Got all froggy yesterday. Put a bit of coco under the roots, and topped off the pots on the 2 in solos. Roots look pretty good considering what the top looks like haha. The errrrr pots seem to being doing their job, more holes in the bottom next time. And they were jammed in that cup, surprised it didn’t crack. The roots on the Mexican Widow are similar, no pics though cause that was a real juggling act haha. Even washed my saucers!
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They are looking very nice for being those errrr pots! How often are you watering?
The cup restraints are working well, some of those gals are a mite top heavy 
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I am watering twice a day, and leaving some water in the tray each time. Ideally I would have a slow drip going constantly, but I don’t want to put too much effort into something like this, I’ll just use real pots next time. And I’ll noodle over a free gravity drip system until next time I decide to do something silly like this haha.
Yeah I’m really pleased with how the supports work too. I was tempted to just tie the plants to a vertical wire attached to the top of the tent, like you might do with cucumbers, really, really happy I didn’t, now that I’ve had to pull them out of the tent a couple times haha. The Mexican Widow is 30” tall from the top of the cup!
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I’m up to 2x a day with seedlings in solos, and they’re only 6" tall! I never leave any in the trays, just seems like asking for trouble, and I have enough of that without asking.
I’ll be real interested in what you set up for a drip deal, I’m going to need to do something this summer.
Good call on bigger pots!
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Regardless, they’re looking pretty gawddamn nug-y haha.
I keep biting my tongue, restraining myself from being like,”Dude! Fuck coco! Get back to organics!” But now I’m like,”Hm. Maybe I should switch to coco…” haha.
Just kidding. I never will.
Still, though, plants look tasty.
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Oh man, if I didn’t leave water in the trays I would need to water these 5 or 6 times a day. Now that the coco stays wet, they start to runoff after 60ish ml. Then I add another 120 to the tray, and they drink that to a film in 11hrs! So each day I am feeding 16oz (473ml) solo cups 360mls.
I had originally ordered 2gal fabric pots, but after seeing the growth in solo cups I bought some 1gals haha.
Good thing they’re nuggy, cause there sure as shit aren’t many leaves left haha.
Knowing myself as I do, I’m sure that once I get coco to work how I want my interests will wander haha. Who knows though, maybe it’ll knock my socks off and I’ll stay in coco forever. I will say that the multiple feedings everyday thing, while a bit tedious maybe, was a damn good way to see mistakes and changes in real time. Things can change so fast in 12 hrs it is crazy!
But yeah, I haven’t totally blown it yet haha. Won’t be a lot of bud, but what is there sure smells nice!
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I just don’t understand why you switched to coco at all. I mean, knowing that you’re a little, uh, frugal haha, it seems like staying organic would be the least-expensive route. Having to buy nutes and shit just to keep your plants alive sounds a little, uh, costly haha. But I also get wanting to try new things all the time.
It’s all a journey… haha.
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I mean, there are so many different things that led up to me trying out hydro. I think the most significant was the fact that when I moved to this house I had like a couple of years of really miserable failed grows. All using the same organic stuff and methods I did before I moved. Tried some other organic stuff, kept failing, wasting beans in the process. That was a big push to branch out haha. I was a zealot before too. But then I started thinking about the source of the inputs, peat moss, guano, blood and bone etc. I just doubt they’re happy cows and when we get the guano from the cave that we don’t the bats up in the process. I know there are “vegan” organics, but it seemed like black magic so I just said fuck it and started salting things haha. And the process continues haha.
Edit: I will say though that my veggies outside are still mostly organic. So that means that I always have a bag of organic soil on hand. And I’m lazy too, so sometimes I’ll just chuck a plant into dirt and let her go. Like I did with all the plants in my last grow for example. Still used salts for most of them though. The purple satellite almost doesn’t count, cause most plants do not react that well to abandonment haha.
