Oof on the tent but 
on the clones!
on the clones!
Amy Gardner’s High Brix Dreams
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Hi beez- not a ‘lite’. It’s a Gorilla ‘Shorty’ which Gorilla says has the same build quality as the existing top of the line range. I was already in contact with the Aus distributor so I sent him an email. We’ll see what happens.
Their tents are kind of pricey in my humble opinion. With that said I would expect the quality to surpass that of less expensive grow tents on the market.
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Yeah - exactly this beez. I’ll keep y’all posted on how it plays out. An odd saga really, 6 months ago a didnt want a tent! I was going to to build something. HOw things change. I got a tent because I wasn;t up to building it and didn’t want to be stuffing around trying to make a box light tight 
I’m about to upload pics
I’m about to upload pics
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Update: Blue Dream #1 - day 46
Big Blue had a motley turn. Lost turgor and leaves faded to a motley pattern. This means I probably lost the ‘hook-up’ with the soil so Doc recommended a Rescue Drench. I had to wait a day or so for it to dry out. Interestingly this took longer than before, which is possibly connected to the loss of ‘communion’ between roots and soil folk
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Here it is 2 days ago finally ready for a watering drench (slight pre-wilt droop).
I mixed the Rescue Drench in about 8L of rainwater - which is a bit over 2 gallons. I’m using the dunking method so it got 4oz of Transplant and 24 mils of Tea.
Doc also recommended taking off lowers and trimming it up a bit more so I did. I decided then that it was silly to hold on to that first node branch just because it was a triploid if it meant burdening the plant while it was trying to recover so ... CLONES!
I dont really have a set up to grow out clones. But one day maybe i will so I figured i might as well get some practice and have some fun with it. I don’t know what I’ll do with them if they take! I’ll figure that out when it happens.
There were 3 branches removed from the bottom (one was removed last week). I couldn’t clone them instantly, which I know is the ideal, so I put them in some filtered rain water for 5-6hours while I rested and came back to them later to do the deed. I used some rooting hormone we already have (we have grown many native plants here from cuttings
), some of Doc’s ROOTS! powder and the first run soil. Decided to go straight into soil and see how it goes. I germinate straight into soil too and am so far 100% on germination like this, so I seem to like the straight into soil approach.
Oh — BTW my soil is alive
(Could probably do with a light spray to even out that moisture)
Anyway... back to the clones ...
I’m misting them 2-3 times a day very lightly with Destress at 1/4 strength and I periodically mist the underside of the glass bowl with plain water to keep the area humid. They’re on a heat mat doing the germination 1hour on 3 hours off pattern.
This is them today, 2 days later. I labeled it day 2 but it’s actually the beginning of day 3. They still look perky so that’s something.
I’m going to move them today to get them off the floor and put a different fluoro over them - the one that have is pretty dim, it’s just a bedside lamp really.
So, back to their mother - it took longer than previously for it to jump to attention after the drench which is to be expected after the “power loss”, but today the turgor seems to be returning and we definitely have the lights back on!
Last night i also pulled out all the big leaves i have had tucked away. I might leave them like this for a bit and just see how the lowers come through on their own. Plenty of time to leaftuck some more if needed.
Moon wise we’re really getting down into the dark period now so I’m glad I got the roots back on track in time for a week of cosmically supported proliferation!
I said a couple of days ago that I had a theory about how things got out of whack. It may or may not be right but i’ll Share it anyway, because it leads to something I need to solve. During the drench prior (early last week) I had an incident where, after drenching and during the draining, I dropped it back into the drench bucket
. I sometimes have issues with my hands (all my muscles really but the hands and arms can tire out fast - like, in seconds and without warning). It stayed back in the bucket for a while, and for some reason (being a bit high at the time maybe ) I thought pouring more water down the top was a good idea 
. SO it got dunked, and then dunked again. Maybe I washed out the pot? Maybe that wasn’t it, but it seems like that was not ideal, and then the plant lost its hookup with the soil - so seems a strong possibility.
Back on track now though so hopefully I can keep it that way. It leads me to this though: either I have to stop the dunking technique during veg, OR I need to find something to set the pot on for draingin that I can tilt in different directions rather than this being wholly reliant on my arms and hands. This will be essential for when I have more than one plant (and why I started with one this time - there’s no way I could be dunking more than one at the moment).
I’ve seen other brixers with contraptions for this - repurposed for this job, but i can’t remember who. Hopefully one of you who visit here will remember or someone will have an idea about what I could use. It’d be awesome to find some kind of contraption that i could tilt really easily.
I’m probably still a few weeks from transplanting into the bigger pot and flowering - I’m trying to get to everyday drenches before I do that. Hopefully now things seem hooked up again it’ll dry out a bit more quickly.
Thanks for following along! And thanks for everyone who chimed in regarding my tent “dilemmas”. I’m not as stressed about it as it might sound, I had been thinking i’d patch it and move on - just got talking won’t someone and decided that maybe the principal was worth pursuing So my ‘dog with a bone’ mentality got unleashed again 
Many happy green gardens to you all
Big Blue had a motley turn. Lost turgor and leaves faded to a motley pattern. This means I probably lost the ‘hook-up’ with the soil so Doc recommended a Rescue Drench. I had to wait a day or so for it to dry out. Interestingly this took longer than before, which is possibly connected to the loss of ‘communion’ between roots and soil folk
.Here it is 2 days ago finally ready for a watering drench (slight pre-wilt droop).
I mixed the Rescue Drench in about 8L of rainwater - which is a bit over 2 gallons. I’m using the dunking method so it got 4oz of Transplant and 24 mils of Tea.
