The bricks definitely have junk in them. Chunks of who knows what 
When I soaked mine, I did it in a giant fabric pot to allow some of the smaller particles/dirt/salt to drain as well… Sort of forgot about that part…
So far I would have to agree!
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I’m guilty of buying the cheapest coco bricks
I don’t do anything fancy, just hot water so they soak quicker coz I’m impatient
Then I fill my fabric pots up and leave them out in the rain til I need em
Hose em off good
Put em right into the blumat system
I’m no Master grower, pretty much a noob but I have also used fancy coco and done all the prep work and mixed in perlite and amended with calcium and mag and honestly I don’t think the ladies even noticed the difference
Now I just run %100 shit brick coco coz it’s cheaper
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I forgot to mention that I did mix 50/50 with heavily rinsed perlite… I’m hoping this gives me more flexibility to water frequently even if the plants don’t need it.
@lefthandseeds mentioned to me that in small pots the roots will get really compacted without something like perlite, so in my case it seemed like a good case to use it.
Perlite amount seems to be flexible from 0-50+% depending on what system it’s going into.
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Happy Halloween OG! 
Miracle on LITFA street
So I previously mentioned all my clones didn’t root and I accidentally knocked some out of order.
I basically left them in the tent to die for like 2 weeks…
Somehow not only are they fine, but they all rooted… AND I was able to basically separate out the section that got knocked over and it wasn’t any of the plants I care about anyways.
So… we are go for keeping some moms for possible pollen collection based on the results of the current grow.
Tents are a jungle:
A nice purple Durban Poison, which I guess happens sometimes with Dutch Passion’s Durban:
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Beautiful colors friend! Plant looks really happy! 
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well then lol, something alot of us should do more often… litfa
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Need light panels for walls 
Seriously making me second guess running sativa dominant genetics next round. Nice looking grow 
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Really a lot more could be done to make this manageable… I’m running a plant density that honestly is way overkill. Less plants, top them and then train them with tying down and you could grow just about anything in a 2x2 IMO 
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Finally forced myself to go through the jungle in the tents and “weed out” any plants that didn’t look great.
I ended up removing about 8 of 24.
I decided which plants were worth keeping clones of, and potted those clones up, marked them, and threw the rest out:
The next round of removal will be after smoke tests.
Plants were marked when potted:
The Strawberry Cough plants from Dutch Passion are not as consistent as their Durban. They are all stretchy and branchy as heck though. Threw a few out that had small slowly forming flowers. Kept a couple with large slowly forming flowers. That tent is still a jungle, despite losing 5 plants and more defoliation:
A lot of the clones were flowering for some reason which is worrisome… I did take clones during stretch so I don’t know if that is the problem. Many of them only had a few tiny little roots… So I’m not sure how that will go, but I have plenty of time until I will need anything from them so hopefully they can sort themselves out.
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They’ll start to flower if their root bound possibly the reason they did that.
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Definitely possible in this case. They were in 1.5 inch cubes for like a month… Hopefully I can get them back into veg mode
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Getting funky over here. Nice buds.
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Love the star fighter look.
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Harvested 3 of the Durban, done at 53 days.
A few of the Durban are slower, but have really nice coloring.
Tent feels pretty empty now after partial harvest and some serious pruning of all larf:
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Sometimes it not to bad. I think the monster cola is sweet. Plus you got a few flavors. They look tasty. I think you did a great job.
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Thanks man! Still at least a few weeks to go for some but I’m looking forward to trying a bunch of these for sure 
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Been busy but my first cross project still going well.
Did snap a picture of the remaining 2 plants in tent 1. Colas are huge! Both are Royal Queen Power Plant. They smell a lot like Durban, and are very fragrant.
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Those are looking good.
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Excited for your bountiful harvest!
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Monsters! 
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