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Help! Ways to stunt plant growth?

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Grundogg

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Hi! I’m a new grower and need help with a self-inflicted problem due to a lack of patience and over-eagerness. I won’t waste time with the “how,” but basically I have 2 six-week old plants (a Sour Cherry Kush and a Burmese Mimosa) that are between 18-24 inches (1 is showing very teeny tiny pre-flowers- they were kept outside w not great light so they grew slow) and I also have 5 Two-inch seedlings (an AK, a Gelato, a White Widow, a Bubble Gum and another SCK.) Normally, I would flower the two bigger girls in one tent and keep the babies in the other tent in Veg. The problem is I only have 1 grow tent and I would like to flower all 7 at once. Is there a way to slow the growth of the 2 larger plants until the 5 babies are close to the same size? They are all photoperiod and I’ve been keeping them on a 18/6. Problem is also I can’t put the big guys w the little babies or the big girls will keep growing too much…but if I keep the big girls out of the tent I’m worried they won’t get good light and will maybe start to flower, or just die from poor lighting, and also stink up my house. The 2 big ones are currently out of tent in a window seal w 3 small house plant lights to make sure they don’t switch to 12/12 as they are in the window seal getting 12/12 natural light (plus the extra 6 of artificial light now) Any suggestions? Is there a way to put them in the Veg tent and somehow maybe block some of the light so they don’t grow too much more while the babies grow rapidly and then I can flower all 7 together? Or should I just keep them out of the tent on the window seal w the three small houseplant lights? Really appreciate any help here as I’m sorta new to this. Thanks!
 
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Can you take a small clone of each of the big ones, so that when they are rooted in 10-14 days they are equal size to the 5 that are currently 2"?

Pruning / training / topping are good methods, but you have a huge gap you are trying to reduce.
 
My suggestion, get another tent. I feel like it's possible to stunt them a little bit, but not enough for the others to catch up. Sounds to me like you ran into the same problem I did. I had one tent and things weren't going fast enough so I got another, and another and another. I probably could have stopped at 3 but I now have 5 to keep a constant flow of weed growing. I smoke a lot myself, plus I like to share and I make other goodies with it so I have a few more plants than most people. Anyway, the plan was to have one for veg and one for flower. 2.5 months in between was still too long so I got another for seedlings. That still wasn't good enough so I got a bigger tent for flower. Then, I decided I wanted to keep a few mothers around so I turned my seedling tent to a mother tent and got another tent for my clones. Haven't set up the last one yet but it's coming in the next few weeks when I get the next cycle into their pots. So now I have a 2x2x4' for my mothers, a 2x4x5' for my clones, (2x) 4x4x7' for veg and an 8x8x7' for flower. I guess my point in all of that is that it's all personal preference and the space you have available to use. Most people who have been growing for a while have multiple tents, just from what I've seen. If you want to get things rolling a little more smoothly, I'd suggest a separate tent.
 
Good point.. I guess I could take clones... or I could just plant more seeds and just trash these 2.. ultimately I need another tent or 2. I guess I was hoping for a simple answer to keep these 2 stable until the others catch up. Thanks for the reply
 
We def need more tents. This is our first one. We are slowly introducing the idea of growing flowers and herbs and veggies indoors to the kids by putting a tent in our upstairs study. I dont want them to all of a sudden wake up one morning to find a plantation in the basement... although I’m sure that will happen 1 day. For now I’m trying to keep it small scale, but for sure will end up w more tents eventually. Thanks for the advice. What do you think would happen if I literally cut these larger plants in half? and then LST the remaining branches? I’ve just started reading up on all the diff pruning and training techniques...but not sure if the plants are too old now...
 
I definitely understand that. Cutting them in half could work too, basically topping them at that point. You can even go all the way down to the first node on each if you wanted to. Since they're photoperiod strains and you have plenty of time to play with them, you could even try manifolding them. Takes some time and will keep your plant a little smaller because of the multiple toppings you have to do. But ultimately it will create more colas and give you a wide, even canopy while giving you a chance to experiment a little.
https://www.growweedeasy.com/manifold
 
Another option might be to flower the 2 big girls by removing them from the tent and put them in darkness for 12h? It takes some job but I did it once with slow outdoor plants, carried them inside and locked them.up in a dark closet every evening and put them.out again in the morning.
 
I’m currently growing 9 in a tent and I just had 15 outside.
If I’m not getting over 400 grams in the tent. I’m buying a second tent for veg. And keep the other for bloom.
Because I can’t keep up either with what I’m smoking😅
 
That's the problem I was running into. My yields were terrible so I was smoking it faster than it was growing. Now that I got my yields up, I hopefully shouldn't have that problem any more. I think I'll be fine once my cycles start falling into place more and I'm harvesting every 4-5 weeks. Just need a little more time for that but this harvest should keep me going until then, I hope. It better, I'm estimating 20+ oz this time. Should last at least a few weeks anyway 😂
 
20 ounce is a good amount ! I really hope you get this champ 😎.
Haha at least a few weeks 😂. I think you and me are the same smoker type of guy😅.
 
I think you might be right. I have a pretty good feeling about it. I haven't trimmed and weighed my hydro yet. I also cut off some heavy tops from a couple girls, cut one down completely and will be cutting another tonight or tomorrow. The one I cut down already tonight is probably my lowest yielder, but I should still get close to 28g of really good weed.
 
Yeah I've been doing one hydro and the rest are in soil. Was doing multiple hydro but it's too hard to take care of because they get so big so fast, so I decided to go down to one. Yeah I have a lot of trimming to do. My hydro is probably going to be dry enough to trim today and the rest have a few days. I dry trim cause it's easier for me. Luckily I can plan it for my days off, I just have to give them about 4-5 days to dry. Definitely won't complain about the yields because it's all good weed. Even my doggies love it 😂
 
I don’t ever think I’m switching to hydro. Buys it’s just because I’m so comfy with the soil 😁.
But yea you have a lot of tents, good you can manage the whole thing when you have days off 😅😅
 
Sometimes it's pretty rough, especially if I haven't looked at them for a few days. Takes a couple hours to water usually because I look at them while they're out of the tent. There's 24 in there now and 2 mini plants after taking 2 out last night.
 
The water thing I can relate.
With all the outdoor plants I just had in the garden and the tent, You have to set a couple of hours off to nursing them 😁.
 
That’s actually a really good idea. thanks! I’m gonna try to keep pruning and lst. Question re topping: I’ve always topped, well, from the top, and earlier on. If I were to literally cut the sativa in half, basically topping to the extreme, would that present a problem? Keep in mind these 2 plants have only been outside up until the last 3 days w no time under real lights and I haven’t used any nutes. Thanks!
 
I didn’t see this before.. only comments 9-11 lol. Thanks the tips. Ima play around w diff pruning techniques and see where it takes me
 
I dont think you should top them if they have started to flower or are close. If you have enough veg time to let them recover and bounce back and then some go ahead and top.
 
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