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-Rooting Day 8 - It appears 5/6 have rooted thus far as those plants are responding to their environment and seem to be beginning to vegetate. No visible roots but normally I don't see those until day 9 at the earliest.
-Rooted in Royal Gold Tupur. I really love this stuff. Was only $15.30 out the door locally for 1.5ft³. Same medium the plants will be grown in.
-Currently under a 240w 4000K Kingbright dimmed WAY down. Enough to allow the mothers to continue growing while rooting the clones under their shade.
-Megacrop 2-Part amounts listed above are actually grams/gallon, not tsp. Most water-soluble nutrient users measure using mass for precision.
-Clonex listed above is a guesstimate of what was used in the initial dipping of the cutting prior to planting.
-Related but unrelated. The second set of cuttings I took for a friend I abandoned the tent and went back to my old method of domed in a closet with a single LED light bulb until transplant. The cuttings seem happier overall though no real issues either way.
More info in the following weeks but for the most part it's just a waiting game.
Cloning Procedure - Cut at 45-degree angle, dip in Clone-X, plant in pre-buffered moist coco that has already been inoculated. Keep moist by bottom watering and a minimal amount of light is required. I do18/6 and noticed no difference versus my old method of 24/0 for rooting.
-Clones have been transplanted into 3.5" pots. The sixth plant eventually rooted however it was the smallest, was a backup, so I did not bother to transplant it.
-Megacrop amounts above are actually g/gal, not tsp/gal. I do wish Grow Diaries would add mass for us dry soluble nutrient addicts.
-Mother is doing fine, I took a second set of cuttings off her for a local buddy who would like to grow her out as well.
-The mother has also given me a good idea of what to expect later on in veg when I begin training.
-Grow will eventually be planted in 5-gal fabric pots then moved to a 4x4 tent w/ Autopots and a 650w 3000K LED Bars for further training and flowering.
-I intend on offsetting the transplants, bending the girls over for LST, and eventually train under a scrog net in the flower tent. The mother seems to support this training as that is what I did with her to reduce height yet maximize the number of cuttings I could harvest quickly.
-Clones continued to veg in their 3.5" pots, totaling 17 days. There were transplanted to 1-gallon last day of Week 2. 14 days probably would have been perfect though they did not provide any fight when removing from containers.
-A couple of them are showing defeciences, that should be corrected as they transisiton soon to full nutrients as well as not drying out so darn fast. Back to 14 days would have been perfect. I have started adding 1g/gal of Epsom Salt as well.
-Inoculated Royal Gold Tupur with Xtreme Mykos as well as I included Real Grower's Recharge during the final fertigation after transplant.
-75% of MegaCrop 2-Part Amounts using their old nute calculator. Megacrop amounts above are actually g/gal, not tsp/gal.
-Grow will eventually be planted in 5-gal fabric pots then moved to a 4x4 tent w/ Autopots and a 650w 3000K LED Bars for further training and flowering.
-I intend on offsetting the transplants, bending the girls over for LST, and eventually train under a scrog net in the flower tent. The mother seems to support this training as that is what I did with her to reduce height yet maximize the number of cuttings I could harvest quickly.
-Expecting more of the same this next week. Will be looking into training and topping however LST won't happen until after final transplant into 5-gal Spring XL bags.
-Mamma is still doing fine but she's destined for the compost bin soon. The second set of clones for my friend have rooted and are almost ready for transplant to 3.5" pots. Mamma has served her purpose and we thank her.
- Some plants did not like the transplant and increased EC at the same time. Gave them a good 'flushing' with a 25% strength solution. pH is in check; runoff EC was nothing out of the ordinary. Not a problem, saves money on nutes. ;)
- Kept it very simple this week as plants 4 and 5 are not showing much growth since potting up.
-Dimmed the light a tad as the plants were a bit closer after potting up. RH% has also been lowered. I noticed they responded better if keeping the RH% <70%.
-Leaf Temp is usually a solid 2F below air temp, measured using an infrared thermometer.
-The previous week, due to less volume per fertigation, I was using remnants the next x# of feedings which also contained Recharge. This might have happened three or four straight fertigation events. I'm thinking it have been a little too heavy on the Recharge as it does contain some kelp. I'll make much smaller batches in the future. One quart of solution should suffice while the plants are young and in starter pots.
-I prefer plastic starter pots for transplanting, however, I'm really noticing how much better the fabric bags are for aeration. In the future, I may consider air pots, or just drilling/burning some holes in my starter ports. Final destination are 5-gallon Spring XL Bags for the Autopot System
-As soon as these are transplanted to 5-gal, I will begin LST. That's when I expect exploding growth and will be tucking more than Buffalo Bill in the mirror on a Friday night. 😆😆😲
-Diary is a few days late. I apologize for the delay. Life Happens though grow has not been neglected. :)
- Giving up on plant #4. It's too far behind and my Apple Fritter backup which is 2 weeks younger and is much bigger with nice rabid growth. Upon pulling plant it was obvious that the root development was hampered somehow. I'm going to chalk it up to being too small of a cutting as it was well shorter and younger than I prefer. Roots that were there were perfectly healthy. No sign of rot or any issue within the medium.
-Plant #5 and started displaying rapid vegetative growth, as well as all other plants.
-DLI = 24
-Transplant soon, roots are beginning to fill up 1-gallon container nicely.
-Apple fritter was just potted up to a 1-gallon pot. It will be handled separately soon and won't be referenced much in this diary. I intend to have it be the center of five plants in my 4x4 tent.
-Have been cleaning hydroton and buffering it for Autopots.
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