Do you think i can handle it as a first time grower? Ok so if you could please so be great and let me know what exactly i need to do lst and were to get it. i have the bits and the drill, just the string or rope or what ever and what ever you put into the bucket drill holes and what ever else!
Sure man, nothing to it.
I used nylon string myself, you don't need anything fancy, just something that will be easy to tie/ untie when you want to tighten one up, but nothing really thin that will cut into the stems when you apply pressure.
Some of the strings at one point, like when I started pulling the tops across, would start to make the rootball lean if I didn't also apply pressure to the opposite side.
Here is 10" tall, a week after transplanting, and you can see the holes in the bucket, but I hadn't started training yet.
Here is a week later, at 38 days old, when I first started the training
There isn't any 'correct' way to do it, what I did, just started pulling the branches open to try and get a shape, thinking about what I could continue with later.
What made it a little easier for me was I was still only using 98w of CFL's, so she was stretching a little, and every day I would go around, and move the string up the branch a little, tighten, and pull it down further.
My next one, if I do this, I want to get the tops crossed over like I did here, then start training them in a circular rotation around the shape of the pot, but it's easier to do this once you're in your final pot size.
This one, you can see what I mean about going around and moving the string up if you look on the right, the 1 branch where there is growth beyond the string, sometimes I would move the string up if I wanted the branch to come out more, or just tighten it down to bring it down and just let the branch start growing up towards the light.
Here is 12 days later at 52 days from sprout.
See how now I'm starting to pull her together because she is getting too wide.
4 days later when I trimmed a little of the inner lower leaves and branches.
10 days later at 66 days from sprout.
And that's about where I have it until now, at 84 days from sprout this past Monday.
well i'll give it another day check on it tomorrow morning see how they feel. Hopefully a little closer to dry. I've heard mix reviews on LED's but my main buy points were heat,electricity & very very potent results. We'll find out!