guitarguy10
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This is my first attempt at growing outdoors and I was not anticipating the wind to do so much damage during a storm, or even just the daily breeze/wind.
It has torn one of the plants at the main stem (which I've taped back together with duct tape) and as you can see in the pic it's torn and mangled a lot of branches. It has straight up knocked over the pots too which is .. disconcerting and dealt it's own damage to them as you can probably see.
I tied a long bamboo stick to each plants main stem early on and I've tied the lower branches of them down to the pots as you can see in the pic but when the plants got to a certain height there's not really anything for me to tie the middle and upper branches to other then in a few cases using duct tape to tie one branch to another (with sufficient distance between them). I will definitely be using a tomato cage or similar during my next grow, can't really put one in there now (these are some BUSHY ladies).
Does anyone have any suggestions on dealing with wind damage? I try pulling them closer to the fence and in bad storms closer to somewhere with shelter from wind but that hasn't helped much. Most of all I'm worried about them getting knocked over again, they are in 30L (~8 gallon) pots, they get decently heavy when watered, but they also need like 15L each every day of water during some of the hotter days and can dry out fast on me (like within the same day). It's coco/perlite which get's very light when dries out which is likely why they fell over. Is there any way to anchor the pots into the ground maybe?
For those curious they are in 75%/25% Canna Coco/Perlite, in 30L pots being fed GH FloraGro/Micro/Bloom + CalMag and the strains are Holy Grail Kush, Pineapple Chunk and Pink Kush from left to right. Irrelevant to my problem, but people often want to know that stuff.
It has torn one of the plants at the main stem (which I've taped back together with duct tape) and as you can see in the pic it's torn and mangled a lot of branches. It has straight up knocked over the pots too which is .. disconcerting and dealt it's own damage to them as you can probably see.
I tied a long bamboo stick to each plants main stem early on and I've tied the lower branches of them down to the pots as you can see in the pic but when the plants got to a certain height there's not really anything for me to tie the middle and upper branches to other then in a few cases using duct tape to tie one branch to another (with sufficient distance between them). I will definitely be using a tomato cage or similar during my next grow, can't really put one in there now (these are some BUSHY ladies).
Does anyone have any suggestions on dealing with wind damage? I try pulling them closer to the fence and in bad storms closer to somewhere with shelter from wind but that hasn't helped much. Most of all I'm worried about them getting knocked over again, they are in 30L (~8 gallon) pots, they get decently heavy when watered, but they also need like 15L each every day of water during some of the hotter days and can dry out fast on me (like within the same day). It's coco/perlite which get's very light when dries out which is likely why they fell over. Is there any way to anchor the pots into the ground maybe?
For those curious they are in 75%/25% Canna Coco/Perlite, in 30L pots being fed GH FloraGro/Micro/Bloom + CalMag and the strains are Holy Grail Kush, Pineapple Chunk and Pink Kush from left to right. Irrelevant to my problem, but people often want to know that stuff.
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