Growing Upside-Down

Has anybody heard or seen of someone growing weed upside-down, or in a topsy turvy thing? Is it even possible?

-HM420

Theres a video on youtube with jorge cerventez where he visits an outdoor garden and the guy has massive steel mesh baskets with plants growing upside down topsy turvy style.
The plants just shoot out the side and grow upwards as usual. I guess they are always going to go towards the light source no matter what. The buds did look nice and healthy.

torontoke said:

Theres a video on youtube with jorge cerventez where he visits an outdoor garden and the guy has massive steel mesh baskets with plants growing upside down topsy turvy style.
The plants just shoot out the side and grow upwards as usual. I guess they are always going to go towards the light source no matter what. The buds did look nice and healthy.

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Yea the whole upside down idea is stupid. The plants just going to make a u turn.

I know a guy who did an expiriment with rhe lights under the pots to make the plant grow down towards them. From what I remember the point was to even out temps throughought the entire plant without exhaust.

Pretty sure his results were a somewhat lower yield and he had trouble keeping the plant from burning on the lights.

I personally have only tried underlighting once and it was supplemental in veg and the way it pulled my branches it made my plant look sick imo so I.stopped doing it.

You have to grow the plant normally for a bit to encourage the roots to go down into the pot then flip upside down, if you don't, the plant has a hard time putting roots up into the soil. At least that's my experience with tomatoes.

mr sunshine said:

Yea the whole upside down idea is stupid. The plants just going to make a u turn.

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unless we are talking Topsy Turvy...as seen on TV

ISK said:

unless we are talking Topsy Turvy...as seen on TV
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I was always under the impression that tomatoes and mj where very alike.. However I bought a TT and tried with a plant.. The issue is as @mr sunshine had noted the plants make a u turn towards the sun.. The resulting stem structure (either to one side or the other) is a weak point with almost a 90 degree angle supporting a whole plant. The hardening of the steams is the biggest difference, where tomatoes stay malleable to an extent the mj hardens up. The tomatoes fruits allow them to pull the plant down during development where the hardened mj stems have to deal with it in late bloom

I have seen many successful TT grow, I just found it an issue with the plant weight, I did grow one right side up in the TT then flipped it once it started to flower.. Lower yields due to the plant blocking it's own light. The only real advantage I could see would be growing where pests or insects are a major issue the TT would keep you away from them

It was an interesting grow, I would suggest trying it is you have some interest in it... Just don't expect to be breaking any ground here in this topsy turvy world we live in

thanks all, my drunk friend and I were debating last night and I said I would gather some intel.

-HM420