Unsatisfying yields

Dryxi

Dryxi

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Marcorfl said:
Ok thanks for the advice i was leaning towards having a go at manifolding or do you think you can get good results just letting them grow un trained, i use a 300w cfl in veg also
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Training the plant = more veg time (esp something like topping or manifolding)
More veg time, more tops, even canopy throughout the grow space

these are things you can do to get more yield without needing to upgrade your system to get more than you did last time. An even canopy is the goal typically, it makes most use of the light you provide. If you let it grow without training, you are normally not maximizing the canopy and light
 
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Marcorfl

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Dryxi said:
Training the plant = more veg time (esp something like topping or manifolding)
More veg time, more tops, even canopy throughout the grow space

these are things you can do to get more yield without needing to upgrade your system to get more than you did last time. An even canopy is the goal typically, it makes most use of the light you provide. If you let it grow without training, you are normally not maximizing the canopy and light
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Ok i will have to have a look into veg time in dwc when manifolding etc but longer veg is fine if the end result is better of course. So far I’ve only ever LST and topped my plants and clearly haven’t either done it correct or utilised it correctly
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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Marcorfl said:
Ok thanks for the advice i was leaning towards having a go at manifolding or do you think you can get good results just letting them grow un trained, i use a 300w cfl in veg also
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Personally I think any training method that fills the space more economically , giving more buds the same light intensity beats going with apically dominant plants.

I don't think it matters too much which training, but obviously some methods will lengthen the time it takes to do the same thing.
 
Sweetmesss

Sweetmesss

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TreeFarmerCharlie said:
It's not difficult to do, you just need to be careful that you don't bend too hard and snap branches. I wait until my plants have 6 nodes, then I top the plants above the 3rd node, and remove the nodes below the 3rd node (but leave the fan leaves). Then I wait until the two remaining shoots are a few inches long and then I gently pull them down and stake them to the soil. As they grow longer I just keep adding steaks. Sometimes I will only top once and sometimes I will top twice and do the same thing to the ends of the two main shoots.

This is how mine look a couple of days after I start the process:
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and this is how they look as I keep staking them down
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Beautiful
 
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