Hey
Just saw very interesting training technique Cann-settia presented by Michael J. Arden. I’m still on growing-break myself unfortunately, but if you would like to read about technique to maximize yields and uniform the flowers size, this one sounds promising to me. They did bunch of testing and thats the outcome:
What it really is is tight schedule for topping and defoliation that eliminates using the net as well. I’m looking forward to try it myself, but if anybody have any experience to share, here is the topic : )
After watching the video I am quite interested in trying this as well. It seems more suited for salt based feedings but to achieve this and produce more uniform flower, shorter plants more ofter doesnt sound like a loss. I appreciated the deep talking about size of plants starting couple this there topping/pinching technique well really everything. To me this just made sense and not difficult to understand or apply.
I stuggle with letting my plants get way too tall so this would be a good method to adopt. My present x3-5 gallon Gals are all over 6’ with only a canopy depth of 12" a huge waste of usable space for mebut am committed for this run
It looks like something I’ve been doing myself just based off of first impressions. Basically using a couple of fundamental rules of shaping and pruning fruit trees. I’ll definitely have to take a look at this.
I do agree, probably would work best in well controlled indoor environment and some hydroponic system (including coco and similar ones). When comes to the strains that do not meet usual 8-12 weeks of flowering might need some adjust.
There is nothing that we did not know as growers already when comes to the training techniques. Still, looking at the light penetration for every each flower and elimination of the net is something that I have in my todo-list for some time.
Coming from commercial cannabis its cool to see but will not achieve the same yield requirements to be commercially viable today. Perhaps once the industry swings full around to other commercial crops it will make sense… Cool article/study none the less. Definitely have garnered some take aways when I first read the article some years ago.
Commercially viable today I would define as 100 grams per square foot of flower or 143 gpsf of biomass. or 3.54lb/light of flower.
