As the title says my plants are growing past my lights I’m in week 5 of flower GMO cookies from clone I’m wondering can I still bend them advice needed
Plants growing past lights in flower
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Yes, you can still bend them (not ideal but neither is burnt or bleached tops.) And it beats topping everything at week 5 in flower (which would be a kick to the no-no square.)
If you want to go the least stressful route, you can try to tie them down, but it's going to limit a lot of hand movement at the top of the canopy and you'll likely break branches unintentionally anyway.
For future grows, I would recommend using that trellis netting a bit more in the sense of tucking branches, it looks like most your branching is sticking straight up through the spacing (even on the 1st net); there was a lot of missed opportunities to train out that canopy by tucking them more!
You also have way too many plants in there.
Are you seeing any signs that the plants are getting too much light?
A few leaves are crispy tried a little super cropping and there turned back up already
Looks like you're "out of altitude and out of airspeed".
Your options would seem to be, one, do nothing or, two, super crop some of/all of the plants.
The do nothing approach will only pan out if the plants stop stretching. Given that they're at week five, that's most likely the case. Even if they do stop stretching, you'll have to either drop PPFD or allow more plants to grow into the light.
Super cropping? It's OK that they're growing toward the light. I think this is the better option. How far down the stem are you super cropping? I'd be tempted to make the bend at least 1' down.
The highest ones I bent down some more and dropping PPFD in 2 weeks
