I have a sour diesel auto from homegrowncannabisco. She’s 9 weeks from seed and been flowering about 3-4 weeks. She’s in a 3 gal, fox farms with the light dose of Grow Dots and Recharge every other day. Grown in a 2x4x5 with a true 200w led. Second grow with autos so I’m still kinda new with them. My question is what do I do now about the stretch? I did some training before it showed any preflowers. I was avoiding topping since it’s an auto so I bent main cola and let them all catch up. It’s still stretching though and touching the ceiling and has grown through the lights. What issues am I looking at with this in later flowering? Any help or just criticism if you want to hurt me is appreciated.
Tie them down. Looks like you’re a little far into flower to just pinch and bend. Tie the tallest branches down to something (like tomato cages and bamboo stakes) to lower and even out your canopy. Looking good though. I’ve even seen guys tie heavy lead sinkers for fishing to branches to pull them down when there wasn’t room for staking or netting
Yup, time to get bending! Take all those branches poking up above the main canopy and bend them outwards. It might not be “ideal” but neither is having plants above the lights. Doing some aggressive bending might stress the plant out a little, but you are better off putting her through a little stress now to get those buds down below the lights again. Probably wouldnt be a bad thing to clean up the lower branches while you’re at it. Help the plant focus its growth where YOU want it to happen (those top nugs!)
I would bend that sucker right over.
Crotch killer, I stand in awe of your prowess. That plant it 🔥!! Tie that bad girl down!! Awesome grow !
That looks like an unstable genetics of an auto flower strain that thing is way too stringy and elongated to be a true auto flower ruderalis. It might actually turn into a photoperiod, and subsequently went back into veg…
That’s a healthy auto. Sounds like you’ve been at this long enough to know a few things. I don’t know what type of restrictions you have, but I’d consider looking at a 6ft tall tent just for these variables. 5ft is pretty squatty when considering room for the light. You may have your reasons for this though. Great looking plant!
use a stronger lamp… i use my 1k hps to help kill some stretch going into flower.
or keep your light closer to the canopy. watch your leaf surface temps..
forgot to add with a 1k mh bulb.. for the first few weeks of flower.. along with my cmh.
That’s alot of branches for an auto, nice work! I would tie them down to the bottom corner poles of the tent. Then let the bottom canopy grow up alittle. Once buds are established, defoliate. I assume you’ll be into week 4 or 5 of flower where. Photo plant normally be.
If you kink the branch……alot of sativas don’t mind it actually. ….I wouldn’t do it on a compact indica though.
Here’s my update, bent over 1st side branch and tied her off fine. Felt nice and warmed up so I went for the main and accidentally cracked it. She actually liked it and I cleaned her up a little too. I tried to combat all the stretch with closer stronger light a couple weeks ago but it burnt the fuck out of my other plant. For now it’s just learning with these autos and will make her grow right next time.
Your post was featured on episode 1326! Thanks for your support!