Many plastic training benders look good online in the ads but are so-so or worthless in practice. But these
Bendies are my longtime favorites. Bonsai training wire also at times but mostly Bendies, just as you're doing.
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Bendies are my longtime favorites. Bonsai training wire also at times but mostly Bendies, just as you're doing.
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Love and hate Bendies.
They're the best LST clip made because of the adjustment, but the filament used gets brittle from UV after 2-3 grows and the detant finger snaps off.
The whole point of pH Perfect is that whatever the mixed feed pH is, it is rarely ever out of whack. It's good over a wide range (a radical concept for many growers having always targeted optimal feed pH, even thinking in terms of specific nutes having their own pH ranges).
Way back when I bothered to measure, after mixing it would always be at a coco-friendly pH. Others report the same. By now what you have on hand might be old(?). I've always used freshly purchased liquid base nutes.
Wrong section if we are going to be literally correct.
I dont think this AI nonsense is contributing to the thread or this forum in general.. Wtf
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Day 23. I'm experimenting with this one, to see how simple a process
I can make this, overcoming my fear of super-cropping, and using as few materials as possible ...
1. Using only GH FloraNova Grow, and later will use Bloom.
2. RO water, my tap water is a mess.
3. Seed soaked in 1% hydrogen peroxide solution for 3 hours, then inserted directly into rockwool
starter block, which was already inserted in its 4" rockwool cube. Temp ~80 F.
4. Slowly ramp up nutes, 100 ppm a day from day one, until reaching 650 ppm on day 7.
5. Humidity around 75% seedling stage.
6. Typical PPFD and appropriate DLI for a 20-4 light schedule.
7. Duct-taped needle nose pliers and super-cropped,
earlier than 420 recommends, but I was itching to try it. I get it now:
gently massage the woody stems with the pliers until they are compliant.
As 420 has explained ... it's easier than it looks.
I can make this, overcoming my fear of super-cropping, and using as few materials as possible ...
1. Using only GH FloraNova Grow, and later will use Bloom.
2. RO water, my tap water is a mess.
3. Seed soaked in 1% hydrogen peroxide solution for 3 hours, then inserted directly into rockwool
starter block, which was already inserted in its 4" rockwool cube. Temp ~80 F.
4. Slowly ramp up nutes, 100 ppm a day from day one, until reaching 650 ppm on day 7.
5. Humidity around 75% seedling stage.
6. Typical PPFD and appropriate DLI for a 20-4 light schedule.
7. Duct-taped needle nose pliers and super-cropped,
earlier than 420 recommends, but I was itching to try it. I get it now:
gently massage the woody stems with the pliers until they are compliant.
As 420 has explained ... it's easier than it looks.
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I'm surprised to read this. Makes sense, yet I've not had any break. They come in several colors, and I can only speak of the green ones. Bought a few bags of 50. Perhaps mine aren't getting enough light exposure because when I'm done with one I toss it into the box with the others and don't keep track of individuals. Or maybe they changed the plastic formulation. I believe mine are the version v2.0. I use them a lot,and pennies apiece is cheap, I'd like to see them make ones twice the size for outdoor photos in my garden tipis, beacause they are so quick to use although training wire does the job.
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What is recommended when a plant grows short and stocky? I've already removed a few leaves because everything is so crowded. I want to take a couple more but wanted to get some advice. Is it best to let her grow and deal with it herself until first schwazzing?
I am tucking the best I can but even when I tuck the leaves are in the way of something.
I am tucking the best I can but even when I tuck the leaves are in the way of something.
I've never been able to rationalize leaf tucking. I don't see how it can add to the plants growth and there are some downsides.
A leaf, when exposed to enough light, will contribute to the growth of the plant via photosynthesis. It will also transpire which helps cool the plant and take up nutrients.
A leaf, when tucked, cannot contribute to the growth of the plant because it doesn't receive much light. It will consume resources, however, become a net photosynthetic loss to the plant. The leaf will continue to transpire until the VPD within the tucked leaf drops so low that it can no longer transpire. At that point, the leaf will be a small bundle of plant material in the center of which is an area of stagnant, very highly moisture-laden air. Due to its shape, tucked leaf will tend to reduce air flow through the plant, which will reduce the ability to move moisture laden water from that area under the canopy.
I veg my plants under a Growcraft veg light and they start out being very short and very bushy. Yes, there are a huge number of leaves in there but they're open to the air so they can transpire.
Day 25
In veg, I do very little/no defoliation because, once they hit flower, the canopy rises and the undercarriage will thin out.
"She'll out grow of it".
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