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Monday:
Started the Germination Process. Soaked seeds in bottled spring water from 7AM till 9PM - then transferred seeds to moist paper towel.
Rookie mistake, let the paper towel dry up overnight; thankfully none of the seeds were cracked open.
Tuesday:
Originally put seeds on paper plate, a concern for mildew transferred to normal plate in mid afternoon. Had warm fan blowing hot dry hair, closely monitored to make sure paper towel did not dry out
2 of the White Widows have a tap roots,
None of the others have tap roots yet.
Wednesday:
Had about a 90% success rate on the germination process.
We planted our seeds into their first home; A plastic cup with holes in the bottom. Watered with bottled spring water
Thursday:
Watered in the morning
this week the weather was not so great. They were looking for the sun through the window so got a little tall. watered sparingly, about 2 or 3 times that week & no nutrients
the weather improved this week, plants started going outdoors but we noticed some problems with wind being too strong so added some sticks to help prevent them from bending over. lots of leaves growing now.
Did a root booster mid week but didn't PH balance the water after adding root booster, noticed some what we think was nutrient burning so did a flush 5 days later.
Trimmed some of the lower foliage to help the leaves grow.
lightly broke up the top soil to allow more air
we transplanted them this week from cup to pot.
We had originally thought that the white cups would allow us to see the roots and when they are ready to get transplanted. It did aid with this but we ran into a green mold/algae problem which made the transplant more urgent.
All were successfully transplanted. Waiting till root bound again to transplant to there new homes.
noticed rootbound again, but these pretty ladys are going through a growth spurt!
Decided to transplant one more time, to a 10 Gallon pot for 4 of our best.
another 4 of them are stunted, so we are keeping them in the 5 gallons for the remainder of the season.
Bugs have become a problem that we are trying to naturally remedy by bringing some big spiders on to them.
Still have only been feeding them once a week.
When we transplanted them we put some feed water into the soil, its been less than a week and we already see more roots coming out of the bottom. One transplant was not super successful as they were we kind of too big to transplant (we did it anyway) has left some of roots exposed on the top. The other 3 girls are liking their new homes just fine.
Had to cull another one of the PK's this week too. The hairs started to turn brown so we figured its time.
Had been flowering since around June 15th.
They're almost as tall as us!
Been going pretty well. Were doing this super old school in the sense that we don't have a green house and are moving the plants around according to the weather. Already been mentally designing a greenhouse for next year, as moving them around has become quite the chore.
Our climate has been amazing for growing. Though some movement into the shade is needed as daytime can reach 30c and at the plant level temperatures have read 35c. Also, near the mountains were subject to the odd thunderstorm, hail shower or west coast classic 25mm of rain within a 24h period.
We used a 200L rain catcher to brew feed using General Hydroponics. Worked well, we just needed to add some PH solution as it was slightly acidic.
We definitely made a few mistakes when transplanting last week, next season we will be doing things alot differently in terms of homes so they don't have to get transplanted so often.
great work so far, and great catch with the pH. The pH fluctuations caused some visible issues to the leaves, careful with that as the bio roots will raise the pH quite a lot. Overtime it causes the soil to get too pH high which might snowball into bigger issues. Just a heads up but you clearly know what you're doing ! 🚀
Yep they are growing very nicely man and big strong girls too I love this forum how else would I find so many good growers or even new growers just trying to get them selves there own medicine ..cheers
@@Ssomeguy,
Hey sorry for the super late reply. Better late than never.
All the pointers I'll say, take with a gain of salt because I am a new grower but have lots of experience with other plants.
You transplant just slightly before the plant is root bound. You will notice roots coming out of the bottom which are seeking to go deeper; ultimately thickening the roots above, them making absorption greater, larger plant etc...
Be careful you don't transplant to early. it should want to come as one. if it starts to crumble your soil structure is weak or the roots arent large enough yet.
Which perhaps is why you've heard let them go a bit closer to root bound... whats an extra five days to let them get bigger if it means they have a healthy transplant. The roots will fill out in the new home.
Ive found everything I've done this year as been has been hit or miss.
I've been following a textbook found on amazon.
The Cannabis Encyclopedia by Jorge Cervantes
@momNpop,
Just a question relating to something I've encountered (not so much by choice). Any particular reason why you transplant AFTER they're root bound? I figured that would stunt them so usually I try to transplant a bit before they're root bound, but being inexperienced I've transplanted some plants only after they were root bound when I thought they wouldn't be just yet. I can't honestly say what the effects are, but I'd still imagine trying to avoid getting root bound to be better in general.
Otherwise, they look great.
I haven't had the PH for my soil tested even once. Ever. I guessed based on estimates of the composition, and I still got to the conclusion that the PH isn't necessarily that indicative. Like you could have a nice neutral PH or whatever and still be lacking stuff. PH is also VERY changeable at smaller scale. Shit, rain water PH here is 4.5 or so on average. Yet, my plants absolutely love it.
momNpop
