Blueberries And Purple Afghans

[turtlehams]

Half the root mass pruned.

Transplanted into 2 gal smart pots.

Mulched with pine barks.

I was a little hard on the Blueberry#1 when pruning the roots. I think it will recover. We’ll see. If not i already have 2 clones of it.

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1st does the pine bark change the ph of the soil, i know pine needles for sure do.
2nd what is the pruning roots all about? love to hear new ways to enhance my growing techs.

thanks and have fun in the garden
ham

 

[crimsonecho]

1st does the pine bark change the ph of the soil, i know pine needles for sure do.
2nd what is the pruning roots all about? love to hear new ways to enhance my growing techs.

thanks and have fun in the garden
ham

No it doesnt effect soil ph, at least not greatly ime. Also i flood the tray so its like sip method. Used drip irrigation prior to that. Drippers hidden under mulch. Steam treatment helps stabilising it i think. But i rarely run water thru it. And for it to actually alter soil ph, i think you have to mix it in.

Pruning the roots is cutting (for me half ) off the root mass before transplanting. 4 sides and bottom. 5 cuts leaves you with a cube shaped soil and root mass on your hand. This encourages auxillary root tips to become activated. So 1 root shoots many new roots in every direction. Overall a better root system is achieved.

 

[turtlehams]

No it doesnt effect soil ph, at least not greatly ime. Also i flood the tray so its like sip method. Used drip irrigation prior to that. Drippers hidden under mulch. Steam treatment helps stabilising it i think. But i rarely run water thru it. And for it to actually alter soil ph, i think you have to mix it in.

Pruning the roots is cutting (for me half ) off the root mass before transplanting. 4 sides and bottom. 5 cuts leaves you with a cube shaped soil and root mass on your hand. This encourages auxillary root tips to become activated. So 1 root shoots many new roots in every direction. Overall a better root system is achieved.

very interesting! how fast do your ladies bounce back from the prune? have you ever had things want to throw herms after?
thanks again for the insight
ham

 

[crimsonecho]

very interesting! how fast do your ladies bounce back from the prune? have you ever had things want to throw herms after?
thanks again for the insight
ham

Normally they dont even lag in anyway. The only problem with blueberry was that i already pruned it and forgot i buried its stem a little deeper so when i pruned again i took too much inadvertendly. Never had hermies, not yet. I purchase from good and well known seedbanks and get old and stable strains.

 

[crimsonecho]

Things going good. Some showing pre pre-flowers :) some recently hit puberty.

The stem purpling was definitely magnesium deficiency. I forgot to add a magnesium source after adding a bit of calcitic lime. At that time i was thinking i could just water with epsom since i also have high cal ratio out of my tap. I forgot that too :D

Then i remembered and between watering a couple of hours ago and now, i can see clear change.

The others seemed fine with it but this blueberry has a fine palate.

And the cucumber is just for fun. I don’t use bottled stuff anymore, just a couple of products to correct in time of crisis. So i wanted to see if its possible to get a couple of cucumbers off a plant grown in this 0.5 litre pot with biobizz grow and bloom. Also have a tomato, it hasn’t flowered yet.

 

[crimsonecho]

Brings tears to my eyes to see how far along we came in a month with all these obstacles along the way :D

 

[chemistry]

I grew a stunning tom plant in my flower space, but no toms due to it not being self pollinating, check to see if your Cucumber is self pollinating.

 

[crimsonecho]

I grew a stunning tom plant in my flower space, but no toms due to it not being self pollinating, check to see if your Cucumber is self pollinating.

This is a “poona kheera” cucumber and there is really not much info about it. I’m only seeing male flowers for now but its really early to say anything tho i’ve seen comments where people growing only one plant, commenting about the fruit yield. So i’m sure it is.

 

[crimsonecho]

All of them are going fine. Flowers are starting to set in. Will give close ups once they form.

 

[Phylex]

Why does it feel like all you guys can grow amazing plants from seed to harvest in a week and my grow feels like it's taking years? lol Looks great!!

