Gorillaz In the mist!

So I seem to have lost a few of the videos I had of me constructing the actual garden area. I will post them If I find them as It Is quite a transformation! I originally only planted a couple of the Stardawgs and 4 of the GG. Due to been a bit of a maniac and a false sense of confidence, I thought.. ill just flood it 😂

After some nice progressive signs of new leaves growing and some roots showing from the bottom of the root riots I decided a transplant. I moved the 4 GG into the Amazon Aeroponic 50L 4 pot. Planted 2 of the Stardawg in CoCo mix as a bit of an experiment. I also made some variations of drainage via the use of clay pebbles and perlite to see the effect on the root zones. (for anyone who buys an amazon aeroponic, they charge you more for extra holes in the Same size tub. buy a holesaw and cut an extra couple in yourself and you can actually position them better!) After doing this I planted my last GG seed and the rest of my Stardawgs, meaning I had 5 GG and 4 Dawg.

So This week I thought everything was still going well, although some deadly problems were on the horizon. I also set up a new fan which literally nearly blew one of the girls head off like a complete and utter idiot. The 3 Girls in the coco were taking off fine and weren't showing any signs of stress.

Wk 4 was where I started to notice things weren't as they seemed. Continuous growth and some LST started towards the end of Wk3 and throughout 4 as different plants developed. The 3 girls in the Coco were looking wonderful, with nothing really done to them. - Towards the end of the week I noticed my leaves on the girls In the aero were now dramatically wilting and discolouration continued. - I flushed the tank and proceeded with just water.. 12 hours later after some research I realised I most likely have root rot!! - The following morning I took a look at the roots in more detail and what I thought was a bit of nute burn from the gunky root juice was in-fact slime. - I again drained the tank and rinsed the roots with tap water. Fortunately I have an adaptable tap and managed to hose them with an actual hose sprinkler! (it was better than a shower head). To my surprise most of the slime and damaged root matter rinsed away. I literally just scrubbed the whole tank with Flash bleach and rinsed the absolute crap out of it. - Again more research educated me that organic fertilisers are generally not great for hydro - I also realised that amazons system is terribly designed. The red sprinkler covers which are there purely for inspection let an immense amount of light penetrate through. This was another noob mistake I learned the hard way! Moving on I bought some Regen -e- root and pursued my crusade!

Wk 5 was Steady Away, Explosive growth starting, Transplanted one from aero to coco and added Began the Scrog As you may have noticed, I Expanded the garden to give the coco girls some more room. The Dawg in the aero wasn't taking well at all, she hadn't really had a good innings from the beginning. I transplanted her into the coco and Fed her very week nutes..

Continued the Scrog, Starting to notice pistils on the Stardawgs and very very premature signs on the GG.

Continued the Scrog and kept up with general maintenance in the garden. I stripped quite a lot of the leaves off the girls in the aero as they had so much foliage, the bud sites directly underneath the canopy seemed to be heavily shaded. Stripping most of the larger fan leaves and all the ones facing downwards and any which I felt wasn't necessary were removed. The Coco girls were Left to recover from the Mainling, again maintenance of re-tying down throughout the week. I am now experimenting with an organic run utilising the space from the 3 coco girls originally adjacent to the aero . A more in-depth diary of this will be covered so watch this space!

The Girls are EXPLODING Switch to Bloom nutes has been made, The Stardawgs have absolutely taken off. The runt which was discoloured and small seems to be stacking up nicely behind the rest. The Two which have been mainlined are now showing their potential with the main two colas looking like 2 fat bum cheeks! 1 has been untrained as an experiment for my own conclusion to the old age question.. 'can you train an AUTO?' The GG's are still growing rapidly but seem to be slowing down and bud sites have gone from a few pistils to little crumbs of furry goodness!

Steady week, all the girls seem to just keep getting bigger and bigger! Defoliated which I forgot to take pictures of however, they literally replaced the foliage in days! I Have a slight worry about one of the GG as she seems to be carrying on vegging with no real signs of flowering, just stretching more each day!? This seems strange as the Stardawgs look like they could be ready for flush in the coming weeks.. I am only a newbie so maybe i'm just been a little paranoid!? Either way She's absolutely massive!! Got the Dawgs out for a little photoshoot!

So This week was the same as the last really, It seems all I have to do is sit back and watch these ladies do their thing! Ive not gone full on with the bloom supplements or PK yet as only 2/5 of the GG are seriously flowering. The other 3/5 GG are now Finally showing some signs of flower and some tops are starting to build and lowers producing more pistils each day! The Stardawgs continue to explode, even some friends who were sceptical about the performance of the Quantum board LED's have been flow away by the results. All of the buds seem to be building dramatically top to bottom which no shortage of frost! Macro shots on the way!!

so week 11.. The gorillaz are carrying on beautifully, however I realised having 5 plants sharing one reservoir is now quite a bad idea.. 2/5 of them look to be well into flower, fattening up and some tri's starting to turn cloudy but look like theres still plenty of fattening up to do. The other 3 are now just beginning to fully pistil up so will still be requiring flowering nutes when I should be beginning a flush on the other 2.. any comment or advice on this would be greatly appreciated!? The Stardawgs have basically grown into tennis balls. Such a vast majority of bud sites all the way down look so much larger than I could ever have hoped and i've had to tie some of the buds to the main colas!! I will Be starting the flush this week as most Tri's are now cloudy i'd say around 4/5 currently but more throrugh macros will be taken as the days progress. The only problem i've had is some of the sugar leaves on 2 of the plants have really taken a beating and show some strange signs. I think the LED's aren't to be under estimated and i've battled some burning and what seems to be calmag issues through the grow.