Chez Calix - Journey of a Junior grower

Less photos more work calix please
My best work todate!

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Made quick work of those branches

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Hey
I just did this with some quarter strength nutes

Fliled up spare cup to the bottom lip and dropped plant cup on top.

Lol by the time j finished doing all of them - the first one had it all drank!!!

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Ohhhhh you meant the black tray I have there ???

Smart. I thought there was holes in it !

Hmmmm will so this next with water

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I usually hit the seedlings with EC .5 when they are small like that.

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EC .5 =?

So every thing is chopped.
The blue monster got a super bud wash and i was pretty vigorous with the bath .

I had to keep a fan on it to get excess water off and I some.how managed to over dry it. It made it really easy to trim though I could almost crack the sugar leafs with my fingers or rub scissors against it.

I decided to try and rehydrate a sample over night. And I put a few brnanchea in a large Tupper ware with some wet paper towel on each side and the branches in the middle - left over night with lid cracked a little. And today - they are perfect desired moisture! I will let it breathe for half the day then begin jarring and sealing and burping - as I have just put the rest of it in to be re hydrated. It was VERY dry lol

The L.A. confidential I didn’t do a full bud wash but I did spray heavy with peroxide and water at all areas And shook dry

I left everything hanging in the tent after I removed all the lights and accessories.

I left the exhaust fan an filter in there and a small fan at the bottom.
After the first day

I felt the exhaust fan was possibly creating to much airflow and drying them too fast

Today is day ,4and it feels all pretty well dry…

I don’t know how some People take 10 days to dry??? Is that with the whole plant upside down?

I did a rough wet trim and through in tent to dry…

I always see m to dry quick. Is the humidity to low maybe ? I’d say it’s around. 40-45. Maybe with winter lower.

My little seedlings are kicking ass… il be back with phootos later for advice

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If you can control the humidity around 55/60% then 10/14 days is not a problem yes hanging whole plants

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Mine was at 50 / 65 % humidity and 6 days it’s in jars at 60 % mostly some went down to 58 damn
And I lowered intake and only 1 fan circulating air
And exhaust of course

I even put them in paper bags to try to slow them down

They dry quickly down here

Paps

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I forgot Bout the humidity FFS.

Anyway!
Checkout. My babies!

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You have a conductivity meter for measuring the concentration of the nutrient solution? I use EC because it’s not a calculated number, it’s real. ppms are calculated from EC and have several conversions, where EC is the same world wide.

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My friend is letting me salvage his grow as he is quitting .
He has a TRUNCHEON???
I THINK that measures PPM…

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sweet, one of those devices will answer a plethora of questions.

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How are you they looking too you???

They look good to me. I can see they’re roots through the cups.too and they are nice. Long going right to the bottom on the outside of the cup.

The leaves are growing this time. I’m guessing my last run the soil was neutralized and from being out in garage cold for so long and j didn’t add any nutrients.

I’m hoping that’s the issue.

And these babies keep growing…

I’m at my friend’s now and he is reflling all my nutrient jars . I’m gonna see what else I can pilfer lol

So I was able to rehydrate my over dried cannabis. I tested with a few branches over night and it worked wonderfully. It even burned and smoked great.

So I have proceeded to do that with the rest of the blue monster and continue the curing process of jarring and burping.

I was thinking of adding some wet stems . Or fresh stems from a recent harvest into my jars to re hydrate.

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Wooohooooo now I just need to learn how to use it… I guess I will test the runoff from the one plant I kept from the last ruined run.

My friend refilled all my nutrients and load me the trunk in and let me take a couple pictures of his remaining plants before he shuts everything down for good or for a while at least

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Your seedlings are looking great and the plant that survived is actually looking really good. I can see it there, looking like it wants to thrive. The bluelabs will measure conductivity and place a dot on the side next to the reading, indicating EC, and TDS on all scales. I have one just like it.
If there is nutrient in those jars, I would keep them in a very dark place, or your plants could suffer from iron deficiency. Usually light isn’t good for it, that’s why they keep it in black containers.

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I keep the jars in a cardboard box that used to be a box from a set of drinking glasses with the dividers And I close the lid (I just took them out for the picture :slight_smile:
I will look for some plastic containers that are dark.

He showed me how to check the ppms in his reservoir and I think he said he wanted it around 1100? ?

I will run some water/ do a flush through my plant tomorrow and see what it’s reading.

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WHAB uses one of those.

Cheers
G

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Okay!!!
Help time!!

Some of these leaves are getting bigger than the cup

And the roots are exploding out the bottom!!! Way more than the last shitty batch

. . no nutrients has to of been issue…and poor light…

@ShiskaberrySavior I have been feeding via second cup and I tried the tray but there was holes.in it lol and heating mat under neath Lol… They drank most of it though.

Shoul ii start preparing my transplant plan?

@Papalag
@Barefrog ( fingers crossed I get a girl lol if not the experience will do me good and if I succeed with these seedlings I’m Popping more As I have a 49 plant limit lol)

The soil isn’t drying out very fast but I’m eager to feed them nutrients after the last two feeds were water and once before was a micro feed. lol

I think transplant in a few days and feed??? Lol

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Micro feed Mabye. ( personally I’d give tiny amounts of water via bottom feeding)

The soil soakes up them nutrients and these are still baby’s. Try to not overwater them, let the soil dry out a little.

You could uppot the ones with roots growing out the bottom if you like, but others are still small.

Last time I grew in cups.

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THanks partna!!

I like the feeding from second cup. I have some quarter strength nutes that I will use when the soil dries up.

It is much damper than It should be but I had the humidity dome on for first week and half so I think that’s why it’s still damp.

Is it possible to over water from the bottom? LOL
Or will they just not drink?

Right now I know the soil would not be a Good idea to water.

My medicine is ready, burping and cure beginning.

Everything is how I want it ! My tester of the blue monster burned well .(not so pretty and not so trimmed and looking rough country)

I can only imagine the L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (the pretty trimmed one )

Super happy I got some jars of medicine,

I just smoked some of my 9lb hammer this afternoon that I harvested in June and it’s been curing since them. And damn whaat a perfect slow burn and smooth taste :slight_smile: I still have a 4-5 gram bud that’s rocksolid.( + I still have 60grams of sour jack that I’m saving for spring lol and 2z of of chem91 Fromm June that’s too racey for me)

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