Correct. Two will be split half coco and half ProMix as I’ve used in the past, while four will be all ProMix. They will all have the same ratios of medium, perlite, lime, and EWC (soil recipe is in post #1).
I have a couple bricks of coco on hand but didn’t have the time yesterday to wash and expand it. Next round I can try some all coco with no ProMix to further experiment. This time around I’m just hopeful to get more female than male plants out of the five Octopots with GG4 x Black Domina to make this a good test.
Yeah NCH! That’s my favorite strain from Meph so far. This last pack I’ve been working on has been giving piney phenos with a hazy motivating high, solid bud from top to bottom. Previous pack was cheesy pheno’s with a hazy daydreamy high and still stacked cola’s but not covered top to bottom.
Everything’s looking damn good! Only a few weeks left ^^
Two of the Joe Fixits I grew were thrown into 12/12 a few days after being transplanted from their seedling Solo cups. They produced some large, frosty buds with no branching. It would be fun to run SOG but my state has plant count limits…
I don’t have pictures of the Sour Crack which grew alongside this one, but it finished in 76 days. It was a smaller plant but produced 4oz of STICKY buds. Can’t wait to taste it after the cure.
My next round of plants are GG4 x Black Domina from AK Bean Brains. Four weeks from seed:
I topped them Tuesday. The resulting clippings are in a new propagation chamber under a new light (24" 4-bulb T5ho). They’re in mostly perlite with some ProMix, clear cup inside the red Solo to easily check for roots.
It’s not a true mainline, which I think is defined by creating 8 flowering tops. A buddy of mine in town has the mainline technique down pat. He only allows the plants to reach the minimum number of nodes before topping, plus he removes all extraneous branches below the third node. I let the plants get fairly large before topping (after the roots reach the nutrient reservoir in the Octopots and take off - these were around 4.5 weeks), and I only plan to cut them once. I leave the lower branches (mostly because I’m lazy!), apply LST, and will eventually train them with ScrOG netting.
This worked well for my last crop of Joe Fixit which had a tendency to spread and stretch. I’m hoping the indica nature of the GG4xBD will be less unruly in the tent - though some of these five will be male so I hope the girls that remain can fill the 5x5. That reminds me I need to give that tent, which is currently empty, a good scrub in the next couple of days. Wednesday the plants will be 6 weeks old which seems about right to throw them into 12/12.
The first post in this thread mentions soil and nutes. It’s pretty much a 3-way split of coco, ProMix AP, and perlite, plus a little EWC and lime. I have altered the soil recipe for this crop and dropped the coco… but I had two Octopots worth of the old soil which will make for a nice comparison. Those two plants had some yellowing that the ones that were all ProMix did not. I’m using the Urban Farms All Purpose Vegetable Fertilizer in veg, about 1tsp per gallon. With the Octopots you simply fill the rez and never water the plant up top. It holds 4-5 gallons and I never let it get empty. In veg I fill it maybe once per week.
I’ll have to get some pics of the system at some point, but I keep a 30gall trash can for my main water supply in the garden room which I fill from an outdoor hose. From there I use an auto-siphon (a remnant from my days as a homebrewer) to go from the trash can to a 5 gallon bucket where I mix the nutes. Next I put the 5 gallon bucket on an elevated surface and use the auto-siphon again to fill the Octopot reservoirs. It makes it pretty easy!
Hi bro if you take clones and at first sign of roots plant directly into the Octopot the roots will hit the res in 12 to 14 days And you can top them then.
It’s the best way and the quickest way to go
My Chuckys Bride is a 4 week old transplanted plant and took longer to fill the screen then the rooted clones in the big tent
I’ve tried all ways on , open grow I was the test case , I tried from seed , transplant, and clones Hans down the only way to go
The Octopots are 18" square so you could only fit two in a 2x4. I upgraded from a 4x4 to a 5x5 tent since I could only fit four Octopots in a 4x4, but could squeeze in as many as nine into a 5x5. I plan to grow crops of only 6 at a time due to my state’s plant count limits.
Crops of clones is my eventual goal. I’ve been acquiring seeds like crazy (maybe not as crazily as some of you folks around here!) and will grow one strain at a time to find the ones I love. This is only my second crop of regs. I have some Joe Fixit clones from the last round, and have taken two clippings from each of my current plants. I’ll throw the ones I grew from seed into 12/12 this week. When those finish I’ll flower one set of clones (keeping the others as mother plants) while waiting for the next seed crop to veg. I just received some Orange Goji F2 seeds and those might have jumped to the top of the list of what I’ll run next!
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