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So apparently if you're really gentle like a fine lady, you can rinse out 2/3 of the gluey residue from the roots and make the plants happy again. After two or three repeat every couple of days I finally managed to get the plants to absorb more nutrients then ever before and look at this, these little plants started to bounce back!!! If you ever try to work on young roots, BE EXTRA GENTLE, they snap extremely easy so you really need to try to do better than you thought you could do.
This day also marks the day where I've finally installed my second tent (it's going to be the veg tent from now on), transplanted my six hydro beauties into two separate 35L (70L in fact) water reservoirs as usual and installed a third reservoir of the same size in the veg tent (it's the same res for six plants that I've used over the past few weeks).
I've cleaned every reservoir with medical grade chemicals to eliminate all the organic residue and other bacteria and switched to Advanced Nutrients, this time the Connoisseur version of Grow and Bloom fertilizers because I was very pleased with the normal Micro/Grow/Bloom ferts in the past. Hopefully it will help the plants to reach full strength and health even faster than the regular fertilizers.
I've also topped all the plants in fabric pots and I believe four out of six plants in hydro. (I was scared because they are still gentle after what they've been through the first couple of weeks). I also bought like a hundred plastic bendy things that you put on branches to make them gently bend instead of wiring every single side branch to the reservoirs which has been a huge pain in the ass over the past few years. It's going to be the first time I use them, so hopefully the do what they were supposed to do when I'm back.
I'm preparing my new perpetual grow system to the best of my knowledge before I go on a little vacay for around 10 days so hopefully everything will go according to plan.
I've also installed CO2 bags at the top of both tents and hopefully I'll see a considerable change in size after I get back.
I'm only a bit worried about the plants in fabric pots because I've prepared two different solutions for veg and flowering plants because the three automatic plants in pots started to flower already and I'll be feeding them through the LetPot irrigation system and I'm still pretty new to it.
Let's just hope for the best :D
See ya after vacay.
XOXO
Cremo
Hello. Good to see we are in the same contest. That blacklisted left me a very negative message on my diary too. Nice to know why he's so angry. Good luck on your grow. Chuck.
@Cremo, Hello. This is how I see it. Some of the original land race strains had some hermaphroditism in them. The good breeders will put their selected females through hard stress tests to make sure they don't go hermie. And if they do the breeders will try to find the best females. I think SSSC is a good breeder and would have stressed their females so I would look to the environmental conditions. Is there a small bright light on during the dark period or a light leak near the plant, is there a big swing between daytime temps and nighttime temps. I've read that nutrient and ph imbalances will play a role in making some strain going hermie. So, I can't nail it down what might have done this, as you see it could be a number of things. I had 1 plant out of 6 go hermie in the tent of my Nova OG by Anesia Seeds (I'm not sure if they do stress tests) about 6 months ago. Why didn't the others turn? What started that one turning I still don't know. I'll put it down to the original land race strains getting some original genetics into that 1 seed. It could a few factures that combine to start it. All I can do is be diligent and try to do the right thing with the plants. Experience and learning will help. Also, if you don't know a lot of the breeders will buy their seeds from big companies in Spain that do nothing but make seeds from the clones they were sent, from the breeders and then sell them back to the breeders. There are only a hand full of breeders that make their own seeds now days. OK, Have Fun and Good Luck. Chuck.
@Chucky324, hi there :) nice hearing from you, Sir. Normally I'd ignore it but I've just checked my tent and unfortunately it turned out to be a hermit :/ I'm wondering what might've caused it...