Too heavy? only 2 weeks old..WTF

Ok. My plants are exactly 2 weeks old. I have them in 2 diff planters. One of the planters has 7 plants, the other 4. The one with 7 is growing at a REALLY scary pace....They're HUGE, and cannot support their own weight (2 weeks old people,stay with me) and are all falling over themselves. The others are smaller and fine. WTF is causing this....I did everything the same with both planters, same soil, same light/water habits (sunlight, water from fish tank). Also, what can I do to support my plants, maybe toothpicks?
help muchly appreciated.
thanks
-rose

For starting out you will prolly have better luck using floro tubes or cfls. I keep the plant almost touching the bulb and usually dont have a problem with them falling over. Someone on here used straws and cut them down the side and wrapped the stem in the straw. You can tie them to a stick or whatever you have laying around. My advice would be to transplant each one in its own pot and bury the plant a little deeper so more of the stem is in the ground. You can take it all the way to the first leaves if you want.

Ditto what widow maker just said. I had the same problem with some new sprouts that were too far away from CFLs. Here they are all 'strawed' up.

I put straws around these guys then built up soil a little bit...

Do you have a small fan? A little breeze can help make the stalks stronger.

they died kaput.
ill retry next month

j/k
at least u got urs to sprout!

ow someone get me some ice for that BURN lol see if i ever share with you

aww c'mon...i said i was just kidding lol

hey i just sent u a friend request

i forgive u

xx

The simpsons pic was funny...you can hear the laugh without a sound attached.

Spittn4cash did u only send her a friend request because of her aviator pic. lol

why not? nice avatar... lol, oh, and how the hell'd they stretch so much with the sun? in a window, i'm assuming

Spittn4cash said:

j/k
at least u got urs to sprout!

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Das sum funny shiot!!!!!LMAO!!!

ha ha ha this thread made me laugh

keep fans blowing around them at younger stages to encourage stronger root and stem growth. This will make a strong stem, for supporting all buds, I used no string, wires, or supports of any kind. Just grow strong plants!

i kno this is a old thread but.........................................................................................
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT WAS ONE HELL OF A BURN I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING
SRRY BOUT UR PLANTS THO PEACE AND LOVE
but in all seriousness were they out a window? what kind of light were you using?
when you said they were top heavy, did you mean in vegetation or were the stems were stretching too much
what a burn i'm srry but i've gotta giv a hand to spittn4cash wow they should start a thread for best thread burns in RIU history
bt hope all ur other grow go great man
stay cool
keep tokin

funny thread actually jk jk.. better luck next time dude!

wooow...i didn't notice it's old thread shame on meeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the method i use for my plants that are falling over to sides because they get too tall or "top heavy" is i very gently squeeze the main stems from bottom to all the way to the top . doing this will crush the inner fibers allowing nutrients to go throughout the whole entire plants which will make its main stalk stronger. First day or 2 they will slump over but once the fibers rebuild up they will be golden.... Thats how i solved my top heavy problem..