Man o man I say go for it. You can always turn them back down. I've run outta room with my colas reaching 8" from my cobs and they were fine. May wanna put a net in there to limit plant heights with a little more bondage and bending.
no sign yet, I have lots of room for strech, its day 8, I have stopped trimming the tops , just want to watch them play out for a while, i took out a couple of leaves you can see in the pics hanging low was about it
I just gave mine a heavy defoliation at 3 weeks flower. Buds forming up nicely now.
thanks for checking in, almost 3 weeks flower this coming tuesday, stretch appears to be slowing,, whewHowdy Tim! Finally got a chance to read through your thread! You built a nice cob set up and would like to do that in the near future. You did well maintaining a nice even canopy and I can't wait to see these girls finish!! Thanks for the link to your thread and for finding mine. Happy Gardening Brother
managed to raise the light another couple of inches and keep it centered, so its 16 inches over top of canopy, and i turned the cob power up to 335 watts, I am going to laugh if these plants can take all 360 watts of cob, that will be something like 60 watts per square foot,,
thanks buddy
Another solid grow, Tim. I notice your leaves are doing what mine are doing in my non-sips that I put "super-enriched-soil" in the bottom of -- just a touch of nute-burn indicated at the tips. Since the plants are overall really healthy I'm reading that as I have a good balance, and sufficient nutes to carry it through to the end.
Thanks buddy, its going to be nice to ad these 2 strains to my stash pile,, really enjoying the basic tomato fert this time,, talk about easyAnother solid grow, Tim. I notice your leaves are doing what mine are doing in my non-sips that I put "super-enriched-soil" in the bottom of -- just a touch of nute-burn indicated at the tips. Since the plants are overall really healthy I'm reading that as I have a good balance, and sufficient nutes to carry it through to the end.
Must smell pretty in there
So you did 100% of your trench in tomato fertilizer? I don't have that much faith in any single product... lol... I think I mixed HF Fruit and Flower, FF Marine Cuisine, some tomato fertilizer for the calcium, and some Rainbow Pro, but I think I mixed that last one lightly into the soil. It's different setting up a SIP and a regular pot, because with the SIP the ferts are not mixed into the soil so the manufacturer's instructions don't really apply in terms of quantities per gallon of soil. I used the same ingredients in both kinds of pots, just applied differently. I think there are a lot of ways to get this right.
Yup, 100 percent of my Trench and I mixed in 2 cups of the same tomato fert into the bag soil, there is a picture on the first page of this thread that shows the tomato fert,, this fert did such an amazing job on my 6 foot tomato plant in the same sip last summer, that i just had to try it,, so far so good, no cal mag def,,, good color, and it looks like those roots have found the trenches ,, the plants are drinking about 2 gallons per day now, hoping they start packing it on,,
