@ 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?
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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.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
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.
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