From the complexities of fertigation schedules and dryback percentages for newly transplanted clones, and the importance of choosing the right supplies for your operation, to the intricacies and challenges of optimal fan placement to manager microclimates and so much more, Seth, Jason and Cian got to the root of multiple cultiivation and crop steering concepts thanks to our ever-passionate community of growmies!
Here are some of our favorite quotes from this week’s session:
“What it comes down to is, just making the appropriate balance for how much water are we losing? For how much can we hold? Right. And so for how much water are we losing, we're looking at mostly transpiration, hopefully with a little bit of evaporation. Obviously, runoff should be pretty easy to account for. And then plant size, that's what's causing those values to be larger or smaller. So just do some simple math and kind of get down to, all right, what, What's my balance there and what are my constraints as far as how long do I get to do purposeful crop steering in a smaller substrate?” – Jason
“What I generally have found works well with those fans is not to use them as a direct fan blowing into my crops for any reason, but to create a circular air current in my room…Instead of using them to try and push air directly through your crop, you know, potentially maybe get one or two more of those to do something similar and create an air current that helps homogenize that space.” – Cian
“Match your cloning media to your actual vegging media. And if you're struggling with that, I promise you that there are a variety of products in the market that all work, provided you can figure out how to make them work for you.” – Seth