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I'm a mediocre soil grower at best, but thanks to experience and AFN I am getting better. I do well with DWC.
A few questions about AFs, and ethos AFs in particular...
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I'm pretty good at it OUTdoors, been veggie gardening for a long time. And I can grow a photo tree outside, my biggest one was 12'. Indoors, I just get the results I like best with coco and autos. I also do mostly organic outside with my own compost and stuff, and I'm pretty squeamish when it comes to bringing that stuff inside. So indoors growing in soil, yeah. I'm pretty mediocre as well.
I'm admittedly a goddamn glutton too. If I'm spending time inside growing stuff, I want MONSTERS DAMMIT.
YMMV, IMHO, tbf, etc, etc.
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Jeeze, so much good input so quickly! My kinda place. The vast majority of the Ethos are rbx2, and the most stable looks to be an r5. I went into my preferred seed vendor, and found offerings by night owl and Mephisto. The Mephisto lineup certainly caught my eye, so I think I'll be tossing some of those into the mix as well, likely Sour Stomper, mango smile, double grape, and possibly 3 bears og.
I've noticed quite a bit of "leaf tucking" whereas I'm generally a leaf remover. Is defoliation inadvisable where autos are concerned? I often strip plants near bare even in early veg, and certainly right after the stretch is completed. I generally do a combination of topping and lst, where either/or or both is beneficial. Often, I do it right in the solo cup to start things off. Do you guys top your autos, or just let em go, while manipulating leaf? My actually growing space is, for all intents and purposes, unlimited. I've got 51 acres not near anyone, 3 of which are leveled and terraced out for growing (cannabis typically, though I'm integrating actual food production into the mix gradually... That's ultimately where I'm headed for the majority of the space). I'm in the western Maine mountain area, our grow season is kinda on the short side of things. To answer the above question, the greenhouse hoops are 6' wide. I'm doing quick-hoops, which are ½" galv conduit ribbing. Normally, these are put right into the ground, but what I'm doing here is using conduit coupling and inserting 5' conduit lengths into the ground half a foot or so, every 4 feet, and connecting them to the ribs, thus elevating them significantly. I'll be running the same conduit across the top center, and using channel and wiggle wire along the sides. This will yield 6'wide rain coverage, and the rows will likely be 50'long, though I can make them pretty much in any configuration I want. So if your saying 3x3/4x4 is a good area to plan for, that gives me a good idea of the spacing. I think, based upon what I've been told here, I might cut that plant count down to half and run 5 or 7 gallon pots then.
I've noticed quite a bit of "leaf tucking" whereas I'm generally a leaf remover. Is defoliation inadvisable where autos are concerned? I often strip plants near bare even in early veg, and certainly right after the stretch is completed. I generally do a combination of topping and lst, where either/or or both is beneficial. Often, I do it right in the solo cup to start things off. Do you guys top your autos, or just let em go, while manipulating leaf? My actually growing space is, for all intents and purposes, unlimited. I've got 51 acres not near anyone, 3 of which are leveled and terraced out for growing (cannabis typically, though I'm integrating actual food production into the mix gradually... That's ultimately where I'm headed for the majority of the space). I'm in the western Maine mountain area, our grow season is kinda on the short side of things. To answer the above question, the greenhouse hoops are 6' wide. I'm doing quick-hoops, which are ½" galv conduit ribbing. Normally, these are put right into the ground, but what I'm doing here is using conduit coupling and inserting 5' conduit lengths into the ground half a foot or so, every 4 feet, and connecting them to the ribs, thus elevating them significantly. I'll be running the same conduit across the top center, and using channel and wiggle wire along the sides. This will yield 6'wide rain coverage, and the rows will likely be 50'long, though I can make them pretty much in any configuration I want. So if your saying 3x3/4x4 is a good area to plan for, that gives me a good idea of the spacing. I think, based upon what I've been told here, I might cut that plant count down to half and run 5 or 7 gallon pots then.
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All good cultivars, Sour Stomper and 3BOG in particular. In fact, right before I typed this I just had a little smoke break with some 3BOG I harvested a while back.
Fairly typical of the indoor stuff...
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Man, that's a whole can o' worms. Do a search as there are some good threads on it.
I top everything, defoliate a decent amount and don’t do much early LST these days. My LST comes later towards the stretch, and that’s more canopy opening vs hardcore pinning. I’d prefer to concentrate in less bigger fruits vs many smaller. Or something like that.
That’s a generalization though because a certain plant may tell you that it needs something different.
Like Mr. Mingus said though - can o worms. Ask 10 different people and get 10 different answers.
That’s a generalization though because a certain plant may tell you that it needs something different.
Like Mr. Mingus said though - can o worms. Ask 10 different people and get 10 different answers.
With growing chops like you have your autos should have no trouble handling defoliation. I always defoliate to some extent and as long as the plant is healthy they never seem to get slowed down much, it at all.
I usually leaf tuck only through the first 3ish weeks, but once budlets form it’s all about getting lights on sites. By the time my plants are finished stretching and bud structure is established they don’t have many fan leaves left with most strains.
