Three Girls One Pot

Thanks @Deeganja, it's starting to get very interesting.

@SHAMMYDOG, Hi Shammy, good to see you around again. Oh definitely I'll be doing more of this, for quite a few reasons. Originally it was to get more variety, so that has been achieved. What was interesting was that they all flowered together and I've just found some latest research that back up my intuition that there's a lot of plant hormone signalling going on that I want to understand https://phys.org/news/2019-07-lateral-root.html I might just do two in a pot, but I'm also encouraged because you cannot tell from one plant, for example my two orange buds in my DIY grow are both different from each other and also different from my older one. Now that I have established that there's no impediment to growing more than one as long as he roots have plenty of room, this will be permanent. In fact my DIY grow has shown up some very interesting results.

@@Freddd, I honestly never heard of this breeder. Gotta check it out. These kind of reviews/diaries make me wanna try out new stuff :) Thanks and have an awesome week :)

@Cremo, ha, thanks, yep I got 18 zips off a my Think Big! but it's too much work with nets and stuff. You'd like this Pink Grapefruit too. You should give Short Stuff Jedi Kush a run I think you'll like it a lot, it is a very easy plant to tend and produced small dense crystal covered nuggets. A great plant if you have humidity problems.

@SHAMMYDOG, Hi Shammy, yeah I hit the trichome lottery, I've been in the velvet fog, anyhoo I have been assiduously documenting everything and I have a lot of quite interesting stuff. I'm just about to update the Moby Dick XXL, what a journey that was. It got to the point where I just wanted to throw it out, it just went on and on, with a smell like those super strong pine disinfectants. Long story short, it has ended up being my al time favourite. Lot's more good stuff. the DIY is finished, and more have been started, so strap yourself and I'll see if I can get off my lazy ass and get some good cannabis pr0n up. P.S. if I won the lottery I'd pay someone to organise the diary and I'd just grow the weed.

@DaveG, thanks man. Yeah, I just like to debunk all the myths, I was told it couldn't be done so that's like a red flag to a bull to me. I always like to learn from each grow.

@SHAMMYDOG, I've been a bit overwhelmed the past couple of weeks, I'm going to do a big catch up today with all the diaries. Interesting question because that is one of the areas I am investigating as my aim is to reduce everything to it's most simple form. I used to change every two weeks, but these days I go for a bit longer by topping up. For example they might be in the growing phase say for two weeks, and I'll have them on a 1 to 2 to 1 or Micro Gro and Bloom. Then for the transition I'll want 1 to 1 to 1, so I'll just at Micro and Bloom only to bring it up to the desired ratio. I will also decide by monitoring how quickly the plant eat up the nutrients as judged by the ppm. It's important to not get caught up in the hype of ppm nutes, lights, etc, mostly it's people simply repeating stuff that is not true. My DIY grow shows how futile it can be, you see two orange buds, completely different and the difference is not due to anything other than the plants themselves, they are under the same lights the same nutrients the same pot. Now imagine if those two beans were grown under different lights or you did something different to the nutrients, then you'd feel pretty sure that that is what the difference was, but it would be incorrect!

@SHAMMYDOG, Hi Shammy, yeah it seems that 13 weeks would be an absolute minimum for me. But every plant I grow, is different even from the same packet of beans. I expect 14 weeks or more. My current Moby Dick is already at 11 weeks and looks like she has another 7 or weeks to go. As far as quality goes, Autos are every bit as good as photoperiods, no question. I used go grow photoperiod from clones 20 years ago, and I would never go back to photoperiod now just for the wonderful convenience of not having a dark cycle. That is such a pain in the butt.

@SHAMMYDOG, you have good timing. Yes good questions. The germinated seedling is quite delicate in the clay balls, until the roots get established. When the plant is established it's doesn't matter if a few jets don't work evenly but when it's a seedling I like to make sure that the plug is near a jet just so it's always damp near it. I'll have it on continuously for a few days then I'll have it on for 15 minutes every hour. Once the roots are well established it really doesn't matter much but 15/hour is good, then maybe give it 15/ every two or three hours at night. The roots don't tend to clog up the drain, but that's why I make it a 19mm. Sometimes I'll poke a stick through. Or even turning the pot or lifting it will pull any roots out, once they get established they tend to not clog up. You should check out my DIY grow, it's working out quite well and very easy to make. I'll be starting something new in a couple of weeks and I'll note what I do with the seedling.

@SHAMMYDOG, That's not really a question for me because that's more of a soil query isn't it. This is one of the reasons I don't do soil you can never tell what is going on. However I am now planting my seed directly into an eazyplug without pre soaking the seed. So the eazy plug always keeps water around the roots.

@Deeganja, cheers, I have to admit I"m getting quite excited now. The Orange Bud was going to be my main chance and this three in a pot was meant to be a 'see what happens' kinda grow but roles have reversed at the moment.