Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro
whats the 'stadium screen for'?
ive never seen that before
:rastasmoke:
Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro
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Originally Posted by beginerbuddah
whats the 'stadium screen for'?
ive never seen that before
:rastasmoke:
It is so the canopy forms a shape to match the intensity of the light, which is rounded when using a HID light - a 400W High Pressure Sodium in this case.
Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro
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Originally Posted by MVP
Fan leaves abundant that I keep pushing down below the shoots - I have not cut any away at all, just push them down every day.
IMHO that is the way to do it. I know some people trim everything off clean up to the screen, which is a huge mistake in my book. I could spend hours a day at mine just pushing fan leaves down. I've found that if you just look over all the screen and push down any and all fan leaves, you usually will be exposing some bud that you didn't know you had under each fan leaf.
Looks like they're fattening up real nice.
Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro
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Originally Posted by MVP
It is so the canopy forms a shape to match the intensity of the light, which is rounded when using a HID light - a 400W High Pressure Sodium in this case.
whats the screen underneeth it for then?
:rastasmoke:
Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro
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Originally Posted by beginerbuddah
whats the screen underneeth it for then?
:rastasmoke:
The lower screen is to tuck under the growth shoots during initial veg cycle. A few weeks after the 12/12 flower cycle is started the buds are trained to and supported by the upper screen.
Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro
About your question in my thread, I noticed that you don't do nearly as many bud sites as I do, which is a good thing. I think on my next grow I will try for somewhere in between what you and I are doing. Well anyway, before you know it you and I are going to have a nice pile of buds to play in. Lord willing, knock on wood, etc. All of us who are harvesting around the same time soon, should just dump everything in one big pile. We could run and jump in it, make weed angels, build forts, inhale it, all kinds of stuff. That would be fun.
Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro
Here is the background on a decision that I have to make soon: It turns out that I seem to have had these vegging too long without a screen in place to train them to and as a result I have HEFTY shoots that are super strong but don't wanna train too well. There are a bunch of growth shoots that are thicker than a pencil mainly in the left side of the screen. The right side is filling out nicely too, but at a slower rate.
I gotta wonder when I should kick them into 12/12. The tops that are growing strongly are too large to simply tuck back under, and they are also gonna block the lower shoots that need to catch up. With the 2nd screen in place I am thinking to let them grow past the 1st screen as they are already, then train them to the perimeter of upper screen.
Now the big thing is timing... WHEN to flip 'em over into flower :confused:. I've been wrestling with this for the last 3-4 days and think I'll do it sooner than later. Hmmm, better go think about it and find my clipboard notes so I can update the nute numbers... I guess after all this is an experiment, so I'll post back a bit later.
Oh yeah, pics from today just as the HPS clicked on:
Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro
Well..... I have been posting for a while and now NEED INPUT. Anyone lurking out there that knows (or thinks they know) what they are doing I am gonna need for you to speak up. I'm not taking votes but I am asking for opinions from the audience. Don't be shy.
I have somewhere around 50-75 bud sites in the 7 sq ft area I'm growing, and it is a jungle. Somewhere around 7-10 bud sites per sqare foot... More on the LHS than on the RHS. However either way I am gonna need to do something soon and want to get it under control.
Should I :
A. keep vegging and grow a bigger jungle before flowering?
B. cut a bunch of fans leaves and veg a bit longer so they recover?
C. say Fuck It, Let's Flower!! and flip them over in 2-3 days?
Advice will be considered until tomorrow night around 8pm (Fri 1/4 on the West Coast).
Then I'll have to Make It Happen over the weekend.
Whatever the hell "It" turns out to be.
The phone lines are open, make your selection now.
Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro
Ha, welcome to the wonderful world of never ending dilemmas in scrog experimentation. There is no answer. I just went to 12/12 a couple days ago and have some ridiculously huge number of bud sites. Live and Learn. If you have plenty of weed I would keep vegging until you think that all the screen will be filled in once you start letting the colas come up through the screen. That is the most efficient use of space and use of light. However if you are short on weed and don't care about filling it all in and making it look real nice, just do it. Now.
Honestly I'm not really understanding your style here since the top screen is 0% filled in. I wouldn't be going to flower until the top screen is about 2/3 or more filled in. Perhaps since I obliged your and your similar questions about my screen (http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-gr...-training.html), you could do the same for me in your thread. What's your logic behind this madness? I'm certainly not trying to insinuate that your madness is any less sane than mine, I just don't understand. You think yours is a jungle, well what about mine with 8 times the number of shoots per area? I way overshot my shoots. I was too determined to get a nice full carpet this time, plus trying LST for my first real time.
I don't understand why you can't pull those main bud sites down under the screen. They don't look that terribly formidable. I do mine when they are like that. Hmm, super strong stalk syndrome is it? Yes I remember when I had SSSS once. I just had to push the top of the shoot in one direction while pulling at the middle of the stem in the other direction. Usually, at that size, they could get stuffed through without a problem. Sometimes I'd snap one clean off, but if a person keeps a strip of masking tape handy, they can tape these decapitated ones back together and they recover completely.
I'm probably not answering your questions much and I apologize. It's late and I'm just waiting for two reservoirs to finish draining so I can add flower nutes for the first time this grow. I should have been in bed hours ago, so please forgive me if I'm not making much sense. In my defense, David Byrne told me to stop making sense.
Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro
I personally.....having NEVER DONE A SCROG SETUP...(to be clear) would get them through the screen whether by pushing or by pruning. If I pruned them I would give them enough time to recover before flipping them. I personally would want my ducks in a row before turning to 12/12. And if you lose a few here or there I SERIOUSLY doubt you are going to notice by the end. ;)