doing something wrong (temp, food, light), and you need to correct it. Other than that, CHOP CHOP. She'll grow just fine. 4-5 days you'll really notice the difference and how fast she grows.
I Thought Shit i may have gave some bumb advise! better post something to stop that ASAP! thanks for confirming LA!
im interested also. so if i cut my mother down and prune her she will grow faster? so how do u keep her at the shorter height?
You can LST a tall plant. Those are 65 gallon containers, they're larger than they look, and you can see the tops are being tied down. It's from 'cantharis' grow 2009'
if it's a mother plant and you're not planning on taking it out of veg feel free to trim it as much as you want, it will continue to grow and create new leaf growth as long as you keep it in the veg cycle.. If you're planning on budding it (in that case, not technically a mother plant) and you're still in vegetative, i'd still lst it.. this will help disperse your flowering growth to seperate bud sights and not heightening your already sky-scraping plant.
oh yeah, and if you are taking clones, i'm fairly confident you can let your cuttings get a little larger, it may even give your clones a fair amount of boost.
lst a larger plant is tough due to the strong stemps. you only want to lst the less stiff parts of the plant right? i mean commons sence tells me that if you try to LST like the sticky says you'll wind up bending and pinching the stem killing the plant. right? just a mild pull to one side for lst of a large plant? chopping is the best bet as it isnt as high of a risk of stress. am i wrong?
Yes, you are wrong. But your thought about being careful around the stiff bits of the plant is a good one. Cutting or chopping a plant is much more stressful than if a stem gets smashed or cracked because you tried to bend it and it broke. I have a g13xhaze that's 33 days into flower that had a few large stems get snapped so they were hanging by a few threads. I just righted them and let them rest against another nearby stem (using bamboo shoots or osmething like that to make a splint would also work - probably even better). The plant is doing great now, it may have slowed down flowering for a few days, but I haven't really been able to notice any major slow down. The snapping of stems happened about 15 days into flower. If you chop a plant, you stop the growth right there, permanently, and new growth always takes time to start back up. In my experience, it's usually a few days before you notice new growth in the area you topped. You just have to be careful about it. Of course, people top to increase yield. Nothing compares to the benefits of LST though, in my book. You get so many "main" stems, the plant turns into a bushy freak! My preferance
