Hey @XiwsX561 , yes it’s been a bit of a learning process. I’m using a mixture of approximately 2 parts Gaia Green Living Soil, 1 part worm castings and 1 part perlite currently but took a bit to get there. Looking at the 4 big fabric pots, the one on the left was the first I transplanted. It’s the super stretchy plant from the other pic you commented on lol. For that one I had no extra perlite yet. In an effort to reign in the stretchyness I put the old rootball on its side near the bottom of the new fabric pot and bent the stem up burying several inches of stem in the process. I then added an inch or two of worm castings as top dressing hence the dark colour for that pot. For the other 3, they are mostly consistent per the above ratios but I needed to add more soil after the transplant and had to try to mix the ingredients together by hand in the top couple inches of the pots. Apparently some ended up getting more perlite than others. Lesson learned I should first do my mixing in a large separate container then transfer to the pots during transplant.
Pretty smart idea with the root ball and bending of stalk, been doing hydro for years just recently did my first auto first outdoor first soil and first organic in one. Obviously urs did fine but I would have been worried about stalk rotting. the ones started outside do u know which node you topped at? I see you fimmed one and you say your watering in nutes are you adding extra liquid nutes? Your pretty much organic from what I've told me are you doing teas and microbes/beneficial bacteria?
Pretty smart idea with the root ball and bending of stalk, been doing hydro for years just recently did my first auto first outdoor first soil and first organic in one. Obviously urs did fine but I would have been worried about stalk rotting. the ones started outside do u know which node you topped at? I see you fimmed one and you say your watering in nutes are you adding extra liquid nutes? Your pretty much organic from what I've told me are you doing teas and microbes/beneficial bacteria?
Hey @XiwsX561 , the two I started outside haven’t been topped or trained in any way yet, they are my Blue Haze 2 and Hay-Z 2 and are pictures below as of this morning. They are both just starting to work on the 6th node (if we’re counting the single blade leaves as the first node) and are still under a foot tall.
So far I’ve only topped my two oldest Bruce Banner x Unknown bag seed plants (one of them I attempted to FIM). Those were topped at about the 6/7th node but the plants were already over 2 feet tall at that point due to the earlier stretching so I was attempting to slow vertical growth.
I’m using Reefertilizer nutes which come in powder form and are dissolved in the water, they’re synthetic nutes aside from ‘Reefertilizer Start’ which is an amendment added to the soil in all the initial pots + in the hole during transplant. From the website “Our Start soil conditioner is made from water hyacinth and mycorrhizal spores used exclusively for agriculture worldwide. Both are renewable and organic.”
Do you recommend any training for the younger plants? Since they are already growing fairly short and compact and I don’t have any restriction on height, I’d mostly be training to increase yield. Because they were started late as well I think I’d prefer to stick with LST if I do any training to avoid stunting their growth with only 5-6 weeks of veg left before the sun tells them it’s time to flower.
To try and keep a uniform canopy without topping I call it lst 360. Not sure of actual name but basically take your main cola or stalk and bend over and tie down until the lower nodes catch up. Then turn 90 degrees donthr same until you have gone all the way around the only HST I would do with this is a pinch to main stalk. Kind of like super cropping but not folding it over just goin to make it stronger slow it down slightly because even during super cropping it usually recovers in just a few hours. You have 5-6 weeks of veg + first 2-4 weeks of flowering. Summer solstice was June 20th so every day the days are getting shorter. Not sure when you guys harvest in Canada usually September October here. Reefertilzer is just good bacteria and fungi to help with rooting.
Need some microbes to help break down your dry amendments unless giai green is just slow release feet. Can use hi brix, molasses, sugar , to feed microbes. But you can picture your plant upside down in the soil kinda gives you a Pont of reference of when to uppot and I think your due. Being in plastic soon as the pots too small she will begin to stretch on you. Take notes time of year age or plant so next time you grow that strain your 2 steps ahead of her and know what's she's going to do
