4 Reasons You Should Focus on Growing Cananbis Horizontally
Why focus on horizontal growth? Many reasons. But in this newsletter, I'll give you four. (And a coupon code down below!)
The most basic is your
limitation on ceiling height. Cannabis plants will grow tall if you let them. But when growing indoors, you only have so much ceiling height.
Additionally, your lights will hang from the ceiling, further reducing your available vertical space. This can be a bad thing if your plant has too much vertical growth.
Reason #1: Growing cannabis horizontally prevents bleaching and burning your buds
You do not want your plants growing into your lights. HPS lights can burn the plants if they are within a foot, and can bleach them if they are within two feet or so. Your mileage may vary based on age of bulb, etc. And LED lights can still cause bleaching if the plants
get too close.
The solution is to use trellis netting to spread the plant wide. By laying the plant down, weaved under the trellis, you can prevent it from growing too close the lights.
But
there are several other benefits, as well.
Reason #2: Growing cannabis horizontally increases yield
Next, you want to yield as much flower as possible. Growing a tall and skinny plant is a poor way to go about accomplishing this goal.
Growing indoors is not the same as growing outdoors. Outside, the Sun moves around all day. It rises on the East, moves Southbound to directly overhead, and then sets in the West. The end effect is that an
outdoor plant gets hit by the sun from all angles.
But when you grow indoors, your light is directly overhead and it does not move. Therefore, the top of your plant gets all the light, and the further down you go, the less light. This translates into small, larfy, B-grade buds at the bottom.
When your plant only grows tall, it’s as if only half of it gets the light it needs, and the other half doesn’t, resulting in sub-optimal yields.
But when you spread the plant wide, the overhead lighting will hit more surface area, creating more colas, more large, dense buds, and this will translate into more weight at
harvest time.
Reason #3: Continue reading...
Continue reading the full article here to learn more reasons why this strategy of growing horizontally will give you better results.
