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Not sure what you mean about putting cardboard on top of the soil? Are you talking about extending the pots with cardboard wrapped around them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalo Soldier
You could try cake stacking, i.e. a few weeks into flower you use the same pot and fill about 1/3 with soil and place the rootball on top of that, then filling in the sides. IMO, you will run into trouble with just those 3 gals for the entire grow :(
I was referring to blocking the light from the soil, the roots are deterred about an inch down because of the light.
Bro Nice job on the LST. I almost think you sohuld skip the fim and see how she goes with just the 4-5 we see. SHes gonna get bigger once u flip her as well, might wanna sex her to make sure its a female as to not waste too much time. You should check all your nodes for Pre Flower PIstils. Usually preflowers occur 4-6 weeks into the veg cycle. Still looking great. I just built my new Flower Cab. Cardboard and Duck tape. WOOT.
ANd to answer your questions about puting something ontop of the soil. Iv used Plane White paper to help reflect what light gets down there up, Iv also used tinfoil. I found all that it did was keep my dirt moist longer, gave me about another day or 2 before I had to water. The roots usually grow right out to the walls leaving alot of dirt with no root in the middle.
Iv read about this special paint, its got something in it, where basically you paint the inside of your pots and when your roots grow they will stay about 1/2 and inch from the walls. You can train your roots to grow more on the inside and bulk up there. Pretty interesting.
right on man:hippy: Yea I'm lovin my cardboard...
Guess that whole cover the soil thing could bring on a whole new set of problems....better not fix what's not broke:D
gonna transplant before I sex em'.......don't wanna stress flowering plants with a sloppy transplant.....I don't have a whole lot of experience with Fimming, but the LST is working very well.
Thanks for the props bro.I'll burn one in your honor:rasta:
peace..Buffalo:stoned:
I think I mentioned earlier in the thread that I had access to a large compost pile.......
Compost is what I usually grow in, never had any problems except for some gnats and weeds........I think I would add perlite if i use it........never even used perlite in compost....this is mostly leaves and clippings, I had old horse manure last time.
any opinions on flowering in the compost with perlite instead of continuing with mg.
gotta transplant in the next week or so.:S5:
I have no experience growing with compost. Iv read/herd somwhere, as I must have to think this lol, but compost is not recommended. What is recommended, is using Perlite, Vermiculite, some lime, some blood meal, and some clean nice dirt. This all helps to keep your PH stable as well provide great water drainage and an extremely easy growing medium to grow threw.
Cannabis plants are stupidly sensative to over watering and having to work hard. They are a lazy ass plant lol. Iv seen ppl grow using only perlite and vermiculite. The roots just slide in between and you do get some water holdage but mostly it drains, why you use a bit of dirt.
Personally I use Schults and MG soils that have nutes, only gives a little burnt tips, again sensative girls they be, but i mix about half perlite and half dirt, it really does make a world of different in seedlings and it usually lasts me up until I start my flower cycle, at least as I can tell as I then use Schults SUper Bloom 10-50-10, I use it at 1/4 str as its bullshit bloom fertilizer lol, helps somewhat but once I stop for my last 2.5 weeks of plain water, you can tell how the leaves yellow up as its not getting its food from the dirt but from itself.
I would suggest, if you can, germinate another seed or once you can, take a cutting and root it, and use a small beer cup or small styrphome cup with the compost. Prolly will have to add nutes but I wouldnt dare just dive in on the transplant with the compost until you know its not just nasty shit lol. Just my .02$. Wouldnt want to stress her so bad that she herms when what your using is working fine.
no preflowers yet......nothin looks male though...:thumbsup:
Plants were drooping and curling everywhere, adapting to the LST.....I let them both go and trained em straight....now i'm just tying down shoots as they broke canopy which is 13" from the floor in the pots they have...watered and had to feed one some of the mg boost formula, she's gettin a tad yellow.........transplant asap.............
i will go with the 42watt cfl's next...........opened up the width of the cab door.and screwed a 4ft piece of trim to the left side for support....lights have been hanging from a chain for a while now.
i'll transplant, even out the canopy...and see where the height is from the floor......
the screen will probably go in about 2-3 weeks..
still need flat white .LOL......still bein lazy on that extension.........i want it all done before flower.
I may shoot to sex em right before the screen.looks like the fimm is out fellas.i guess enhanced was right:thumbsup:....lookin at 5-6 tops a plant going into the screen plus i'll weave em in a bit........whether i have 1 or 2 plants will decide how i scrog.
hopefully 4 68 watters for flowering........the fun part is around the corner fellas!
buffalo:stoned:
pics to come........
Sounds good. Like everyones whos ever scrogged will tell you, and i havnt so im not exactley saying I know from experience, but you gotta do it once or twice to get it right. You gotta know how your plant is gonna grow, if its going to stretch mad in flower or should u veg it out until you have nice long branches, then put the screen on. So many discisions, so much fun.
Do you have a ph meter? I use the water one, got it at walmart. Was 5-6 dollars and is usable up to 250 times. they give you a small vile, a little overside eye dropper thing with the ph solution and a chart. Works great for telling me my taps ph, my britas ph and the ph after I water.
Mg SUper bloom/Schults big bloom is usually fine for tomatoes and roses and flowers in general, and considering cannabis buds are flowers lol, you can deff use that stuff but be warned, and this is why I asked about the ph meter. Those fertilizers have a very very high ph. My brita water comes out blow 5ph, which is why I use a 50/50 tap water and brita water, makes my ph about 6.2ph. But if I add nutes it sky rockets. Be very carefull as this will stress your plant so bad. When I use nutes I use purily brita water as with 2ml of nutes I get 6.2 ph. Britas are very cool, they use a carbon scrubber just like we do helps to soften and lower the ph, as well deactives the chlorine so I dont have to wait 24 to use the tap water that I filter.
Food for thought my friend. Oh and I thought you might wan to know this as well if you didnt. Generally you want to flush your plants once a month with 3x the ammount of water it can hold. Helps to clear out and salts and if you have a ph issue where its going up n down all the time this will help to nutralize this, you can also pre mix this amount of water with a fertilizer of your choice and ph correct it and flush with that, helps to even things out.
NO more talky for me, this is why I dont smoke and write on here, i write as if i were actually talking to you hahahaha. Tokers unite haha.
went inside the cab man....well not literally, i got some motivation :smokebong: and then i dropped my canopy from 13" off the floor down to 7".and I tucked a bit and exposed about 6+ new tops. Colors look good ......I mist every day by the way:wtf:....... anyhow, I'll just let em ' cook for a while under the lights.
If the color wants to fade again, i won't feed..I'll do the trans and then up the lights to the 42's.....
battery is charging...:cursing:
buffalo:stoned:
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