Re: AfricanGrower's 1st Hydro Journal-Ebb&Flow/Bubblelicious 2013
5/10/13
Hey all! I have done quite a bit since I last posted here with pictures. I have also learned quite a few things in my reality that I want to share with all. I’ll get to that later though. I will start with the bagseed this time because they might just be replacing Bubb A in that pot!
SO I completely made a rookie mistake thinking that I could hold off on watering the 3 bagseed until after I got out of work earlier this week before transplanting them. They all were badly wilted as you can see but I had faith they all would recover within minutes of watering.
20 minutes later you can see that they all were almost fully recovered, EXCEPT for one. It got hit the worst because it was the least mature of the 3. There is still little growth from this one and the lower leaves are still fairly moist but starting to dry up. We will see if she will bounce back within the week.
I planned on transplanting all 3 of the bagseed into ½ gallon containers from the 1 pint clay pots they were in. Remember that I had planted the weakest (shortest and slowest growth) into a ½ gallon container a couple days before. This was an experiment to see how quickly pot size can affect plant size.
The pictures below show the size of the weakest bagseed plant compared to the biggest of the 3 bagseed that was just recently transplanted.
NOTE that these plants were transplanted 6 days a part
This shows nearly 2 inches difference in growth from 1pint to ½ gallon containers in 6 days. Exponentially, the rate of growth of the ‘weakest bagseed’ would have far superseded its mates.
I also
Topped and
Fimmed the 3 healthy bagseeds today as well. The largest of 3 I topped as you can see below. And the smaller 2, I fimmed. One of the fimmed plants was cut too low into new growth so I doubt 4 main tops will be protruding from there!
Last update for the bagseeds: as you might have noticed from pictures above is the new home I constructed for them below my grow space in the tent. I did this for two reasons,
1. I wanted to move the bagseeds out of the PC case but did not want to over crowd the Bubb’s as they are starting to really stretch.
2. I am in the works of redesigning my automated top feed/drain system so I can also feed the bagseeds when I am away. I will discuss more on that topic in the future
But I basically rewired a power strip to an extension cord (spare PC 3-prong power outlet) and used the 3 CFLs I was using in the PC. And covered the whole thing in car-windshield reflective material. Plus a little breeze from coming in from the West ensures fresh circulating air to these potential SOG buddies.
Now time to move on to the Bubbs. I still have not 100% determined sex of both plants as of yet so I will keep you guys posted on that. I told you guys I decided to try and trick a branch of Bubb A into flowering by blocking light, so I am currently 3 days in of flowering for that branch and will give it 4-5 more days to see if flowering was actually induced.
However I am still fairly certain Bubb B is a female, not only by calyx shape but by overall growth characteristics. Bubb B is certainly much bushier than Bubb A, not considering the LST.
Looking at the pictures below you can see the difference in height and width of both Bubb plants. Remember Bubb A is not trained, and Bubb B is.
Now this comes down to difference in main growth of the two plants. Bubb B has significantly larger lower growth than Bubb A. 4 of the main tops are the 2nd to lowest nodes of the plant and each of the 8 total main tops have 2-4 secondary tops growing on it. So I have potentially 22 main tops in this picture and I plan on topping each of these in 1-2 weeks, giving me 40-44 main tops 2 weeks before I go into flower. The tops circled with BLUE are the smallest and lowest nodes of the plant. They will most likely be used for clone stasis.
I made another mistake today. More of not being careful than pure rookie intentions. I was placing Bubb B back into the tent after the photo shoot and I accidentally brushed one of here trained branches on the zipper of the tent. It got caught. And it snapped. Not all hope is lost though. There are still some attached cells so I put a splint around it and hope for the best. If this main top ends up dying than I might be looking at about 36 main tops in flower instead.
Here is a photo of growth of the broken top. I will update with a photo in a week to see if there is in fact new growth.
