Staking Plants up using ebbdrain table with hydro rocks?

[razzapiggy]

I am about to switch over to a flood and drain system and use hydro rocks as my med. I will be growing two tables under 2000 watts of light. I am planning to grow Sour Diesel, and in the past I have used SunShine so the plants were easy to stake up putting a bamboo stake in the sunshine and then tieing the baby up. How would you do that with hydro rocks considering they won't hold as much weight as the heavy sunshine does? The friend I get my clones from does a SCROG grow, but does NFT so it's easy to push the shoots through the wire because he can work from under the plants - this would not be as easy with a solid 4X4 table being filled with plants. I'm curious what you guys do? Would attached the stake to the side of the three gallon bucket work? I could do the SCROG, have been told it works great with Diesel, however I won't be able to get in and push all the shoots through...do most of them make their way into the wire on their own? Thanks in advance.

[MajMike]

If you have enough space to walk around your table then you should be able to reach all the shoots from one side or another even in a scrog.

Also, you can affix (I used duct tape) stakes along the outside of the table to use in training your plants.

Good luck!

[razzapiggy]

Yeah I was planning on putting two tables together that would make a 4X8, but perhaps it worth seperating all the tables if I have enough room in order to get all the shoots through the screen. I would imagine that requires a fair amount of work.

I see most people do that for height restrictions, I have a friend who swears by doing it with Sour Diesel... he said gets close to 2 pounds per 1000 watt lamp, and I only got 1.25 per 1000 watt lamp so he def. knows his shit.

Good call attached the stakes to the side of the table, I like that idea.

[razzapiggy]

Will I need to stake the plants up if they are growing through a screen or will that hold them up enough alone?