My issues are twofold. I should be ok for height when I remove the shelf but I want 4ish colas per plant so I need to manage these two goals.
I’m going to chop them back and give them a week. It sounds like the best move.
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I wanna say “grow em in a spiral” sarcastically but now i’m actually thinking about it… 
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I think they make grow stakes for this purpose exactly.
It’s quite funny. My last grows I’ve done on autopilot because I had everything dialed in. Now I’ve switched to a micro format and I’m dealing with all these issues I’m not accustomed to.
“Oh no my plants are too big and looking too good!” 
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Chop first, feed later; regret never.
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I’m having the same problem plants have grown passed my lights lol I mite cut the tops off the plants
Took the shears to these plants today far to bushy and there 6ft tall,
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Don’t cut them that far into flowering. Your only option is to try to bend and or tie them down.
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I have clipped off the tops of flowering buds. Unsightly, but works fine. Not ideal but not the end of the world.
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I’ve cut off kolas and the rest of the plant was fine fuxk I found 2 buds with mold on them this morning on one of my lambs breath/Romulan plants
The original lambs breath and Romulan plants I had trouble with mold,I wonder did the seeds I made carry that trait the other plant is fine,but I noticed when the plants are short and bushy they tend to get mold unless you trim a lot of leaves away from the main stalk,I’m just rambling lol
I am not saying it doesn’t work. I am saying based on those pictures it is going to drastically reduce yield.
I agree the plants will not die
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This is true about the yield part,unless your like me and going to smoke all the weed by yourself,it is a pain in the ass when your plants start growing passed the lights
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I topped mine and flipped to flower the day after.
That simply gave me twin colas.
Now I just noticed that they have noticably more frost than the single colas.
And fatter sugar leaves.
So from now on I’m flipping to flower immediately after the last topping.
Making a thread about it now.
Might not happen with every cultivar but it worked for my current grow which is most likely SourBluTooth.