Rootball Reveal - BIGOLEBUDS Diary

bigolebuds Week 1: You'll notice in my other Watermelon Zkittles diary we did a major defoliation before going into flower! This is when we noticed a number of branches that didn't have much potential to create big buds, buttt they were perfect clone candidates! We'd been letting the mother plant grow without SCROG for over 2 months, and she was very healthy when we took the cuttings. The two mothers came from a group of 5 original seeds, so we will see if there are differences in the pheno's as we take the mother into flower. We chopped these from mom around 10/20 and put them into Root Riot cubes with a small amount of Mycorrhizae, soil surrounding the cube, and CloneX to ensure root growth.

bigolebuds Week 2: Day 1:After 15-20 days in the cubes we potted the clones up to solo cups and cleared out any clones that weren't doing well. We planned to up pot these to 2 gallons, but in the interest of maximizing root health (and seeing the rootball) we went with clear solo cups. This tent is looking like we are running a real grow operation 😂😅 I wish we knew the pheno's for each of these before we labelled them, but the same way we ID the pheno's in our flower tent, we will eventually do for these clones and in the future we will give them numbers until we ID them. I'd also like to do more testing of different fertilizer and watering programs this grow, but I know that will come with time. We are doing a test of some plants with Mycorrhizae and some without, so I'm excited to see how that goes. We are actually also testing two different types of mycorrhizae as well Dynomyco and Xtreme Mykos with everything else as controls. Once we have any updates on that comparison this blog will be the first to know. Day 3: WOW! The roots on these things are growing like crazy! The Watermelon Skittles strain is a quick root producer. It had roots popping out of the Root Riot cubes when we planted them, and 8 hours later had reached the edges of the cup! At this point we can see the roots all around the cups on all of the plants. We are thinking we will need to up pot them before our big trip to Rio at the end of the month.. but will be keeping a close eye on them! We think a total veg time of 2 months is what we are shooting for.

bigolebuds Week 3: After much discussion and a few posts on the blog, we slipped our transparent cups into Red Solo Cups to prevent the roots from being exposed to light. We are debating doing this entire grow in solo cups, but need to do some research on how large we should let them get before transitioning to flower. To be honest, it seems like we should make the switch this week... Most especially because we will be traveling over the next two weeks (NOLA, HOU, RIO). Prayers that we keep things looking good, but we have a plan for waterings every 2/3 days, so I think that will work. I think we might do another mycorrhizal test, because I'm not sure these clones were the most similar to begin with. Will update then.