Final update: I just finished transplanting four of these seedlings to soilmix in Autopots. BFD but I went from this:
To this in less than 15 minutes with no stress to the plants, almost zero mess...never had to touch a plant or roots using the above technique:
So now when these girls get...
Update: Here is the plant you saw above and 5 others all done this way happily going in bloom. Important point to me: zero casualties...
5 Uranium 420s (all looking female as of this morning) and one lone Exorcist....
...is working out well. Its funny though; I was working all this out in my head (and paper, and CAD software, etc) and found all of the benefits to *me* as the grower....but one of the comments above brought home what could be the most important point:
With this I can transplant things with...
...my disability and anything requiring delicacy like transplants, etc. The fact that it gets the job done about 2x as fast as the old way of repotting is a bonus....I think I lost like 6-8 GOOD plants in the past six months due to shaky hands. Haven't lost one yet this way. It just *feels* solid...
Update: the Alfies are just stagnant but the rest (Alpine OG, Black Sugar Rose, Afghani Kush) are doing great!
Alfies were freebies anyways..thing is, the pots are working as-designed.
Just finished my first 8 plants completely through the system (haven't shown the seed bit yet) from seed/clones to harvest and haven't lost one yet and every one done this way is thriving so far. This setup is very simple to get going and to maintain. I am currently using a soil mix that is...
...trying to think of name) , pick the target plant out of the minifarm, remove the bottom lid and set it in the soil. Then I just fill in the soil *around* the plastic pot until the Autopot is as full as I want to make it, then I can just slide the upside down pot up and over the whole plant...
Well, since I am in a continual harvest system anyways, that doesn't really help because I am either always or never at the end of the cycle for *something* in there, whereas the remaining 66% or so needs that light to stay right the F where its at if possible. So figured since there are no...
Would that I could estimate; I have had so many different light-schemes going etc that I lost track. Probably should pick some arbitrary date like Jan 1 or something, drop in a new one and *pay more attention this time*.....
Cheers for the reply...
Greetings. I was in bloom today and I realized that I had the same 600w HPS bulb in play for nearly a year. Since both ends of my cooling tube around it are sealed, I only want to rip into it when I need to or what it makes sense. So if you have a schedule for changing your lights, how often do...
Greetings farmers. One thing Octopot/Autopot (or any similar system) owners know is that while they are great for thriving vigorously-growing plants, they kinda stink for clones and seedlings, mostly due to the fact that what you are planting doesn't really have a developed root system yet and...
And thats exactly why I am trying to document the results. Before I started the gradual harvest thing I had maybe a dozen or more plant-harvests under my belt. Not alot but enough to know something needed to change. I have done the lollypopping in the past as a general trial but never under any...
Greetings and thanks for the input. In many ways we think alike; for example, thats why I am standardizing on Autopots for now; veg to bloom move is simply lifting the plant/pot from one room and take it to another. Wheels would not help much for a couple of reasons, not the least of which is I...
I just realized, I am kinda doing that too, although not by intent. Any plants that get ready for flowering, first I take a bunch of clones (planning for the future) and where do those come from? Bottom of the plant....
Last time I will ever say this but....yeah in a lot of ways I do feel lucky....however the freedom afforded by this luck, this situation was not voluntary and I miss being far more functional. Also, the same thing that pushed me into this "freedom" also might yank it away in a few years or so...
Also keep in mind:
* I just grow for myself and the missus
* As such, I only keep about 18-20 plants max at any one time (everything from seedlings to fully mature plants)
* Being disabled, on days when my brains doesn't go south I can afford to micro-manage the process and "tinker".
Add it all...
@mittenmedgrow: I take maybe 20% credit but as I have been only growing for a year now (last year this time I was just putting my first crop to flower), I know much of that 20% is luck. The remainder though I must credit to the source strain, Exorcist (Ambulance x Harlequin Jo) bred by a cool...
@mittenmedgrow: Cheers for the tips and information. I have no real ego here, I know for fact for every single thing I think I do know, I am also confident that there are 10 I don't and maybe another 10 I have misunderstood. Many hilarious tales in that last category.
In fact though, you kinda...
Damned straight it is. Sometimes I think I bite off more than I can chew. Making it work right means making it work smoothly and reliably. To do that you need to be able to say "on such and such date I want a (for example) Trainwreck, which means I must have a healthy teen ready on such and such...
Update: finished the final harvest on the Exorcist (right in above pic) and I must say I am sold on the technique. Even at the bottom of the plant, where you would expect to find the worthless whispy crap, I found maybe 3 of those anywhere on whats left of the plant. All the rest, to a one...