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Emilya Green
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Thanks for the link, I will definitely give it a read! The other day I was thinking about that crazy price that Lowe's wanted for their plant name stakes, and it hit me as I walked through the Dollar Store the other night that for a buck I could get a bag of 10 spoons, knives and forks. We are going to use the forks to eat with, and the knives and spoons make perfectly acceptable name stakes.I don't stop here often enough Emmie, but you caught me in passing and I'm so glad you did. I'm loving the use of that garden stake for holding down. I hadn't thought of that. And I must say the name stake was a stroke of genius as well. I can appreciate adaptability. Lol!
Don't you love the way this forum is like a shopping mall for cultivation ideas? This looks like one of those ideas I should pay more attention to.
Good-looking plant Em. Shiggity shared some info from Dutch Passion Seeds on how growing conditions beginjing at week 3-4 will influence sex of the seed. I thought you might enjoy a read, if you haven't read it already, so I'll drop the link for you.
Influencing the sex of the seed
the hold down hoops are nothing more than a 100' spool of garden wire, cut to various lengths, formed into a narrow hoop and bent outward at the bottoms to hold them in the soil, and then placed over a branch to hold it down. As the branch grows and tries to go vertical, the wire hoop can be bent in the middle toward the outer edge and the end of the branch, further tightening the LST pressure on that branch to keep it horizontal. It is a good system that allows total domination over the plant's desire to go vertical until you are ready, and unlike tying strings to the lip of the container, it allows the entire LST system to transplant right along with the plant when you go to a larger container, so that the method can be continued without interruption using more hoops and the larger surface area.