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Tranplanted half of the plants today, ran out of time to finish up, had some family things come up, such is life.
Tossed them into 3 gallon pots, decided to rip the nursery bags off (not necessary as the roots have no problem getting through) just wanted to check on root formation and make sure they were ready to up pot.
Kinda winged it on the soil mix just a hit of this a dash of that. Let's see if I can remember what I did.
12 gallons Promix HP
5 gallons Worm Castings
3 gallons Perlite
1 cup 4-4-4
1.5 cup Kelp meal
1 cup Gypsum
1 cup Mineralized Rock Phosphate 0-9-0
.5 cup Langbeinite 0-0-22
3 cups Power Bloom 2-8-4
Sounds about right, will check tomorrow when I transplant the rest what else I added if anything.
Decided to test soil before transplant this time. Little bit acidic but should be good to go with a couple waterings.
Should be last week of veg for these girls, as long as no other issues come up they will be switching to flower next week. Will see how they adjust to new pots and if I will be able to train the canopy enough by then to make me satisfied.
Transplanting complete
God damn yellow sticky traps stole a few leaves during the process.. I hate those friggin things. Wife saw one stuck to my damn pant legs yesterday after I finished, lmao.
Updated soil amendment list to correct ratios for what I mixed.
24 Nov (Wed) increased lights to 30%
25 Nov (thurs) decreased lights to 20% as I thought I saw a bit of an issue starting.
29 Nov had a few plants looking droopy. Checked pots and they were still slightly heavy. Still recognized it as thirsty not overwatered. (leaves sagging from stem, not bent saggy leaves if that makes sense, should have snapped pics, next time..) either way hit them with a solo cup of water each for the ones looking droopy they perked up within a few min.
Increased lights to 30%
Tomorrow is start of next week. May just leave them for a couple days, strip lower branches and defoliate on next Friday give a few days to recover and flip them next Tuesday.
I have a lot of work to do in my mother tent, she's over grown again.. last time I just chopped it all down a couple feet and chucked it, have no room for more plants. New pic added of some mothers as you may be able to see I have been topping and bending a couple of them almost daily to keep them from touching the light (mars tsl-2000). Time to hack them back again. May take some clones, need to get a count see how far off limit I am.
The bubblegum, strawberry diesel, and zkittles are the ones in larger pots causing "issues"
The new container of molasses I bought has mold growing in it. For baking that would be a throw away, but I am curious if that is still usable for making teas. I have seen some soils that add tricoderma and others, just curious? Also can a tea be stored for a week after brewing?
Gnats????? Put sand over the top of soil. You can also use perlite to cover soil....you can even use broken glass.. Let pots dry a bit to keep from attracting them. I always see people in pots water till it starts draining out the bottom that is over watering and just flushing soil of precious nutrients. Water tiny bits but more often....check out "crop steering" if you want to get your irrigation down to a science :) Hope you get stuff sorted out :)
@Ketamine,
Thank-you for the info.
I was tracking topping with perlite to prevent gnats, but i'm running low, and nursery here charges more than I'd like to pay I'll keep sand in mind if this fails.
I needed mosquito dunks for next year anyways (they are fucked out here where I live, like swarms come spring time through to late summer) thought I'd try an experiment using BTI as a larvicide for the gnats, see how effective it is, and if it would be worth trying again.
Experimenting is an issue I have, lol, curiosity always gets the best of me. I tend to move along to something new once I figure something out. That's why i'm running soil instead of DWC (man I miss hydro and the nearly instant response from the plants, might move back that direction soon I dunno though I liked the idea of just having to water make it hard for the wife to kill the plants if I have to leave for work, with the irrigation set up even easier, she just has to make sure there is water in the res. As I have a timer ready to be hooked up if I need to leave) After I dial in and get decent at this amended soil growing style I may move on to something else, I'm not sure what yet. I like to build and play with things, and already have enough weed to last a little while.
Sorry, side tracked, lol, back on topic.
I almost never water till draining. Usually just water enough plants drink it up in two days. (Right now thats about 3 gallons between 17 plants or .66L ea. Give or take)
I think the issue started with the bubblegum plant that stunted after transplant, it decided it did not want any water.
Was lifting the bags to check weight/water content, all were dry day 3 except that bubblegum, closed the nozzle for it and watered everything else. Checked again day 6, was still wet and thats when I noticed fungus gnats.. Threw down the sticky traps and just hit them today with water and a busted up mosquito dunk. Gonna let them dry out for a few days now and see if that helped, next water will also hit them with a mosquito dunk, probably make a tea with it, some molasses, worm castings, and maybe some kelp, was reading about BTI creating spores and reproducing in glucose water solution at around 30g/L so thinking it will pair well with molasses in a tea.
Will take a look at crop steering tomorrow. I hope I get it sorted out too. They already seem to be recovering, but who knows.
Thanks again for info, and encouragement.
@Godesskat,
Thanks, trying a few new things here (Organic nutes, plastic pots and highish plant count. Usually run chem nutes in 5 gallon bags, or dwc with 4 plants) so I will need it.
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