ghostcorps
18-07-11, 09:18 AM
Hi Guys
I have a bit of a story to accompany these photos, stick with me.
I setup a DWC system with a central reservoir attached to two grow buckets; a White Rhino in one and an unnamed sativa that my friend has been cultivating for a few years. The original white rhino drowned 3 weeks into veg because I had not balanced the water flow, I put a backup in but by that tine the sativa was well on its way and I had to come up with a plan to keep it at bay while the white rhino got up to size.
I have had past issues with over-veging plants and having collapse druing flowing, so my priority was to keep it as low as possible while taking advantage of the situation by trying to maximise the grow points.
Here it is as of now I just trimmed it for the last time and will veg in two weeks.
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This is what I did:
Once there were two branches growing out sideways and a couple nodes above those, I tipped it. This made 4 opposing branches that I weighed down and grew out to the 4 corners of the bucket (I know the bucket it is round, but you get the idea :p). This made a nice flat branch for alot of growpoints :)
I hooked the 4 growing tips onto the rim and let those ends grow up high enough to throw some more branches then tipped them and let them grow wild to burn nutrients and buy time for the Rhino.
62363
Once they were high enough I took the tallest two branches of each arm and tied them to the tallest of the next adding more horizontal branches for more grow points :):)
62364
As you can see I have made a nice dense little forest, and will be ready to flower in a weeks time, the Rhino is still dragging it's feet, but it will still produce a nice little crop :)
This has been a learning process, I do not claim to be any kind of expert, I just thought people may enjoy reading about it. Please feel free to add advice.
It may not be the neatest job, but it has been fun learning the limits of the plant and if all goes well I should have a bumper crop :D
I have a bit of a story to accompany these photos, stick with me.
I setup a DWC system with a central reservoir attached to two grow buckets; a White Rhino in one and an unnamed sativa that my friend has been cultivating for a few years. The original white rhino drowned 3 weeks into veg because I had not balanced the water flow, I put a backup in but by that tine the sativa was well on its way and I had to come up with a plan to keep it at bay while the white rhino got up to size.
I have had past issues with over-veging plants and having collapse druing flowing, so my priority was to keep it as low as possible while taking advantage of the situation by trying to maximise the grow points.
Here it is as of now I just trimmed it for the last time and will veg in two weeks.
62365
This is what I did:
Once there were two branches growing out sideways and a couple nodes above those, I tipped it. This made 4 opposing branches that I weighed down and grew out to the 4 corners of the bucket (I know the bucket it is round, but you get the idea :p). This made a nice flat branch for alot of growpoints :)
I hooked the 4 growing tips onto the rim and let those ends grow up high enough to throw some more branches then tipped them and let them grow wild to burn nutrients and buy time for the Rhino.
62363
Once they were high enough I took the tallest two branches of each arm and tied them to the tallest of the next adding more horizontal branches for more grow points :):)
62364
As you can see I have made a nice dense little forest, and will be ready to flower in a weeks time, the Rhino is still dragging it's feet, but it will still produce a nice little crop :)
This has been a learning process, I do not claim to be any kind of expert, I just thought people may enjoy reading about it. Please feel free to add advice.
It may not be the neatest job, but it has been fun learning the limits of the plant and if all goes well I should have a bumper crop :D