DeaneR's 1st Cross

VEG WEEK 8 My Base Nutrient Inputs: See VEG WEEK 6 for details of stock solutions A & B. My grow weeks run from Monday to Sunday. This week the goal was to get the girls into their final 7 Gallon / 27L fabric pots. I had a couple of Canna Coco bricks and a 107L Bag of Pro-Mix HP on hand, and decided to do a mix of the two. I made an effort to kill anything in these medias by applying heat. The Pro-Mix HP was bone dry, and I rehydrated (4 Gallons of media) with a hand pump sprayer and alot of mixing to evenly dampen the Pro-Mix. I then placed the media into 4, 1 Gallon Ziploc freezer bags, and microwaved them, one at a time, on high for 1 minute per side, flipping over after each minute. I cooked each bag (under close supervision) for a total of 4 minutes. The bags came out steaming hot and required some oven mitts to handle. The Coco bricks were then expanded with boiling water and covered to steam till cooled. That should kill any critters😈. One of the coco bricks was mixed with the four gallons of Pro-Mix HP. This mixture was split in half and put into the bottom of each 7 Gallon pot. The remainder of the pot was topped off with pure coco (about 2 Gallons each) to form a top layer that will dry up faster and hopefully lead to less fungus gnats. Speaking of Fungus Gnats, while potting up these girls, an adult flew past my face out of nowhere. I hadn't seen a gnat in over a month😡. My Ninja Gnat killing reflexes took that sucker out mid flight! The girls were then each watered in with 3/4 Gallon of R.O. water plus 350ppm of Cal-Mag Plus. The girls were left to grow and settle into their new homes for the rest of the week. On Saturday they were watered with 1 Gallon each as listed above, and pH'd down to 5.7. So far I'm really happy with these seeds! Time for some more LST next week. Thanks for Viewing, Stay Safe & Grow Strong💪 Peace, DeaneR😎