slow them down!

[SuperLarry]

i have three plants from clone- here they are 5 days ago


and in the same system i have about 8 seeds - you can see the weakest of the seedlings in the picture, and they are growing since this photo as well. these 8 seeds are just taking root in the system and since the 5 days has passed the above mentioned plants are twice as big as in the picture. i want to slow them down. i have been keeping the PPM a little low so that the seeds dont burn and they are growing fine. im wondering will there be any problem with just cutting maybe 25% off the top and 25% of the roots out of the bigger girls? i want to ideally bloom all 11 plants in the 1 system under 2 600ws.


hopefully the picture gallery will reopen so i can show their current progress.

 

[OgreSeeker]

I would top them out and / or cut some of the side growth but do not cut the roots!!!

 

[SuperLarry]

i thought cutting back the roots in hydro was fine...

 

[Albert Hofmann]

i thought cutting back the roots in hydro was fine...

it is fine just don't take too much off

 

[Aaronponic]

Pinch them back and bend them over, that could buy you a couple weeks of catch up.

 

[yamaha_1fan]

reduce the wattage of lighting

 

[BudLove]

Personally, I'd just cut the foilage back a bit...top them. That alone will slightly shock the bigger plants and slow them down while they rebuild.

I wouldnt lower their light as this might cause stretch and give you more of a headache... and cutting back the roots, well, be my guest but I'd avoid it.

BL

 

[SuperLarry]

lowering the light will cause stretch? thats a new one... lower the wattage of light? im using a T5, i'm not going to lower the wattage because i have other plants in the same system that i want to catch up as i mentioned. i will probably just cut back the plants and not mess with the roots i guess. i dont want to bonsai them really, just shorten them and hopefully they will be ok with the low ppms under the other ones catch up.

 

[onelov]

id just top them then you have clone's

 

[SuperLarry]

the three plants have been topped. pix to come as soon as they are able again. they are getting big! i didn't clone the tops because they were super thick and i kind of doubt they would clone easily.

 

[ogatec]

if you can take them off any fertilizer & feed with plain h20 & they will stop growing, i dunoo if thats possible looking @ your system. looks like they are all in the same system...

 

[FreezerBoy]

I'm in flower with a 17 week flower period so I don't know if this really applies. I was running out of room and so tried; Topping, Supercropping and bending. The topping kinda worked ... for a few days. Suppercropping? The plant just laughed at me. Bending has been very succesful. If the tip ever gets back to where it started, it will be with 6-8 inches of growth with no additional height to the canopy.