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On that note, I responded to @elamental’s request for help, to solve a plant staking challenge that he’s been recently faced with.
If you missed his original post, you can view it here:
As a cannabis grower, just how one is going to stake their Queens, is a good conundrum to have.
It means that you’ve been successful at getting your plants to thrive to the point where they are struggling (on their own to stay upright) due to the weight of their own flowers.
If a grower doesn’t stake at the appropriate time, they run the risk of branches breaking and/or laying on the ground which will seriously impact yield production and quality.
We are going for award winning flower colas that are measured in feet, as opposed to inches.
Flowers so lush, that they’d most certainly be awarded a blue ribbon at any Fall fair.
This makes staking at the correct time, a critical growers’ task.
Then, the questions become: How can multiple plants be staked without damaging the actual plant and can you come up with some type of staking system that is reusable from one garden to the next. All the while, staying within your gardening budget.
@elamental’s original parameters noted that he’d tapped out his budget for his current garden and he came to the growing community and basically said:
How can I stake these plants without spending any money to do so? Anybody have any good ideas about what I might use, that I probably have just kicking around the house?
My solution wasn’t free, but it’s very inexpensive, versatile and re-usable from one application to the next.
We have retail stores (in my area) which are known as Dollar Stores.
Everything they sell is just a dollar or two.
When these stores brought out their gardening paraphernalia for sale in the Spring, I stocked up on plastic clips and heavy plastic stakes.
As you can see, I bought two different sizes of clips. Each package contained 24 individual clips and the cost was approximately a $1.25...so although not free...a very economical solution.
The plastic stakes are a dense plastic. They’re stronger than bamboo and will take a bit of force (if needed) to hammer them into the ground.
In my indoor garden, I use bamboo stakes which are a much smaller diameter and structurally not as strong. Bamboo stakes, often cannot take being exposed to high winds and they deteriorate when they are exposed to the elements and get wet.
The plastic stakes are 5.5 feet long and cost approximately $2.50 each.
This means that for about $10, you can efficiently stake and clip a large plant and both the clips and stakes will last longer than wire and wooden stakes.
Now, when I showed @elamental, my economical solution, he picked up on the coins that I used to show the size perspective of the clips that I had purchased...
That, then prompted the following questions:
Becca, what’s the deal with the EOS coin, and where did you get that?
The answer: China.
Here’s the link:
These are completely fake and are worth only a few dollars, each.
@knarly327 bought them as a wee joke because he knows how much I like EOS, and he thought it would be a fabulous way to remember this time period in our crypto-enhanced lives.
If EOS isn’t your favourite coin, many of the more popular coins are available from the same website.
I welcome your comments and I invite you to follow me on my journey...we will be securing plants as we go. ;)
~ Rebecca
Very, very nice!!!
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Thanks @madymbg!
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