My friend is growing his first photoperiod.
He’s been trying to flip his plant for 3 weeks now. No luck, he said this and asked me to take a look at his timer.
I went over today and found that there was a 2nd program running in the background that turned the lights back on at midnight every night…thus changing his expected darkness time from 12 hours to only 5 hours.
We fixed the timer to 12/12.
However, due to this extra long vegging, long story short, his plant is getting extremely big. And his tent is only 4 ft tall and the plant will grow like crazy now that lights are truly flipped.
We super cropped the living crap out of it, is that going to keep the plant small enough to fit in his tent.
What are other alternatives???
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I just had to make the decision to super crop or give it a haircut… The bigger they got I took the second suggestion.
I would cut them back and apply honey to the wounds.
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No worries just train it to fit after cutting back. Check out a scrog net that’ll probably help a good bit. Another thing I have done to help control the height is keep the light lowest possible to the plant without hurting it turned up high for the 2 weeks of stretch in flower. From floor to light I don’t have but 5-ft to work with so I feel his pain 
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That is a challenge. 4 foot tall tent with lights and pots that doesn’t leave much room for plant. I’ve seen a grower cut the top off add some black plastic to raise the roof to make more room to grow vertically. Other wise you need to crop and use trellis to flatten the canopy. Flip to 12x12 and continue to flatten canopy during the stretch to mid flower. Once your stretch is completed vertical growth should slow as she fattens up.
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