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Or the obligatory Valentine's Day / week chick flick marathon complete with infused banana muffins .......Old man winter got him ...🌨🌬☃
Good tip!
However i am a very dry cycle grower. Most would panic at how dry my soil gets. Lol
I have only ever had a couple visible even with years of ocean forest.
And they have always disapeared with more attention to drying out pots further or if the room was too crowded, when it thinned out.
I think the soil bags i got were heavily infected and some survived this time.
I have positively identified the flyers as fungus gnats but hope severely for no root aphids.
@MIMedGrower - I recognize that this is a very old post that I'm replying to, but I just found this thread and I'm just going to read it cover to cover! But wanted to ask a quick question -- do you have any advice/tips for a new grower that's trying to figure out how much water his seedling/early veg plants need (I'm in FFOF as well, cut with a bit of a coco coir and perlite)? Once I'm into stretch/flower, I think I've got a pretty good handle on what they need and when...but I'm pretty clueless in the early going as far as how often, how much, when to start watering to runoff, etc. Thanks in advance! And I'm really looking forward to reading through this entire thread and learning from someone that clearly has a wealth of experience growing this wonderful plant. Happy growing!
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Funny the last pic i posted was about that exact question. I water the 18oz plastic cup the tap tooted seed goes in to to runoff from the beginning. Then wait 7-10 days or so til its dry enough to do it again. Then a couple weeks later i transplant up to a 1 gallon pot and do it again. I dont mess around with small plants in large pots and water only a little bit at a time. Although that can work fine too.
I do caution to water seedlings slowly and carefully to not damage fragile new roots.
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Funny the last pic i posted was about that exact question. I water the 18oz plastic cup the tap tooted seed goes in to to runoff from the beginning. Then wait 7-10 days or so til its dry enough to do it again. Then a couple weeks later i transplant up to a 1 gallon pot and do it again. I dont mess around with small plants in large pots and water only a little bit at a time. Although that can work fine too.
I do caution to water seedlings slowly and carefully to not damage fragile new roots.
" I don't mess around with small plants in large pots "Thanks for stopping in. :-)
Funny the last pic i posted was about that exact question. I water the 18oz plastic cup the tap tooted seed goes in to to runoff from the beginning. Then wait 7-10 days or so til its dry enough to do it again. Then a couple weeks later i transplant up to a 1 gallon pot and do it again. I dont mess around with small plants in large pots and water only a little bit at a time. Although that can work fine too.
I do caution to water seedlings slowly and carefully to not damage fragile new roots.
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So getting the nutes dialed in precisely is likely critical with this "drier" approach? I think I remember you once stating you "move from deficiency to deficiency" and just keep addressing each one independently from one another... (I could be mistaken, it might not have been you). I would think that high ppm would be the main problems arising from a drier grow.
Is that a fair assumption?
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I agree, sequentially potting is a big part of what I do. It's a lot more work, but it's worth the effort. I usually upgrade about 3-5 times, depending on the plant.
The abundant oxygen causes the roots to fork, instead of just getting longer and twisting inside the pot.
With this one, I didn't even strip off the pot, I just replanted it into another cloth pot, and I will sort it out post mortem
" I don't mess around with small plants in large pots "
Please take MIM advice on this one .........
I feel like it's one of the biggest challenges to new growers ...
I'm a big fan of starting small and up potting as you grow
i never said that. If anything i say the opposite and not to micro manage but to keep ec low and manage the medium as a whole.
but with ocean forest there is nothing. To manage. I will water only through transplants every 2-3 weeks and start fertilizing about week 2-3 in 12/12.
i say always err on the side of underfeeding.
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I agree, sequentially potting is a big part of what I do. It's a lot more work, but it's worth the effort. I usually upgrade about 3-5 times, depending on the plant.
The abundance of oxygen causes the roots to fork and divide, instead of just getting longer and languishing along the bottoms of the containers.
With this one, I didn't even strip off the pot, I just replanted it into another cloth pot, and I will sort it out post mortem
Huge fan of this technique! Works well and helps minimize feeding/watering/ph mistakes and who ever said don’t transplant autos ? Well they don’t do it correct - I up pot 3 times and thinkin bout addin 4 th in the future to 5 gallon - anyways I almost copy and paste ur technique and one of the best things I ever did !I like to up pot when the roots are full and just bursting out of the pot and the dry cycle gets them to develop nice little extensions rather than all thick water roots.
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when done at the right time smooth and quickly no stress after transplant is observed. And new growth can happen immediately.
This is funny, because I've taken the exact opposite approach to transplanting. They'll stay in those little 3x3 pots WAY longer than most people would think of, then get rootbound and pause growth for a bit. Some stress flower or herm at this point (inducing this is part of the point), they get tossed in the garbage. Most of my plants get held like this for a while until there's room to flower.
When they do eventually get flipped, the growth is explosive. Going from one cup of soil to 2 gallons of it, the roots just kind of bolt out in all directions and they're ready to flip in a couple weeks.
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