JUICY's Recirculating Madness
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@ juice box...
once roots are established, cant you run the system w/ just the shallow, continuous flow on the bottom of the tray?
do you think there would be any difference w/ just the 2-3" pool of agitated water+nutes, w/out the top drippers?
enjoy your garden!
once roots are established, cant you run the system w/ just the shallow, continuous flow on the bottom of the tray?
do you think there would be any difference w/ just the 2-3" pool of agitated water+nutes, w/out the top drippers?
enjoy your garden!
ya at that point i would just go full on ebb and flow but nah i dont have the 3" of water at the base anymore. I was doing that to create more dissolved oxygen and no longer need that due to diffusers and whatnot
now it just drains out the pots straight out the tray into the rez.
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zmanforever
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so does anyone have any suggestions on how to continue keeping the colas even. the canopy is very even but there are still those branches that want to take over and at this point I can't pull anymore branches under the netting.
I did put in another trellis and I hope this helps
I did put in another trellis and I hope this helps
thin down the canopy by removing shoot-tips growing into center of plant. you can simply pinch off the terminal buds, & the lower growing tips - & let the leaves remain... keep only strongest 4-6 main lead-branches w/ actual growing parts... all the rest will be branches naked of growing parts, except for the remaining leaves.
can continue to do this & will have to, from the looks of your growth structure...
select strongest main lead branches (4-6) on ea plant... these dont get pruned. they get trained & thinned though... by taking any lower/weak growth...
the remaining limbs/shoots/branches get all growing tips stripped except for leaves...
repeat this process until the remaining branches become both barren energy sources (the tip-stripped ones), & 4-6 main colas, draining energy from all those leaves...
stripping the shoot/branch down to the actual intersect works best; otherwise the plant will try to grow a branch back there... even if it does, it is thinned anyway...
this should promote an even canopy of focused tops, even w/ surrounding branches that have only leaves...
hope this helps.
enjoy your garden!
I understand that completely buy I'm not going to thin out the canopy at all. my goal is for a cola every 2 in or so. With this strain it is not advantageous to prune in the manner you suggest, due to the bud structure etc. I have howevercleared out all lower growth from the "zombie" zone.
at 1 week flower I will also remove any branches/bud sites don't make it through the first screen.
I guess my second trellis should work fine in holding back those branches that stretch faster than the rest. this is gonna get crazy
Nice setup. Im gonna be using the dutchy gold as well in my under current. I already tried a 1/4 run and had some issues with root rot or slime Im not sure where it came from I had used aqushield and hygrozyme in the mix. It was kinda wierd because I vegged em in a shallow recirculating setup with no issues with out the hygrozyme once I popped em in the big rig with the hygrozyme after 3 days they started to get icky roots. You dont have any issues with the aquashield and hygrozyme? Just curious because Im about to rerun the setup and Im xing out the shield and the zyme.
