Supporting your ladies.

What ways do you all keep your ladies standing up and not falling over. I'm looking for a way to support them with ease. I'd rather not stake a hundred bamboo stakes. But I will if I have to. Done that before but it's a lot of work. Doing a perpetual grow. Every 20 days. 3-5' plants. So 3 different cycles. Would like to keep my isle around whole garden. In other words I'd not like to attach it to the wall.

I generally rotate my plants every day but once I start getting bud flop I stop rotating and I tie a string around the light; then I tie each individual branch that's flopping to that string around the fixture. It takes some time and by the end of it, it looks like a big spider web but it works like a charm and like you said, it keeps my isles clear and I don't have to jam stakes into the roots. Not sure how it would work w/ your perpetual but that's my 2 cent.

I never have to tie up anything,even the most dense bud's are supported by heavy branch.Always use fan's, mine never shut off.Leaves should never stop moving.

Tomato cages

I currently use plant yoyos tied off to the hood. They work well to help balance out a plant that is heavy on one side but the down side on the yoyos besides price is the pull in one spot and can snap the main stalk. Sucks seeing colas wasted. The strain I'm working with is known for weak branches. Just can't support its own growth. Faceoff og.

I was talking with a friend and he suggested I wedge some studs from floor and ceiling and tie on a 5x20' trellese and let it go. So I'm gonna try that way. I have studs laying around and a trellese isn't to costly.

Oh and tomato cages are to expensive. Would need nearly 60

getsmacked said:

Oh and tomato cages are to expensive. Would need nearly 60

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last time I bought em they were $4 each, I bought 12, 60 is a lot I agree but they work great, I'm done with that string thing lol

I use a roll of zip tie you can get on amazon for cheap. Just cut, twist and tie to the top of my tent

bamboo stakes work great, i have nice thick stalks but when i have plants that are hitting around 12oz/per i have to stake them or they simple will snap... had it happen and almost cried

yeah, what's wrong with bamboo stakes?

i drop 3 or 4 into the outer perimeter of the container upon transplanting the plants to their final, flowering homes.

then i just tie some garden twine or nylon string around the stakes from the lowest branches to above the top branches.

takes about as much time as doing the transplant and the plants grow right into their new homes.

it's not much work at all for 60 plants.