BotanicalBill
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TG thanks so much. You kind of answered what to expect on a per month basis, too.. I have absolutely no idea if I should be expecting them to go from, say, 5' to 8' in a month, which would be roughly a hair over an inch a day, or a foot as you imply would be a good thing.. Girth will be hard to judge for us since they have a flat bottom so I'm not thinking too much into that aspect..
Last week I was asking how everyone got theirs so bushy and after thinking about it a bit(which I think spawned the whole pot-size/rootbound discussion) it's probably not a bad thing that ours aren't as bushy because we'd have to put 2X as much 'bushiness' into 1/2 the space since we only have 180 degrees to use. I'm thinking, and I kind of saw it first hand the last time I was out there to tie-down, that having to cram 2X as many branches into 1/2 the space would make for some pretty ideal conditions for mold come flower time.. Hopefully the side branches will get so long that I can get some decent spacing between branches.
If anyone has some experience with this (HL maybe?) and how to handle it (thinning?) I'd love to hear some tips as it just dawned on me recently that this situation is going to occur for sure with a horizontal training situation and my pure SWT#3 and Alpha/SWT3 Crosses very well may run into this problem because my SWTs love to mold even indoors.. I'm almost already regretting putting them out..
Thanks
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Last week I was asking how everyone got theirs so bushy and after thinking about it a bit(which I think spawned the whole pot-size/rootbound discussion) it's probably not a bad thing that ours aren't as bushy because we'd have to put 2X as much 'bushiness' into 1/2 the space since we only have 180 degrees to use. I'm thinking, and I kind of saw it first hand the last time I was out there to tie-down, that having to cram 2X as many branches into 1/2 the space would make for some pretty ideal conditions for mold come flower time.. Hopefully the side branches will get so long that I can get some decent spacing between branches.
If anyone has some experience with this (HL maybe?) and how to handle it (thinning?) I'd love to hear some tips as it just dawned on me recently that this situation is going to occur for sure with a horizontal training situation and my pure SWT#3 and Alpha/SWT3 Crosses very well may run into this problem because my SWTs love to mold even indoors.. I'm almost already regretting putting them out..
Thanks
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