Wow, that is quite a difference! Anything different about the pot that the little ones are in, compared to the pot the bigger ones are in?
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Wow, that is quite a difference! Anything different about the pot that the little ones are in, compared to the pot the bigger ones are in?
ur plants are cute...i miss when mine were lil young'ns
i wish i didnt have to grow in stealth mode all the time :(
All three pots are the same size and contain the same soil mix at the same pH. I decided to give the dinky plants the heave-ho and transplant the smaller of the two robust Thais into the third pot. If it truly does contain the Dirt of Death, I'll soon know. I think I've found the culprit, however: I have gnats! They are almost invisibly small and are crawling over everything. I just finished re-Neem-o-rizing, which I hope will eradicate the little buggers.
In other, more irritating news, my brand-new Lumatek ballast might be on the fritz. :mad: I tested it on a whim yesterday and it failed to produce so much as a glimmer from my HPS bulb. I swapped in a metal halide bulb that I know works , and ditto. I only left the ballast on for 5 minutes each time though, and the instructions say it can take as long as 20 minutes to fire a cold bulb. I'll give it a 30-minute test tomorrow.
Annoyingly, the cheap coil ballast in the fixture from which I borrowed the working MH bulb brings it to full brightness in about 90 seconds.
This'll be a short one - other than the Cursed Ground Of Pot #3, everything's copacetic. Everything except my new ballast, that is, which still refuses to light anything I screw into it. :mad: My proximity voltage tester tells me it's delivering current into the bulb, but no sparky.
At the rate the bigger Thai is expanding, I might have to buy a cheap coil ballast to flower this round, which really chaps my hide. I'll test the Lumatek with one more HPS; if I see no glow, back it goes to BGHydro.
And now, the plants:
Here's Bonsai, looking (and starting to smell) like a happy, growing skunk plant following my adoption of the Gmoney Grotesque Overfeeding fertilization schedule:
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Here's the healthy Thai. The pictures don't clearly show how big this thing has gotten. There are so many small bud sites growing under the canopy that the main stem looks like a fractal drawing:
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Behold the poor transplanted second Thai. The dirt in that third pot must have come from an Indian burial ground:
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Tomorrow I'll try more Neem oil and an exorcism.
haha glad i could be so much help to you bonsai, unfortunately my smallest plant that looked almost identicle to your bonsai died a few weeks ago, but just to show you why i recomended whati said to you ill upload pictures of a plant that was having the same problem..
it was over a month old and stunted to hell and back, and a little under 2 and a half weeks it looks like a completely different plant.
both plants are the same, first one is maybe 2 weeks before the second..
can definately tell a difference, i also have a pest problem :( and they lookin alittle droopy, needing their water today.. anyway good luck with it man, glad i could give back to the community thats given so much to me
So Far, Smooth Sailing.
My new electronic ballast is indeed kaput, but otherwise vegging continues on schedule. Here are all three:
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Happily, the stunted Thai appears to have shaken off the infection/infestation that plagued it earlier. It's still behind its sibling in size, but it and Bonsai are neck-and-neck.
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Behold Bonsai Skunk suffering my klutzy excuse for LST training. I plan to drill holes around the rim when I get a spare moment.
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Here's the healthy Thai, nearly as large around as its 3-gallon pail. If each of the branch intersections already present become bud sites, holey moley! I may need to start 12/12 sooner than I had expected. I have to thank Jam and others for encouraging me to stick to it; for a while I suspected I was a cannabis Typhoid Mary.
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I grabbed a cheapie magnetic ballast for this run's flowering stage. Hopefully I'll have the Lumatek back and functioning by round 2.
wow mate they are looking great.. ive been following this thread for a while and havnt had a chance to tell you how good you were doing... so now i did.. keep it up!!
those plants are....great...good job
Thank you for the kind words, fellows.
Freebie-Skunk-instilled insecurity lingers to the point that I half-expect to see three shriveled stumps every time I open the door. :weedpoke:
Excepting the reappearance of leaf curling in new growth and the tiny flies, all remains swell. Neem corrects the issue temporarily, but I fear I'll have to find a new weapon for flowering.
Here's Bonsai, who will break my heart if it turns male after all we've been through.
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The healthy Thai remains healthy. A few of the bottom branches are dying in the shade created by the dense canopy. I'm considering jabbing a couple sticks in the dirt to push top leaves aside.
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The stunted Thai is now officially the weakest of the three. I've taped a picture of Jerry Garcia to the wall next to it for inspiration.
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That's that. I hope the postman delivers my interim ballast soon, because I think flowering had better begin within the next two weeks.
Edited: They appear droopy because A: they were thirsty and B: I 'twiddle' them (ruffle the foliage with my hand) when I water. A poster I don't recall the name of mentioned it elsewhere as a way to increase stem strength.
Update: I may have a female! :dance: The picture below shows what I believe to be a preflower and pistil poking up from the healthy Thai's second node.
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My replacement ballast has arrived and works perfectly. I didn't realize how much brighter the HPS is until I was forced to move one of the lit CFLs because it was casting a relative shadow.
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You'll notice that the three pots look like a Christmas scene.... When I unleashed diatomaceous earth upon the tiny flies, I used what I now know to be an outrageous amount. Oh well, at least it's the season. Here's Bonsai, happy other than some bulb-burn.
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I'm impatient to begin flowering now that I've hooked up my interim ballast, but the stunted Thai's center is filled with undersized growth that I'd like to stretch upward a bit before switching. I've compromised by running the HPS as well as the CFLs 24/0 for a while.
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And last, the Healthy Thai, who I suppose I'd better start referring to as 'she' instead of 'it.' Unless I'm mistaken about the gender, in which case I'll say both terms together, and loudly.
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