The Alunas are taking their sweet time. 17 days since they hit the pool.
One is obviously much faster. It had the longest taproot, the quickest of the 3x. Probably a male, but we’ll see. That one is also the greenest.
The other 2x are pretty similar in size, structure, and color. I’ve bumped them all up to full strength veg feed. 1.35ec MC + P/K. I doubled the Ca, too, and they’ve perked up in the past couple of days.
The 3x SSDD clones have been topped, and pinched a little. I’m not sure how long they have been in coco… need a better secretary!
The other 3x SSDD clones got their 2nd, and last sulfur spray yesterday. Bye bye pm, I’m hoping!
The one in the middle is going to get grown out. The others will be mothers for clones.
Upcanned the middle one into a 2 gallon Airpot, with coco/perlite, maybe 80/20. I love coco!
It may be the coco I get, but it always seems to settle in the pot over the grow. Since one of the bennies of coco is the O2 holding, it seemed like the settling would diminish that, IDK? Anyway, the perlite is not going to settle, and has plenty nooks and crannies for O2… like an English muffin, lol!
The clone was in a 32oz yogurt cup with holes drilled in the bottom.
I only feed these once a day, so the outside of the rootball gets pretty dry. It’s way easier to handle like that for transplanting. I scratch the sides of the rootball, and tickle her bottom till the roots are loose. They like that!
Then spray the outside of the ball w/water so the Mykos and gypsum will stick.
Apparently the Mykos only work when they directly contact roots, and the gypsum is only taken up by the root tips, so I do the sprinklig over the pot, then throw a bit more of each in the bottom, if that makes any sense.
With the gridded bottom, the AirPots can lose a bit of coco along the way, so I pack down about an inch, and cram it into the farthest set of holes. Then add enough fluffed up coco to set the top of the rootball just below the top of the pot.
Then I’ve got to fill around the sides about 1/2 way, while trying to keep the plant plumb and centered… that doesn’t always work out!
Then smack the pot all around to settle the coco into the dimples, then add some more coco, and do that till it’s full. It seems to work best to do it in lifts, like pouring concrete into a form.
Anyway, this doesn’t compact it so much that the roots can’t get to pruning holes, and fills up any voids… that’s my thinkin’!
The AP’s have closed holes for the 1st 2x top rows, to keep water from running straight out, but I smoosh coco into the next set of holes, just cuz, lol!
Then top it off with coco, and slowly water in the rootball. I don’t worry about soaking the whole pot right now, the roots aren’t going too far overnight… and subsequent waterings will get everything moist later. The rest of the waterings, I pour it through pretty fast, I think it pulls more O2 in than doing it slowly.
Runoff goes into a tray with riser blocks. I put the AP bottom in the last set of pimples so I can squeeze 1 more inch of coco in there, and the risers keep the bottom out of the runoff stew.
The stew gets sucked up with the bucket head… and slung into the flower beds.
Set the timer for 16/8. Turd pipes are our friends!
I run the lights at night 7PM-5AM, so I also set my alarm for 6:59PM tonight to check that the light actually comes on. It’s amazing how quickly a plant can get yellow with no light, d’oh!
And, dat’s dat for dat.
I fell asleep, and let the big SSDD get a bit overgrown in her nethers. She looked like this yesterday.
Today…
Looks like it was little violent, so don’t report me to the PAC (Plant Abuse Commision). She’s still not finished stretching, 15 days since she was flipped, so she’ll get over it. I gave her some extra Ca to make up, lol!
So that’s it from down in the hole… happy Friday, and have great weekend:)
I had to cover it with a black trash bag!
