Ganesha's Tent

Fenderbender said:
Used the largest Airpot I have for my plan and made a mound and trench for watering, so left is Medical Seeds Channel+ Feminized, yet to pop up first femi in a long long time well in a tent that is....middle is bottom layer of BSF AK auto, and right is a BSF London Cheese Auto.
I'm gonna bend the channel all the way to the other side, so I'm hoping when it's big enough to be in the middle the AK is gone and when it gets to the other end the Cheese is finished, although that's maybe a bit optimistic.. and then I throw that whole branch into flower and see what happens?
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If that isn't the most perfect air pot I've ever seen I don't know what is. :love:
Great garden my friend.
Hope your plan goes well. :thumb:

Stay safe
Bill
 
Haha, sure is, it fits just between the poles and is more than twice the height of my smart pots, loads of soil.
here you go my 284-method :D
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Hmm I do wonder what will happen.. I fear If I bend the plant real hard it's going to go haywire and might abandon the main bud altogether and it'll just be a side branch.. If I let it go 90cm long I can't bend it anymore but that's kinda the effect I would like, pulling a large plant flat, let it adjust till the branches are growing lightwards again and then flower it.

so maybe start with a gentle slope bend, so the main still thinks it's the main and keeps going lengthwise and horizontal-ish.
Create a sawfish pattern.
 
Sigh my mind, part of me is going now, what a dumb idea, just top the plant put it in the middle and pull it out left and right for same effect less time.. or keep topping it for mainlining.
But then the other hemisphere goes.. yeah but the plant & branching I'm gonna get with a plant that grew to 90 cm al be it horizontally will be different and probably will throw different size flowers than the one split in half or more and grown half the size.
 
Fenderbender said:
Haha, sure is, it fits just between the poles and is more than twice the height of my smart pots, loads of soil.
here you go my 284-method :D
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Hmm I do wonder what will happen.. I fear If I bend the plant real hard it's going to go haywire and might abandon the main bud altogether and it'll just be a side branch.. If I let it go 90cm long I can't bend it anymore but that's kinda the effect I would like, pulling a large plant flat, let it adjust till the branches are growing lightwards again and then flower it.

so maybe start with a gentle slope bend, so the main still thinks it's the main and keeps going lengthwise and horizontal-ish.
Create a sawfish pattern.
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Fenderbender said:
Sigh my mind, part of me is going now, what a dumb idea, just top the plant put it in the middle and pull it out left and right for same effect less time.. or keep topping it for mainlining.
But then the other hemisphere goes.. yeah but the plant & branching I'm gonna get with a plant that grew to 90 cm al be it horizontally will be different and probably will throw different size flowers than the one split in half or more and grown half the size.
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Just take the main stem and pull it over.
It works great I love doing it.
All the side branches and buds point up it pretty neat.
Keep up the good work my friend.

Stay safe
Bill
 
I kinda want to try it like that.. as I've done it outside and that result was pretty impressive and very different plant from a topped one.. although that can also produce very nice buds.

I could also add some netting so I can fan out the side branches a bit, give them also some horizontality before letting them go up, and I kinda have to otherwise it will grow too big I think, I can't pull up my light super high in the tent with the venting, and with the big pot there's a 35cm difference starting point, so with the distance I need to keep from the light my plant canopy window has decreased significantly.
 
Friend dropped off two autos near death.. starving, rootbound, full of flies, put them in smartpots, picked off the worst leaves armed with the vacuum cleaner, then doused nutrients and some crushed diatoms.
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dunno I think they are looking a little bit better? I think there's green travelling back to the leaves.
they got pretty thick stems though and a massive root so I think they'll pull through.
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And the feminized Channel is really going to be like watching grass grow, she's still so tiny.
Planted straight into the big pot I suspect that root is mainly travelling down and she'll be kicking into higher gear soon enough. Lucky flower period of channel is short 6-7 weeks, but if I want her to fill the tent I'm not sure how many weeks or months of vegging I'm looking at in the tent.
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8 days later she sure took off
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I'm not fond of using the airpot again though as some gnats got in and well fighting them with an airpot is difficult they just use that like a Japanese capsule hotel, now I puffed a bunch of scrunchy diatoms into the holes at the middle of the pot where I could see things flying in and out.
With the smartpots it's a lot easier to treat as well they can only enter the pots through the top layer.
 
Look at her go.. Okay I'm done with autos.. this grows way better and well.. I could have several of these and start flowering them now and probably end up with a same sized plant as an auto.. or I can top and keep topping and have the whole tent full of buds, or just let her grow en weave her all around the tent for something similar, there's just way more options.
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I fricking hate the airpots though with all them holes, I'm going to buy some bigger smart pots to replace these.
 
I thought it would be a good day to start..
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but part of me now also is like Ohoh... as I'm leaving the realm of predictable symmetrical growth as she's about to go wild.

