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hey bro nice grow. well done log too. cant wait to see them flowering! i also like how your FIM experiment turned out. i might give it a whack sometime. and good luck with the bubblers. would be interesting to know what kind your getting.
hmmm... coco....:stoned:
Thanks for the visit m8.
Ys I think the FIM was a success indeed and the plant did'nt spread out as much as I feared so if that plant yeilds well I will do this to all in the future. It dont stretch as much as the others and is still not much wider. When the bubblers are installed I will have a constant 8 plants in flower on 1meter square lit with one 600W light and it is becoming very obvious I need an even canopy for that.
Bubblers have not arrived yet today so I really hope they will be here tomorrow. They all showed sex today and all are ladies as they should be from feminized seeds so now all I need is to get those damn bubblers and figure out how the hell I am gonna transplant them out of the coco into those.
Puffzter
Thanks a mil for the pix; your camera does a great job-surely the operator. And it does great compared to the one I haven't bought yet!!!
SO ENJOY the pix and learning! That FIM'd one looks really nice and healthy!
Looking forward to seeing the bubblers and hope they get there asap!!! pr:hippy:
The girls look great Puff! You definately have not only the research done but you have a talent for growing as well. Just my opinion, but at this point trying to change the grow medium might stress them out, I would play it safe and maybe just transplant those to bigger pots with coir then put your clones in the bubbler? Too much stress and they might go hermi, especially in feminized seed. Out of curiosity what brand of nutes you using? Also some plants take to trimming better than others, I always research the phenotype for single stem traits, as an example low growing Indica won't produce as much with the pinch. Best wishes on an abundant harvest :jointsmile:
Hi Pufster--say, can u or have you checked out using co-poly in soil to keep it moist? I used it in my yard and a few trees. Mine is the size of rock salt and when I water they get about the size of a quarter and then slowly the water leaches back into the soil.
found it real pricie though. So, I got a 50# sack through Target Distributions in San Diego. Have to check and make sure it is the consumption type (read it in a tread somewhere and 2 lazy to go check my stash). Lasts a long time and did help with what I used it for. The 50# sack cost what I was paying for about 4 #'s! So, use it on everything!
Again, thank you for your kindness in sharing and teaching! I much appreciate it all and the extra time it takes you to put into this for all of us! pr:thumbsup:
Trinity:
Yes I know and my plan was to transplant into 3½ gallon pots, I already have them ready here but...
I am convinced I can do the transplant. It will be a stressfactor surelly but with lots of care taken combined with fast working and getting the ppm and pH levels exactly the same as they had in the coco to start with I would be surprised if they go hermi on my ass. If one or two does so be it and lesson will be learned from it. I have clones ready to go in that case. And this first grow is for one purpouse only. Learn as much as possible about MJ growing so I rather test the limits now than later.
I have spoken with two growers that both have done the same transplant, one from soil and one from coco by cleaning the roots and getting them into DWCs mid grow. Both got a few days growth stun but after that no problems. Natrually I will not push it if the first transplant turns out more problematic than I hoped but I will try on at least one. I don't stand or fall with these plants.
Pain:
Are that some sort of spungy things?
You see one factor with coco is buildup of salts and that's why you cant let coco dry out as the medium very fast builds up salts then. My concern with using stuff like that is that it might make this process faster. Flushing soil is normally no problems at all but flushing coco to get rid of salts or what have you drains the medium of all nutrients and the plants are left with nothing until levels are built up again. That is why coco is watered to a runoff of 10-20% at every watering. You water with nutes and to put it simple the first 20% of what you water flushes the salts out while keeping the nute level in the medium, the following 80% is what stays in the medium for the plants to feed off.
If you water slowly like these things sounds like they are doing you don't get that clensing I fear and might screw up the balance in the medium causing you to have to flush and then build up the balance again.
In coco you can not overwater and root rot is basically impossible to get but you can easilly underwater. Total oposite from soil where overwatering is always a risk but underwatering is generally not a risk to the plants.
Puffzter
Again, I can only speak about soil but plants LOVE to be transplanted into larger pots. I've not had any stress or stunt when I do this.
Yoour grow and log are great. Best of luck on the harvest! :thumbsup:
That's not what I am gonna do Shovel.
I will get them out of their pots. clean the roots from all coco and put them in net pots in a bubbler. Quite an operation but after having found 2 growers that have done it on a few occasions I think it will be doable.
Anyway I will start with just one and see. If it is too much of a risk to the plants I wont go on. If it works out it would be great though. These babies can't be left alone for more than 20 hours now.
Puffzter
Puffster; Thank you so much: Yep, they do become spongy. Look & feel like rock salt, but swell with water to about the diameter of about a quarter. Feeds too slow I bet. But, it would keep the roots wet. But, as you figured out, it will hold the nutes and most likely some salt. I guess it would be something you mite consider if you had a nice grow and a family emergency came up. You have to leave town and resort to whatever you can to keep them wet and hope for the best. Under your care with diligent hard work, it isn't even a consideration.
Thanks for the education though, I really appreciate it a great deal. I understand your grow a lot more now!! Sounds like way too much work for me. But, am anxious for bubbler pix and set-up! Not gonna rule anything out. The girls look so nice!
Hell, I wish I had football field sized greenhouse! Would have every 420 person there and a big learn fest! :rastasmoke:
sorry to confuse. mi meant to answer trinity's concern about transplanting. I now see that trinity was refering to the change of medium..oops. I know you were going to bubbler system. good luck!