Idk, hydro has been cheap as fuck for me. I bought a huge bag of chunky perlite like 3 years ago for like 30 bucks, still 1/3 full. At the same time I bought a bag of salts and bottle of cal mag. I was out of the store for $100ish. I still have a tiny bit of the salts, and a ton of cal mag. I don’t include the cost of the ph pen and stuff cause that’s tools and they’re easier to excuse haha. But yeah, I’m a cheap fuck. I own 3 pairs of pants, and sleep on the floor to save space in my small ass house. My coat is 16 years old. Also mattresses are a scam. Flip side is I own the house haha.
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Yeah, man, I wasn’t criticizing or anything haha, you don’t need to explain yourself; I was just kinda cracking jokes. I don’t care how you wanna grow your weed haha, I’m just along for the ride.
Like I said, it’s all a journey… haha.
I will add, though, that I don’t use blood or bone meal or guano, for the very reasons you mentioned. I’m not sure I’d consider that stuff (the blood and bone, anyway) necessarily organic.
Anyway, yeah, it’s all a journey…
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Oh yeah, I get it, no worries.
I’m just long winded and love talking about weed and growing. And being cheap haha.
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Well I guess I stressed that male enough haha.
I’ll still drop some of the resulting seeds, someday, but can’t give them away now. Good thing it was a spur of the moment chuck and not something that mattered haha.
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So we’ve got good news, bad news, and some neutral observations.
Good news, I’m dropping beans for my next run. Dropped two of @Moka Chocolate Buddha into coco this morning after soaking for 24 hrs. Would have only soaked for 12 hrs, but it the bad news happened and they stayed in over night. I will drop more progressively in the next couple days, assuming I am able.
Bad news is I’m coronaed, lord help my plants that really need attention in the next few days.
Neutral is my tap water is coming out at 9.8 ph. I have grown in this city for 8 years, always between 6.2 and 6.5. Checked with my meter and with drops. Idk what that’s about.
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Sorry to hear about your sickness friend. Sending good vibes your direction. Let me know if I can help at all!
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That blows feel better fast man
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Sorry to hear about the virus. Just got over it myself… still can’t smell or taste 
If you weren’t feeling like hammered dog poo, you could check with the water authority, they’ve gotta clean their pipes or do maintenance periodically… though usually not every 8 years! Ours has reports online.
Good luck, hope you caught the mild variant!
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Gonna hit you with a like just for the seed drop. Sorry about the rest.
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Thanks for the well wishes everybody. I feel like I’m on the upswing, but this damn plague is a tricky one. Feel ok, get up to cook or something, hit a brick wall and drag myself back to bed. Still smelling and tasting, knock on wood.
Yeah, my first thought was calling the water dept, but I don’t wanna deal with that right now haha. Our water dept does release a water report, but it seems to only list potentially harmful contaminants if I recall correctly. I’ll find it soon and check it out again, maybe I missed something. They have a bunch of new operators there too, so lord only knows what they’re messing up. A year or so ago they backflushed a filter into the drinking water, and didn’t report it until someone who worked there blew the whistle on them. My wife wants to go RO for drinking water because of some of the chemicals in the water anyway, so it may be a moot point soon.
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Dropped x2 Double Strawberry Diesel F2 x Sour Jack from the St. Jude fundraiser into water a bit ago.
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Chocolate Buddha both up. Look at em, all eager to grow up big and strong!
These other plants are finally almost through reveg, idk if they’re gonna be fast enough to make into this next grow though. Depending on life they might get composted, but I’m going to try to avoid that, really wanna run them again and see what they can do when I have some idea of what I’m doing in coco haha.
Everything in the bedroom is getting flushed, gonna give them another week or so to clear themselves out, then they gotta go. Feel like I’m wasting electricity here. They won’t be ripe, but they’re definitely done haha. That cat hair is a freebie.
Need some work done on the house this summer which either means contractors poking around, or me working my balls off, or both, so the seeds I plant now will be my last for a minute. Want to get 4 more seeds, of which varieties I don’t know yet, in this grow.
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Good luck with running until the summer!
Tearing down a setup is way less fun than running it!
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