azvibez88 DAY 8(first day of week 2)
added DYNOMYCO Mycorrihzal innoculant+Food Grade Diatamaceaous Earth to soil. first grow, excited as heck, and open to any and all suggestions
also, i have this trellis netting, was thinking about using it because i have four plants in this 3by3
Does anyone have any reccomendation on how to use the trellis netting and when to start while also giving me some pointers on LST train? when do i begin to feed?
Low stress training does not use a net. For LST use ties to bend the plant. Use a old soldering iron or heat a nail in a flame and melt a series of holes around the top of your pots. Then you can tie your branches down to the holes. A benefit of not using a net is you can move & rotate your plants in the tent and you can remove them for inspection. It is also a lot easier to water the rear plants without a net blocking access.
As for when to start... you need enough plant to train. If training your main stalk I like to let it get at least 3-5 cm (2 or 3") of straight, vertical stem before training the stalk above to grow horizontally. You can start training the branches when you have branches long enough to train. Wires are best because you will need to adjust your ties as the branches grow longer.
I did a diary called Larry lemon og. I did a daily picture. I also included after lst daily picture when I started. The auto produced a quarter lb of dry bud. Plants don't need nutrients if in coco till day 7 and super light. Soil is good till 2 to 4 weeks roughly depending on how hot it is and how well plant roots.
azvibez88 Fed them for the first time on day 14. they seem to be loving life. im way new at this, so any and all comments and or tips would be appreciated.
So i have 3 Green House Seeds Big Bang Auto - 2 of them at 1.5 inches and one barely over 1 inch.
the 1 Seedstockers BCN Critical mass XXL auto is at 2.5 inches.
so I have a timer for the lights and everything coming in a couple days, but until then I have been doing like 36 hours on and 8 hours off. is this crazy?
they seem to be loving life...comments, tips, questions or concerns???
thanks in advance
First of all= why? Why would you? If you do anything in the grow room, there should be a reason for it. Im guessing you have one, but let me stop you right there.
No. No you cant. Plants need rest cycles and growing cycles that mimic natural sunlight. Thats what the plants evolved over millions of years to grow under. Yes we can "hack" mother nature and produce growing conditions never seen outside in nature- think DWC and hydroponics. Cannabis needs more air in the roots than most plants yet we figured out how to grow it in fricken water !! But the one thing you cant hack is the light cycle, plants need rest after each growing period. But if this grow period runs too long, the plant will get stressed and start to do weird things. It screws with the natural hormones in the plant if you run the grow cycle too long.
Im sure there is some limit to the grow cycle where in theory you could run 24 hrs on and 7 off, or 22 on and 4.5 off, and just cycle it in a weird never ending series of timer resets... but no one has ever done the research to try and "dial it in" and figure out what the genetic limits of a cannabis plant is. If you increase the grow cycle to over 24 hrs then there must be a corresponding minimum rest cycle amount of time that also needs to be figured out. what I mean is if we know a plant can go 18 hrs grow and 6 hrs rest and be happy, then in theory if you grow 24 hrs straight then the plant SHOULD need 8 hrs of rest before the next grow cycle. So at 36hrs on you would need something like 12 hrs of rest before the next cycle, and that would induce flowering.
Now as far as I know , no one has looked into this as its not worth the extra effort=it wont produce more buds or better buds or buds any faster...maybe a touch faster but your going to lose quality so again its just not worth it.
I know u asked a simple question- but the more you know right?
