Outdoor Growing In Pots: Question on Size

[BosqueBoy]

Hi!
FIMing is a method of topping a plant to increase it's branching. I think what you're looking for is LST (low stress training. There are several excellent threads on both these techniques here (just do a search) and on the Net. I use both techniques And feel that I increase my yields upward of 30%...Good Luck...BB

[boulderbud5525]

if you are in a region where the harvest needs to be finished before say mid to late october, you will need to force them into flower and to do this you need to move them to a dark room. the bigger the pot the heavier and after moving twenty or so pots you will wish you had kept it to around 5 gallons.

[nugssgalore]

haha boulderbud!! You got that right, man. I hate moving those pots!

[Stomper420]

I use 5-7 gal pots and my plants are great. Agreed, they could be better but thats what I use and they are about 5-6 foot tall and probably 10 foot round with LSTing them kept them shorter. All started from clones:thumbsup:

Good luck

[sunbiz1]

Best thing you can do is start out in small pots and re pot as needed. I have grown this way from the start and has never failed. And some people think that re potting will stress your plants, but if you look in my Sig you will see this is wrong, if you re pot this way. I have one that is in full budding, pics are in current thread in this section. One plant is in a small pot and the others in a bigger pot and one needed a bigger one. This is a way to know just how small you can keep your pots, but this will not keep them small. If you bend them over and tie the main stem to the pot will keep them low, but still keep your yield as if it was straight up grown.:thumbsup:




:rasta:

Nice posting, I noticed the same thing upon transplanting 2-3 times with the same plant. They never seem to stress, even when I transplanted into average outdoor soil(straight in the ground)from indoors.

[deserthealer]

Can someone post a pic of bending the main stalk over and tying them to the pot and if I am correct, this is called FIMing? what's that stand for? Is it too late to do this if the plants have not quite started budding yet? Altho it IS hard to tell, I do see white hairs.

it's called LST. do a search on this site, there are lots of pictures and even a great diagram. sorry, don't know where it is, so you have to do your own homework!

ps it's not too late, and it WILL increase your yield (LST, not FIM)

[boulderbud5525]

haha boulderbud!! You got that right, man. I hate moving those pots!

ain't that the truth! ohh, my aching back:thumbsup: