Haha… I’m always looking to learn. Never know when I might have to up-pot in the middle of flower…
I’m of the mind, though, that “running out of juice” (for lack of a better term) could maybe help them finish faster. I mean, it’s not something I would do intentionally, I wouldn’t put a 16-week plant in a half-gallon container or anything, but I do think that it doesn’t affect anything too much, except yields, maybe.
I just got done watering, day 38, pulled off a bunch of leaves from the plants (some of them, anyway)(one of them being that Purple Corinto/A5T) and I’m not too worried about. Of course, I’m growing in larger pots than you, but still…
For me that works out more to be “stressed to death” lol. Not on purpose, but I am of a “too little before too much” kind of mind, so it happens . I have always maintained that some stress does improve some qualities of a crop though. The drier it is the spicier the peppers are etc., but maybe it’s all in my mind.
Yeah, I don’t really even like taking leaves, and I took some big branches down. I wanted to pull the footprint of the plants in. I’m squeamish about the plants really growing into each other, and that was happening.
Up potted the CB and the PCB X A5HT.
Gave everyone a water with a mild dose of Mendocino Honey. It’s made from kelp and molasses and something else, clay maybe? When I used Earth Juice, towards the end I used this as a replacement for the Catalyst, as I couldn’t get it locally. Well I could have, but it would meant having them ordering it, and I was in a compromising mood.
Also these new lights are bright as fuck, moved em up a bit today, will go higher, soon.
Good thing I bought the cheap model without the dimmer.
Yeah, I dunno, I just try not to worry too much about shit. I have in the past, but it seems like whenever I try to “correct” something, it just leads to more problems. So now I just let them do their thing, with the occasional,”Hmm, maybe I’ll water with some coconut today…” or whatever.
I don’t, either. Like, I never defoliate or anything, but when leaves are basically falling off (or literally falling off) when I move the plants outta the tent, I’m gonna remove them. If they don’t come off with the gentlest of tugs, I’m not gonna force it, but you can tell when they’re ready to be pulled. Plus, I get really annoyed when I have to reach into the plant to remove dead and dried-up leaves that’ve been sitting in there amongst the branches for a day or two.
Plants look good, btw haha. I went to the local hydro store a while back to get some molasses, which they were out of, and they tried to sell me that Mendocino Honey instead. I declined haha.
Not really a trick, but certainly a way to save a few bucks.
I love the yellow sticky traps, great first line of defense. But, they are expensive! They used to be like $4 for a pack, then at the beginning of the pandemic they skyrocket to like $12, I almost shit.
So I grabbed a yellow ( and blue too if you want) plastic folder from the dollar store, and a tub of Tanglefoot from the hardware store(less than $15). Cut the folder up into hunks, paint the tangle foot on it, voila, cheap sticky traps! One folder will make like 20 1/2 size traps. And the tub of tanglefoot will last forever. Also I have painted the tangle foot on the rim of pots, and on the rim of the pans under pots to contain various crawly things. And I would always cut them down, so this means no more sticky scissors too! Also the ones you buy are paper, and I was always worried they’d get moldy.
Edit: it’s worth mentioning that I read about this somewhere on the internet, it isn’t my brainchild.
Quick update and some low effort pics.
The CB is developing the fastest, also running out of nitrogen the fastest. Dropping a used up leaf or two daily. If the new soil doesn’t straighten it out soon I may need to intervene.
One of the PCB X NWHP leaf tips curling up, seems to be in growth that was there when I did the big chop. Other one isn’t, but has some curling down looking like nitrogen excess. Not widespread though, here and there. Still gonna chalk it up to stress for the moment. Other than that those two are looking nice.
PCB X A5HT are acting normal, nothing really to report there.
Small Purple Satellite continues its bud on top of a bud flowering. Big one is progressing slowly but I haven’t killed it yet.
Watered the PCB X NWHP in the hempy for the first time since I transplanted it. Gave it 1/4 strength salts.
