Scottay
Well-Known Member
Just my 2 cents on the dominant limb..... @Light Addict said that during training if you have a dominant limb just lower it below where the others are and it actually lets the others catch up!! I hope that helps. Happy Saturday!!@rehabilitatora420 - I apologize in advance for yet another training update, but you wanted me to teach you this and we are in prime time for training now. With autos, things move faster by necessity. With a photo like you’re growing, you can relax the rush a bit since you have as much veg time as you choose. Also, I haven’t said this but I will now: this is only one way to train. There are tons. I am by no means saying it’s the best way. It’s just the easiest and most effective way I feel I can teach you, so you’ll have a good base for future training. Everything we do in this scenario are basic training skills you will use regardless of what method you choose. So if you want to veer off because you saw or spoke to someone else who trains differently, I don’t want you to feel bound to this. This works great, but so do others. Just so that’s said.
Anyway, today with the Northern Lights.
1. Here’s the girl from above, no arrows:
2. Here she is with arrows on the colas which are outgrowing the others. This is known as dominance. Of any pair of branches you ever have, one will always be more dominant than the other. That simply means it grows bigger and faster than the less dominant one. So as you form your ring, you’ll find that certain colas, like the ones I marked here, grow faster than the others. Remember, our goal is a flat top, or canopy. If you just let the dominant ones go, they’ll be taller than the rest of the canopy. We don’t want that. So what do you do? Easy! Just keep going wide with them. The ones I marked here I restaked this morning and took wider so as to keep them at the same level as the rest of the ring. See what I mean?
3. Watering. Remember I said that in veg, your whole point of watering is to build the roots? Well, in my experience, it’s sometimes easy to forget that. Or to be lazy. Or to say screw it, I’m just gonna dump the water in. Don’t let yourself do that! Continue to water to the outside. Continue to draw out the roots. As long as you’re in veg, water like this. If you want to occasionally pour some down the center that’s okay too, but very infrequently. My plant is getting big now, and I am still building roots. See how my middle is dry and the outer ring of medium is wet? Keep that up.
There you go my man. Hope that’s helpful. Happy Saturday!
