Turn tall skinny plant on its side..

sunny747

sunny747

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Just a thought..

I have a lemon kush that is in a 1/4 gallon pot. She has just been hanging out for a while in veg. She is about two feet tall and single cola. About ten nodes. She's a beauty. I really don't have much use for her at the moment though. I have other cuttings being rooted and she doesn't really fit into the grand plan.

What happens if I put her in a 2 gallon pot then wrap the pot with cloth to keep the soil from falling out. Then I turn her on her side and tie down the top so it doesn't bend towards the light.. Will the side shoots rise up real nice then each produce colas?
 
fandango

fandango

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sunny747 said:
Just a thought..

I have a lemon kush that is in a 1/4 gallon pot. She has just been hanging out for a while in veg. She is about two feet tall and single cola. About ten nodes. She's a beauty. I really don't have much use for her at the moment though. I have other cuttings being rooted and she doesn't really fit into the grand plan.

What happens if I put her in a 2 gallon pot then wrap the pot with cloth to keep the soil from falling out. Then I turn her on her side and tie down the top so it doesn't bend towards the light.. Will the side shoots rise up real nice then each produce colas?
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I have a few plants in my green house...one day I was watering and the spray knocked a tree over...I just let it stay down...and shure enough the little bugger was going 6 more heads
 
orbo

orbo

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Can you super crop a plant a couple inches up from its base? (base=where stem meets the soil) That might be interesting. Correct me if I'm wrong sunny but it sounds like you really don't want to fool with this other than maybe a transplant and some feeding?
 
sunny747

sunny747

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Yea, I'll see if I can LST her enough to get her horizontal.. I get the point of supercrop near base then that would be my 90 degree bend. When I LST her she may end up getting supercropped any way :) SNAP!
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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sunny747 said:
Yea, I'll see if I can LST her enough to get her horizontal.. I get the point of supercrop near base then that would be my 90 degree bend. When I LST her she may end up getting supercropped any way :) SNAP!
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Be gentle and bend only a little at a time in any given spot. The more you work, the more flexible she'll get. Newer shoots will be a lot more flexible than older stems. If you can just tip it over 45 degrees, you can then angle it so the light hits the whole thing evenly. This makes a nice carpet if done about the second or third week of bloom. Doing it earlier will result in taller colas.
 
sunny747

sunny747

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It will be interesting to see if the fan leaves turn "up" and if the shoots grow straight up. I think that once they hit 4 or 5 inches I'll flip the lights and see what happens.
 
orbo

orbo

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Nice work Sunny. I would imagine you already know this but I'll say it anyway...she's probably going to fight like hell to get back upright again. If it were me I'd be putting some weight on that top to keep her down. Maybe even a weight or two along the length of the stem incase she turns out to be the incredible hulk!!!

And since you've given this a name we can't stop there, lets just go ahead and build a whole new concept around it!!!I Imagine a entire "StupidCropping" grow area like this;

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ttystikk

ttystikk

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orbo said:
Nice work Sunny. I would imagine you already know this but I'll say it anyway...she's probably going to fight like hell to get back upright again. If it were me I'd be putting some weight on that top to keep her down. Maybe even a weight or two along the length of the stem incase she turns out to be the incredible hulk!!!

And since you've given this a name we can't stop there, lets just go ahead and build a whole new concept around it!!!I Imagine a entire "StupidCropping" grow area like this;

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That's a VERT! If this works better than just growing them taller I'm going to be REALLY pissed off!
 
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