Office Hours Episode 84
Disc filter tips, clean emitter matters, crop steering when hand watering, & More!
Expert knowledge for the grow community!
In our last live session before Thanksgiving and MJBizCon, Seth and Jason got right to business, covering an awesome crop of cultivation questions. They touched on everything from the ways crop steering and hand watering go, well, hand-in-hand, what to keep in mind when either moving to a smaller pot size or rooting into slabs, the importance of keeping your emitters clean, and so much more!
Dig into some of our favorite quotes below, then remember to Claim Your Spot for the biggest launch ever seen in cannabis cultivation – See you in Vegas!
Moving To A Smaller Pot Size
“Just make sure that you're able to get enough irrigations in there that you do have the details because if we're running half the media volume with the same media, we're going to have half the water holding capacity. Typically if we are growing big plants, most one gallons can be right at the edge of not enough water holding capacity to steer generatively later in the cycle, so do keep that in mind.”
– Jason
How To Crop Steer When Hand Watering
“Going generative all the way, keep it simple, is pretty easy. That's watering it once in the morning to field capacity, making sure you've got a media that's usually in a forgiving size range – you know, two gallons or so – and allowing that plant to just dry back that entire time.”
– Seth
Perlite Vs Peat Considerations
“Perlite mixes are usually going to be a little bit more airy. A lot of times that peat moss is going to hang onto the water slightly better than a perlite mix would. And so when we think about, you know, how much our dry downs are going to be, what our field capacities are going to see a little bit of variation…When we think about, all right, how does that affect crop steering, most of the strategies behind what you're going to be doing are going to be very similar. You're just going to see some differences in that actual implementation, as far as what the numbers coming out of the system are.”
–Jason