 

[crimsonecho]

Why does it feel like all you guys can grow amazing plants from seed to harvest in a week and my grow feels like it's taking years? lol Looks great!!

Thanks for the compliment. It feels like a lifetime to grow every plant :) can’t wait to get the sweet sweet buds.

Seriously tho, you just have to let them be. Very hard, i know :) They have been growing on their own for millions and millions of years. Give a good soil, powerful lights and let them be :D

 

[zzzybil]

wishes somebody would post ''preflower'' pics - remains a mystery to me

 

[crimsonecho]

I’ll correct my terminology and call them bud sites or just flowers for your benefit and i can show you pictures of both if you don’t know what they are but your post actually doesn’t make sense gramatically or i may be having a hard time comprehending it, as i am a foreigner. So some degree of language barrier there. Anyhow, feeling lazy at the moment so it’ll have to wait.

wishes somebody would post ''preflower'' pics - remains a mystery to me

 

[zzzybil]

no rush - trying to get up and go ''wrap'' up this christmas pile of presents...........buncha knick knack holly jolly tj max spree ! Anyways just saw pic of ''crowning'' love to see some pics of baby sexing plants - if preflowers are sacs and pistils lol.......got it BUT where I hear peeps determining sex at earlier days ??????? YEAH trying to teach myself terminology , still getting stuff mixed up stipules ,pistils .......calyx , fan leaves vs sugar leaves.
Amazes me peeps that KNOW strain by structure ! I'm still clueless staring at the ''pics of the month '' - I can see some differences in the structures of the buds but its all just jaw dropping beautiful ! INSPIRING !

tHANKS whenever yuh get a chance will be awesome !! Here to learn , amazing resource here. From what I've been reading INCREDIBLE patience and generosity of spirit ! Merry Christmas all
Tho ruining me for the mediocre that I'm accustomed to - I see new horizons in my new year

 

[TerpyTyrone]

no rush - trying to get up and go ''wrap'' up this christmas pile of presents...........buncha knick knack holly jolly tj max spree ! Anyways just saw pic of ''crowning'' love to see some pics of baby sexing plants - if preflowers are sacs and pistils lol.......got it BUT where I hear peeps determining sex at earlier days ??????? YEAH trying to teach myself terminology , still getting stuff mixed up stipules ,pistils .......calyx , fan leaves vs sugar leaves.
Amazes me peeps that KNOW strain by structure ! I'm still clueless staring at the ''pics of the month '' - I can see some differences in the structures of the buds but its all just jaw dropping beautiful ! INSPIRING !

tHANKS whenever yuh get a chance will be awesome !! Here to learn , amazing resource here. From what I've been reading INCREDIBLE patience and generosity of spirit ! Merry Christmas all
Tho ruining me for the mediocre that I'm accustomed to - I see new horizons in my new year

U are all over the place bro! Hahaha

 

[Monster762]

no rush - trying to get up and go ''wrap'' up this christmas pile of presents...........buncha knick knack holly jolly tj max spree ! Anyways just saw pic of ''crowning'' love to see some pics of baby sexing plants - if preflowers are sacs and pistils lol.......got it BUT where I hear peeps determining sex at earlier days ??????? YEAH trying to teach myself terminology , still getting stuff mixed up stipules ,pistils .......calyx , fan leaves vs sugar leaves.
Amazes me peeps that KNOW strain by structure ! I'm still clueless staring at the ''pics of the month '' - I can see some differences in the structures of the buds but its all just jaw dropping beautiful ! INSPIRING !

tHANKS whenever yuh get a chance will be awesome !! Here to learn , amazing resource here. From what I've been reading INCREDIBLE patience and generosity of spirit ! Merry Christmas all
Tho ruining me for the mediocre that I'm accustomed to - I see new horizons in my new year

I just got an email from my seed spot saying they can take a plant at 7 days old and garuntee what sex it is. By lab though. Need 1 inch cut. As for all these prefliwers I don’t look for no certain way nodes set or none of that. You see pistils it’s female or hermie. At the crop of the branch there will be hairs. Not the 2 spike things actual white hairs next to them. Until I see hairs it’s undetermined. Then after seeing hairs you still got to look for balls.

