What more can i do in early flower

I fliped the light 11 days ago. ive moved the light and it continues to stretch ive run out of space. Can i reduce the power of the light? Can i trim off the top? What can i do to regain some space and still have a decent harvest.

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If you have no more vertical at this point supercropping is going to be it without a major tent remodel.

Lowering light will slow everything down as will lowering temp but in flower that is not recommended. I am 10 days in flower and my stems are rigid and set up so If additional hight is needed I get a smaller bucket to set them on moving them down. I can do this because the duct work and fan/filter are on the top of the tent and the light is perma mounted to the roof.

Second idea is a late scrog net thrown over and the high tops ran horizontal and pulled through a square in the trellis.

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Thank you, i gave the super croping a try but ive been told im heavy handed, didnt beleive it until i tried bending the branches and i snapped 4 of them back to back. That definitely gave me more space now ill lower the lights and put them on 60% power with 900 ppfd with temps from 68-70f during the light cycle. Ill see how that works.

Oh boy! You let them babies grow didn’t you. They look great. Good luck super cropping. Take your time. A good rule of thumb is you should flip when your plant is at the point that growing 50% more won’t hurt your height. Or in other words whenever you flip they’re going to get 50% bigger

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I am going to compare plants to raising my adult kids now. The older they gets the harder it is to get them to what you want. I have has several plants get like this. Somtimes it will be short especially banana flip the lights and in a week it will go from 12 inches to 6 ft. The branches get harder to bend without breaking older they get. But I agree with the scrognet being the best way to get a handle on it.

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Are these pollen sacs

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