I wasn't expecting her to strech 2.5 foot and I had two bloom plus xp1500s on 90% and it roasted her ass for about four days she was sitting under 1400 ppfd 5 inches away for about half a week until I noticed what was going on and moved the lights
Less water (harder drybacks) during the first 2 weeks of flip I found reduces stretch, I’ve been playing with that as a control measure and it seems to be helping, for example water half the amount you normally would at that’s stage, if the plant has less resources available it’ll reduce the plant size, then just as you start really getting into flower and stretch slows down you can increase to normal waterings and it’ll push cola size.
Still more playing to do with it but hopefully I’ll get it down.
I read about it awhile back somewhere, then It was something I also saw recently pointed out in a build a soil episode too, it was the result of a malfunction but gave interesting results, he had 2 I think earthboxes. Both on those bottom
auto watering systems (Can’t remember the name of em lol)
One malfunctioned and was much drier than the other during stretch, plant with less water stretched about half as much as the one being watered fully, takes some time to get used to it, seems counterintuitive as you water more often but basicay only enough to keep the plant happy at that time, so it runs out of resources quickly so it limits its own size trying to compensate for it..
I love plants
