Gelato 33 - Clones - Soil

foxbberg clones just arrived. Potted into 1 liter pots and got some bio-complex, containing kelp, humic acids and mykos + Silicate. (pH 6.2; EC 0.5) Light ascending through the week from 200-500 ppfd max. 100% for 9hrs. Then dimmed to about 60-70%. VPD ~0.8-0.9 to day 4 VPD ~0.9-1.0 from day 5 Fertigation day 7 ~ 150 ml/plant GROWTH 0,25 g/L ALL ESSENTIAlS 0,4 g/L P&T 0,2 g/L SILICATE-BOOST 0,05 g/L Water: pH 6.2; EC 1.2 Drain: pH 6.5; EC 1.5 Root growth is amazing - time to repot! Some flies showed up in days 2-5.... then dissappeared. Will feed some nematodes after repotting though.....just in case they left descendants:-( No signs of stress or desease but yet they won't really take off.... anyways - i ain't gonna loose my cool, till they moved into the bigger bowls 😎 . Next steps: - Sleepless night - Repotting - Sleepless night - Raise light and VPD after this i might have traded enough of my health for the health of my ladies...... STAY TUNED!

foxbberg Repotted into 30l felt-bags on day 8. Roots hadn't made it through all the soil, but hopefully it wasn't too early though. poured 250 ml fertilizer solution around each plant, later sprayed another 250ml water (pH 6.2) to wet the surface, then poured some 1000ml into the fresh soil. combined with the poor weather it creates a rather moist environment..... i get hardly over 0.86 kPa VPD in the tent. Day 9: They really recover excellent from repotting. PROBLEMS with my exhaust hose! Something‘s disturbing the airflow…..:-( i can lyrically feel some backdraft from the vent. No major issue yet, but i‘ll have to fix it, to keep controll over climate. Day 10: Airvent runs hassel-free now! Perfect climate👍! Gave some Water and nutrients, so i can start bending them tomorrow. Day 11: Supercropped the ladies. Day 12: These ladies are vital! The tops just erected this morning, so i had to refix them. some thoughts about scrogging: I'm planning to create a 'bowl' to collect the maximum amount of photons from my trustful ionframe:-) I'll bend the tops to the outside, while try to arrange the lower/weaker branches towards the center. When the net is filled by about 70-80% i'll flip them to bloom. Hopefully a little stretch will fill out the very center and create a dense and concave canopy. Day 13: Nematodes arrived, so i fed them with some tap water (pH 7.5, 250ml/plant) Day 14: everything fine - have to twist and tweak my wires every morning, to get the tops in optimum position. Sprayed SILICATE-BOOST (0,1 g/L ) just before i turned the lights off.

foxbberg Day 15:Gave water & nutrients (2 L each). For the looks they do very well - dark green. Fanleaves build little sunroofs over a good amount of new shoots from the nodes😊. Planns for this week: will keep the soil moist and spongy and wait for the first roots to come out the bags. Till there i'll keep my alternating rhythm of clear water/nutrient solution. As soon as the pots are fully rootet through, i'll start feeding with a little drain, so i can observe wether my soil gets too salty or not. Further i'll keep bending the tops, in order to give more light to the younger shoots. As soon as the stems start making diameter, i'll prepare my scrog-net. Day 16: everything fine so far - nothing to do.....let them ladies do they thang...... Day 17: 1.5 liters of water each (pH 6.2) 1st root made it throug the bottom-edge of the pot💪!!! strong white and meaty😁. stems get stronger now, plants show dark green colour. 1(!) tipp shows a tiny little tipp-burn. i will keep watering 'till the ladies loose a little of that dark green..... just to avoid overfeeding. Day 18: 1.25 liters of water each (pH 6.2) Everything fine so far…….. still dark green an vital. Soil is soaked (i had first little drops coming out the bottom after watering this morning) Thoughts: More LST? Less LST? These fanleaves are really huge and make real sunroofs right above the new shoots. I don't see any way to get the shoots into the 'sun' but bending those fanleaves away.....but honestly..... nope! Since the lights are running at 60% (~600 ppfd) already, i rather give the littleones a soft start. They'll make it through the roof one day. My real 'concern' is the height. Yet the stem doesn't really push upwards..... if these ladies stay short, it'll take plenty of time to create a scrog 😕. Wonder wether it could help, if i let them grow straight up for a while and bend them again later. Any suggestions? Day 19: plant 3 really pops out some roots...😁; elsewise everything fine...... Day 20: Poured out some 1.5 l of water to each an had a decent amount of drain…… pH 6.1 EC 2.4 - 3.4 (average 2.9)🤡😵‍💫! Since the ladies don‘t show any tipp-burn, i will keep watering with drain (daily from now on) instead of flushing them - no panic here 😎. i guess it was just some accumulations from feeding without drain. Stems get stronger…… slow but steadily……. They still don‘t make much hight, though they produce mass. No worries yet:-) What's next? Will keep watering with drain and have an eye on EC. As soon as it gets below 1.4/1.5 i'll start feedin nutrients again. In case the ladies start getting brighter, i'll start feeding just underneath the EC, measured at last. Day 21: Drain EC still rising!!! (top 3.7/avg. 3.0)..... still not panicking - i observed very few leafs, rolling up their teeth...... but there are some. No tipp-burn at all. 1 liter poured out, would produce about 0.4 liters of drain - i guess there is still a lot of root-growth happening. Main colas and shoots are developing fine. Still dark green. Lifted the lights a bit - since the ladies took a little hight😁. Thoughts: According to the producer, my soil has an EC of about 1.2. Factoring the amount and concentration of nutrient-solution fed, i can only etsimate, there are some accumuations, residue or whatever, washing out from top to bottom. Though i'll have to check for signs of overfeeding...... and do a little flush ........only if REALLY necessary😤! In an ideal world, the ladies would demad more nutrients with any bit of growth, so i would just have to feed them water, another 2 or 3 days and everything was just perfect😁😁😁 UPCOMING: Week 4 😶

