Delta

Simply. Yes. The added top growth will have a proportionate root zone to support it. I don't believe 2 gallon pots will be big enough to sustain flowering without watering at LEAST once a day. But it does depend on the total volume of the plant. It would not seem unreasonable to use 2 gallon containers for smaller plants or with an automated drip irrigation system. However, the idea of these bonzai techniques aren't really to make smaller plants, just shorter and wider plants, so the container size is almost mute. It all depends on the fertigation schedule.

I recommend 5 gallon pots filled with 4 gallons of medium. Drip irrigation (or manual) feeding small volumes of nutrient solution (at lights on) EVERY day and a weekly flush. With the appropriate medium, of course.

The ideal fertigation schedule is somewhat complicated and at this point it's more touch and feel, for me. I would really have to think about it and as you already stated, it's outside the scope of this thread, too. I started a thread a while ago in an attempt to describe my fertilization techniques. It's unfinished but has some useful info. I'll get around to finishing it one of these days. Anyways, it's here:

http://www.hempcultivation.com/420/s...threadid=17187

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Divorum

ok, thanks for the insight

Nice thread on the feeding, will try something like that on my next grow, trying to keep things simple on this onew

How much delay in flower would i expect from a transplant and would doing this during stretch (first month of flowering as i understand) affect yield?

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elzz

Divorum - the stress from a transplant is WAAAAAY far less than the stress of rootboundness. And yes, it will effect yield in a POSITIVE way. If you do it with a little bit of care, the plants wont even realize they've been transplanted.. they will just find that there's more room to grow and they dont have to strangle themselves with thier own roots.

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elzz

I started training my plants about 1.5 weeks ago. my one plant is responding astoundingly. 2 main shoots going south and north, then on the node below that, 2 main shoots east and west. as they curve up, i tie em down. the nodes imbetween are starting to get 1-3 inch branches. workin great. just discovered that this plant, my best plant, decided to show me some beautiful white pubes! its a SHE, and SHE is beautiful. im gonna train for about another week or so before i set into flowering. As of today she is 5 weeks old. Blueberry x thai, its a wonderful fast growing indica, HUGE calyxes and gynormus fanleaves, like the size of my hand!(almost). The high is EXTREMELY uplifting. makes me wanna get off my azz and clean the house! like 2 times! i think its her thai influence. but if i need to do somethin, and dont feel like doin it, a couple puffs and i cant stop myself from completing the job. Im really lookin forward to this girls sinsimella sweeties.
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myMUSICveins

umm, more time, i gave up long ago trying to count the age

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elzz

mymusicviens, i have a plant similar to that.. not quite as big, but my stems are like twice as thick. i put it into flowering just last week, im gonna post some result pics soon.. but wow, i cant believe how much faster and fuller it grew when i trained it delta style. its great!
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