SOIL Outdoor plant support

[Smallgrow]

Hi all ,
I’ve been off practicing and learning our craft. I was planning to take the summer off, as it’s a busy season for my business, but along came these two girls.
They were clones gifted to me by my friend who decided he didn’t want to grow after all. A Lemon meringue pie and a Platinum, they are in super soil in 15 gallon fabric pots. I took them to the roof chasing the sun for flowering, as I live in the forests and direct light is in short supply in the fall.
My question is what do people like to use for plant support ?
Up on the roof the wind is quite a bit stronger than on the ground. I have them staked with bamboo and was considering adding a tomato cage this weekend.
Any thoughts would be appreciated, thank you.

 

[Canuck147]

Bamboo stakes are good but your sticking them in the dirt - upsetting the roots - and you need lots of support. Wrap a coil of rope (I use jute twine) around your pots few inches or about 1/3 of the way down - put your stakes on the outside of the pot. Then nail a bit of wood on your roof ledge so it can't be blown off the roof. Use rebar if you have it.

 

[Rwise]

I could not get away with putting plants on top of the roof, here its simply to hot for them to be up there.
Good Luck!

 

[Smallgrow]

I like not poking in the roots . I wonder how the rope would work on a fabric pot?

 

[Smallgrow]

Ya it’s warmer up there as well as windy, but warm for me in the fall is high 60F, so the heat is probably helpful.
I just can’t help myself to try to give them the best light possible, 3-4 hours a day direct on the ground just ain’t cuttin’ it

 

[Canuck147]

Rope works fine on my fabric pots

 

[SoOrbudgal]

No way could i stick photos on my flat roof to big an heavy total blow out up there from gust of wind. I've done full auto runs in 1 an 3 gal cont.

 

[Smallgrow]

Yes it super inconvenient and windy, and I just about didn’t make it taking them up there a week ago.
I don’t like not be able to see the girls, but they do have seat belts holding their pots down to the platform , and I check on them regularly

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Here's a auto flower grow i did on my flat roof last summer. Only can go auto flowers up there this summer been way too hot early. Kinda miss doing it this year.

 

[Rwise]

Gotya, I am still having near 100*F days.

 

[Smallgrow]

Yikes, I’m not sure which of us to feel sorry for 😎

 

[Smallgrow]

Well the modified tomato cages went up yesterday.
Thanks Canuck for the outside the pot idea it’s a good one. Wish I had thought of that before poked my girls roots.

These are 4 sided cages, and I bent them to be a bit round instead of square the way they came. I connected only the bottom ring around the pot, to make them flair out at the top like an ice cream cone, and I connected the top ring with some scrape rigid “piano” wire to hold the shape.
Now I have some nice support and lots of options to add some more.