Diary
As previous weeks, plant was given nutrient solution every day when the sun went down in the concentration down bellow
- FloraSeries Gro-->1.8 mL/L
- FloraSeries Micro-->1.2 mL/L
- Flore Series Bloom-->0.6 mL/L
- Calcium solution-->1 mL/L
I started with 5L of tap water measured at 240ppm. Then added Calcium solution from gardening store and ppm were around 500. Then Flora series nutrients were mixed in and ppm reading was around 1000. This is to high so I diluted the solution with tap water to 650ppm and ended up with 10 L of nutrient solution.
Day 79
Today coco medium was prepared for tomorows transplant, and there were three steps of preparation
First step -> rehydration of coco
I used large 60L plastic barrel, placed the coco brick into it, added 20L of water and let it all soak for half an hour.
Second step -> washing the coco
PPM of now rehydrated coco was too high (500), this tells me there is a lot of unwanted salts in the coco that needed to be removed.
Removing the salts was done by transferring coco from barrel into 40L smart pot. Coco was then washed with fresh water from hose and excess water was allowed to drip out of the pot. After the washing, coco was transferred back into the barell and ppm of the coco was 200.
Third step -> buffing the coco
The problem with coco medium that I have read about is that plants might suffer with calcium deficiency. So just as preventive measure, I soaked the coco over night in Calcium solution ppm-ed to 550.
Day 80
This day was the transplanting day into 40 L smart pot.
First of all I had to remove all the wires that were attached to the 3.6 L plastic pot and were used for bending.
After removing the wires, the old pot was easily removed. The old pot was used as a mold when I was filling up the new smart pot. Then I could simply drop the plant into the created hole.
Plant was topped for the last, (sixth time) now I'm left with 64 mains to work with. I was thinking about doing a 7th top (128 mains), but that would be just to much.
I also did some pruning and bending. I used little green wires for bending, and accidentaly split one main. Demaged main was simply wraped with duct tape.
Day 84
After all the bending, topping and pruning plant recovered fairly quickly. New mains are now 1cm long.
Weather report
Weather througout the week was more or less sunny, it was probably a little cloudy some days but nothing too serious. Average day temperature was 33 °C and average night temperature was 21 °C
@urbi09, cool!
The photos will take a while to see what they're like, but have a few of their autos going too, so will have a few to try while I wait for the big girls. ;)
Aren’t you going to transplant them? The plant seems to big for that little pot :).
It would be better if you cut the leaves in half from your clones so they grow faster (that’s what I always see what growers do with clones) I never worked with clones so I’m far from a pro lol.
Mine grew like hell last couple weeks, feel free to check them out!
@CoastGrower, you are correct. The plant would need the transplant right now but I am simply too ocupied with school and I still don't have calmag. I want to be sure that the next transplant is perfect in terms of coco medium ( I want to soak it calmag solution for 8 hours).
I have seen some people cut the leaves of their clones, but I simply didn't do it because they were so small...they are doing OK right now...so I dont think there is a need to cut the leaves...
I will also check your diary ;)
@@@Lucimago, I am late by uploading for 2 weeks because plant is already 16 weeks old...and let me tell you....the thickening doesent stop here and I like it haha
Man this is awesome. Very nice work. The topping is as perfect as the design of the plant. Even the Split crack down didn't make critical damages. Congrats