When should I flip? I want as much as possible.

[TheGreek_978]

This is my 2nd grow dwc style and I’m wondering when I should flip for my size of a tent (2x3x5). I want as much product as possible but I’m nervous cuz of tent height.

On my first grow (pic below) I didn’t let her get as bushy or tall or as many cola sites.


1st grow

1st grow in flower:

So for my second grow (pic below) trying to push to cover more tent and have more product and trying to have a better overall grow. We Learn as we go, so I’m Just wondering if I should let her go for a few more weeks 3+ or possibly switch in a week or 2.

 

[Nate_in_AK]

The general rule of thumb I've read is to assume the plant will double in height during flower. Looks like you have a lot of room for LST, you can really flatten her out and get a "bush" :)

 

[HeathenFarmer]

I would plan on it at least doubling. In my grow right now I have 3 different strains, and they all tripled in size.

 

[Ponky]

You want to top it. Make it low and wide. When it tries to grow up. You force it to grow wide. Using pipe cleaners or garden wire. When the Bush fills up most of the canopy but is still not tall. Flip.

 

[HeathenFarmer]

That’s good advice and exactly what I did. Plants were 8-10” tall and around 12” wide at flip. Ended up over 2 feet tall.

 

[TheGreek_978]

The general rule of thumb I've read is to assume the plant will double in height during flower. Looks like you have a lot of room for LST, you can really flatten her out and get a "bush"

I have tie downs for it to do LST was contemplating to do it or not.

You want to top it. Make it low and wide. When it tries to grow up. You force it to grow wide. Using pipe cleaners or garden wire. When the Bush fills up most of the canopy but is still not tall. Flip.

I’ve topped her twice already, I wasn’t planning on topping her anymore, but maybe I should.

 

[Habosabin]

Train her to cover the canopy space and then flip. You have a scrog net right there.

 

[Habosabin]

This is before flip. As they go taller you keep tucking during stretch. Once stretch almost is done you let her go up. This is a 30 day veg. This is fimmed once at the 5th node giving me 10 main branches.

 

[Ponky]

I have tie downs for it to do LST was contemplating to do it or not.



I’ve topped her twice already, I wasn’t planning on topping her anymore, but maybe I should.

3 might be overkill. If it's 18" or so now would flatten and tie it once last time and flip it.and as it grows kind of keep adding and tightening your wires to keep it going wide. Some strains 3x stretch. Some as little as 1.5x so it's a tough call on flipping. The stretch weeks are good for bending arms to expose more bud sites. And if you're lucky they grow straight up from the arms. Like spongebob when he flexed his arms to have a second set of arms on them.

 

[DreamwalkerJ]

I have tie downs for it to do LST was contemplating to do it or not.



I’ve topped her twice already, I wasn’t planning on topping her anymore, but maybe I should.

Personally, i would (based on your pic) lower the trellis, as each branch grows you bend it down and up through the next square over. Keep doing this until every square is full. Once each square has a branch/top in it and theyre all a decent height (allowing for a 200% - 300% stretch) i would strip everything below the trellis off, give her a week to recover and then flip to flower.. but like i said thats what i would do.

 

[TheGreek_978]

Here is an updated pic of how I have the trellis net set now

 

[Nate_in_AK]

Looks good! If those little black fans are the same cheap ones I have you might consider adding a bigger fan. I'm guessing because my little fans don't seem to be enough to push air through the middle of my plants, so I added a bigger fan on the floor pointing slightly up through the canopy. Now I have the little fans blowing across the top.

Your plant is looking good from what I see. Nice.

 

[Goblinkiller]

You got more headspace than i do in the veg tent so now i am thinking I too need to put in some action. Its 1 on the way to fill one 2x4. Thanks for this thread

 

[TheGreek_978]

Looks good! If those little black fans are the same cheap ones I have you might consider adding a bigger fan. I'm guessing because my little fans don't seem to be enough to push air through the middle of my plants, so I added a bigger fan on the floor pointing slightly up through the canopy. Now I have the little fans blowing across the top.

Your plant is looking good from what I see. Nice.

Thank you! They are 20$ ones from Walmart. I have them both on low setting now, because once I turn to high they move the leaves pretty good surprisingly. Once I start flower I’ll crack them to high which will help with humidity also

 

[DreamwalkerJ]

Is that a humidifier in the tent? You might want to think of removing it. Especially now that the plant is getting bigger, you definitely should need to add humidity and it will screw with transpiration rates.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Sativas keep growing after flip until they start running low on nitrogen. Indicas generally stop growing within a day or so of flip.
Many sativas will triple their height and some indicas will go double. Plan accordingly.

 

[TheGreek_978]

Is that a humidifier in the tent? You might want to think of removing it. Especially now that the plant is getting bigger, you definitely should need to add humidity and it will screw with transpiration rates.

It is, but I have not turned it on in a few days since the humidity has been fine on its Own in the tent.

 

[growsince79]

Is that a humidifier in the tent? You might want to think of removing it. Especially now that the plant is getting bigger, you definitely should need to add humidity and it will screw with transpiration rates.

+1

 

[TheGreek_978]

Sativas keep growing after flip until they start running low on nitrogen. Indicas generally stop growing within a day or so of flip.
Many sativas will triple their height and some indicas will go double. Plan accordingly.

It is a indica, I grew it on my first grow and she got pretty tall but nothing aggressive