Welcome, Weezard,

I'm honored to have a wise one like yourself take notice. By all means, pull up a 'wall.':thumbsup:I welcome any suggestions or insights!

I really like your signature: "Plants do things for a reason....." That is what I was noticing when I saw all those scrogs with the dear girls struggling to "break free and reach the light." I wanta see if I can take advantage of their 'reasoning' and make us both happy.:smokin:

(Don't mind me if I get too philosophical . . . its just the sativa talking.)

As I'm thinking it through, it seems like the key to maximizing yield using this method would be to work to minimize internodal spacing. As the shoots work their way up during the vegetative cycle, I want the girls dropping as many nodes as possible. Then, with the lst primed (auxin-triggered) buds settle in for flowering, they're all as likely to be primed to soak in as much energy as possible.

So during flowering, with nodal spacing set, the more the nodes the better, and each node is an equal and efficient partner in converting watts-to-lumens-to-thc.

So, at the moment, I'm exploring ways of minimizing internodal spacing. I understand that temperature of the roots is one variable that effects spacing. As you may see from my userid, I'm going to be using aeroponics, so am going to keep a close eye on reservoir temperature to ensure I can maximize that variable. I'm already planning on working evaporative cooling in the design of the reservoir. May need to eventually employ a more active cooling strategy.

One good thing about working with T5's is the low heat, but I want to keep the roots at optimum temperature. (I guess you could say that is the experiment I'm trying, trying to find a grow technique that optimizes all variable.)

Other thoughts on how to increase nodes would be appreciated.

Another issue I'll have to face is how best to deal with the growth spurt. Seems like it'll be like trying to dock a large boat. Ideally, you want to end up JUST along side the dock with the bow just 'kissing' the shore.

With the grow, seems like the challenge would be to anticipate just when to cut the (light) throttle.

I'm tempted to try a bushmaster approach, but would love to be able to 'kiss' the top of the scrog by natural means.
AeroManT5 Reviewed by AeroManT5 on . Calling all LST experts I want to experiment with LST to see how best to effectively fill a 7 inch wide by 40 inch high trellis. In essence, it is a vertical scrog, with wire creating four 1 3/4 inch squares across and 22 squares per vertical 'column. For planning purposes, I'll be growing a sativa. My vision is to fill each of those squares on the scrog/trellis with a bud. The simplest approach, as a newbie imagining, would be to LST while still a very small clone, and try to get three shoots to compete with Rating: 5