Purple Quest Candidate #7

Week 4: Last week before transplant to bigger pot. What could go wrong? 😢 FIRST MISTAKE OF THIS GROW SESSION 😢 ---------------------------------------------------- I haven't travel since a long time. But I had to leave house for 4 days. Unfortunately, I badly managed the watering before leaving house, and plants got thirsty for probably 24-48h. Soil dried way faster than usually. There is multiple reasons for this. The most obvious is that plants are growing, and needing more and more water days after days. BUT, the biggest $variable was myslelf, not being home. My only presence at home prevent the soil from drying to fast. That sound weird, right :) ? Well. It's simple ^^ I'm opening windows all day long, I'm opening growing tent to check plants multiple time a day.... I'm letting fresh air coming in the house!!! When I came back from my little trip, was something like 28°C in the grow tent. Too hot, and way higher than my usual values. So water vanished faster. I never realized how much I was regulating temp without being aware of. Impact on the plant: I believe it slowed them for 3 days. Lowest leaves yellowed. But they are useless now anyway, they'll get defoliated next week. But they fully recovered and looking great again, after beeing droppy for some days ;) 🌳 TRANSPLANT FROM 2.3L TO 16L POT 🌳 ------------------------------------------------- Once my plants fully recovered from thoses dry days, I managed to perform transplant to bigger pots. In my last grow sessions, I was using 25L pots. But this time, I decided to have a shorter veg period, and needed more room, so I could grow more plants at the same time. Because the main goal of that grow session is to end my PURPLE QUEST! So, I need to test as much pheno I can. Productivity isn't the goal here. Allright. So smaller pots, but still decents for an indoor grow, especially since I'll start flowering arround week 7 or 8! The shoes should fit perfectly until the end of the grow :) I waited that soil got partially dried, so it stay as one block when you remove the plant from the old pot. That is the theory, because It wasn't that easy that time. As expectable with thoses damn 2.3L pots. As mentionned last week, they are verry deep, their shape is a weird design choice in my opinion, because it will make watering way harder. And transplant too ! Deeper, mean more roots contact with the fabric of the pots... Plants were verry well attached to the fabric, and removing them was really not easy. So i tried to be as smooth as possible... Probably took me 1H to transplant thoses 4 pots 🤣 My method is simple. You fill your new pot with soil, but with previous pot placed in it, so you create the "hole" for the plant and it's root&dirt block. Then, I "water spray my hole", I do the same to the plant and it's roots, and I place it in the new pot! Some work with the soil to place the plant correctly, and you are done. Water spraying top of the soil, and true watering 30 minutes later. Just ph balanced water without nutrients. It will come next week. 🤓 SOIL: CHANGED MY PLANS ON THE LAST MINUTE 🤓 --------------------------------------------------------------- I had brand new and fresh Biobizz - Allmix. A nice 50L bag, ready to be used. But once again, I been trapped by my feelings, and felt bad using new soil, when I have used soil, waiting there... It's just.... Using new soil again and again... Feels like a consumer society behavior.... I already talked about that. Not gonna go further. So used soil (biobizz - allmix), from my previous grow session (Legendary OG Punch from RQS). The soil been flushed with arround 50L of tape water (for 25L of soil), and let outdoor, in pot, for... 4 months I believe. So it also been flushed by rain, and dried, and got wet again. I could have added some compost to it. But It was not ready when I needed it. But I'm confident... My current grow is a shorter one. And first goal is to find a pheno, not to make the biggest nugs ^^ 🎃 SHORT UPDATE ABOUT THE UGLY 🎃 --------------------------------------------- She is growing verry wildly. And I think I can describe her problem like a "left-handed-only" situation. It's like she absolutely want to turn LEFT :D so left leave/node will grow and turn left, when right leave/node will grow verry verry verry verry slowly. Let's call this the "Nemo disease" 😃 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 Thanks for reading people. Hopefully I'll perform the second and last topping last week. See yaa <3 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