I let the plant be unlesss needed, except for the part when I purposefully prune a bunch of small branches a week before flowering/during first week. But I don't defoliate in the sense of just removing mass. When older leaves start going yellow I might give them a bit of tug and help it out but that's about it.

Yeah it's always bit shooting in the dark when discussing grows online, as pictures can really mislead.

You seem to got it down for you, and that's what matters. You clearly understand the business well enough.

Yeah, it's also nice sleeping in a cool breeze.

The freezes let off last month in Finland (no wait previous now) so I got to keep the window open a bit more. Too cold before that. :F

I was merely speculating and discussing. Thank you for understanding.

And if you have one somewhere easily available, i wouldn't mind taking a look at your aero. DIY mostly, I presume? (all the best are) as in if you have an image without the plants or smth but nvm, no need.

[–] SchmidtGenetics 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

So we differ there a little, (this is carried over from my old lights CREE cob, still use them for veg tent), I do abuse my ladies during veg, but I try not to remove material. This is to get the 2 plants to stretch out with a flat short canopy, this can also be achieved by letting it go tall and supercropping it over. Week before flower I give it another round of abuse to recover before flowering a week later.

Thats only about 6” from trellis to the aero chamber. And taken around said time. I have carpal tunnel, so I can only do so much so fast, my 21 day trim was days 17-20.

https://imgur.com/a/juY7miN

Week 1 time lapse. I wasn’t expecting them to grow 36 damn inches during flower, but I have the light to put high and crank her up, and they kept climbing and climbing. If the ones weren’t so dense, I would be more worried about them light stretching, but my Photone was saying I wasn’t under lighting them, and they aren’t showing light stress, so yolo?

Any leaf issues on colour I would wager on me “transplanting” I had 4 plants (2 clones of last grow fasciation yadda yadda) I had to rip the roots apart to move the one over. I will say I am maybe heavy on the FR, I need to read back up on that, I think I turned it off last grow at day 21. I need to log that type of shit god damn it.

I have another 8 weeks before I think of planting outside, I need to get my starters going for my garden this week. No bus, all personal use and gifts, the genetics part of my user name is for when I decide to experiment with colloidal silver or something. Dream big?

Yeah long story short, it’s the cheap version of the fancy system that nasa figured out. NASA figured out ideal water droplet size for nutrient uptake, a perfect system will spray just enough for a water droplet to start forming on the bottom of the root stock and start to drip off (zero waste). That requires city water pressure type pressure, so $150 pump (all this x2 for both tents) and a $180 bladder tank. So this just atomizes the droplets the best it can, HPA vs my Low Pressure Aeroponics.

I’ve got an album tour of my little slice, it’s got plants, but it shows all the insides and gear I use, no part list or anything like that though. Anyone half handy could probably figure it out.

https://imgur.com/a/Dagn0O5

[–] Dasus 1 points 8 months ago

Those roots are looking mighty fine.

That's some dedication to the craft though, basically I have "the same" setup, except you've got it significantly improved. Mine's a hydro (with a rather poor drip at the moment, I need to get new pipes and remake the thing) and I don't have UV or infrared.

Basically I have the lazy man's version of your setup. :D

Yeah long story short, it’s the cheap version of the fancy system that nasa figured out. NASA figured out ideal water droplet size for nutrient uptake, a perfect system will spray just enough for a water droplet to start forming on the bottom of the root stock and start to drip off (zero waste). That requires city water pressure type pressure, so $150 pump (all this x2 for both tents) and a $180 bladder tank. So this just atomizes the droplets the best it can, HPA vs my Low Pressure Aeroponics.

Yeah I can definitely see the difference from the roots. Very nice.

Took me a while to respond, wanted to really view the photos on my PC instead of just on mobile.

Idk where you live, but I used to dream of growing outside, and I did, but I live so far up North it's just not worth it when I don't have my own yard to grow on. If it was legal and I had my own yard, I'd fucking love to. Or even illegal as now, but had my own yard. I've grown out of the phase where I went around planting guerrilla grows in the nearby fields and whatnot. :D It did sometimes give a small crop of something I'd use for extracts, but yeah.. here in Finland I've managed much better with indoors. Which is a shame. I'd like a fking greenhouse full!

Oh right and yeah, I supercrop mine as well, that's how I fill out my tent. I have a 1x1m tent and I use two plants there in dripfeeds, very very simple hydros, then I start man-handling when about the 5th 6th pair of leaves starts coming to. I don't really top them in the traditional sense, as cutting something away isn't necessary, just break the top node under your fingers gently while bending it. Supercropping, aye. That'll break the apical dominance, resulting in the plant "bushifying". Then I let them grow for a couple of weeks and then trim the lowest and smallest branches from below and put them in 1212.