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Cannabis.Is.Free

Cannabis.Is.Free

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I know I'm going to get a lot of people calling me a idiot in here, but I'm very curious and creative and figure I'd ask on what people make of this.

I want to hang air pots from the highest point and force them to grow DOWN.
The pots will be suspended in the air, at the highest point.
The lights will be down on the ground facing up.
The plants would travel down instead of up.

Sounds stupid, but it's very intriguing just to see how it goes.
I don't grow non stop, so this would be fun to test in between a grow.

I'm just bored looking for ways to use my second set of equipment since I won't be doing a perpetual right now.
 
AKrbb907

AKrbb907

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People have tried it but I believe only in outdoor grows... im sunlight they dont grow down like the tomato plants do for some reason? They just reorientate themselves and start curving upwards. Interested to see if theyll grow downwards if the light is intense below them?

What are you trying to accomplish/achieve with this?
 
WDIK

WDIK

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Would be interesting to watch. A seedling with zero light still grows "upward"

I believe the thing with Topsy Turvey Tomatoes is that the fruit eventually weighs the plant downward.

Dunno, would still be interesting seeing an indoor grow like that.

Watering could be an issue.
 
UncleReemis

UncleReemis

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I've thought about this except I want to have green coming at the light from every orientation. I've seen a few people use cylinders with the light suspended in the center, but nothing exact to what I'm talking about. Heath Robinson reached 2.34 g/w if I remember correctly, which is setting the bar fucking high. But he didn't take advantage of all space surrounding his light, surely for reasons. But what if he had found a way to do it? What if he were to use 100% of the light space (just gonna call it that for now) instead of 60% or so? Idk, call me unrealistic, but it's a theory suspended with facts, if that makes sense.
 
UncleReemis

UncleReemis

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Thundercat said:
OH come on buck you know you still want to see pics of him trying it!!!
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Befriending Buck is no easy task. You have to spend every morning, precisely from 6-11:43am CT, and every evening exactly 12 minutes before sundown crouched down on your backyard porch stairs holding 50 corn kernels and you can't make ANY SUDDEN MOVEMENTS or you lose your chances for life and if you miss ONE time window by even a fraction of a second, you have to start over and the length of the process triples. He only will come past the brush line if your corn was grown in a field in Nebraska, only to approach at the rate of .001 feet/minute and if you break eye contact AT ALL, the entire process starts over. IF..scratch that.. WHEN he feels spooked at any time, he will recede back into the brush and you have to wait another 6 days for him to appear again. Make sure you have fresh corn. After months and months of dedication and strict adherence to protocol, if you're lucky, he will come up to your flower bed, savagely eat all of your flowers in front of you and wait for your reaction. It is key that you respect his decision to destroy your flowerbed because he is testing your tolerance for his might and if you fail this test, you lose your chance for life. If you pass this test, you have an exact one and only 1.25% chance of him taking the corn from your hand during a solar eclipse. If you've made it this far and have made it past the odds.............................................................................................................................................................








you've completed step 1 of 897 of befriending Buck.
 
Cannabis.Is.Free

Cannabis.Is.Free

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UncleReemis said:
Befriending Buck is no easy task. You have to spend every morning, precisely from 6-11:43am CT, and every evening exactly 12 minutes before sundown crouched down on your backyard porch stairs holding 50 corn kernels and you can't make ANY SUDDEN MOVEMENTS or you lose your chances for life and if you miss ONE time window by even a fraction of a second, you have to start over and the length of the process triples. He only will come past the brush line if your corn was grown in a field in Nebraska, only to approach at the rate of .001 feet/minute and if you break eye contact AT ALL, the entire process starts over. IF..scratch that.. WHEN he feels spooked at any time, he will recede back into the brush and you have to wait another 6 days for him to appear again. Make sure you have fresh corn. After months and months of dedication and strict adherence to protocol, if you're lucky, he will come up to your flower bed, savagely eat all of your flowers in front of you and wait for your reaction. It is key that you respect his decision to destroy your flowerbed because he is testing your tolerance for his might and if you fail this test, you lose your chance for life. If you pass this test, you have an exact one and only 1.25% chance of him taking the corn from your hand during a solar eclipse. If you've made it this far and have made it past the odds.............................................................................................................................................................








you've completed step 1 of 897 of befriending Buck.
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Buck is just an attention whore, nothing to see here, just teenager hormones at its finest.
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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Oh I'm not trying to befriend anyone. I've been around this forum since 08 I'm very familiar with Buck and his antics :). Just figured even he would enjoy watching someone water their plant with it hanging over their HID light ......
 
Cannabis.Is.Free

Cannabis.Is.Free

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Thundercat said:
Oh I'm not trying to befriend anyone. I've been around this forum since 08 I'm very familiar with Buck and his antics :). Just figured even he would enjoy watching someone water their plant with it hanging over their HID light ......
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Maybe if a dumb person with no experience or common sense may make a stupid mistake of letting water drain to their HIDs but lets use some common sense here for once, I know its hard.

HID in air cooled hood with sealed glass - No way little misting of water is going to get into it and explode the bulbs.
Water tray bolted to bottom of pot and removable with ease (DIY) - No way water is going to drain into the HID with a big tray bolted to the bottom to catch any water.
Mainlined - The plant will be topped using uncle bens technique then mainlined/lst to get those 4 colas far away from each other in a X direction until they are at least half a foot away from the pot, then they will be forced to grow down with some LST/Supercrop/Tying that way the plant is NOT touching the sides of the container, it is far off, and they have room to grow down and not shade each other.

There is a difference between going in blind, and actually researching and planning what you're going to do.

For the person who asked what is the purpose?
Just for fun, growing is exciting and growing a different way that no one does is even better. Keeps me interested in growing, instead of getting burned out after one grow.
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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Hey CIF, no ill intent ment towards you. I was just trying to be funny.

If your for real and are gonna put some thought into it I'm all for checking out the results. I like experimental/entertaining grows :). The topsy turvy grows are neat, so adding the lights to the bottom, and I would also do some side lighting personally.

On the catch pan under the plant, you could easily attach a hose so that it would drain nicely away from the plant and never fill up and need to be emptied.
 
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