I dig the ramble, you can ramble on all ya want in my journal.
The res gets refilled twice a day from cold tap water thats gone through the filter so it dont have time to heat up much. But you are right, I do check the temp and its been cool enough. If it isn't I can just drain it out and fill it with cold water, only takes 3 min to fill up again. I do have a chiller I can use if I need it.
So you think I will be fine topping at this point, cool. I think Ill go ahead and clip about a foot off the tall one and try and fim the blueberry.
What do you think of the Kush strains, I dont think I need to do anything with them its just the two big ones, blue cheese and blue berry.
For flower supports I got all those exposed 2x4's man. Im gonna tie to those. I was thinking about running poultry fence all along the inside walls. Tacking it to the 2x4's and giving me several more tie points but also keeping the buds off the walls where they can heat up. Give me a couple go's at this and I will have the whole dam thing screened. LOL.
Thanks for the link guy, They got some good stuff but Im gonna pass on the yo yo's
Thanks Psari, thats some good info.
I dont know if you checked out my previous grows but I'm an indoor hydro grower. This three month veg thing is a lot of time for me. I knew we just went through our solstice and was wondering if I was too late. Sounds like I'm right on the money.
As far as plant support you are correct in assuming I will tie to the frame. It just may be a spiderweb but no yo yo's... safer that way, "honey I've fallen and I cant get up" Shit, I would never hear the end of it.
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jw wat ur water temp was cuz i never checked when i started outdoors. but that temp should be good enough, no real reason to spend more money running the chiller i guess. outdoor always seems alot more resillant than indoors. i liked growin indoors and outdoors and would love to grow outdoors again but cuz security... cant. but incorportaing wat u learned indoors and outdoors togheter is a good hybrid of skills IMO.
just like PSARI said this info is all in my opinion and wat happened with those methods in my scenarios.
but the kush strains and other pure indicas i would just leave.
i had forgotten soltice passed already so i would have to pass the cropping topic onto sumone that knows more about outdoors and the flower stretch. i dont want to suggest a topping method if ure already in flower. the plants wont heal or recover in time to produce the main tops u desire. u know this as well from indoors. so id rec researching how much longer u have of veg growth if any.
to be on the complete safe side u can always LST (low stress train) the tops and side shoots to whervere u want them to go and still allow auxin horomones to shift to diff parts of the plant and still get sum smaller but strong tops.
if u search for Hodgegrown's journal hes got a huge outdoor grow but his support system is simple and effective. 2x4s like u mentioned but he builds like a box around the plants in raised beds for flower support. u could small scale his design or modify to ur needs.
theres lots of diff materials ive seen for support;
-2x4s can b arranged to provide side support and make and overhead to hang support rope from but u already have a roof
-PVC piping could b modified for support and doesnt take up as much room and isnt heavy like the wood. u could easily run PVC over head from side to side or sum shit and tie up to that without gettin to spiderwebbed.
-Rope can be string parralell to the plants and provide inner suuport and be out of ur way for the most part. in my outdoor grow if u look close ull see 10' tall 3" diameter PVC pipe that i stood vertical in the ground and drilled holes thru it for a quick ghetto support system. i just weaved the rope thru with no slack and it helped the plants kind of lean on each others distributed weight.
-or go grab sum chicken wire or fencing material and use it however u want
knowing u im sure u can fix up sum crazy legit shit to resolve the support issue. im sure theres other peeps on here that can pitch in sum other ideas that will fit ur situation