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I'm not sure of the exact size, but I'm fairly sure it's about 4 gallons (16 to 17 litres). The container was going to be a carbon filter a long time ago, and I had cut an 8" hole in the bottom for ducting and applied the tape (so I can't read the label). Before I filled it up with coco I put a very open, solid, plastic mesh over the hole so most of the floor of the pot is freely draining and I still only water every 2 or 3 days so far.
I'm making a new recipe tea right now.
heheh I thought I was the only one who did that. I lost a big chunk of one of my top colas last harvest. I picked up a plant to water bout 2 days before harvest...lifted the lil fucker right up into the fan *BBZZZzzzZZ* hahaha...last time that'll happen. Sure made me laugh though.
" this whole grow. Check it...: and now I tipped a really stretchy shoot just as it was budding up, to see what happens.
You know that, dawg! It's like the guys at Philips got on the pipe and decided to make the perfect light for scrogging. Once I find a cheap local supply of parts and bulbs, I'll be even happier.
If there's any more I can tell you, just holler. Your outdoor is looking CRAZY nice!
First of all though, P2. Well behind in flower thanks to my urine :
Hey thanks cheese. Well, probably the most important thing is to realise the effect of apical dominance. I'm sure you would be familiar with this concept, but maybe not by it's fancy name.
So quite often, especially with CFLs, a lot of strains are going to go pretty much straight up, with no lateral activity, and this is what you want to avoid (unless we are just growing it long so we can train it later). As you probably know if we snip the tip, squeeze the stem, supercrop it, etc, the apical dominance goes, often temporarily, to the next nodes down. It will grow bushier, but there's still all the dormant lateral buds below it. All just wasted potential as they're often just popcorn bumfluff buds.
If we just bend the whole lot over flat to the ground, we just made every damn bud the main dominant bud! So that is basically how you do it. Keep it low all the time, tied down or trained over or vegged under a scrog screen. I've had very bushy plants with no topping/tipping at all. As soon as one dominates, it will always have more "oomph" than the lower ones.
If you see a branch shooting out above all the rest, lst it, supercrop it, squeeze it, heck, even cut it right off if veg time isn't an issue.
If you remember my best plant, all 18 z's of her:
Well, this plant actually started as one of the most worthless, spindly, straight-upwards type plants I've had. It grew maybe 2ft tall straight up, and I simply chopped it to half that. 4 main branches grew out and developed well. (I'm pretty sure this was her on the right, near end of veg)
Here in the tropics, you can just leave most plants out, most of the year, and they will flower as if they were under 12/12 pretty much. So in that respect, on day one of 12/12, I tied her down paying attention to get as many of the bulk of the shoots on the exact same horizontal plane - all at the same level. A few days later I came back and readjusted one or two of the strings just to keep everything level. No other training or physical manipulation was done after that.
Just add water and the rest is history.
For outdoors, a really good cheap way to keep them low and bushy is tent pegs. No string needed, just peg the branches to the ground. I'm a big fan of tent pegs, they are the perfect LST tool - even if you don't stick them in the ground, they have just enough weight to hold a branch down anyway, and you double or triple them up for stronger branches.
Anyways mate, thanks for your question, I enjoyed explaining my thoughts and showing off some old pics
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