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Hime
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Most appropriate container size
#689978 - 10/20/13 02:47 PM (11 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hey guys. Quick question,
I'm wondering what the most appropriate container size would be, if I were to do some LST and then flower around 10 inch to a foot tall?
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Hime
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Re: Most appropriate container size [Re: Hime]
#689979 - 10/20/13 02:50 PM (11 years, 2 months ago) |
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sorry just dawned on me, I guess it would depend on the amount of LST I would be doing...
I'm thinking of just lsting about 1 square foot then flower while they are still pretty short
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Edited by Hime (10/20/13 02:51 PM)
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Hawksresurrection
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Re: Most appropriate container size [Re: Hime]
#689984 - 10/20/13 03:19 PM (11 years, 2 months ago) |
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I would go with a 3 gallon container.
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phychotron
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Re: Most appropriate container size [Re: Hime]
#690056 - 10/21/13 01:35 AM (11 years, 2 months ago) |
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You can do pretty well with a half gallon, but you need to feed it like mad. I just chopped this one right now, did not expect to get this much out of the plant whatsoever, but I stuck 2 blumats (auto drip feed) in each pot and the roots grew masses right up to the hose to get the nutrients as they came out. Canna coco nutrients,in a soilless mix that had a small amount of time release fertilizer. I fed them pretty much full strength the whole time and they loved it.
Its usually pretty hard to get this much out of a plant in that small of a container unless you've got your environment in check and running hydroponic. Soil would be a bit trickier, its the hydroponics that allows the plants to soak up the nutrients like a sponge. Small containers need to be watched much closer and its generally not recommended for beginners to start with undersized pots that may dry out too quickly.
Typically I would say that for soil you would want to go with ~3 gallon, but get a 5 gallon pot so that it is a little wider and fill it up with 3, plus you can always add more if you want to see if it makes a difference. You generally want about a gallon of soil for every foot of final plant height. A good goal is that you will want to get about a dry ounce out for each gallon of soil used.
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Hime
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Re: Most appropriate container size [Re: Hime]
#690079 - 10/21/13 02:00 PM (11 years, 2 months ago) |
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Good shit, thank you guys very much, beautiful plant there too! very impressive
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