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I usually use a minimum of 25 yo-yo's per plant. I also do not like cages as I feel they restrict growth and strength to the branches. JKjalisco - hey man, good eye..i used no cages on these, for support i do 2 things..first around day 7-10 of flower i drape a trellis over and around the plants and allow them to grow up and in to the trellis during stretch anchoring itself to the trellis..then around week 4 i drill 10-12 pinky size holes in the rim of each container, just big enough to fit a bamboo very tightly without fastening it to anything..i then go up and down the length of each bamboo and fasten as many branches as possible to each bamboo..i then tie support strings at different points of the trellis on each plant and ties those to the light posts above...doing both of these allows me to hold and and support large and small main branches with the bamboos aswell as hold up and support numerous colas around the plant with the trellis by only using a few support strings vs trying up every branch individually
some might think this is too much work and its better to use a cage..but i found that cages can constrict and alter the upward and outward growth of a plant during stretch in a negative way..this is why i stopped using cages as they never allowed the plant to grow outward naturally in the way i aim for...doing this although obviously much more work than a cage, allows me to support the entire plant without interfering with its upward and outward growth..its not for everyone or every garden and might even seem ghetto lol but i havent found a more efficient way to support trees without interfering with growth
here is a pic of right after i draped over the trellis
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and a pic to hopefully illustrate what i was describing better..if you look closely you can see the bamboos in the rim of the container and the trellis buried in the canopy anchored to the support strings
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I usually use a minimum of 25 yo-yo's per plant. I also do not like cages as I feel they restrict growth and strength to the branches. JK
all4free- thanks man, happy to share
capulator - well when you put a cage around the plant, most of the time its fastened to the container..the containers circumference is a fraction of what the finishing plant should be, causing the plant to have to grow entirely through it..and when the plants branches try to grow through the cage, they will get hooked onto the cage at one of the branches nodes and will either halt it from growing outward or one would have to manually weave it through the cage, thus altering and changing the natural shape of the plant...some might have success with it and use it as a scrog of sorts , weaving branches through to cover most surface area..but i found that even if one would do that they would just be blocking out more light from the center of the plant and again hindering its growth...cages for me were just all drawbacks with no advantages other than being quick to put on
with that said, this opinion is only relative to this system and my way of doing things, so dont take it as gospel..in any system its best to try a few things and tweak what works and what doesnt, as theres no one right or wrong way to do things
I feel my girls feel when they are held back they stop producing as much as they should. They are sending hormones back down the branch to get another shoot to work towards the light. Making trees bushy should not be what what you are shooting for. Getting 12-15 branches to produce the most is what I am after. JK
Fuck it I have 200 yo yos hanging from the ceiling. I'll try a few cageless next round. :troll:
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