Capulator
likes to smell trees.
Supporter
- 6,070
- 313
I too wonder???? I know that may be what they say but what if your lid height is 8'+? Will it let your sites grow tall enough to max yeilds? I know in LBH's tutorial... he kept his plants small in a closet and set them on a high table running 600 watt'ers. I know for me... I would like my plants to be atleast 3-4' when finished as that would give me 2' clearence for lights and 2' for magic pot height+room for dtw.
thats sound about how i do it :)its all about surface area. scrogging maximizes the light to each budsite, so all you get is a blanket of heads. If you let the plants grow up from the screen, you may have to add a second screen, and then you will have a bitch of a time getting in to the screen sandwich to clean out larf which will now develop due to the top canopy shading out the bottom canopy. .
Thats why you flip at 1/3 full, so you can bend those girls down in every direction and completely fill the screen by the end of stretch. I know I said some scroggers say... But I have plenty of scrog experience and this is how I would do it.
Its important to stay on top of it and bend every day. If you get lazy they will grow too tall and you will risk snapping your terminal shoots when you try to wrestle them back to the screen. Every day some bending and every day some cleaning of lower growth and defoliation. 3-4 weeks of work and due diligence, 5-? weeks of sippin lemonade and doing res changes.
Thrips + spinosad = Death!
This looks like great stuff. Will be giving it a try in the future.i got some deep impact deep clean, was skeptical at first, after 1 application the plants look a helluva lot better plus not see a single thrip since, will be reapplying it in the next few days
heres a link bro
http://www.deepimpactplantcare.co.uk/
honestly best thing ive used for thrips in the 3times ive had them, gonna be keeping this stuff around for sure
hb
thanks NN. I didnt realize they preferred blue...I read an info sheet that said yellow or blue and had some yellow on hand.We should switch.Get blue stickys traps. Thats the collor they like. Yellow is more for f-gnats. I always do 50/50 and gang up on them hard. Not all fly. Get Monitary Garden and Insect spray from Homedepot. Little Neem oil helps too. Spinosad is the main thing at Monitary. Take a look around here on the farm for more info on the mixure. Me lazy to look threw my books....
Looking good!
Congratulations on all your hard work,great post.
I second this. Big ups! I like how clean your setup is, and I confess to more than a little jealousy whenever I think of you guys scooting under the canopy while sitting comfortably on the stool. My back aches from bending over and creeping under mine! I'm gettin' too old for that kind of shit, lol.
I am looking forward to seeing this play out-
Ya man, they are in a happy place. Have a rootzone monitor which has been 73/75 consistently and watching it closely. The fabric is supposed to have a gap of two inches (roughly) in between the correlated plastic and the fabric. On some beds the end part sogged in a bit leaving no space, but roots are loving it there. We thought at one point to insert airstones in the rootzone but can't afford any gambles on this one;)Looking supermean, those roots are airpruning like beserk
If I were in your shoes- I'd be dancing a jig- seriously, I don't know that I'd go with perlite. You want to keep those roots in the dark and perlite is white. Also, reflecting light up from the bottom does the plants no good, as all the chloroplasts are on the tops of the leaves.
Since you're doing the orgasmic thing anyway, maybe find some kind of material that keeps the light out but allows you to pour ACT (aerated compost tea) and such right through. Heck, maybe just more of the same stuff that already forms the bottom!
As a related thought, if you hung a strip of that black material- or just black plastic- along both sides of each trough, the roots would be in the dark, get more humidity and might not airprune so quickly, leading to more root mass down in the trough itself. This would give them a second bite at the water/nutes apple as it runs to waste, without any risk of them drowning.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?