Strengthening stems?

[albertgrow123]

i am a week in to flower but started a week early,i tried to lollipop the plant this morning and the tip went a touch limp,is there anyway of strengthening really quick,and will it come back and sort its self out?????any help would be most appreciative.....one love albertgrow123

 

[DrTentgrow]

You will have to let it heal on its own but you could make some kind of brace to prop it up whilst healing maybe a tube with a slit down the side.

 

[Damagoman]

Not many ways to do anything fast when it comes to growing bubba.
I'd just brace it in place.
You can do more damage by trying to move it around.

 

[gio77]

I've stumbled upon this by accident by bending/training plants... you can almost crack the entire stem through & through and it will heal. This assumes decent recovery condition & no fungal issues in the room. It will actually heal to be the strongest part of the stem. Depending upon where on the stem, how severe & when it happens, it could stress your plant into abnormal leaf growth & hermi pods.

There is a technique called super cropping (there are two types of techniques that this word is applied to). I'm not talking about pinching or the like, but rather crushing/damaging your stems from the crown up to the tip every 3/4" or so. If this is done properly you can achieve a massive stalk that will support huge nugs. It actually works, but this is a rather advanced technique that requires "feel"- you need to know your babies to do this right.

BTW, that tip should perk up in a day or two. I've even cracked a main stem at wk 6, put a make-shift splint on it & healed it back to harvest at wk 9. It wasn't as big & didn't look as happy for a week, but it survived & didn't weaken the plant to fungal infections. I mean the weight of the main cola bent the stem in half (with full crease & all) mid-way through. Amazing, but it recovered & finished. Best brah!

 

[albertgrow123]

cheers lads,gio you are a star my freind,just that my stems seemed weak at the top,bottoms aint to strong like the other one i have,but will splint it up tonight,think i will leave super cropping,bit nervous about that!!!!,but will keep you up to date,no panic just as yet,but gio post has given me extra confidence.cheers mate

 

[CannaNorway]

the cannabis plant heals very good,i allways cut the top of the plant a few weeks before flowering my selfe,it reduces the hight and the plant make's two main stems(one time i cut a strawberry skunk 5 times,resulting in a very bushy plant with 32 tops ^^ ,need to grow longer but oh man wath a bush)but of course without cutting you'll get a tall and heavy main cola (my experience)had more luck this way then trying to break the stems a little to make them stronger and shorter(my buds looks like they don't want to get as nice and big when i break them as when i cut them)