2nd grow

Lookin good, thx for sharing the beauty good luck!

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Is this an Advanced Growing Technique?

J

 

I think you probably should've posted in another thread other than "advanced growing techniques." I think it's more designed for new and different growing techniques that people are working on or developing. Let me give you a tip. I don't know how old your plants are, you don't say. But you get quicker and more foliage growth out of your plants if you start them out in small containers (like Solo cups) and transplant them up one size container at a time until you get them to the size you want for flowering. The less area that a plant has to root into, the faster it finishes the "rooting in" process and gets back to working on foliage growth. If you start a tiny plant or a seedling in a very large container of soil, you're going to be sitting there awhile waiting on it to root in. So, if you're trying to get your plant to get some size on it so you can get it into flower, doing it in the small containers and then letting them get a bit root bound (usually when the plant is as tall and as wide as the container it's in) before you transplant up one size is the quickest way to make it happen. Also, doing it like that cuts down a lot on the amount of nutrients one has to use on their plants. Nutes are meant to be started when the plant has used up the nutes that are naturally in the soil it's growing in (or with hydro, it's the total life sustaining blood for the plant). Potting it up in size as it needs it, resupplies the plant with fresh soil and nutes with each repot. Personally, I don't like to give mine anymore nutes than I have to. I want them to get what they need to stay healthy and that's all. The size and density of your buds at harvest will directly correspond to the quality of flower lighting the plant gets...not how many chemicals you pour in the pot. You also don't have enough light in that flower room to flower off all those plants. You desperately need to hang another one the size of that one in there with it if you want all those plants to get enough light to mature. We flower with 1000 watt hps, 4 to a room, and the most plants I can flower under one of those and each plant get the lighting it needs is 5 or maybe six...if I'm pushing it. Otherwise, your plants get shaded out really bad and absolutely nothing below the canopy is going to get any light. You can harvest more off one plant that gets what it needs than you can by trying to cramp 4 into the space that one should go. Shading just cuts down on what you will harvest in the end.

During the veg cycle, if you use good soil to grow in, all they really need is good light, properly pH'd water (6.3 to 6.7), correct watering technique (don't over water....wait till pot is almost dead dry before) and good potting technique to get your through about 85% of the veg cycle. We typically don't have to start nutes with our plants until a couple of weeks or so before they go into flower. I found that with using a lot of chemicals on my plants, they frequently would get burned and just weren't good and healthy. I switched from the chemical nutes (at the recommendation of a good friend out in Southern California who has been growing for years) and started using "Jack's" by J.R. Peters. I've been using Jack's for about 3 years now with excellent success. I can also buy enough of it to last me well over a year running about 25 plants every 8 weeks, for less than $20. Might be something to consider if you don't like paying $26 a bottle for one component of your nutrient package. LOL

Good luck and happy growing! TWW