Week 7
Both plants took the training pretty well. I had to reposition the ties every other day and trained the branches to go out and under the lowest rings. They are bushy like this, but Im not too worried about that now as Im just setting the mainline base for flower positions and all this will be removed.
(I flush cleaned the reservoir and lines this week then fed) Feed this week was again an auto pot reservoir feed at 500ppm total before add-ins. I used 400ppm Veg concentrate mix (recipe week 2) and 100ppm Bloom concentrate mix (recipe week 5). However, I also added 1ml/gal of CaliMagic (General Hydroponics 1-0-0) to all feeds and ph balance this week was for 6.0 as I attempt to reduce it to 5.8 before flip. The idea here is to switch feeds to root feed hydroponic style and that means a lower ph.
Next week will prepare for flip and consist of more LST training with a simple move of the wires as needed. Feed will increase in total ppm and bloom mix and I plan to reduce ph to the 5.9 range this week and 5.9 next before flip on week 9.
@Ju_Bps, Thank you - so far this is the one thing I really want to perfect - I love being able to move my plant trough out the whole grow without nets.