TerrapinBlazin
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I’ve been using an elastic trellis the entire time I’ve been growing indoors, but that was partially due to height limitations the way I have it set up in my closet. I’m about to get another 3x3x6 tent, and I’m trying to figure out the best way to set it up for flowering.
My closet space is about 2x3 feet of canopy. There are some things I really don’t like about the setup that have made me decide to set up another tent. The worst thing about the closet is being able to only access the plants from the front.
Once my plants start flowering in the closet, they’re pretty much locked in. I can’t move the pots around, which makes pruning the plants in the back hard. With the trellis I get a lot of larf because of all the stuff I just can’t reach to cut off. I also think the trellis fucks the apical dominance too much. I kind of prefer nice, jalapeño-cucumber sized buds.
I’be also started a staggered flowering schedule, where I’m constantly rotating stuff instead of doing a big batch all at once. Having everything woven into the trellis makes it almost impossible to do detailed work on individual plants.
So instead of the trellis (or my other ghetto method of tying wire to the plastic pots) I want to use stakes to train my plants. To stick them into the soil and train the branches with wire, so that I can take individual plants out for serious pruning. I found some nice fiberglass stakes on amazon for a good price. So I apologize for the lengthy backstory but that’s basically my question.
Does anyone have tips for using stakes inside a tent, so I get the same kind of training as with a trellis but the ability to take out individual plants? With my past few trellis grows the canopy has gotten way too dense, and even with aggressive defoliation there’s too much larf.
If it matters, the tent is going to be illuminated with my LED rig — two 120 watt 3000k boards with 301b chips, two 4000k 60 watt strips with 301b and Cree xp-e 66nm deep red supplementation, and two home built 3000k f564b strip modules. 3 drivers. Probably enough light for a 4x4 tent but I don’t have space for a 4x4 tent. Airflow is provided by a fan on the drivers, and a 6 inch inline fan and carbon filter that will be attached to the top of the tent and exhausted out the window.
My closet space is about 2x3 feet of canopy. There are some things I really don’t like about the setup that have made me decide to set up another tent. The worst thing about the closet is being able to only access the plants from the front.
Once my plants start flowering in the closet, they’re pretty much locked in. I can’t move the pots around, which makes pruning the plants in the back hard. With the trellis I get a lot of larf because of all the stuff I just can’t reach to cut off. I also think the trellis fucks the apical dominance too much. I kind of prefer nice, jalapeño-cucumber sized buds.
I’be also started a staggered flowering schedule, where I’m constantly rotating stuff instead of doing a big batch all at once. Having everything woven into the trellis makes it almost impossible to do detailed work on individual plants.
So instead of the trellis (or my other ghetto method of tying wire to the plastic pots) I want to use stakes to train my plants. To stick them into the soil and train the branches with wire, so that I can take individual plants out for serious pruning. I found some nice fiberglass stakes on amazon for a good price. So I apologize for the lengthy backstory but that’s basically my question.
Does anyone have tips for using stakes inside a tent, so I get the same kind of training as with a trellis but the ability to take out individual plants? With my past few trellis grows the canopy has gotten way too dense, and even with aggressive defoliation there’s too much larf.
If it matters, the tent is going to be illuminated with my LED rig — two 120 watt 3000k boards with 301b chips, two 4000k 60 watt strips with 301b and Cree xp-e 66nm deep red supplementation, and two home built 3000k f564b strip modules. 3 drivers. Probably enough light for a 4x4 tent but I don’t have space for a 4x4 tent. Airflow is provided by a fan on the drivers, and a 6 inch inline fan and carbon filter that will be attached to the top of the tent and exhausted out the window.
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