Yup, both of them. Righty has the tips curling up, lefty has the odd curl down.
Yeah, they are awesome looking, most wild looking plants I’ve ever run. And I don’t think they’re going to be in any hurry to finish haha. But that’s ok, obviously I went into this expecting they would go long.
Yeah, they do look pretty wild (and fucking awesome haha). Did you top the one in the first pic (righty, I guess?) more than you topped the other one (lefty? Haha)? Looks like you topped the one on the right like three times? I couldn’t see the other one too well.
Anyway, yeah, they look fucking cool as shit. Pretty stoked about this one haha.
Honestly, I have no idea haha. I topped them both once, then after that I was just a branch bending, pinching, snappin machine, trying to slow down whichever branch was winning the race that day. Then I did the big thin a couple weeks ago. When I did that I took the branches on the “back” of the plant, away from the light, tried to do the same on both. Righty is fuller though, you’re right. I think mostly due to one branch that itself started throwing out branches.
Thanks! And yeah, I’m excited to see them do their thing also!
Well, I think my stress olympics may have claimed it’s first victim. The small PS has what looks like a couple real young nanners going on. Can’t really get a good pic. Will keep an eye on it.
On the upside, I went against my prior word yesterday and gave a 1/4 strength salt feed to the Chocolate Blitzes. No new yellowed out dead leaves, first day in a while that hasn’t been the case. The PCB X NWHP in the hempy is looking happy as a clam as well, maybe they’ll all get some salts. We’ll see.
In any case I’m proud of myself, up until the past couple of years I was an organic zealot, and would have sat here and silently wept as my plants starved, and all the organic solutions took too long to work.
Don’t get me wrong, Earth juice worked for me when I used it, but once the plants reach a certain level of hungry, I always ended up way behind the 8 ball and couldn’t bring them back. A perfect run was a perfect run, but an imperfect run was a fucking catastrophe.
Tell it, brother, lol! After 8 years of trying, I was a total organic failure. It was pitiful harvest to harvest, when I was lucky, lol!
Some very kindly Brits (@duke) led me into trying coco and salts… I am forever grateful, and have pot coming out of my ears… and a lot more time from not constantly chasing my tail.
I admire anyone who can pull that indoor organic stuff off, but it ain’t me, babe
It really was a revelation when I did my first salt grow, and could actually see changes day to day based on the feed. Lot more chance to learn, which I feel I have. Obviously still a lot more to learn though haha.
I did a couple pure perlite hempys, now have ended up back with some dirt in the hempys, but seriously tempted to take the coco plunge on the next go around. Be excited to get away from peat too.
What brand of coco do you use, out of curiosity?
Happy I chose to “cross the streams” on the CBs, hope I don’t fucking kill em haha
My first indoor grows were perlite hempys, pretty pitiful too, lol! Our well water sucks for hydro, I could never get the pH to stop fluctuating… and then the plants would tip over when they drank the pots dry, no ballast!
I went to dirty hempies then, which was just a heavier fiasco!
Did have to put in a cheapo RO system when I did the switch to coco… made things a lot easier, and work a lot better.
I get coco blocks from our local farm store, they are unmarked, and they aren’t even wrapped. I just rinse the bejeezus out of it.
I’ve tried both Canna blocks, and bagged stuff, Black Gold bagged, Coco loco, and some others before, but I’ve never been able to see any difference between those and the cheap blocks.
It took me a bit to get that coco is hydro, but after that, it’s a walk in the park If you do do the switch, let me know and I’ll be glad to keep reminding you, lol!
Oh yeah, as soon as I went to hempys and started mixing salts into my water, I accepted I was entering the world of hydro haha. When I do try out some coco, you’ll see it here
. I have always maintained that some stress does improve some qualities of a crop though. The drier it is the spicier the peppers are etc., but maybe it’s all in my mind.
