Rrog has never steered me wrong before, but I remain skeptical.
Another alternative is using comfrey. Because of how deep it's roots go, comfrey leaves are full of silica which can obviously be turned in to a useful tea to replace something like Pro-tekt. I believe the bocking 14 cultivar is the variety you want (Rrog, correct me if I'm wrong). This is the direction I'm heading. Next spring I will be planting some. There is a good website that Rrog has where you can order a cutting of comfrey root from. This cultivar is sterile too, so your back yard won't be over-run by it.
If you want to keep them from drooping the trick is to cut the front 3rd off your biggest leaves, slows transpiration so the plants keep their water instead of sweating it out, especially on bigger clones. Learned that one from Sub's threads, really helps a stack...
Silica is the second most abundant mineral on earth. Humans and plants both require it to maintain normal, healthy growth. When used properly, it does not harm the microbiology in your soil. Sand (silicon dioxide) is not bio available for plants, so companies process it in to a form that plants can readily uptake. It DOES come from earth, it's just altered so that we can use it.
That is the beauty of what we do. There are other ways to get there that you can be comfortable with. I like varying opinions. Leads to educated discussions thus growth.
I too will be getting some for next year. Great stuff.
Myco is the man when it comes to training. He has been busy as of late but he is family. When he posts up I listen. Most caring guy around.
It's all about our own personal choices. In the end it is tough to argue with the certifying entities such as USDA NOP. No harm in having different ways to do things.
What is a compost tea but organic matter processed by human ingenuity into a form most valuable to plants? Is this not also synthetic/organic? Does an aerated compost tea exist in nature? Does a forest have the technology to produce these concoctions in the form that we use them?
With an untouched plant, energy is focused linearly. When you use LST, you are distributing energy evenly across the plant, encouraging more shoots as you know. So now energy is not focused in a linear fashion any longer. It is distributed. So instead of the plant cannonballing upwards, energy is shared amongst the varied shoots, hence you end up with shorter branches, nodes more tightly spaced, which makes for those lovely 'compressed' colas we all like to see. You must remember that bud-mass is DIRECTLY proportionate to root-mass. This is the ONLY reason Hydro sometimes yields more, roots grow completely un-inhibited. So in an ideal scenario, one would like to let a plant just grow upwards with as much root-mass as is possible. Unfortunately for the indoor gardener, a 3-metre plant is not always an option. Lighting becomes an issue and bud quality suffers. So what you are noticing is truly the ADVANTAGES of LST
Good post,all about your preference,I like to S/C and pinch alot in early 12/12 to allow the bottom parts to really blow up.With an untouched plant, energy is focused linearly. When you use LST, you are distributing energy evenly across the plant, encouraging more shoots as you know. So now energy is not focused in a linear fashion any longer. It is distributed. So instead of the plant cannonballing upwards, energy is shared amongst the varied shoots, hence you end up with shorter branches, nodes more tightly spaced, which makes for those lovely 'compressed' colas we all like to see. You must remember that bud-mass is DIRECTLY proportionate to root-mass. This is the ONLY reason Hydro sometimes yields more, roots grow completely un-inhibited. So in an ideal scenario, one would like to let a plant just grow upwards with as much root-mass as is possible. Unfortunately for the indoor gardener, a 3-metre plant is not always an option. Lighting becomes an issue and bud quality suffers. So what you are noticing is truly the ADVANTAGES of LST
Agreed. More than anything else moving to a larger container has led me to greater yields.
THOSE ARE BADASS!! I'm looking into stitching up my own 'geopots' as it is yet another thing I can't get here
Just trying to figure out the best material to use. Needs to be pretty heavy-duty stuff. Thinking of trying out some Hessian and seeing how it goes...
...and silica
Obviously using comfrey would "meet the organic credentials".
REALLY? you think gandlaf stow and Rrog are theonly ones here WHO KNOW THERE SHIT? maybe if you focused more what folks are doig instead of kissing ass everywhere you go you'd notice ALOT of people are doing shit right that don't post every fucken day here. for fucks sake ive seen enough at this fucken site, grown ups (they claim to be anyway) and they sit here and play grab ass like high schoolers on a bus. pathetic! I don't care who I offend with my opinion fuck yerself!
