How To Trellis Medicinal Plants In The Pursuit of Better Yields
Every medicinal plants cultivation site is different so these steps might not apply to your garden specifically. But in an effort to cover as many bases as possible, we'll go over both vertical and horizontal trellising processes.
Vertical trellising
- Place wood, PVC, or bamboo stakes deep into the four corners of your planter bed or pot.
- Stretch netted trellising around the stakes, using zip ties or flexible planters tape to secure the screen to the frame.
- As the plants grow, carefully push branches through the holes in the netting to provide stability and structure.
Horizontal trellising
- Place wood, PVC, or bamboo stakes in the four corners of your planter bed or grow space. These will anchor your net.
- When your plants have fully entered the vegetative phase before flowering, drape a trellis net with large holes over the entire canopy of your plants.
- Carefully tuck the tops of the growing plants under the net, until the entire canopy sits at the same height.
- As the plants continue to grow, the even height will feed more of the energy from your lights to the canopy, allowing as many flowers as possible to grow out of the holes in your netting.
- When your plants begin to flower, use another large, draping net to cover the top of your plants to support any heavy flowers that might otherwise fall under their own weight.
Once your plants are ready for harvest, cut through the trellising to remove large branches, being careful not to mangle any lower branches on the plastic netting as you remove buds for drying.
Trellising may seem like an unnecessary step in the medicinal plants growth cycle, but the added structure and direction of the frame and netting will help take any plant's growth, and yield, to the next level.
Of course, the use of led grow lights are also essential. Below we will recommend 3 types of light strips that can be used together to increase yields.
ECO Farm 480W/640W/800W/1000W Dimmable LED Grow Light With Samsung 301 Chips+UV+ IR
Description:
The ECO Farm Samsung LED grow light features a balanced spectrum for superior growing power with best possible LED diodes available.
This fixture provides you with total control over everything. With onboard dimming function, growers can set the ideal intensity at any stage of plant growth for optimal photosynthesis activation.
PPF & Par Efficacy
The ECO Farm Samsung LED grow light produces a PPF output of 1514.7μmol/s and a PAR efficacy of 2.8 umol/J making this fixture incredibly efficient compared to other commercial fixures.
Energy Output
The ECO Farm Samsung LED grow light provides its users with an average 40% reduction on energy and costs. This is the ultimate combination of increasing the amount of light energy reaching your plants while also shrinking costs.
The ECO Farm Samsung LED grow light allows for even light distribution, and is precisely designed to deliver uniform levels of photosynthesis flux density, or PPFD.
Spectrum
The specially deployed full spectrum fills the negligence of the main photoreceptors and pigments outside the 730nm IR and 395nm UV range, and it is suitable for reproduction to aging in indoor environments.
- Using the highest output Samsung 301B LED chips with Osram 660nm chips, Efficacy is up to 2.7umol/J. High PPF is up to 1782μmol/s. Higher PPFD than Fluence/Gavita.
- Full-spectrum with enhanced red for full-cycle grows.
- Built-In Driver, just unfolds, plug, and play.
- 180°foldable, facilitate transportation and storage.
- 6 bars, more than 2160 LEDs distribute evenly;
- 8 bars, more than 2880 LEDs distribute evenly.
- Supporting the daisy chain and 0-10V dimming.
- UL, DLC, CE, ROHS certified.
- With a lifespan of over 50000h and comes with a 5-year warranty.
- 2112pcs LM301b 3030 White chips+48 Osram 660nm Red chips+4*165W Sosen Designed Driver
ECO Farm 480W Quantum Board Dimmable Cycle Timing UV IR Independent Control LED Grow Light
Description:
High-efficiency quantum boards
· Full-Spectrum light for better results
· Better canopy light penetration with diffused light
· Perfect performance for veg and bloom
· Dimmable
· IR UV are independently controlled
· Cycle Timing design
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