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Quadlining autoflowers?/wateringbases and feeding, how??

sourdieselwiesel
sourdieselwieselstarted grow question 7d ago
anyone successfully main/quadlining autos? is topping untill 8 main nodes even possible on them? any tipps for bottomfeeding with a system like this? just thinking about how to mix the nutrient solution gives me a headache.. cheers!
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Setup. Strain - Autoflowering
Feeding. Automatic systems
Techniques. Main-lining
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Ultraviolet
Ultravioletanswered grow question 7d ago
Too complicated, keep it simple silly. Forget everything anyone ever blabbered shit to you with regard to mainlining or defoliation. Understand this. When a leaf is not utilizing its photosynthetic capacity it can still utilize its full respitorary capacity. Why is this important? Photosynthesis is about capturing carbon, during the capture the plant process 10% of all ATP. If a leaf is photosyhtesizing it cannot perform cellular respiration. The metabolic pathways are different. Cellular respiration can only function when Photosynthesis does is not occuring within the leaf, this frees up the leafs oxidative capacity which can then be used to process all that partially processed carbon into the 2nd stage of the conversion process and tap into the other 90% of that ATP. The gold mine. VPD is for daytime. If you hold high rh overnight you prevent most of the cellular respiration from occurring. When you remove every single leaf that was not fully photosyntheticly active you remove every other leaf that had the potential to be performing cellular respiration (during daylight). The very second that a leaf uses more energy than it produces the plant will initiate pcd, begin recycling nutrients and detach itself for maximum efficiency. The total amount of energy that a plant can process in a single cycle is of more importance than how bare you make your stems. If you need proof of concept you can check my latest diary. 4x80 day autos in 4x4. 👍 all defoliated, there is a why and a when. Until at least 4-5th week of flower I don't touch a single mitochondria power cell until rapid growth is no longer my priority. Good luck.
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00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 7d ago
bottom feeding is better for something that doesn't require fertilization - a living or super soil type medium would be best. otherwise you have to worry about buidlup of nutrients in the medium over time, which you can mitigate with some top-down hand-watering in some incremental way.. how often will require some trial and error... wait to see some tox signs and you know you have to do it well before that point in future. if fertilizing through bottom feeding, just make sure it's not seaping through tiny orifices... e.g. those "Blumats" would clog up over time much faster than with plain water. topping an autoflower isn't too useful, but as long as you don't cut off too much it doesn't hurt you too much, either. Even so, i'd stick to LST with autos. 'mainlining' or wahtever.. just don't strip all the leaves off, that's retarded. training is training regardless of the silly names people have come up with. manipulate apical dominance and get the shape you want.. nothing more or less is needed.
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 7d ago
HST autos can be done, but its problomitic, aim for LST if anything. Mainlineing or anything like it is a HST tech. it involves killing the main growth node and them LST'ing the two off shoots to grow out and then you strip em of anything till they become the main bits. It takes a lot of recovery time to do this. and Autos are on a set schedule its not good for them. Chances are they will enter bloom before that and they won't have the veggiation to grow into a big beauty.
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