bluuurghhh
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Howdy.I know I'm late-coming here, but better late than never...I hope.OK-we got 2 Church female seedlings(they are both sporting female pre-flowers).The plant in front was straggling waaay behind the plant in the back.Both are at 7 weeks veg now, and have 1 more week to go.The front gal is in a home-made bubbler( 2- 5" round airstones/ 8 inch net pot/ 5 gallon bucket) the back gal is in a GH Powergrower(DWC/ drip combo-drip ring+ a 5" airstone in the res).I'm a noob, so I stay with the simplest nute regimine possible, GH Flora 3 part-30 mils total per gallon.I'll add Open Sesame, super-high P fertilizer, week 2 of 12/12.I use R.O. water, and try to maintain a PH of 5.5-5.7.I top daily(about a gallon between both plants)...one day plain PH adjusted R.O. water, half strength solution the next.The screen was last minute, and incorporated to even out both canopies, the back plant would have severely overgrown the smaller gal.
and yes, 1st scrog.Kinda evolved into a scrog.The gal up front is just now touching the screen.She was a runt from birth.So really, this scrog business is the only way I could think of to control the canopy.Plus it just makes sense.I'm only running 650 watts now, not enough to cover much depth.I'm pretty new to all this...bout a year now, and I'm still in the process of getting this system productive.Today, I did some major trimming under the screen on the big plant-branches not touching the screen at this point are eliminated-leaves as well.I guess the idea is to keep all the growth in flower(coming shortly!) on that screen, getting the most benefit from the lamp, keeping the canopy as even as possible, and checking growth under the screen.Right now, every square (2"...roughly) is filled with one selected growing tip.Now I've seen what happens next done 2 ways: 1) total flat scrog...tying her down until about week 5 of flower 2) Let those branches jump up, employing a little lst on the way.The plant up front needs to fill the screen a little more before I cut away the lower vegetation.Clones will be better, no doubt.I'm really just feeling my way as I go.
I've got my fingers crossed...new strain, new method.From what I've gathered, this is not a stretchy gal.It should be interesting.I've seen some verticle scrogs...sweet idea.3-4 trellised bubblers with a 1000w water-cooled hps hung vertically.sweet
