adudecalledjay
Well-Known Member
So, I've never had this happen before and was looking for some thoughts on what to do.
Before I left for a 2 week vacation, my plants (all indica) looked like this...
I'm still in VEG.
When I got back from vacation 2 weeks later it's within 2 feet of my lights. I haven't even flipped yet!!
I can probably get the lights another 6" higher giving a total of 2.5', but they are 600W MH, so this only gives me a foot of "safe" vertical growth before things get hot.
I can only think of a few options (all plants are indica, BTW):
1) HST into the vacant holes (think it's too late for LST). If I do this I'm probably going to have to sacrifice at least some colas as there's just not enough room (obviously I'd avoid this if possible).
2) Do a second layer a foot or so higher and then LST.
3) Top them all (dunno if I can bring myself to that and am worried I may just create a new problem horizontally in terms of space constraints)
4) Flip to 12/12 and figure it out later
Whatever path I go (1-3 above) I'm thinking of giving them 3 day recovery and flipping to 12/12.
Any thoughts out there?
Thanks!
Jay
Before I left for a 2 week vacation, my plants (all indica) looked like this...
I'm still in VEG.
When I got back from vacation 2 weeks later it's within 2 feet of my lights. I haven't even flipped yet!!
I can probably get the lights another 6" higher giving a total of 2.5', but they are 600W MH, so this only gives me a foot of "safe" vertical growth before things get hot.
I can only think of a few options (all plants are indica, BTW):
1) HST into the vacant holes (think it's too late for LST). If I do this I'm probably going to have to sacrifice at least some colas as there's just not enough room (obviously I'd avoid this if possible).
2) Do a second layer a foot or so higher and then LST.
3) Top them all (dunno if I can bring myself to that and am worried I may just create a new problem horizontally in terms of space constraints)
4) Flip to 12/12 and figure it out later
Whatever path I go (1-3 above) I'm thinking of giving them 3 day recovery and flipping to 12/12.
Any thoughts out there?
Thanks!
Jay