Amber
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Well when it came time to take them ladies down the first one almost took me down after I got the cage off of her. I said, "dam that's a big bitch."
Well when it came time to take them ladies down the first one almost took me down after I got the cage off of her. I said, "dam that's a big bitch."sweet pics,looks like that strain doesn't really need a trellis.i want some:)
I call em good support, but Current Culture calls them module cages. They actually came up with that brilliant name. They sell them for a whopping $18.95 MSRP. I went ahead and forked it out for em because I liked the concept of a perfect fit. I do however have to admit they bear a striking resemblance to the cages I get at home depot for my tomatoes for a bit less.Great pics Amber! Thanks for sharing
What do you call those cages around your plants. I'm diggin those for sure :)
Hey Amber, in a UC system since it is on the floor you don't need more ceiling, as much as you need more square footage to spread them out. Lose the horizontal reflectors and drop verts. That will give you an extra few feet of vertical canopy.
Then you can add a wire grid ceiling and start dropping yo yos! You can also hang the cages from the ceiling and then you can peek the roots if you need to.
Those plants came out tits, but you could get them a lot bigger still and double your yield I bet with another week or two of veg. If it were me in a horizontal grow (keeping your exising setup) I would find a really strong stemmed upright strain that can almost hold it's own. Then let them grow in to each other, and remove all the lowers. That would give you a big blanket of flowers and increase your yield probably 25-30%. If all the big buds are close to each other they have a tendency to support each other as well. You could even lower your existing cages 6" or so (break out the grinder!) and zip tie a flat 4'x4' wire mesh to the top (horizontal plane), anticipating that the flowers will stretch through that and then you have all the support you would need. It would look like a giant scrog, but with 9 big plants.
I have been thinking about dropping 3 plants from my room so I can get some more space in between. With the right strain, you can easily hit 3lbrs on 5 ft centers.
I would only have 6 plants then, but if I averaged 3/ I wouldn't complain.
Those are pretty cool I was checking out some other thread yesterday on here and they had the same type looking concept only with bamboo stakes looked like just stuck in the soil. Maybe not though. I think it could have been Scotts OG thread but not sure. I wonder if they would work with the UC basket though. I will have to check it out more but I'm totally into them for the dirtier projects or moms even.
Those are pretty cool I was checking out some other thread yesterday on here and they had the same type looking concept only with bamboo stakes looked like just stuck in the soil. Maybe not though. I think it could have been Scotts OG thread but not sure. I wonder if they would work with the UC basket though. I will have to check it out more but I'm totally into them for the dirtier projects or moms even.
God DAMN, woman!Thank you Seamaiden I should have known it would not be that easy to just copy and paste.
Also Cap 6" lower on the cage. What are you thinking the top trelis height should be 4ft? 4 1/2 maybe? I know the cages are 5ft but I just went out to measure and visualize this and they are actually only 4ft so do you think that is good or still take em down 6". Any thoughts on the strain? I have some Ewok and I hear that they are pretty strong stalked but I have not finished flowering it yet and I like to know what I'm flowering in the UC is gonna make me happy. Although that last run I did not, them purple bitches were not the 1st round drafts they were the substitutes. I scrogged Master Kush for a long good while happily and Bubba kush also. I wonder if I could get those genetics back for the occasion.
Oh really, I would not mind testing.They fit perfectly in the CC buckets! I met one of the inventors recently and they are going to be looking for testers soon.
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I was just trying to guess based on the picture. That is why I said you would need the hand grinder (with metal cutoff wheel). What is your ceiling height? how tall are the 13xlbuckets?
Buckets are 19" and the ceiling is 8' from the top of the platform the system sits on.
So great to see you and B killing it. The girls look fiiire!
I just wanted to point out that single ties of any kind are the most expensive and labor intensive means of plant support. From a commercial perspective the goal is to eliminate any breaks in footprint as well as any possible labor. In a few years we will see 10 and 20 acre greenhouses that have no people inside them.
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