OG's Nine Strains Under LEDs In Hydro

For those of you that use hydro I see a lot of talk of nutrient levels and wanted to say this:
If your levels are CLIMBING then there is too much nutrients, the plant is taking water but not all the nutrients from your solution. If the level is DROPPING them your nutrient levels are too low the plant is taking more nutrients than water and lowering the levels. If it is BALANCED then the ppm will be the same the next day when you check it. I think this is perfect. Plant is taking nutrients as fast as it wants to.
 
Important HST TIP:
It is very easy to break stems when you do the huge bends required to hold shape in HST. In LST the string holds the plant, in HST the scarification of the stem holds it.
So there is a special way I do it. To help you visualize it take a pencil or pen in your hands as if you will break it. Likely your thumbs are on top and index fingers on the bottom and what you are doing is bending the pencil over your index fingers with your thumbs stretching the outside edge of the pencil to begin the break. This is NOT how to bend plants. Instead take the same position and push the parts together to bend it. So your two hands move towards each other to bend it. The end result is you are pushing the inside radius of the bend together instead of pulling the outside radius apart. Does that make sense with my description? Once you do this it is very rare to break a branch and have to tape it.
 
OttawaGreen said:
So a couple days later and all I have done is bend any branches that stand up taller than the rest back down flat.
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What do you use to hold the braches down?
 
OttawaGreen said:
Scarification of the stem. Push the stem together as described. Bend it a little past where you want since it will lift a little during healing repeat on tallest limbs to keep flat. That's it, no ties necessary.
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Is that still considered LST and do you eventually have to tie them down?
 
You can call it what you like. I call it HST because so much breaking and crushing them flat.
Scroll up a little and check out my grow of two chocolope plants. Those are great examples of giant flat plants with no ties. Sometimes the
Colas tip over from the weight and need to be supported at the end so they don't pile into each other but usually no tieing is required with my methods.
 
In addition to the nine strains in Hydro, add two outdoor autos to the list. They are out in clearings in the woods in the beautiful Canadian wilderness. One is an auto pounder, and one is from an auto mix pack so I don't know what kind it is.

They have now been outside for two days. Hopefully I won't have to water them again, but just did it this time because we are in a bit of a drought right now.
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Everything seems to be going well though, plants seem happy.

One other note the jacks smack is a reveg I tossed into a pot of cheapest dirt available from the hardware store and put it back into bloom within a few weeks, just curious what would come of it. It gets a scoop of water from the hydro reservoir when it needs watering
 
Amnesi haze:
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The amnesia haze in veg is waiting until it grows past the funny shaped leaves that wil come shortly following a FIM. Once the leaves look normal the node after it will get FIMed again, but for now nothing to do.
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Note the jacks smack is directly in front of the also small incredible bulk. Those two pics are jacks smack in front and incredible bulk in the rear. The jacks smack is not that big, mainly did it as
I had decided not to grow jacks smack again and threw away
It's clone but then changed my mind and threw it in a dirt
Pot to reveg to give me a clone which it did. Then my
Incredible bulk got ravaged to make 30 clones for friends so it was only small, figured they could share a spot Next
To each other in the cabinet
 
Since there always seems to be lots of interest in re-veg.
Here is the revegged jacks smack in pot of hardware store dirt:
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Here are two current revegs. Both were done as the original seed plants were so small due to arriving late
From Shipment that a clone off them would have cut yield.

It is very simple to do, just leave some bottom bud sites alive and switch to 18/6. Growth looks bizarre at first but settles by second mode after reveg.
The purps:
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Strawberry blue:
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