Hey Ya'll. It's time for a new thread. So for a slightly unfortunate (no big deal) series of new laws, events, and technicalities; I can only have four plants if I want to comply 100% and a have a totally legal grow. I feel blessed and overjoyed to live in a day and age and state where that's possible.
I was thinking I would have some more numbers from Medical Marijuana cards but, alas, that is not my current hand of cards.
That got me thinking... how can I harvest half of my flower capacity once/month (16sqft.. conservative aprox 1lb once dialed in.) with only four plants?
I thought of two different ways. Both involve grafting many strains onto a single plant. One way that I know would work, would be to have a big mutli-strain mother that I will start an air layering on once/month. Then just keep up sizing the pots for those air layered branches and growing veg plants while they are still attached to the mom. I could even cut the veg plant off once it's about the size that one more month of veg would have it ready to be flowered vertically between two of my 2'x4' - 306w - SIL fixtures. One mom, one veg for one month, and two flower plants, and as many strains as I want.
The first idea I thought of however, is one that I'm not sure will work. It's weird and a little bit SILY... but I just have to try it and find out. So in one of my 2'x4' tents I'll be attempting to keep the middle of a big plant in VEG on an 18/6 cycle.... while flowering branches of that plant (passed through a light barrier) on both the right and the left. If the middle stays in veg and the branches that break on through to the other side with a 12/12 cycle will flower... I can graft as many strains as I want in the middle and choose what to grow out, pass through the barrier, and flower. I could keep this same plant alive for years potentially, root pruning once every few cycles after a harvest when I can actually remove the plant from the box.
Has any one ever seen any one do this?! Is there a thread about it any where? I couldn't find one... but I didn't look super hard... Does any one know some biology info on this topic of flowering just a portion of a plant while keeping the rest of the plant in veg? Please chime in if you have or do.
I will now commence with the dumping of the many photo's that took of the build.
First I cleaned up from the cycle I just chopped and moved the plywood off the shelf. I was going to just try and re purpose this wood but I had 1x2"s lying around so I figured I'd use as much of the smaller boards as possible
Put a frame for the Perlite SIT (Sub Irrigation Tray) and a frame to include that middle vent and block it off from the rest of the tent.
Frame for the box and the frame for the light trap up top are assembled.
Hmm I think I'll use this desk/clip fan that was laying around as the extraction fan for veg box.
I was thinking I would have some more numbers from Medical Marijuana cards but, alas, that is not my current hand of cards.
That got me thinking... how can I harvest half of my flower capacity once/month (16sqft.. conservative aprox 1lb once dialed in.) with only four plants?
I thought of two different ways. Both involve grafting many strains onto a single plant. One way that I know would work, would be to have a big mutli-strain mother that I will start an air layering on once/month. Then just keep up sizing the pots for those air layered branches and growing veg plants while they are still attached to the mom. I could even cut the veg plant off once it's about the size that one more month of veg would have it ready to be flowered vertically between two of my 2'x4' - 306w - SIL fixtures. One mom, one veg for one month, and two flower plants, and as many strains as I want.
The first idea I thought of however, is one that I'm not sure will work. It's weird and a little bit SILY... but I just have to try it and find out. So in one of my 2'x4' tents I'll be attempting to keep the middle of a big plant in VEG on an 18/6 cycle.... while flowering branches of that plant (passed through a light barrier) on both the right and the left. If the middle stays in veg and the branches that break on through to the other side with a 12/12 cycle will flower... I can graft as many strains as I want in the middle and choose what to grow out, pass through the barrier, and flower. I could keep this same plant alive for years potentially, root pruning once every few cycles after a harvest when I can actually remove the plant from the box.
Has any one ever seen any one do this?! Is there a thread about it any where? I couldn't find one... but I didn't look super hard... Does any one know some biology info on this topic of flowering just a portion of a plant while keeping the rest of the plant in veg? Please chime in if you have or do.
I will now commence with the dumping of the many photo's that took of the build.
First I cleaned up from the cycle I just chopped and moved the plywood off the shelf. I was going to just try and re purpose this wood but I had 1x2"s lying around so I figured I'd use as much of the smaller boards as possible
Put a frame for the Perlite SIT (Sub Irrigation Tray) and a frame to include that middle vent and block it off from the rest of the tent.
Frame for the box and the frame for the light trap up top are assembled.
Hmm I think I'll use this desk/clip fan that was laying around as the extraction fan for veg box.