Hello, Friends!
I want to bring a little something of myself here. I see that there are some vert fans here, so maybe it will be useful for you. I've covered this method before, but I'll share it here.
We all know that the main disadvantage of growing vertically is the extra time it takes for the plants to grow upwards. Vega should be a very long time.
All of you probably already use an extra box where you prepare seedlings for transplanting while the main plants are blooming, to shorten the vega time.
Yes, this is the right thing to do, but I'm going to show you how it can be done faster and more compactly.
I call it the “Fishing rod method.”
Once the plants have emerged from the ground and become strong, you turn off the powerful light, and leave the plants on very low light so that the plants, sensing the lack of light pull up the fishing rod. This method allows you to force the plants to grow upward with maximum dynamism. With powerful light. you will take several times longer for the plant to reach the same height.
You can ignore the large distance between the nodes - that's not important right now!
The second aspect of this method is the shape of the pot. In order for the plant to grow upwards rather than outwards, even with strong light, you need to choose the right pot shape.
You need a pot in the shape of a narrow, oblong cylinder. This is because the shape of the roots follows the shape of the crown. As a rule of thumb, the distance the branches spread out is approximately the same distance the roots spread out. Therefore, we choose a pot in the shape of an oblong cylinder.
Thus, in addition to maximizing the growth dynamics through low light, we also maximize the growth dynamics through the right pot shape.
As soon as you switch the plants to flowering in your main box, you immediately plant the seedlings in the reserve box.
During flowering time, you can grow rods of huge size that you don't need the extra time to veg.
And another advantage, the pots are very small. and the rods only grow upwards, so you can fit 20 rods in a 60X60 cm tent. These rods use very little fertilizer... very little.
This is what my fishing rod looks like now.
3 months veg/pot 250 ml. (coffee glass)
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Once you transplant a fishing rod to a large soil and a powerful light... in a week you won't recognize it..... It'll be lush and beautiful.
I have a fishing rod in a liter pot. This rod reaches a height of 1.2 meters.
If you keep them on the vega for two months instead of 3 months, the rods will not be much shorter.
Also plants from rods are very compact in vertical installation, you can plant more plants on the same area.