Thedillestpickle
Well-Known Member
Hello all, this is my first post, I have been browsing through alot of the stuff on this site and I really like the atmosphere of this forum. This will be my first grow, but im going into it with alot of research/brainstorming/creativity. havent got any plants started yet, I plan to begin germinating my seeds Dec 1st, just bought some kali-mist seeds from serious seeds so Im pretty stoked that I have a potent strain like that, I have been playing with lots of ideas as to how I'll be setting up my grow. Vertical Scrog is definately appealing to me. Im thinking to have 1 400watt superMH hung low and have 1 600watt HPS hung a foot or so above that. I will be growing from seed(I have 11) so however many of those successfully germinate will be how many I place around those two bulbs.
I havent seen these "cool tubes" until I hit this thread... are these purchased at a store or are they something you guys DIY??? how much closer to the plants are you able to bring the lights with those on? Snowgrow19 you mentioned your getting more trichs without it on, but I would think you can bring your plants a whole lot closer to the bulb for overall more production.
also another question about if Vert growing stops plants from growing up... MEGAyeilder420 you said that they will always grow up because of the auxins going up, but what if I have my colas trained so they are facing down(like they did a U-turn)? Will the colas stretch downward after being turned upside down like that? Im a little worried about having my 90% sativa strain shoot through the roof on me.
Ill be using soil, not sure what Im doing for nutes yet. I was also thinking of turning my 400 MH on 2 hours later and off 2 hours earlier than the 600 HPS to mimic sun-up and sundown/save money, any thoughts on that?
Heres an idea I have to increase yeild, let me know if youve ever seen anything like it or if you think its just too crazy to do....
since ill be working with a sativa strain I might not be able to bush out my plants effectively so im thinking to top the plant twice, creating 4 colas to each plant. I would then anchor 4 bamboo sticks into each pot and train each cola up the sticks. Each corner of my pot will have 1 cola. That will give me a narrow profile, with each plant being trained so that it doesnt reach more than a few inches past the edge of the pot(unlike Vert Scrog where you have a 2 dimentional screen that reaches past the width of the pot). The crazy part of the idea is that I want to place each pot on some sort of automated rotating holder. with 6 plants I will need 6 of these rotating pot bases(do they already exist?! ?). I imagine I would want to set them so that during a 12 hour period my plants will complete 1 360degree rotation thus equally distributing my 1000watts onto the plants
...so how do I make that happen?
I havent seen these "cool tubes" until I hit this thread... are these purchased at a store or are they something you guys DIY??? how much closer to the plants are you able to bring the lights with those on? Snowgrow19 you mentioned your getting more trichs without it on, but I would think you can bring your plants a whole lot closer to the bulb for overall more production.
also another question about if Vert growing stops plants from growing up... MEGAyeilder420 you said that they will always grow up because of the auxins going up, but what if I have my colas trained so they are facing down(like they did a U-turn)? Will the colas stretch downward after being turned upside down like that? Im a little worried about having my 90% sativa strain shoot through the roof on me.
Ill be using soil, not sure what Im doing for nutes yet. I was also thinking of turning my 400 MH on 2 hours later and off 2 hours earlier than the 600 HPS to mimic sun-up and sundown/save money, any thoughts on that?
Heres an idea I have to increase yeild, let me know if youve ever seen anything like it or if you think its just too crazy to do....
since ill be working with a sativa strain I might not be able to bush out my plants effectively so im thinking to top the plant twice, creating 4 colas to each plant. I would then anchor 4 bamboo sticks into each pot and train each cola up the sticks. Each corner of my pot will have 1 cola. That will give me a narrow profile, with each plant being trained so that it doesnt reach more than a few inches past the edge of the pot(unlike Vert Scrog where you have a 2 dimentional screen that reaches past the width of the pot). The crazy part of the idea is that I want to place each pot on some sort of automated rotating holder. with 6 plants I will need 6 of these rotating pot bases(do they already exist?! ?). I imagine I would want to set them so that during a 12 hour period my plants will complete 1 360degree rotation thus equally distributing my 1000watts onto the plants
...so how do I make that happen?