foxbberg Day 22: Drain EC 3 feet high and risin'😅( average 3.3 to be exact...) dunno how much whatever-salt is building up in that pots, but it obviuosly doesn't bother the ladies. Dark green colour, very few 'claws', no signs of tipp-burn, new foliage appears in a juicy green and turns dark in an instant, leafs point upwards....... looks like they're happy😊. Planns for this week: - Install the scrog-net - Obsereve plants/soil ( when do i have to feed nutrients again?) otherwise there will be no changes...... Thoughts: These bushy babies will be kind of a challlenge to create this scrog the way i'm used to (basically bending the 4 main main colas to the corners of the tent, upper branches to the walls and spaces between the pants, lower branches to the very center). Now these ladies make so many branches, so close togehter and so equal in length, underneath huge fanleafs..... i'd love to have them in a 100 square meter canna-crib....but in a tent...????? I really hate doin' things without having them planned - but in this case i guess i will have to install the net, start weaving and see what's happening😯 Day 23 Let's keep it positive...... indoor-climate of 64% rh is perfect for my health💪😁!!! ......but in my tent it's killing the vpd😖. at a lousy 24 degrees C, i'm readin' about 60-64 % rh wich results in about 0.7 to 0.8 kPa.* More figures? Here come the crazyones👻!: pH 5.5; EC 4.2😨 but thats only drain from plant 3....... average was 6.1/3.6 The girls busy produce roots, shoots and leafs....... still very green, still not unhealthy.......few claws, no tipp-burn. Basically a comfortable place to be: It's not bad yet - no work but watering - and it can only get better!!!😁 *VPD issue solved: The sensor hung too close to a fanleaf - didn‘t expect this thing beeing so sensitive 😅. Day 24 Climbed new hights this morning: Plant 1 had an EC of 3.8 - the others didn't climb any higher than yesterday. So maybe we've reached the climax..... 😇 Visible growth now - so i installed the scrog-net and will start bending and weaving these days:-) Thoughts: Did beeing out of VPD-range for one day harm my plants? How exact can my sensor measure VPD? after a bit of research i found out: Whatever you buy for less than 200 bucks is far from beeing exact! Even professional sensors have a margin of about +/- 1% in relative humidity. Thermometers at least +/- 0.5 degrees C. This could give some a good guess of the actual VPD BUT: Leaf-temperature-offset is absolute key! Many of our trusted homegrow-equippment isn't even able to measure it (some offer default temp-offset) ....don't wanna go further here - but there's no way to achieve something like a precise VPD-measurement in homegrowing. So why caring for VPD? Even with those less accurate instruments, you may be able to keep your plants in something like a comfort-zone. Way better than only guessing 👆!!! In case i ran a much higher VPD than planned, yesterday (due to a missplaced sensor) , it will not harm or kill my plants. they might have had a bit of stress from dry air - but nothing to worry about! STAY TUNED 👈!