georgyboy
Active Member
Hey guys I'm still relatively new to growing, I've had a few grows but I'm yet to get a harvest worth mentioning. (Hermies, budrot). I really like watching lst and scrog grows, and I'm gonna try my own thing that I haven't seen anyone else do yet, though I highly doubt I'm the first person in the world (or even on RIU) to do it. The plan is to tie a wire twist around the stem, and use it to train the plant down, kind of tying it to itself. I've got some bag seed going right now so that I can practice without wasting good genetics if I do anything poorly. I'll be growing with a 250w MH conversion bulb for veg and a 250w HPS for flower. I'm also trying to do this organically. First organic grow.
The Ladies are sharing space with all of my garden veggies too, but the vegetables are on their way out to the garden. Just been waiting for temps to stabilize outside. There's all kinds of sweet peppers, a couple tomatoes in rough shape, a tomatillo plant, jalapeno, habanero, serrano, and the infamous ghost pepper as well. Plus four cannabis plants.
This is them crowding each other under 6 25w cfls while a plant finished flowering under the 250. The pot's on the right.
Day one of 250 MH.Up to this point they had had no feedings, but I finally got some organic supplements. Started giving some fish emulsion and kelp meal, as well as a AACT feeding. They're in Miracle Grow organic choice. It's been in my closet for 8 months and I figured i should give it a try for the test run, mixed with a little perlite and vermiculite. (I've got better dirt baking in the sun for my next grow right now) They're in 16oz plastic cups, but the roots are begging for more space at this point. As soon as I get all those other plants out of there they are getting transplanted. Anyways, on to the training. I failed to take a pic of the first ties, sorry. Starting this thread just became an idea today while i was day dreaming at work. Luckily I had the pictures of the beginning of the grow.
All pics from here forward were taken about four hours ago. We're at close to two weeks underneath the 250. The plants had a phase where they looked rough, but after some fish emulsion, kelp meal, an AACT, and some bloodmeal around the base of the plant, you can see much better new growth. Each plant has something a little different going on, close ups next.
Lady Number One. She's been tied down once but has grown back already. The first two pics were taken before I brought her down, the next two afterwards.
Lady Number Three. Same thing as number one.
Lady Number Two. I over-bent her and snapped her a couple days back. This really freaked me out for a minute. I thought about cutting her at the break and in essence topping the plant but instead I untied her and haven't bent her since. She seems to be healing up nicely though, and has even continued to grow well. I applied no bandages.
Lady Number Four. Lucky number four. I chose her as my test subject. I bent her in half and tied her to the stem again. I thought that the lower nodes would explode up in response, but over the course of the week she just turned her head back up straight. My second bend with her is the same as with the other Ladies.
Alright guys that's all I have for now. I'll do my best to get updates on here often. I'll at least post each training session.
The Ladies are sharing space with all of my garden veggies too, but the vegetables are on their way out to the garden. Just been waiting for temps to stabilize outside. There's all kinds of sweet peppers, a couple tomatoes in rough shape, a tomatillo plant, jalapeno, habanero, serrano, and the infamous ghost pepper as well. Plus four cannabis plants.
This is them crowding each other under 6 25w cfls while a plant finished flowering under the 250. The pot's on the right.
Day one of 250 MH.Up to this point they had had no feedings, but I finally got some organic supplements. Started giving some fish emulsion and kelp meal, as well as a AACT feeding. They're in Miracle Grow organic choice. It's been in my closet for 8 months and I figured i should give it a try for the test run, mixed with a little perlite and vermiculite. (I've got better dirt baking in the sun for my next grow right now) They're in 16oz plastic cups, but the roots are begging for more space at this point. As soon as I get all those other plants out of there they are getting transplanted. Anyways, on to the training. I failed to take a pic of the first ties, sorry. Starting this thread just became an idea today while i was day dreaming at work. Luckily I had the pictures of the beginning of the grow.
All pics from here forward were taken about four hours ago. We're at close to two weeks underneath the 250. The plants had a phase where they looked rough, but after some fish emulsion, kelp meal, an AACT, and some bloodmeal around the base of the plant, you can see much better new growth. Each plant has something a little different going on, close ups next.
Lady Number One. She's been tied down once but has grown back already. The first two pics were taken before I brought her down, the next two afterwards.
Lady Number Three. Same thing as number one.
Lady Number Two. I over-bent her and snapped her a couple days back. This really freaked me out for a minute. I thought about cutting her at the break and in essence topping the plant but instead I untied her and haven't bent her since. She seems to be healing up nicely though, and has even continued to grow well. I applied no bandages.
Lady Number Four. Lucky number four. I chose her as my test subject. I bent her in half and tied her to the stem again. I thought that the lower nodes would explode up in response, but over the course of the week she just turned her head back up straight. My second bend with her is the same as with the other Ladies.
Alright guys that's all I have for now. I'll do my best to get updates on here often. I'll at least post each training session.
keep it up 
