Help stop the stretch!

[Huggzfornuggz]

5ft autos! First grow. Running out of space please help. Coco 70/30 perlite with charge. Feed coco a and b 2.5mil per l , silicone 1mill per l , calmag 0.5 mill per l , sumo boost 1.5 mill per l . Will add pk 9/18 friday. 250w hps , temps 74-79 40% rh. Feeding 2.5 L each every 24hr sometimes top up through the day . Prob 10% run off at ph of 5.5 . Feeding at 5.8 every feed @Trichome farmer @St. Tom

 

[Huggzfornuggz]

Sorry forgot pics

 

[St. Tom]

Wow I see what you mean now I think some of your girls are more sativa genetics and they sometimes keep stretching to light even if your lights are low and when this has happened depending on your age I supercrppoed a dinafem dinamex in early flower before and I was worried but she exploded I think I sent her into shock but maybe yours have finished there stretching but in a jam I'd supercrop her

 

[St. Tom]

I'm not telling you to go crazy but its a option

 

[Huggzfornuggz]

I'm not telling you to go crazy but its a option

It's been over 2 weeks of stretch , so a few days left , I might hang in their , thinking about removing that piece of wood supporting the walls to gain another foot . Of height , what do you think is best
This girl here is indica dominant tangerine dream auto from Barneys farm , that's actually a side branch and the top of that light is 6 foot ,

And yeh the other is 80% satvia . On pics of the sour orange buds do look like they get real fat unlike typical satvia, do you think I'm looking at a big yield . New to all this .

 

[St. Tom]

It's been over 2 weeks of stretch , so a few days left , I might hang in their , thinking about removing that piece of wood supporting the walls to gain another foot . Of height , what do you think is best
This girl here is indica dominant tangerine dream auto from Barneys farm , that's actually a side branch and the top of that light is 6 foot ,
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And yeh the other is 80% satvia . On pics of the sour orange buds do look like they get real fat unlike typical satvia, do you think I'm looking at a big yield . New to all this .

i cant really answer about the yield but they look nice chunky girls also here's how this girl i supercropped turned out but i only supercropped her to keep her level with my other plants and she was my best yielding plant at that time

 

[Proph]

You can't stop the stretch.. You can only hope to contain it, lol. It's genetic.. Keeping the lights low from veg through flower will help control it a tad.. But it's obviously too late for that now, lol. The only reasonable option is to super crop the tallest branches. But that will reduce/effect your horizontal spacing..

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

@Huggzfornuggz Welcome to AFN

Super Cropping
Hardest thing for a new grower to do emotionally and physically is to super crop a plant to keep it out of the lights. The problem is many new growers as well as all of us end up in that situation indoors sooner or later. Have some grafting PARAIN TAPE on hand just in case. 6" lower than you think you should, roll the stem crushing the inside 3 x the diameter of the stem in length between your forefinger and your thumb, then bend the branch over at that pinch. Bend to 90° from the stem or horizontal to the light. If you did not get a good enough interior crush the stem can break usually just on the top. If this happens just wrap with the grafting tape and all will be well. You may need to tie down the bent over top as many branches just lift themselves right back up. A great lesson to teach yourself on your first harvest or any harvest for that matter is to practice super cropping on branches you have harvested. You will get a good feel for what it is to crush and bend without the dread of "Killing a Cola".

this is not a bad problem to have!

 

[Trichome farmer]

pretty much what tom says look like sativa dom plants no over stretching from what i see nice node spacing lovely looking plants bro

 

[Death The Cultivator]

Warm night temps can help reduce stretching but what everyone else said lol