DAY 22: The plants have responded well to the repotting of last week. The new leaves are beautifully green and the roots are already fully developed. All plants are about the same size. π
DAY 26: I have too many plants. This is because all seeds germinated and have grown into beautiful plants. π» Because I would like to continue growing with the autopots (and I do not have 20 autopot pots) I decided to plant 4 plants per pot (4 x 4 = 16). π I take a certain risk, but because the plants will grow for only one extra week, I hope the plants will not grow too much in height. My intention is not to top the plants, but to tie them up against the planting sticks that I have placed in every corner of the pots.π
For the pot mix I have re-used and upgraded the soil mix from my previous culture (El Patron) by adding the additives listed below. Unlike the last time, I filled the bottom 5 - 10 cm of the autopots with clay pebbles.
Pot mixture:
+ - 100 liters of recycled soil (50% perlite)
250 gr. Startex:
200 gr. Seaweed lime
100 gr. Kieseriet
100 gr. Betonite
25 gr. Mycotrex en RQS Easy Roots (Mycorrhiza)
I used 3,5 tablets per 24-liter pot (I didn't have enough Biotabs to use four per pot). π
I watered the pots with 15 liter water with 15gr. Bactrex & 30 ml. Orgatrex. π¨
Wait and see how this experiment ends .... π
All the concentrate was from the sugar leaves? That's amazing ! Such a beautiful plant!
How about these auto pots? I've read that on the bottom should be perlite and coco coir, or something like that, not hidroton... I'm surprised by that
@Psilocubensis, Yeah π 35gr concentrate of a collection of 400 gr sugar leaves of Triple G, Mother Gorilla, El Patron and AMG (previous harvests). Made with the Dexso extractor and DME π
Beautiful looking buds coming along nicely. Lovely color and thick layer of frost. Great work. Keep doing what you've been doing and may the ganja garden gods bless you along the rest if your journey growmie.
@Nebula420, Exactly as I thought at first. But no signs of any spider mites. Very very very very sporadically I saw some things under the leaves that do not belong there. But no spider mites. Under the magnifying glass, it looked rather like light-green spots but certainly no bugs. I have had the phenomenon for at least 4 weeks, and if it were spider eggs, I would have seen a lot of mites by now.
Thank you for the nice comment on the frosty buds. Yeah, the are really frosty. The almost shine in the dark π
Although the smell and taste of Triple G is fantastic, I also suffered from male balls. Probably due to defoliation stress. They appear only during the second and third week of flowering. But enough to provide (unwanted) offspring. I've had it with feminized seeds. That is why I now put regulars and took cuttings from them.
Amazing π super frosti and all have a really good bud to leaf ratio π
Would you grow again 4 plants in one pot or go back to "just" one? BTW I never tried it by myself π
@KrautFabrik, Because all plants germinated and grew well, I had too many plants. Buying extra autopots was not an option because of the price. Four plants per pot goes very wel. If I had clones I'd do it every time. But with seeds you have so much difference in size, that's a bit of a problem..... In the previous grow (El Patron) I only had one plant per pot, but due to the buds and the long growing time, the plants had a nutrient deficiency in the beginning of flowering.... What I do like is that the autopots allow the plants to drink water individually. Even if they are in the same pot.