New Grower Stressing plants: Things Not To Do

[turtle360]

This is more a question than a comment.

I wonder about moving the plant around and taking her in and out of her grow space. I move her around alot. I take her out to water her. I rotate her from tray to tray to discard water runoff. I put her on an examining table under T5 lighting to get a good look at her. I rotate her in the tent to even out the light exposure. Compared to topping, fimming, tying it sounds like nothing. On the other hand plants respond in a stressful way to lots of environmental stuff, lots involving light and changes in light. I have heard for instance that plants are stressed when the led lighting spectrum is switched from veg to bloom and may do better under a steady full spectrum taking what it needs when it needs it.

So, if anyone has a strong belief about taking the plant out as opposed to working with her in the tent please chime in. I'm trying to decide.

 

[opi8250]

I roll the exact same way as you =)

Their always getting rotated under the lights, and I take 'em out to water at least once or twice a day where they sit on a little table with a 60 watt cfl above us. Thats where they go for pruning/inspecting/bending as well. The room itself is close to the same temp and rh as the tent, and they dont stay out for crazy amounts of time, and honestly i've never seen any problems come from it.

thats just me though.

This is more a question than a comment.

I wonder about moving the plant around and taking her in and out of her grow space. I move her around alot. I take her out to water her. I rotate her from tray to tray to discard water runoff. I put her on an examining table under T5 lighting to get a good look at her. I rotate her in the tent to even out the light exposure. Compared to topping, fimming, tying it sounds like nothing. On the other hand plants respond in a stressful way to lots of environmental stuff, lots involving light and changes in light. I have heard for instance that plants are stressed when the led lighting spectrum is switched from veg to bloom and may do better under a steady full spectrum taking what it needs when it needs it.

So, if anyone has a strong belief about taking the plant out as opposed to working with her in the tent please chime in. I'm trying to decide.

 

[fweedom]

i dont think you are doing any harm in my opinion. Whenever i water mine i take them out of the tent, water till i get atleast 10% runoff, and then i sit there and dump all the water that goes into the tray until there is none left coming out of the pot... it takes hours sometimes to be honest cause i like to leave them out and keep emptying the tray till i can dump the tray and absolutely no water comes out. i just do that because my tent is always full and i dont want stagnant water in it to increase RH and cause mold/mildew. Since my plants are like touching the light i even have to take them out when i need to just lift the pot to check how heavy it is and i havent noticed any issues so imo its ok to work with them outside of the tent :Sharing One:

 

[Chester]

Plants need to be exercised so that when they have big buds on top of long colas they don't break ... :tiphat:

 

[Grey Bear]

Plants need to be exercised so that when they have big buds on top of long colas they don't break ... :tiphat:

Chester isn't far from the mark.
A little bit of movement stimulates growth in the branches.
Obviously, you want to try not to break em, but a healthy plant can handle quite a bit.

 

[illbethere]

Honestly nothing harmful with moving your plants.
I take mine out to the park, we go biking, to the beach etc...
you know taking her to a nice vacation destination won't hurt either on the beach lots of sun for a nice tan etc..

 

[F.N.]

I take mine out everyday to water rotate them. I just poor the food to them let the run off run into the sump pump I water all six with in a half hour and back in they go. I use 500 mill water bottles to determine the amount I give them. Airpots all the way too 20 litre

 

[natertots]

Plants need to be exercised so that when they have big buds on top of long colas they don't break ... :tiphat:

Or if ur into bondage you can tie every plant up like me lol. I get alot of hollow stems but the bud seems to do better. I tie the up and down. I like my plants flimsy so theyre easy to manipulate. Ive monster cropped a few plants here lately and I like that as well. Autos too, id rather monster crop an auto then cutt the top off. I rearrange me girls all the time.