 

[crimsonecho]

I just got an email from my seed spot saying they can take a plant at 7 days old and garuntee what sex it is. By lab though. Need 1 inch cut. As for all these prefliwers I don’t look for no certain way nodes set or none of that. You see pistils it’s female or hermie. At the crop of the branch there will be hairs. Not the 2 spike things actual white hairs next to them. Until I see hairs it’s undetermined. Then after seeing hairs you still got to look for balls.

Above all else i can’t get a good pic of the pre-flowers to save my life. Its either burn you cornea under leds and take the pic or just live :D

Well really there are thousand of pics of it on the internet. Stipules, pistils and calyxes. At least for a fem grower. Then maybe couple of balls if it hermies or bananas. All are parts of the flower itself. Except stipules, they just.. exist.

no rush - trying to get up and go ''wrap'' up this christmas pile of presents...........buncha knick knack holly jolly tj max spree ! Anyways just saw pic of ''crowning'' love to see some pics of baby sexing plants - if preflowers are sacs and pistils lol.......got it BUT where I hear peeps determining sex at earlier days ??????? YEAH trying to teach myself terminology , still getting stuff mixed up stipules ,pistils .......calyx , fan leaves vs sugar leaves.
Amazes me peeps that KNOW strain by structure ! I'm still clueless staring at the ''pics of the month '' - I can see some differences in the structures of the buds but its all just jaw dropping beautiful ! INSPIRING !

tHANKS whenever yuh get a chance will be awesome !! Here to learn , amazing resource here. From what I've been reading INCREDIBLE patience and generosity of spirit ! Merry Christmas all
Tho ruining me for the mediocre that I'm accustomed to - I see new horizons in my new year

In the mean time throwing some early flower photos. Can’t really see much problem with them but its too bright under there to see anything (my eyes are sensitive to light which is very fucked up when growing indoors) and photos are sub-par cause its hard to see the phone screen under the lights.. need to take them out and work on them individually and its a hassle at the moment.

 

[OldSmokie76]

No it doesnt effect soil ph, at least not greatly ime. Also i flood the tray so its like sip method. Used drip irrigation prior to that. Drippers hidden under mulch. Steam treatment helps stabilising it i think. But i rarely run water thru it. And for it to actually alter soil ph, i think you have to mix it in.

Pruning the roots is cutting (for me half ) off the root mass before transplanting. 4 sides and bottom. 5 cuts leaves you with a cube shaped soil and root mass on your hand. This encourages auxillary root tips to become activated. So 1 root shoots many new roots in every direction. Overall a better root system is achieved.

Your root pruning method sounds like a method I read about for bonsai mother methods. A way to rejuvinate a mother plant each time you take cuttings. With pruning as you described, as with the bonsai method, you cut the root mass on all sides. When transplanting, use a larger container to allow the plant to grow larger. To rejuvenate the plant but retain a smaller stature, just return the plant to the same size container. There plants roots will develop into fresh medium and allow the veg growth take off again. This time with more shoots from pruning originally. Root pruning is a great way to promote plant vigor and growth. Slight rebound time just as transplanting or a heavy pruning may create, but overall great cultivation practices. Always remember the mykos.

 

[crimsonecho]

Your root pruning method sounds like a method I read about for bonsai mother methods. A way to rejuvinate a mother plant each time you take cuttings. With pruning as you described, as with the bonsai method, you cut the root mass on all sides. When transplanting, use a larger container to allow the plant to grow larger. To rejuvenate the plant but retain a smaller stature, just return the plant to the same size container. There plants roots will develop into fresh medium and allow the veg growth take off again. This time with more shoots from pruning originally. Root pruning is a great way to promote plant vigor and growth. Slight rebound time just as transplanting or a heavy pruning may create, but overall great cultivation practices. Always remember the mykos.

Yeah i use it for my bonsai mothers and when i transplant plants into bigger pots to promote branching. Its a good technique.

 

[crimsonecho]

So hard to focus on these little guys :)

Will get better videos once they start roaming again.

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