San Diego, 1st indoor, 4x4 tent, soil, organic grow journal

[707finisher]

Looking great!

 

[Smoking Gun]

I used safety pins to tie off to fabric pots. Either end works as a loop to tie off to.

 

[stp]

some of the leaves are turning and twisting, a little lighter colored tips, maybe that’s just new growth or maybe they are getting too close to lights?

 

[Farmer P]

Something doesn't look quite right, but I'm not good enough to know what's causing it. Maybe it will grow out of it, but if it gets worse maybe put up some pics in the infirmary.

 

[stp]

Watered them with a much higher ratio of cal/mag, moved lights up as they were 20” away, mixed a little rhizo with cannazyme and watered through until each had runoff. I did not use any BioVega, and this was the first time I watered through with runoff like this. Normally I would not while using nutrients but since cal mag is a contstant, and rhizo and Canna are really both just enzymes....we will see how this looks tomrrow. The temp was up as it’s raining and cold here so I heated the house and didn’t account for this room...opened the window outside more for the night. The new leaves are way skinnier than the first fatties...is that normal or odd? I have no idea if these are female or male either so.

 

[PlumberSoCal]

I used safety pins to tie off to fabric pots. Either end works as a loop to tie off to.

Mine came with velcro. Would be good for you guys. I'm in coco. 1 gal works for me. Gonna try half gal this spring.

 

[Smoking Gun]

@stp, I wouldn't worry about the contorting leaves, you did a bunch of damage to them and they are trying to pull through. It does look like the new growth is coming in fine.

The very light color on the edges of the leaves is a bit weird, its tough to tell if the edges are too light or if the rest of the leaf is too dark. But I would recommend a foliar feed of the Rhizotonic, it does wonders for the health of the plant and helps them deal with stress much better.

 

[stp]

@stp, I wouldn't worry about the contorting leaves, you did a bunch of damage to them and they are trying to pull through. It does look like the new growth is coming in fine.

The very light color on the edges of the leaves is a bit weird, its tough to tell if the edges are too light or if the rest of the leaf is too dark. But I would recommend a foliar feed of the Rhizotonic, it does wonders for the health of the plant and helps them deal with stress much better.

Thank you for the reassurance. They look worse in photos than in real life. They are starting to ask (drooping) for water after one day. I watered them on Monday and today (Merry Christmas) they look a little droopy already. I think I am going to move them to 5’s to buy me a couple extra days between watering.

 

[707finisher]

Merry Christmas!!

 

[stp]

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to you too. Just finished moving them to their 5 Gallon final home.

 

[stp]

Here they are at 8:30 this morning. Dumping rain here in San Diego so RH is way up with the humidifier off. Closed window to outside, heating house, it’s coming down nicely. They look good already after being moved yesterday! The pots were filled and sprayed with tea two or more weeks early, they had nice fungus growing by the time I put these into them. I used more cal/mg than I have been, I’m close to 15ml per gallon now, Roots Organics. I also used About 8 ml of Rhizotonic per gallon for each pot. Each pot got a gallon. Not sure if that was enough because I did not water them through until run-off. With these Organics, my decision after reading a lot, was to only water with nutrients for zero runoff goal. Why waste the expensive nutrients? I’ve had runoff, but it’s never what I’m trying to do. Maybe when I water with straight water I will shoot for 10%, but from what I have read, organic doesn’t need runoff, only when you are using synthetic chemical fertilizers. If I’m wrong, don’t be afraid to tell me.

 

[707finisher]

Nice shrubbery!!

 

[stp]

Happy New Year, I’m remotely checking in to my kids. They got FIM’d again and watered before I left. Looking superb, I sure hope they are all girls!

 

[stp]

is there any reason I can’t tie down branches now or am I way too late for that. Plants are 12-15 inches tall and bushy. I just FIM’d for the last time so from now till flip (coming soon at the growth rate) I’ve got to fight height. They are very bendable plants, I can move them and some of them stay. Thoughts on what I need to do next or just let em grow?

 

[Smoking Gun]

Bend them if you need to, you are still in veg so just about anything is still game.

 

[stp]

Here they are, as bushy as a 70’s deadhead, hippie girl and I’m really close to going 12/12.
Should I be doing anything to prepare for the flip?
Should I consider thinning the Bush to improve light penetration? I pulled all the tall tops (3) over and they are all tied down now. One plant is super stacked with fat trunk stalk and nodes one on top of the other.

 

[Smoking Gun]

Get stakes in so you have something to tie branches off to. It will help support the weight and it will also give you places to tie branches to form a specific canopy. I would also recommend trimming out a lot of the small branches, interior leaves and the lower 1/3-1/2 of the plant.

 

[stp]

Get stakes in so you have something to tie branches off to. It will help support the weight and it will also give you places to tie branches to form a specific canopy. I would also recommend trimming out a lot of the small branches, interior leaves and the lower 1/3-1/2 of the plant.

I’m on it!

 

[stp]

Here I’ve staked all of them with four per pot. Two of them I hacked a lot of undergrowth. The third I started a little but it was the super stumpy one and I got hungry. I’ll do the 1.5 I’ve got left and give them fresh tea spritz Foliar after unless I shouldn’t foliar worm tea this soon after trimming?

 

[stp]

Finished trimming undersides. Went to SDHydro and got some tea in my spray bottle then sprayed them from trunk to top, inside and out. Sprayed the soil in each and wet around the stalk where it meets the soil. Then I poured the 1c leftover equally on each around the base where I had sprayed already.