My friends! How is everyone! So glad spring is here and cold weather is going away! I gotta a little update!
So here we are now… From front left to right we have Maui Wowie, Bruce Banner, Sour Diesel, G13
They were all popped at the same time and they were all put in octo’s at the same time. The jolly green giant on the right is a bruce banner. Probably going to top this one in a week so it bushes out more. Little anxious as maybe it could be a male as I planted the same for a 69 year old customer (sweet pea) and it doesn’t look anything like this one. We will see.
These took about 14 days to hit the water. Where the ones I planted for sweet pea took about 7 days. Same everything. Soooo what was different?
Well, here is my take… When I filled up my 4 octos I used sunshine mix#4 soil that the bail had been open for about 6 months. Sweet pea’s octo’s I used a fresh bail of sunshine mix. If you ever open these up, you know the soil is pretty loose, maybe a little moist but not dried out. Once you open the bail and it sits the soil really dries out and gets clumpy… Even when you break everything up you still have little chunks. I think this is what caused the delay in the roots finding the water as there was space in the soil the water could not soak through and it took time for the soil to shift around to start drawing water up into itself. It is the only thing I can explain this behavior.
Next time I load octo’s from a open bail of soil I think I am going to put it in a plastic tub and maybe spray a little water on it with a spray bottle and break the soil up better. Just thought I would pass this observation on to other octo growers.
I am currently on a 20hr light on 4 hours light off schedule and will moving that to 18/6 on Sunday. Lights are on at 85% power atm.
Shooting for a may 1st flip to flowering but they got a lot of vegging to do by then so the schedule is tentative. This picture is almost a week old so they are a little bigger. I will be moving up to 7.5ml/per Gallon feeding from 5ml this weekend as well.
My supervisor, Einstein, has given his approval for all the above.
That is all I have my friends! Stay healthy and enjoy life! Good Talk everybody!
GR
