Huh. Interesting…i’ll have to do it that way from now on - Thank you for the great tip!
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A nice mornings read to catch up. Major jealous about the HTCC but glad you had a good time. And now I will get notifications when you post 
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Hey @Fuel! We call this “flopping” per @Mr.Sparkle. I do break enough membrane to gently bend top over sometimes tying it also. When you do this, apparently being more gentle than I am, does the top straighten back up? 
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the top straightens either way, usually i have to tie down my flops at least till they set “3 weeks or so”
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In the 5th set of photos of this post, i show how far you can go in tiny spaces in being enough carefull with the cambium. I mean to count more on the heat of your hands to bend than on the “crunch” of the fibers and cambium, without struggling the stem in all its circonference anywhere. The plant shown is in fact totally “upside down” by training (and she “think” than she’s a tall plant) and its real height is around 1.4 meters all in line.
This way, in meaning to care about to print minimal wounds, the plant never stop and never need to recover (zero days of production losted, clones or flowers). It’s also important to let the plant increase freely the diameter of top prior stems, it’s a fiber plant, so any limitation in all the height of the trunk is a limitation of the whole upper part. Take a look specially on how i deal with the “ropes” of the training, it will make more sense ;o)
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@MomOnTheRun Did you use spray adhesive & mylar for the cabinet interior? emergency blanket?
sorry if my answer is already here somewhere 
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Sort of. I used the kids glue sticks(took 3) and glued the mylar emergency blanket to a piece of cardboard cut to size then cut off the excess. Once all the panels were done, I taped them together inside of the cabinet… makes it totally replaceable any time for any reason 
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@MomOnTheRun Good luck with the micro grow looks like you have done plenty of research.
That looks like a great stealth grow. Hopefully you get some nice keepers.
Are you searching for high cbd plants? Or are you after a more 1:1 split?
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Thank you. Mr Sparkle laid the road map quite well for me
We have been trying out different ones…so far we love CBD Critical Mass which is a 1:1. I think this one is a 10:1 though I am not quite sure…was just intrigued with the background so had to try it out…if we like it then i’ll do a pheno run in the spring to find keepers with the new seeds
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Day 55 from seed: Day 32 from light flip
#3 is going to get bent tonight…thought she was done stretching though guess not. I am going to do Fuel’s technique of squeezing both sides of the stem nearest to a node then bend her over with a tie down like her sisters*
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pinch, flop and tie her down, best is to pinch the stem for a good inch+ as it will make your radius more gentle
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Good advice, but I am usually heavy handed and things still work out OK. I’ve snapped stems and they recover. 
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This was how I was taught to do it though pinching/squeezing from both sides before pulling down does make sense too…now that I have done it, I am not seeing a difference yet
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