707finishers first indoor grow, small tent.

[bunkerking]

For real. Try blending some into soil. It's my favorite mix for soil growing.

 

[707finisher]

I had thought to use one gallon large perlite one gallon coir one gallon fffof half gallon vermiculite or something, not to far off :)

 

[707finisher]

Thanks for the input!!!

 

[PlumberSoCal]

Seedling area will turn on soon.
I’ll take some pics of the new romie, a sad fighting clone, a slow germination and 2 seedlings that are tired of getting moved around. I noticed with the seedlings, if I move them around they stop growing, sheesh man hands off!!! I move them around and they wobble around, I spray them with water like they are clones and will try to root faster and they wobble around lol, idk to much I think.
That’s why I want to clone. I want to prune the mothers into bonsai plants I harvest clones off of. That and keeping the clones alive and transplanting will be enough I think. Also in spring I will have less time to screw with this.

Si! Best thing to do is look but leave 'em alone. There are times you have little choice but less is more.

 

[PlumberSoCal]

From what I've been reading here it seems like it's time you gave coco growing a try. You'll love the growth rate. Only problems are several watering per day and dealing with the runoff. Auto watering is easy enough, it's collecting and using the runoff. I've got a 17 gallon tank with a hose attached an inch from the top in the big greenhouse that allows the excess water to run out. It's not often as I use that water around the yard. In the little greenhouse I've got an eight gallon fish tank. I use that water for the herb garden. Basil love it.

 

[PlumberSoCal]

FYI, this is my first time growing in anything but soil, and today my soil mix rocks but coco blows it away.

Day 11, coco on the left and in smaller pots.

I have one female in soil left from that planting on Aug 25.

Granted it's almost 1 am on the West coast (lights out since 8) but I'd rather grow this

This is one of 3 on the left in that first pic.

The males

I always want to produce at least a few seeds and these are 3 pretty boys. I'm gonna start taking pollen from the sativa leaner on the left and the hybrid in the middle.

They produce stuff like this

Those trichromes feel like miniature sand when breaking up the buds. So tasty, and the tincture is beyond anything I can buy, beg, borrow or steal.

Coco or hydro, it's the 21st frickin' century. I'm gonna join it.

Coco dude. I'm telling everyone.

 

[707finisher]

I ended up mixing 2 gal perlite 2 gal ffof 2 gal coco half gal vermiculite.
Based on curiosity more than anything.
I forgot to buffer the coco first, got stoned and bored last night. getting cal mag today. If I water the soil mix with cal mag will that be enough or should I toss that batch outside In the garden.

I still like the idea of soil being simple, I just want watering every other day, I can set up a pump on a timer with a reservoir and drain platform if I need to go out of town,
I just want more waterings during the cycle. More opportunities for nutes and more chances to correct my problems when they occur, waiting 5 days for an improperly mixed soil to dry while the plant suffers is hard for me lol.
I also figured seedlings and clone transplants would like coco first then light soil. After seeing what mimed writes about it they are a little sensitive to it at first.
But Maybe transplanting from coco to soil mix later won’t be a good thing, if it’s harder for it to acclimate to the new soil right before flower. Idk

 

[Timbo0716]

I did that with FFHF and just perlite, watered every 2 to 3 days.

 

[707finisher]

I think I need to organize my timers better

 

[707finisher]

Had some soil that was 50/50 perlite and OF, I mixed that in with my coir blend, added more soil and smaller perlite basically. I’m mostly trying to use up the stuff I have. Lol

 

[707finisher]

Going to use a little cal mag when I water to help offset the coco since I didn’t wait, is this enough or to much?

 

[707finisher]

The weather is shitty here today, high wind gloomy and supposed to start raining. I’m so bored..... lights are all off, my new stuff won’t be here till Monday, the tv doesn’t interest me... going to find something to do outside hahahahahah. Maybe go for a ride!

 

[707finisher]

Just thinking, last night I saw the herer busted loose from the wire it was stretching so strong, the truck is almost an inch thick, I tried to re-tie the wire, the stem is so strong I was only able to get a little bit this time, it’s almost as tall as the wedding cake, if it stretches to much more I will have to take the frame out under the pots, I think it’s important to have air flow under the pots but the lights are max height right now. Wishing it was in a hard plastic pot, I don’t like the fabric pots for indoor after using a few of them. They have their place, more hands off style, and for the coco processing they were critical. But 1-2 gallon square nursery pots are on my list

 

[PlumberSoCal]

Going to use a little cal mag when I water to help offset the coco since I didn’t wait, is this enough or to much?

Go easy. It doesn't do as well in soil for me.

 

[bunkerking]

As before, it Really needs to be buffered or its going to steal the cal/mag. And trade k and sodium. You have to soak it in a high ppm calmag bath for 12 hours.

Yep it's like little perlite but it holds nutes and air. Perlite only has air.

 

[bunkerking]

Also should have mentioned I only do this with my left over coir. I mix in some new, and use the left over for my outdoor container garden. Pnw, so any help preventing root rot is a must for me.

I wouldn't do a custom blend for cannabis till you master it.

 

[707finisher]

Moved the new romie into temp veg tent, way different color than the other stuff I have going

Some of the leaves looked pretty bad I almost didn’t get it, see how it goes, this was the best one they had

 

[707finisher]

Seedlings all growing good, strange how half the herer are super bushy and the other half are more delicate. Same seeds same plant date, all came up out of the dirt about the same time. Different phenos I suppose? Also none of the seedling have shown sex yet

The Dosido bag seeds are doing better out of the led light

the auto flowering romie in the back, taking the switch to hid lights no problem, think it’s going to do ok, I had just pinched the tip off the thing when I realize and started asking about autoflowering

 

[707finisher]

The wedding cake is a little further behind the candy apple kush but they will both be done soon, I watered everything well today, am considering cutting them once they dry out again.

the herer I think is starving, I watered it slowly with just water then watered it well with medium nutes, did same with varying amounts of the nute mix to everything in flower.

I turn the led off when I’m in there I don’t like it. Think it’s good for final flower, trichomes and such maybe

 

[707finisher]

So I have had really good success planting seeds, lost one seed out of 12, due to clumsy handling on my part. Cloning I have only had 2 live, of probably 15, with various mediums. And they were the most 2 most sturdy of the strains of used so far. Dirt seems to work the best for me so far, both with direct planting, and direct cloning, hope this clone thing isn’t a total waste of money, I’ll use it for my bonsai trees as well! I think it’s because it’s so difficult to take care of them in the tiny space I have. Hoping once I have the small tent freed up for it that things will improve.

So even with my success popping seeds, the growth rate has always been slower than what I see from others with similar soil etc. I have a heat pad set to 76* figured I was good, well I was curious and stuck the probe in the dirt in the corner of the pot, way into in towards the bottom. It said 64* so I left the probe there to see if I can bring soil temps up. My moisture levels for seeds and seedlings is spot on, my temps are not good though. Hopefully I will see some improvement. Also good to know this is a way to slow down growth if needed.