Well your doing something right ! They actually reccommend againt using a peat product, but it sure doesnāt seem like it is hurting your grow any !! Beautiful plants all.
Marty
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After around a month to a month and a half, all my plants in veg start to do that. Iām thinking that it is because I run so close to flower light. I grow under 16/8 not 18/4. So I think the plants get ready to flower under that light more so than if I ran longer light. Here is a shot of my tops (not clones) that are at day 51 in veg.
This is the biggest of the Candy storeās and it has 4 tops. (had to top it twice) to slow it down.
Marty
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This post contains images of a plant crime scene that some viewers might find disturbing
My fingers hurt AF from supercropping them. The stems are so hard and sturdy. I couldnāt bend a single branch without spliting the outer layer, no matter how hard I pinched and squished the stem. Anyone has had that as well? How to maintain nice green, softer stems?
The plant crime sceneā¦ Some sick f*** broke everyoneās legsā¦
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If youāre using some sort of silica additive, stop. That will help. 
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Iām not 
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Look at him going:
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Ok, so the plants were absolutely not happy after the supercrop massacre. I wonāt try to supercrop hard, sturdy stems anymore. Not just like this at least. It was extremely difficult to pinch the stems, and like I mentioned above: I just couldnāt bend them without splitting the outer layer of the stem. Sometimes they werenāt only just splitting but got completely screwed upā¦ folding all the way
So I put em in a plaster and gave em crutches:
They are surviving now
But my question remains (I canāt be the only person who wanted to supercrop but couldnāt properly because of the hard stems)ā¦ What to do next timeā¦
I supercropped many times before without this issue.
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Iām glad they survived @MrMonkey420, and as for supercroping Iām not much help on, havenāt done it, Iāve only done some LST.
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@Dforce
Thanks mate. Hope to still pull a few grams off of em instead of giving up. The problem is that the stems wonāt get very thick and fat anymore now, so Iām not sure how that is going to affect bud development. Weāll see it together.
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I do remember back a bunch of years ago when I first start outdoors, I had a plant that was about 10ā or so, and it was about 4ish weeks into flower, and I wanted to see the top, so I bent it over, and damit it snapped about a foot from the top. 
. So I taped it and boy did come back strong. So Iām guessing yours will be fine. 
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Looks good in there, theyāll heal up. Did you hit em early with Silica? I find if I wait until Iām 70% happy with the basic shape, before starting it, I leave myself some cooperative stem time.
I have a pair of duckbill pliers I put some silicone tubing on the pinchers, so I can squish/tenderize a bit harder than my fingers can handle and not blow out the stem.
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No, they didnāt get any silica. Unless it is in one of the basic nutes I give the plants! Havenāt looked it up yet.
Great hack! I started using the back (handles) of my scissors as well in the end, because my fingers started to hurt bad 
Still the were blowing out tho/splitting. I donāt understand why they are so hardā¦
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So Iām gonna say this and then tomorrow Iām gonna have a plant broke in half on me butā¦ Iāve bent some awful big stuff and not had a break. It takes a little practice and a lot of breaking to figure it out but it can be done easy enough. The first word that comes to mind is patience. If itās hurting my fingers Iām not doing it right. First I bend them up and down 15 or 20 times slowly going a little more each time. If itās a big branch and itās gonna require a bigger bed and I will do this over a one and a half or 2 inch length of the branch. Then I do the same thing side to side. Mind you Iām doing a very small spot at a time slowly working my way up and down the branch where Iām going to bed then when itās limp that way I do a twist clockwise and counterclockwise back-and-forth. Then itās ready to bend. You can still get some small splits and cracks you can go all doctor on them and get out your aloe and all that shit or you can just throw a Band-Aid on it so it doesnāt dry out and let it heal naturally.
Oh yeah you mentioned that your branches are gonna be weaker because you bent them and broke them down and had to tape them. Make sure theyāre where you want them to be because they are going to knuckle up. They are gonna get very rigid and very strong and a lot thicker than you think everywhere that you broke themā¦ 
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I had to look back at Waze on my journal. These are from beginning of September last year.
I actually got splits and some of these big knuckles pretty badly when I did this and I had ants move inside the stock and start colonizing. I got DE and sprinkled it inside and that took care of the problem and it all grew back to where you see it.
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Thanks a lot hap!!! Will try to take more time lol.
Yep, throw some band-aid one em, thatās what I usually do. And the knuckles, thatās also what I do it for! Phytohormones causing a stressreaction and a grow superboost as a result, after the crop.
I was just a bit concerned/wondering because Iāve never snapped + folded them as bad as nowā¦Literally folded close, like when you fold a platic straw in half 
I know they can endure A LOT tho, theyāre super powered plants for sure.
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I believe I will flip em soon as well. Clean up the skirts and go.
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We all need a little help from time to timeā¦just ask my 71 yo body lol. No splints yet but probably not far off heheh.
Marty
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Hahahah Marty. Cāmon, I dare you are still a strong 'ol buck! Ready to kick some ass when necessary! 
Man the stories you told about Jamaica, decades ago. Captures my imagination! Hell, I wish I was there, sharing a spliff with you and mr. Rastafari!
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Compaired to a lot of people I probably am doing pretty good, still ride a motorcycle, still garden and other than some pain get around pretty good. It is just life. Canāt really complain.
Marty
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We should try to gather then one day soon. I need to visit the states. Want to. Should get a bunch of yous from the forum here get together somewhere central for a day or 2 and have a wild time! Iām thinking bbq, campfires, beers (or water if you like), laughs, talks, and many many Mary Janes!
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