hush's Silver LA grow
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RosettaStoned
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Very dense foliage, looks real healthy. I bet she's gonna explode with buds real soon 
Skunkpassion
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Hope she gives you a nice yield dude...
Caravaggio
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update?>
I am having trouble keeping the branches pinned down and level with each other. I'm going to have to resort to hanging weights from some of them. Other than that, everything is good. This plant is just stubborn, and her branches are strong, so they are pushing the LST stakes out of the substrate. It's day 14. Here are a few pics:
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Bud Buddington
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How many hours do you spend training the plants to be the same height? You do a really good job and create a level canopy... I'm jealous.
Thanks for saying that, because I was actually fairly depressed this time around about NOT being able to keep the canopy as level as I normally do. Hence my comment on my last update, about the strong branches. But in all honesty, I do try to spend a good 20 to 30 minutes on each "session" of pinning branches down. It used to take a whole lot longer when I drilled holes in the buckets and tied branches down with twine. This is much quicker, just shoving stakes down into the substrate. But then I do like to spin the plant around, and then I get down on my hands and knees and look at the canopy head-on and adjust as necessary. I do think an even canopy goes a long way toward maximizing yields.
But in all honesty, I do try to spend a good 20 to 30 minutes on each "session" of pinning branches down. It used to take a whole lot longer when I drilled holes in the buckets and tied branches down with twine. This is much quicker, just shoving stakes down into the substrate. But then I do like to spin the plant around, and then I get down on my hands and knees and look at the canopy head-on and adjust as necessary. I do think an even canopy goes a long way toward maximizing yields.mikeAKAsilas
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You're an artist.
Bud Buddington
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What are you using for stakes to keep the branches down? Did you buy little stakes or did you make them out of wire?
I have always tied my plants with twine or twist ties and that can be time consuming and an overall pain in the ass trying to get my stupid hands into these bushes.
I have always tied my plants with twine or twist ties and that can be time consuming and an overall pain in the ass trying to get my stupid hands into these bushes.
Wire coat hangers!
I don't have a washer or dryer, so I take all my clothes to a wash/dry/fold service. This causes my house to fill up with wire coat hangers after a while, lol. So I try repurposing them whenever I can. Many of them become bowl-pokers, others become hooks for hanging things (including drying branches), and a good portion of them are turned into my LST stakes.
All I do is just bend them into elongated "U" shapes and shove them down into the substrate. Works beautifully!
I don't have a washer or dryer, so I take all my clothes to a wash/dry/fold service. This causes my house to fill up with wire coat hangers after a while, lol. So I try repurposing them whenever I can. Many of them become bowl-pokers, others become hooks for hanging things (including drying branches), and a good portion of them are turned into my LST stakes.
All I do is just bend them into elongated "U" shapes and shove them down into the substrate. Works beautifully!
Bud Buddington
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Genius!
seeingthings
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Wire coat hangers!
I don't have a washer or dryer, so I take all my clothes to a wash/dry/fold service. This causes my house to fill up with wire coat hangers after a while, lol. So I try repurposing them whenever I can. Many of them become bowl-pokers, others become hooks for hanging things (including drying branches), and a good portion of them are turned into my LST stakes.
All I do is just bend them into elongated "U" shapes and shove them down into the substrate. Works beautifully!
Aha! That's why you always have wire hangers on hand. I saw an old post of yours in the 1000w thread and searched all of our closets.
I only found 3!
Dr.RedWhite
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MaxiBloom, in my experience once it is finally dissolved and run at the reccomended teaspoon per gallon drops your tap water PH around 1.2 to as much as 2 points. I suppose this would vary with what minerals and form of calcium are in yout water though. This is great if your tap is around 7.5. I tend to mix it in a gallon jug, using hot water with enough MaxiBloom to match the number of gallons in my res. I then let it sit overnite before pouring it into the res.
Dr.RedWhite
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That is a pretty plant!
