Growing methods.

David Ferguson

Active Member
So I have heard of mainlining, LST, super cropping, fimming, topping, and tricking the plant by piercing through its main stem.
Are there any other awesome tricks that anyone is WILLING to share?
If yes, thanl you in advance. If no- it's cool...thank you Anywayz. Hope to hear back soon!
 

harris hawk

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all depends on experience - beginning just grow and use the LowStress Method with some Defloliation and could Top once. depends on # of plants and indoor grow space. and reqasons for growing. Also strain come in to play - strain growing ???
 

David Ferguson

Active Member
If it helps to answer those things, here ya go (straight up answers):
I'm educated and knowledgeable in growing BUT new at growing on a larger scale. I have 16 total plants going (Dream Machine and Trainwreck) and they are in dutch bucket systems (recirculating hydroponics). My grow space for larger veg/flower plants is about 9.5ft x 7.5ft.
Reason for growing - vending to medical professionals or dispensaries/collectives. Smaller scale now....bit larger scale later. Of course, some holdback for medicating myself.
 

Dudemankidson

Active Member
I know that this isn't adding to your deck of cards but LST, topping, & supercropping should take you the distance to a killer harvest. Add scrogging in if you want to get things a little more complex.
 

Richard Drysift

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An ez way to get a bit fatter colas is to lower the amount of light hours in veg as you get closer to the size you want to bloom them out at. For instance, let's say you are 3 weeks from when you plan to flip your plants to bloom phase. You have been vegging these plants at a standard 18/6 cycle from seed up to this point.
So you simply lower your hours of light by 1 hour and reset your light timer to 17/7 for a week. The following week you reset it to 16/8. Then the next week you lower hours of light by another hour to 15/9. You can continue to lower the hours of light and increase darkness by one hour each week right up to 12/12 but many strains begin to show pistils at 14/10.
What it does is help to reduce the "stretching" that occurs in some strains when you suddenly flip from 18/6 right into 12/12. Plants outdoors under the sun don't get "stretched" because the sun changes hours of light and dark very gradually by about a minute or 2 each day. Reducing the hours of light more gradually mimics the Suns natural cycle which helps your indoor plants both increase lateral branching and reduce the amount of bare stem space in between the nodes. This forms more tightly stacked nodal sites where more buds can grow and usually results in long spires of solid bud mass at the end of each cola. You still have to train/lst your plants for yield but doing this can help put on a few more g per cola.
 
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