BotanicalBill
Member
Hey there, I was wondering if anyone would care to share their techniques for tying down large plants horizontally outdoors.. My buddy is going to do it this year and was asking me for advice so I figured I'd throw it out there.. Having no experience myself, the best idea I could come up that was easy to setup and could handle a large plant would be using some say 6 foot tall, by say 8 foot long cattle panel/concrete wire similar to this
http://www.fyall.net/greenhouse-03(cuttingpanels).jpg
Lay that down next to the plant, and that gives you quite a bit of space to tie one end to whatever square you wish and the other and to the branch of your choice.. That stuff is also pretty heavy so you're not going to get the plant pulling it out of the ground.
So by just laying down one 6x8 panel you would have 48 square feet of space to train to.. This doesn't have to be 100% stealth or anything in his case but for those where it would be an issue it would seem that it could be relatively easily concealed as well since it's essentially flat to the ground..
Anyway, was just wondering if anyone else had any other ideas to share that would be even easier, or thoughts on why the panel idea would not work well.
Thanks much
BB
http://www.fyall.net/greenhouse-03(cuttingpanels).jpg
Lay that down next to the plant, and that gives you quite a bit of space to tie one end to whatever square you wish and the other and to the branch of your choice.. That stuff is also pretty heavy so you're not going to get the plant pulling it out of the ground.
So by just laying down one 6x8 panel you would have 48 square feet of space to train to.. This doesn't have to be 100% stealth or anything in his case but for those where it would be an issue it would seem that it could be relatively easily concealed as well since it's essentially flat to the ground..
Anyway, was just wondering if anyone else had any other ideas to share that would be even easier, or thoughts on why the panel idea would not work well.
Thanks much
BB