AlpineNutrients.com trifft auf MannyT #2

ellioschka Cuttings arrived within a day via Overnight Express from MannyT. Really beautiful plants, super healthy with great white roots! 👌 Freshly arrived, they got to rest a bit on the windowsill in the sun before being placed in the grow tent. 30W light for 2 days to help with transport stress, then 100W from the spider farmer. 😊 After that, they were repotted into 1L net pots filled with EuroPebbles. The clay pebbles were rinsed and primed with enough Alpine Nutrients 3-Part nutrient solution beforehand. (3-Part nutrient schedule for hydroponics, week 1-2 Roots. pH set to 5.7 with sulfuric acid) To ensure the roots penetrate the pebbles, care was taken to let the pebbles dry out a bit before watering again. Twice a day, a foliar application of the same watering solution was done via spray bottle. With the Lemon Zkittle, a small pre-flower was visible on all cuttings, which speaks to the age of the genetics. 😇 Code for 15% off top cuttings and awesome nutrients: AlpineNutrients15 (on mannyt.at) MEHR-ERTRAG-15 (on alpinenutrients.com) 💪😎

ellioschka The ladies are doing well and rooting nicely in all directions. The starter dose of fertilizer is now a bit too weak. I probably should have increased the dosage a bit earlier due to the plant size or used the dosage for the following week. This is visible in the slight magnesium deficiency of the lower leaves. 😇 There are also slight clawing due to the too humid environment. I will now set the VPD range higher, so the humidifier gets a bit more of a break. 😴

ellioschka The Lemon Zkittle from MannyT and its sisters were supposed to move at the beginning of this week. Because life often throws a wrench in the works, they had to wait in their small temporary home until Thursday. 😖 Today they finally got to move into the big 10L aeroponic buckets and showed their satisfaction within just a few hours. The light is 200W 3K (LM301H) and 55W 440nm (Blue). The damaged leaves are now a bit larger, and the nutrient deficiency from week 2 is now clearly visible on them. However, the new leaves and shoots are doing great. A good sign. 😎 The ladies are a bit smaller than the other strains, but they are more branched and have an impressive root system. 😁

ellioschka The Lemon Zkittles have settled in and are showing their beautifully branched roots. While the rest of the gang forms more or less string-like roots, this genetics shows strong, horizontally growing lateral roots. Interestingly, this genetics remains smaller than the others, but grows more expansively. This is likely due to the higher Indica content of the strain. Do the roots behave differently because of this?😉 Nutrients continue to be provided according to the Alpine Nutrients schedule for vegetation week 3+. Spraying was stopped one day after the move to the large tent. The VPD target has been slightly raised (1.05 kPa), as have the spraying and drying intervals. At 30 minutes, too much was running past the still young plants. During the day, there is now water every 60 minutes, and at night every 90 minutes. Still drain to waste, so no return to the runoff tank. 💪 Oh, at the beginning of the week, the Zkittles were topped and are now a few cm shorter. 😫