Heath's Vertical Trees -- Attainable?

[flat9]

Which Honeywell model in particular? There are three models that look very similar...

http://www.kaz.com/kaz/fans/products/honeywell-table-air-circulator-fan-ht-900/
http://www.kaz.com/kaz/fans/products/honeywell-turbo-force-room-air-circulator-ht-908/
http://www.kaz.com/kaz/fans/products/honeywell-turbo-force-floor-fan-hf-910/

 

[green_thumb...]

Which Honeywell model in particular? There are three models that look very similar...

http://www.kaz.com/kaz/fans/products/honeywell-table-air-circulator-fan-ht-900/
http://www.kaz.com/kaz/fans/products/honeywell-turbo-force-room-air-circulator-ht-908/
http://www.kaz.com/kaz/fans/products/honeywell-turbo-force-floor-fan-hf-910/

The 3 you posted are pretty much small, medium, large take your pick for your area. All will work.

 

[flat9]

The go-to is Turface MVP which is a calcined clay product used for maintaining baseball fields.
You can get it from John Deere. I believe their version of it is called Turface All-Sport.


Others use Napa Floor Dry #8822 as a replacement for Turface MVP. Both require screening of the fine pieces/washing before use.



Some have had good results in coco, but I've personally ran into the wicking tailpiece clogging up and causing the upper container not to drain fully/drowning the plant.

I believe D9 suggests a medium with a 33% porosity.


They grow some wicked plants practically by themselves with little user input. I'm itching to do a run in Turface after seeing what I could do in coco in a PPK my 1st run with them. I ran into some clogging issues and ultimately finished the grow hand-watered to waste, but still got some decent weight. These gave me 1.7lbs per plant despite my trouble.

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I love those plant yoyos you've got there! Do you find it makes training and cola support fairly easy?

 

[catalyte]

a good discussion in here...

it's all about the factors in a plants health: Intense light, balanced nutrient regimen, correct range of temperature and humidity/Air exchange, healthy rootzone and plant training/Pruning.

did i miss anything??

 

[FlowerFarmer]

Yes - Genetics.


But otherwise I think you've got it covered.

 

[FlowerFarmer]

I love those plant yoyos you've got there! Do you find it makes training and cola support fairly easy?

Yes - chicken wire ceiling covering allows you to hook them anywhere I want.. grab the hook, pull it down and grab a cola.

Can't stand using Bamboo stakes.

These are awesome although a bit spendy at ~$1.75/ea. You'll find yourself needing more and more..


It's heart-wrenching to walk into a room and see that you've not only lost a cola, but snapped and entire section of the plant off in the process..losing all of the intermediate buds on that arm as well. Get your support system in place early.. don't wait until things are snapping under the weight. ... 1st world problem I suppose. Large colas snapping under their own weight.

 

[flat9]

Not exactly a bad problem to have generally, but yeah, I can only imagine the feeling of "ohhhh shit!" I plan on using tons of silica (probably Rhino Skin because it comes properly pH-ed and isn't really any different in price than Silica Blast) to help build up strength in the plant walls.