People will fuss over which is better all the while never taking the time to think about where they are losing the most light. That is where compartment design is important.
YES! This frustrates me to no end, the constant bickering about paint vs. poly vs. mylar vs. whatever. I'm pretty doubtful that most people have their cabs/strains dialed in well enough to see the benefits of a few % increase in light reflection.
White walls are great (for old cars), I like ultraflect.
Any advise on what i got goin on here. Not real sure it's my first go at this and I'm 15 days into bloom. Thanks.
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The first time you do it you look at the pile of leaves you clipped, and go WTF did i just do...
so k33ftr33zForgot to address the whole of your question.
1. Yes top at the second week and also remove the leaves. I prefer to not focus on 2nd week or 3rd or whatever. It is all relative to size and structure. I'm not schedule-driven in veg.
Bud is on a schedule, but I manage veg to run as a roughly 50% surplus production. That way the necessary extra veg time is built in. SOGgers fuss over veg time but the veg space is dedicated 24/7/365 at a low-wattage and minimal cubic footage. So that being the case, veg time is of no consequence in the regular production.
2. Cloning from your 4th weeks is fine and wherever you take them is up to you. You don't need many because you are producing larger shrubs.
3. Sounds about right. Hydro would be faster.
4. During those 6 weeks defoliate. I don't know the details of all these acronym techniques but just defoliate and train. I only top the main leader at the previous mentioned 2weeks or so. Sometimes not, if a clone is adequately branchy. Again, I am not in favor of lollipopping. That's someone else's technique. I preserve all growth and train to accomodate it. If things are out of hand with this much training, the plants are too large for the allotted space and that should be adjusted. Defoliation minimizes stretching while maintaining horizontal training strategy.
I never top any branch after transfer to bud. That is your production. They get plenty branchy as they grow by defoliating and training. And again, No lollipopping. If you want encouragement to lollipop you are in the wrong thread. Don't mean to sound insistent just trying to clarify.
The first time you do it you look at the pile of leaves you clipped, and go WTF did i just do...
so k33ftr33z
even if one is growing trees defoiling should work!
I'll do a side by side and get back to u
Not that Ultraflect doesn't work great but, eh.... Flat-White walls last longer, wash easier and take only pennies to re-coat with a fresh layer. So what if it's 5% less reflective. LOL![]()
Seriously folks.... flat white paint is blindingly awesome.
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