Staking
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JohnFonda
Tegrity Greenthumb
Usually training helps keep the colas just small enough to not drop but it's a issue I'm always hoping for lol. They truly do work well though. I guess if it ain't broken....
I use narrow dowels or bamboo sticks and have never noticed any downside to using them. Some argue that any root damage that is done when you insert them can actually stimulate more root growth in the same way that scoring the roots when you transplant them does.
sfrigon1
Seed Aficionado
Agree, I mean they can take crazy abuse otherwise .
Hust17
PICK YOUR OWN
Then you ran GMO and had your world shook!!Some reason , prob cause I run indicas alot but I had never had to support till esos beans started flowering. I top early and tie everything down when I flip
So I actually just tied each branch to each other and it stayed up
And to OP: I stake with bamboo but try to choose the skinny sticks at the grow shop haha!
Bc_ca
Super Active Member
In a recent HB YouTube video after
The plants are up potted to a 9” square Potts he has his stake positioned at 1 corner of the square pot. The plants I veg from grodan cubes for almost 4 months filled a 10” pot fully with hair roots fully developed. I had up potted those 10” to 10 gallon pots for flower scrog . I can say honestly not one plant needed more than the 10”pott . At cutdown all (5)10 gallon potted plants pulled out by the stem left s perfect 10” pot hole space from the middle of the 10 gallon smart pots.
Listen to HB about the fast turnaround....... We Should be slamming stakes into 9” square pots by week 4 in flower Plants should be haulin butt for sure.... my self I’m going to keep the 18-20” plant spacing in flower he used in hydro
HB buckets. I will not Scrog any of his strains as it not required if I cN keep the growth speed from stalling due to watering/feed issues which gets easily solved growing HB single strain
. Watch the video he pulls theplantbout showing. Roots and stake .
The plants are up potted to a 9” square Potts he has his stake positioned at 1 corner of the square pot. The plants I veg from grodan cubes for almost 4 months filled a 10” pot fully with hair roots fully developed. I had up potted those 10” to 10 gallon pots for flower scrog . I can say honestly not one plant needed more than the 10”pott . At cutdown all (5)10 gallon potted plants pulled out by the stem left s perfect 10” pot hole space from the middle of the 10 gallon smart pots.
Listen to HB about the fast turnaround....... We Should be slamming stakes into 9” square pots by week 4 in flower Plants should be haulin butt for sure.... my self I’m going to keep the 18-20” plant spacing in flower he used in hydro
HB buckets. I will not Scrog any of his strains as it not required if I cN keep the growth speed from stalling due to watering/feed issues which gets easily solved growing HB single strain
. Watch the video he pulls theplantbout showing. Roots and stake .
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H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
as long as you don't put the stake right beside the stem you won't hurt roots. You have to jam it in to let the roots help hold the stake up
If I have a tall plant it's a bamboo stake. I secure everything to the stake with garden wire and hooks made out of rubber-coated wire.
If I have smaller plants it's the bamboo skewers and I do individual limbs.
