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Too close to the “sun”(light).... any advice?

Greenbean15
Greenbean15started grow question 5 years ago
My plant grew close to 4x it’s original size during her stretch, 10-12” on day one of 12/12 to 46” tall. She’s on day 30 of flower and I set up a second ScrOG net. Other than blocking light to shorter plants, do you see any other potential problems this second net might cause?
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Plant. Too tall
Setup. Lighting
Techniques. ScrOG
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Grey_Wolf
Grey_Wolfanswered grow question 5 years ago
access to the plants to check for bugs mold etc
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Greenbean15
Greenbean15answered grow question 5 years ago
Also... when I lower the lights the plants bleach and burn... I can’t lower them. They were raised up as the plants grew because the plants were bleaching out and/or burning when they were closer than 20” to the light. The PE is still too close(~15” from it) but it’s as far away as I can get right now without snapping branches from too much force.
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Greenbean15
Greenbean15answered grow question 5 years ago
@Mrs_Larimar, I would agree with you on the light except this is the only plant to stretch this heavily out of 7 seeds... she’s the only heavily sativa dominant strain in the tent though and from looking at other diaries with this strain, it doesn’t seem uncommon for it to stretch 3-4x at the switch to flowering if you aren’t growing the rudelaris(auto) version of the strain. Pineapple Express is the strain for the plant I’m having issues with, I think I let her get too warm which contributed to the majority of her stretch and at the point I noticed she was already so close to the light... I couldn’t cool her off and she just kept stretching. I’m running ~330 true watts in this tent(2 1000w LED units). There really shouldn’t be a lack of light, though I also am not running the most expensive. I just got the most practical for my own personal use grow 😅. I do not have the possibility of moving the big girl out unfortunately... I have two tents, she’s already in the bigger tent and both are full 😓. I also have a male in the smaller tent that will be killed as soon as I pollinate specific plants but the PE still wouldn’t fit in the small tent even if I tried. I am comfortable super cropping but would HST be okay during this stage of flowering? I would think it would negatively impact my yield at this point which is why I was leaning towards lst(ScrOG) as a last resort option. She’s roughly 30 days into her flowering period and when I did try to supercrop one branch, the branch snapped(hence the stem in the back of the tent that is braced with plant tie wire). I guess no matter what I’ll be happy, I have five females in this tent and all’s are flowering right along... the Pineapple Express definitely has the pineapple pheno and smells like straight up pineapples and my last yield was about 2 ounces dry from each plant. I’m hoping to break that small personal record this time since it’s my last grow for the foreseeable future😅
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Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimaranswered grow question 5 years ago
And to be true i see no effects in this net, it is loose and has way to big holes. Do you have the possibility to move out those long legged girl=? If not go with HST and Binding her down
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Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimaranswered grow question 5 years ago
your Plant is stretching so much because i see alack of light. the light is to weak// far away from the plant , so she has to stretch Lower the light, give additional light to the Plants. You can go with HST and Binding the big Plant down to have a similar canopy for all plants
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