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StealthOz5 years ago
The beginning of Week 4 & the 5th set of leaves have appeared and the plants are 80mm tall, even though I buried the stem a bit while transplanting. Iโm happy with the growth. The stems are thickening up and becoming a nice light green colour. Iโm adding perlite around the stem about 30mm deep into the coir(see last photo), to try to keep the stem light and airy, hopefully preventing fungus, gnat larvae and too much moisture collecting around the base of the stem, above the roots. While still giving support to the stem while it grows. Does anyone have any thoughts or experience on this?
The first few photos are from the beginning of the week. The last few are later in the same week showing growth of the first set of 5 point leaves and branches starting to develop.
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StealthOzstarted grow question 5 years ago
Is it beneficial to put perlite around the stem (see last photo) to prevent moisture, fungus, gnats?
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BlackCousinanswered grow question 5 years ago
Hello StealthOz, first of all your girl is looking good.
To answer your question, i think its not that beneficial the way you put it down around the stem.
Main use of perlite is to mix it with the subrate of usage.
In your case coco, and only to make sure that there are airgaps in the substrate for better drainage.
My guess that your not transplanting this girl, maybe when you have a next grow you mix in the perlite with your coco to acheave that.
You can use different ratios of mix. I recommend atleast 30% perlite 70% coco.
I use a ratio of 60% coco 40% perlite myself and it works great.
Hope this was an helpfull answer my friend.
Keep on growing. Peace ๐๐พ
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HydroGrowLEDcommentedweek 15 years ago
StealthOzcommented5 years ago
@HydroGrowLED, check out my new grow Skunks & Kush, the seedlings went from nothing to plants with 7 nodes in just 3 weeks. The seedlings love the warmth and seek the light.
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StealthOzcommented5 years ago
@HydroGrowLED, yeah great. They were very cheap to buy and donโt really impact my electricity bill at all. At just under 250watts they arenโt the most powerful lights, but the veg chamber is 780mm in height, 780mm in width and 520mm deep, so it lights up the small space quite well.
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HydroGrowLEDcommented5 years ago
@StealthOz, Iโm watching along to see how productive for seedlings it is ๐๐ฑ๐ช
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CRiSPrGrowcommentedweek 35 years ago
i count from when i activate the seeds, but truth is there's no convention, most folks start like 2 weeks in or post seedling stage , on here it's often that folks will start like you , at ground break... truth is the calendar record is just data, write it down the way it best helps you by asking yourself what am i using the info for. Long story short : looks good to me man, looks quick even ! ๐
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CRiSPrGrowcommented5 years ago
@StealthOz, yeah man it's really up to you & what you're after ๐
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StealthOzcommented5 years ago
@CRiSPrGrow, thanks for the info. No wonder some plants on some grow diaries look very well developed at an early age if the day count starts at post-seedling stage. Iโve heard before that the vegetation stage starts at the third node appearing. If that was the case my 6 week diary entry would really be the 4th week! ๐๐๐
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StealthOzcommented5 years ago
@CRiSPrGrow, ok great thanks. I added more light since my last grow and keeping it fungus gnat free is helping with the growth. Thankyou ๐ค๐ผ
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Mrs_Larimarcommentedweek 15 years ago
ok iam wantig to get more correct. Perlit got to be mixed under the whole growmedium if you want to have a much better aeriation. In only using coco you dont have to fear for fungus gnats... they dont like coco coir to lay the eggs into, they love soil. and if you have soil components in your mix , you can go with a layer of fine quartz sand on the whole surface of the pot. Not only around the stem. if you use sand as layer, your watering got to go from the bottom
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StealthOzcommented5 years ago
@Mrs_Larimar, ok great thanks. I do have a bit of perlite, vermiculite, propagation sand and charcoal mixed in with the coir, but itโs about 70% coir. I put some charcoal in the bottom of the pots for drainage too. Good to know about the coir and fungus gnats, thankyou. I found I just had heaps of trouble in the past with organic soils as the fungus gnats Re-appeared time and time again. No gnats as yet this time! Thankyou for the info ๐
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Mrs_Larimarcommentedweek 35 years ago
Iam doing my own soilmix too. its like
3 parts Compostsoil ( full of benefical stuff)
3Parts Peatmoss ( saves Water)
1 part Vermiculite ( satbilizes the ph)... you can use dolomite lime too
1,5 Parts perlite ( drainage)
1 part coco ( fluffy+drainage
1Part worm Castings ( my Worm produce the castings in coco medium)
That is the bsaic reciepe, and even the sesitivest plants love it
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Master_weedacommentedweek 55 years ago
Hello my friend๐
I replied to your grow question if the answer suits you can you validate it Please? If you need advice do not hesitate ๐ Good luck for your culture May the strength be with you ๐ช
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Master_weedacommented5 years ago
@StealthOz,with pleasure bro ๐ good luck May the force be with you ๐ช
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StealthOzcommented5 years ago
@Master_weeda, thanks for the reply, much appreciated.
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Master_weedacommentedweek 15 years ago
Good luck for your grow May the force be with you ๐ช
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Master_weedacommented5 years ago
@StealthOz,with pleasure bro i answered your problem in grow question if the answer suits you do not forget to validate it Please ๐
May the force be with you๐ช
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StealthOzcommented5 years ago
@Master_weeda, thank you sir!
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MrRaidcommentedweek 75 years ago
Nice grow ๐
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OMEGAcommentedweek 143 months ago
Wow, you just about had qctual buds on the plant for 4 or at the very most 5 weeks and then cut them. Have a look, count from wen you first see actual buds and count till you cut them. They had at least another 4 weeks to go.
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Buddha2commentedweek 195 years ago
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