How's the grow going Beansly?
Thanks, It's going good. So far nothing stolen lol.
Not much to show today in regard to growth. I can see they've grown, but it would be indistinguishable in a picture. I spent the better part of an hour yesterday tying down all the branches that had grown overnight from the feeding the day before
that. Here's the pics from yesterday when had to tie down a bunch of tops. You can see all the ties in the picture.
I was doing some pruning when I found an aphid crawling on my arm so I decided to treat the plants for bugs. Heres some pictures of how I protect the light when I spray in the closet. Yesterday I applied my home-made bug juice to keep everything nice bug-free, some of the perfectly good tops I had to cut off to make room for everyone and my bug juice.
You might be wondering how I water my plants without being able to move them and only 8 inches of space. At first I was clowning around with ideas of funnels and buckets like a tard until I figured out an easier way. I just stick a water pump in a tub of water, and use a hose on the other end to water my babies. Duh lol.
Eventually, I'm gonna build a drip system attached to the wall with two emitter for each plants. I'll have a spigot on one end so all I have to do is hook up a water pump to it and run it like a hydroponic system without having to sit there and water each one by hand.
Maybe you've said to yourself, "Beansly, if this method is so good and increases yeild, then why doesn't everyone do it?"
Yesterday I spent the better part of an hour just tying down braches. When you
do decide to tie them down, you only have a few inches to a foot under the screen that makes it hard to get in there. Then there's the pruning, tying, topping, training, feeding and all that mess. You can't move the plants after they in the screen and that's hard for some people although I have heard of people using rollers under the plants and screen legs to move the whole thing around. It a lot more labor and time in the garden, but imo it's completely worth it. Especially for low wattage grows, but some of 1000 watt scrogs I've seen are just insane.