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I'd like to see the underside; would give me a better idea of how you've got them threaded through and the amount of growth you've got. Nice pics though and I have to imagine you'll be looking at some nice colas. :)
My netting is only 2x2 and I think is a little tight for this strain and weaving is delicate and was losing a lot of leaves. I decided to get zipties and very loosely ziptied to the screen. When they grow more place another new zip tie loosely again and snip the old one off since the plant has been slow stressed it will no longer need the old zip tie and don't want it getting in the way of nodes and more plant development. I get a bag of 100 zip ties for $1. Use some diagonal cutters and anytime I put a zip tie up I snip off the extra pulled through tie so it doesn't keep my leaves from stretching up towards the lights.I'd like to see the underside; would give me a better idea of how you've got them threaded through and the amount of growth you've got. Nice pics though and I have to imagine you'll be looking at some nice colas. :)
I will see about snapping some pics for you tomorrow but I can't right now the girls are getting their beauty rest. I'm actually getting told by one of my experts on here to flip them to flower. So I will be having a lot of new development on my journal. I will come back over here though and load some tying down and training ideas that I used. Maybe they will help you. Keep us posted with pics over here in your journal. That's the best part at looking at journals is seeing the progress.My netting is only 2x2 and I think is a little tight for this strain and weaving is delicate and was losing a lot of leaves. I decided to get zipties and very loosely ziptied to the screen. When they grow more place another new zip tie loosely again and snip the old one off since the plant has been slow stressed it will no longer need the old zip tie and don't want it getting in the way of nodes and more plant development. I get a bag of 100 zip ties for $1. Use some diagonal cutters and anytime I put a zip tie up I snip off the extra pulled through tie so it doesn't keep my leaves from stretching up towards the lights.
Think waterings have been occurring ~every 4 days. Method I use is stick finger in soil, if I don't feel moisture then pick up the planter and if it weighs ~the same as my proof planter that's just full of soil, then I douse'em.Dude..... You're only watering every five days? Did I read that correctly? I mean, obviously you're there, you see the plants and the dirt and stuff, so you know better than I how often they need water, but once every five days seems.... I dunno. Like not enough at all. Plants are looking good and maybe those strains just don't drink a lot, but I water every other day (and get about twenty percent runoff, too). Occasionally I'll go three days without watering, but that's out of sheer laziness rather than the plants not needing it. Whenever I go three days, I can tell my plants are thirsty.
Anyway, looking good! Love the LST, I really wanna do some kind of training next run, too. LST or maybe even mainlining, but yeah, I wanna do something like that. I'm just too lazy right now to do it haha.
Just one friendly suggestion (I mean besides the watering thing haha): mulch. Especially if you're only watering every five days.
Actually, the pipe cleaners work great. The ones I'm using are fairly thick and the wire in it is nice and pliable. They hold on to the branch without cutting into them and once bent into shape, hold that shape well. They also secure easily in the side of the cloth planters. The downside I'm finding isn't the pipe cleaners it's the angle at which I am pulling on the plant. I feel I'd rather pull down more on the branch than out and down, which is the pulling action I achieve by coming straight from the side of the planter. There is someone doing a grow right now that is or was using pipe cleaners to train with, but had this genius little setup with the pipe cleaner routed a certain way to pull downward. I'll go look and post it.Try using zipties to train with maybe. Pipe cleaners just sounds like just trying to use something short term. I used zipties for my screen training and just loosly hook them up the branches can continue to grow with limited stress.
Day 45: Looks like Cheese 2 is a loss. Figured out that we've had a rodent of some sort getting in and would appear it made a meal of Cheese 2's roots :( Gave'em all a good watering, which is first one they've had in 5 days and they were looking a little limp. All the others look good. In the pics, 2601 is Cheese 1, the rest are satori. Think the training and topping has worked out well.