Or maybe I should wait, cause what I had in mind, is something I did outside but that was already a tall plant and before flowering you pull her horizontal and then all the side branches pop up but then you already have a thick and long stem.. it's going to be different guiding her horizontal from start me thinks..
 
I'm absolutely loving this, nie wieder autos.
She's expanding nicely and behaving exactly like I hoped.. the main stem isn't even bent it just sticks out of the soil horizontally well at a 25-30°-ish angle and I keep her aiming to the other side of the tent.

I actually have my light (SP-150) up pretty high at 70cm I feel still works great for vegging.
In a few days I'm going to throw the net over it so the weight keeps her down an I can start weaving.
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Fenderbender said:
I'm absolutely loving this, nie wieder autos.
She's expanding nicely and behaving exactly like I hoped.. the main stem isn't even bent it just sticks out of the soil horizontally well at a 25-30°-ish angle and I keep her aiming to the other side of the tent.

I actually have my light (SP-150) up pretty high at 70cm I feel still works great for vegging.
In a few days I'm going to throw the net over it so the weight keeps her down an I can start weaving.
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Glad you like the air pots my friend, I love them.
Next time you empty it clip a couple zip ties in the top row of holes.
Then fill it and then you have a lst location for your ties.
I show how to use them in my Gorilla Glue clone thread in my sig.
Beautiful lady.

Stay safe
Bill
 
Bill284 said:
Glad you like the air pots my friend, I love them.
Next time you empty it clip a couple zip ties in the top row of holes.
Then fill it and then you have a lst location for your ties.
I show how to use them in my Gorilla Glue clone thread in my sig.
Beautiful lady.

Stay safe
Bill
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hmm I'm loving the photoperiod, I actually showered some hate on the airpots a couple of posts up, I mean they do work, don't get me wrong, and the size is better for growing bigger plants, It's just when there are gnats I think they are a nightmare as they can access that heap of soil from anywhere, 100's of holes to fly in and out. And they are a nightmare to treat that way, I'm using the diatomaceous earth and some hydrogen peroxide but I haven't been able to completely break the cycle, I'm keeping the population small, and sometimes there's nothing buzzing around for a day or two but gone they are not.

And I mainly attribute that to the airpot as with the smartpots in previous growth just treating the topsoil with the powder stops them dead in their tracks as they can only enter from the top.
I thought maybe cling film the airpot for a while so everything is trapped in the holes and then do a top treatment.. I dunno.
The ties are a good idea, I do have the closed rows of holes on the top, but yes attaching some longer ties below those would help for guiding, I'll make a note for next time.

And top of the morning to you Bill! well from this timezone at least.
 
This is just 15 hrs later, do they grow faster with training? As I feel if you pull the bud horizontal she quickly wants to point those leaves towards the light source again but she has to grow a bit before she's able to bend upwards again. There's clearly a lot of movement as whatever you do she almost instantly reacts and adapts.
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Fenderbender said:
This is just 15 hrs later, do they grow faster with training? As I feel if you pull the bud horizontal she quickly wants to point those leaves towards the light source again but she has to grow a bit before she's able to bend upwards again. There's clearly a lot of movement as whatever you do she almost instantly reacts and adapts.
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Good morning Amigo, hope your doing good today.
Just a little tip , I find if my leaves touch the soil I get necrosis.
Just something to watch for.
Nice work.

Stay safe :cheesygrinsmiley:
Bill
 
Bill284 said:
Good morning Amigo, hope your doing good today.
Just a little tip , I find if my leaves touch the soil I get necrosis.
Just something to watch for.
Nice work.

Stay safe :cheesygrinsmiley:
Bill
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Ah indeed! I noticed the tips of some that have been dragging on the soil were going yellow, I actually snipped three of the older larger leafs before lights went out, as I thought they just dragging on the soil and ain't getting any light anyways.
 
Fenderbender said:
Ah indeed! I noticed the tips of some that have been dragging on the soil were going yellow, I actually snipped three of the older larger leafs before lights went out, as I thought they just dragging on the soil and ain't getting any light anyways.
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Try and support them temporarily.
I try not to remove them if I can avoid it.
Just my met, I hate removing anything from her.

Stay safe :cheesygrinsmiley:
Bill
 
Bill284 said:
Try and support them temporarily.
I try not to remove them if I can avoid it.
Just my met, I hate removing anything from her.

Stay safe :cheesygrinsmiley:
Bill
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Haha, I kinda get that, as well it's solarpanels and stored nutrients and the less wounds the less chance for pathogens etc.. but on the other hand if I were to top and fold her out, I'd be cleaning up and stripping leaves and branches as well.. and honestly with this strain I have very little qualms, I've had her inside and outside and she takes all kinds of training with no problem, or a heavy storm ripping whole sections off only to look plump again a couple of weeks later.
In 20 minutes I can take a peek what's she's done during her dark cycle.
 
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