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Tried to do a soil, coco, and perlite mixture on this cone. Turned out a disaster. Had to dig it up in the 2nd week and add a bunch of coco. What soil do you use when blending with coco?
I guess my question is why you want to add soil? I've never done it so I can't comment on WHICH soil to use but since you're growing autos, I'll tell you they really don't like to be disturbed in anyway - so I would think digging it up and putting it in some other grow medium is not going to end well... you'd be stressing/shocking them too much and that impacts their pre-programmed life cycle. From what I know, coco is just fine to do the whole grow in - you only need to water/feed with greater frequency than you would if you were growing in soil.
They have a short life span... my recommendation is to just go with what you've got and look at various options for your next grow! Personally, I only use ProMix for all my grows... it's got the right blend of perlite, etc, is rich in mycorrhizae which helps the roots and, grown in fabric pots, allows lots of oxygen into the roots which they need (coco, I assume, would allow even more oxygen which is why you need to water/feed with more frequency).
Good luck and enjoy the grow!
Did some light defoliation to make sure she is getting enough air flow. Main cola is nice and dense. She will be the first to get chopped since she's about 2 weeks older than my others. Hopefully harvesting in 7-10 days. Staring the flush this week once I see more red hairs and cloudy tricomes. Smells delicious and coated in sugary tricomes!
Harvested the remain buds. All together 41 grams dried. 15g of the trim and loose buds went to some edibles. The rest was nice buds. Cured for a couple weeks and has a nice lemon smell and flavor. Got some kick to it!
Amazing work you have done for your first crop!. Would you be alright with me offering some pointers based off what I see in your diary? First off, Cannabis plants LOVE heat and humidity, It is the buds that hate it. Early on in veg we can capitalize on this for more vigorous healthy growth. We can look for temps up to 79-84 MAX with lights on & no more than 9 degrees less with lights off. We do not want too big of a swing in temperature between lights on and lights off or we will encourage our plants to stretch more than we want them to. Also we can utilize humidity at this stage up to 75% in our rooms to really help maximize the plants growth. When our plants are small, Our roots are small. Cold temps will really stunt their development, especially during the night cycle as this is when plants do most of their growth. They will photosynthesize with lights on store up energy & when they go to sleep do most of their growth.
I recommend looking into vapor pressure deficit, Otherwise known as VPD. It will give you a much better understanding of how important temperature and humidity play a role in our plant development. Humidity is great early on to supplement our smaller plants root structures with some foliar intake from the leafs. But when we add in humidity we must do it right to make sure we are optimizing our VPD point. Please read this article and get used to using the chart that it has as well. Log your numbers daily!
https://cerescann.com/importance-of-measuring-vpd/
Next, I would get yourself a thermal laser temp gun like the fluke 64 MAX & a PAR meter to better read your plant's needs and grow to them. This equipment will also help us optimize our light to plant distances. Also get yourself some sungrip light pulleys if you do not have them yet to raise & lower the light as needed. Now lets talk about flowering. So after day 20 of flower the plant stops its vertical growth and now focus's 100% of its energy into budding. Before this point, We want our temperature gaps nice and close between lights on and off or the plant will stretch, But now the signal and response to stress has changed since it has finished its mission of growing up tall. Now we want to expose the plant to large temperature swings beyond 10 degrees less with lights off because now it will send energy into making bigger denser buds & producing more resin. This is all part of simulating the end of the season and activating the genetic signals within the plant to respond in kind. When we do the pull down, We never want to trim the plant wet or break it down at all. We want to hang it hole in a environment set to 45-50 degrees at 60% humidity for up to 16 days. This allows the plant to break down any potential left over starches or sugars or nutrients within it during this time the plant will produce even more resin & terpenes, This is where you get the true craft cannabis finish. If you have any questions please feel free to follow my profile & hit me up anytime! We are currently producing a tutorial series to teach everybody to grow high quality craft cannabis the grow diary for it is live right now on my profile & also the video series of it is live on my youtube, If that interests you head over and subscribe! It is linked off my GrowDiaries main profile.
Happy growing my friend!
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