groputillor
Active Member
It looks otherwise healthy. I'm pretty sure this is just from having a little bud weight added to a plant that is stretchy and thin stalked, but I'd like a few more opinions. Everyone on here has told me I don't need to stake these plants, but I'm really starting to think my original instinct was correct. I think people were just trying to tell me "hey, those buds aren't gonna get very big buddy" and I know that, but what most people are missing in their judgment is these plants' histories:
They were really stretched out when I took them off a friend's hands.
I LST'd and topped, causing their thin stalks to split off very low down, with the multiple tops then growing VERY thin and tall away from the main stalk. I don't think people are realizing how unstable this makes a plant, probably because they've never had to deal with plants like this. Who would bother with strethy ass clones? God, that person must be a dumbass.
So now they are between 42 and 48 inches and the initial stretch has pretty much stopped. The one that you see slumping badly is 45 inches. I had been tying them down because I couldn't raise my light any more. Now when I take the ties off, the plants don't straiten up at all.
So I'm gonna stake them tomorrow and do my best to move my light up.
The only other thing I think it possibly could be is this:
My AC vent blows right toward the bottoms of the stalks, about 5 inches up from the soil. I know thats prob not a good idea but I don't know how else to deliver the cold air to the room. That area of the stalks has purpled a bit, so I moved the vent so it points at the sides of the pots. Problem?
The smaller two plants with smaller buds don't slump, so I'm pretty sure it's just the weight of the bigger buds on the taller stretchier plants. But I'd like to hear any opinions about anything I've assumed or asked.
Thanks all
They were really stretched out when I took them off a friend's hands.
I LST'd and topped, causing their thin stalks to split off very low down, with the multiple tops then growing VERY thin and tall away from the main stalk. I don't think people are realizing how unstable this makes a plant, probably because they've never had to deal with plants like this. Who would bother with strethy ass clones? God, that person must be a dumbass.
So now they are between 42 and 48 inches and the initial stretch has pretty much stopped. The one that you see slumping badly is 45 inches. I had been tying them down because I couldn't raise my light any more. Now when I take the ties off, the plants don't straiten up at all.
So I'm gonna stake them tomorrow and do my best to move my light up.
The only other thing I think it possibly could be is this:
My AC vent blows right toward the bottoms of the stalks, about 5 inches up from the soil. I know thats prob not a good idea but I don't know how else to deliver the cold air to the room. That area of the stalks has purpled a bit, so I moved the vent so it points at the sides of the pots. Problem?
The smaller two plants with smaller buds don't slump, so I'm pretty sure it's just the weight of the bigger buds on the taller stretchier plants. But I'd like to hear any opinions about anything I've assumed or asked.
Thanks all
Most people I know push nutes until close to the last week. I'm gonna have a big staggered harvest and try different cutting and flushing times tho.