March 25, 2023 at 1:48 PM
-Ever since I started watering them with lower pH water, 6.0 to 6.3, the 2 BOH’s really started to takeoff. I might do some slight defoliation on all the plants. I’ll takeoff their lower nodes to make it easier to bend them from the main stock. The strawberry crinkle has very close internodes and is really bushy with large and thick fingers. It’s too short to try and bend over so I might have to do more of the defoliation job in order for the lower nodes to get more light.
March 28, 2023 at 5:24 PM
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March 29, 2023 at 2:01 PM
-I’ve bent over several stems this week. I have only had one small accident with the strawberry crinkle. The top was snapped off somehow but I don’t remember it happening, but it seems to be taking it well. I watered them the day before with some tea with ph at 6.3. so far I could bend over things every day. They are starting to cover the entire pot.
- Today’s the last day of week three.
I was tieing all my autos down just like you are and let me tell you it was really hard not to do it but if you remove all the tie downs and let it grow she will take off and get way bigger. I stunt all my autos and really hurt my yield when doing this so I tried to training just leaf tucking and my plants have never been bigger. my strawberry crinkle is the best looking and massive and I did nothing to any of them except Girl Scout monkeys, I bent the main stem for maybe 5 days and then removed it. I probably won't go back to tieing down my autos because compared to the ones I have tied down are just so small and bushy compared to the ones I just least tucked. also I've move your like up way higher and let them stretch. move it to the top of tent and put it as 100%. let the plants decide how much ppfd they want by growing into it. They will adjust themselves. I did all of this on this last run and I've never seen better results!
@Capulin, it allows light to reach lower nodes that normally wouldn’t get to much light. Weed comes from the nodes and if it doesn’t receive enough light the weed it makes is small, leafy, and not as potent as a node completely covered in light. If a plant isn’t trained properly the yield will not reach its full potential.