Doc also recommended taking off lowers and trimming it up a bit more so I did. I decided then that it was silly to hold on to that first node branch just because it was a triploid if it meant burdening the plant while it was trying to recover so ... CLONES!
I dont really have a set up to grow out clones. But one day maybe i will so I figured i might as well get some practice and have some fun with it. I don’t know what I’ll do with them if they take! I’ll figure that out when it happens.
There were 3 branches removed from the bottom (one was removed last week). I couldn’t clone them instantly, which I know is the ideal, so I put them in some filtered rain water for 5-6hours while I rested and came back to them later to do the deed. I used some rooting hormone we already have (we have grown many native plants here from cuttings
), some of Doc’s ROOTS! powder and the first run soil. Decided to go straight into soil and see how it goes. I germinate straight into soil too and am so far 100% on germination like this, so I seem to like the straight into soil approach.Oh — BTW my soil is alive
Anyway... back to the clones ...
I’m misting them 2-3 times a day very lightly with Destress at 1/4 strength and I periodically mist the underside of the glass bowl with plain water to keep the area humid. They’re on a heat mat doing the germination 1hour on 3 hours off pattern.
This is them today, 2 days later. I labeled it day 2 but it’s actually the beginning of day 3. They still look perky so that’s something.
So, back to their mother - it took longer than previously for it to jump to attention after the drench which is to be expected after the “power loss”, but today the turgor seems to be returning and we definitely have the lights back on!
Last night i also pulled out all the big leaves i have had tucked away. I might leave them like this for a bit and just see how the lowers come through on their own. Plenty of time to leaftuck some more if needed.
Moon wise we’re really getting down into the dark period now so I’m glad I got the roots back on track in time for a week of cosmically supported proliferation!
I said a couple of days ago that I had a theory about how things got out of whack. It may or may not be right but i’ll Share it anyway, because it leads to something I need to solve. During the drench prior (early last week) I had an incident where, after drenching and during the draining, I dropped it back into the drench bucket
. I sometimes have issues with my hands (all my muscles really but the hands and arms can tire out fast - like, in seconds and without warning). It stayed back in the bucket for a while, and for some reason (being a bit high at the time maybe ) I thought pouring more water down the top was a good idea . SO it got dunked, and then dunked again. Maybe I washed out the pot? Maybe that wasn’t it, but it seems like that was not ideal, and then the plant lost its hookup with the soil - so seems a strong possibility.Back on track now though so hopefully I can keep it that way. It leads me to this though: either I have to stop the dunking technique during veg, OR I need to find something to set the pot on for draingin that I can tilt in different directions rather than this being wholly reliant on my arms and hands. This will be essential for when I have more than one plant (and why I started with one this time - there’s no way I could be dunking more than one at the moment).
I’ve seen other brixers with contraptions for this - repurposed for this job, but i can’t remember who. Hopefully one of you who visit here will remember or someone will have an idea about what I could use. It’d be awesome to find some kind of contraption that i could tilt really easily.
I’m probably still a few weeks from transplanting into the bigger pot and flowering - I’m trying to get to everyday drenches before I do that. Hopefully now things seem hooked up again it’ll dry out a bit more quickly.
Thanks for following along! And thanks for everyone who chimed in regarding my tent “dilemmas”. I’m not as stressed about it as it might sound, I had been thinking i’d patch it and move on - just got talking won’t someone and decided that maybe the principal was worth pursuing
So my ‘dog with a bone’ mentality got unleashed again Many happy green gardens to you all
Congrats on reconnecting roots to herd! The plant looks well-recovered.
In terms of the clones, I feel like I read in a Doc journal somewhere that he takes off almost everything except one fan on the top. But don't pay attention to me on cloning for obvious reasons.
In terms of the clones, I feel like I read in a Doc journal somewhere that he takes off almost everything except one fan on the top. But don't pay attention to me on cloning for obvious reasons
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Shed
You’re totally right though. I read that the day I made them. I took of all the fans except the top 2, as they didnt even see like fans yet... I wondered if I should take more... but we’ll see what happens. I think they’re too short in the stem, I should’ve left some more length on them. But - it’s a big experiment, and not a very rigorous one either. I lightly scraped 2 of the stems and not one, and then forgot to label them
Bit of fun really - if they take I’l send you one
You’re totally right though. I read that the day I made them. I took of all the fans except the top 2, as they didnt even see like fans yet... I wondered if I should take more... but we’ll see what happens. I think they’re too short in the stem, I should’ve left some more length on them. But - it’s a big experiment, and not a very rigorous one either. I lightly scraped 2 of the stems and not one, and then forgot to label them
Bit of fun really - if they take I’l send you one
Yes please!
Derbybud
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Nice save Amy. Having that keen eye on her probably saved her. She looks to be up and running good again.
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yep - I think i missed the first signs because of the blue edges to the leaves that are part of the beautiful genetics ... seems to be bouncing back well.@Pjs420 thanks! It was radogast (where is he lately?). I also have a vision of something that had an angle... it’d be great to be able to lie the pots at a good angle and then just roll them sideways to drain in different directions.
I have to go out to have a bone scan today and plan to tak the opportunity of being already out and about to visit the tip recycling shop and see what goodies I might discover. It’ll be a push, but i’ll Take my vape and have a toke between the scan and the tip stop so should be ok - I hope!
Sorry to see your issues with your new tent. I have avoided Gorilla tents due to mixed reviews of them and the cost. I am cheap and can probably build rooms, with some help, for the same amount or less than I would spend on gorilla tents. Hopefully it gets worked out and you can be happy with how things go.
I think Dopeylemontree may have been one that posted up what they do to drain pots. Whoever it was had hooks they hung from the ceiling that they would hook to the lip of the pot and have it drain over another bucket while they dunked their next plant.
I think Dopeylemontree may have been one that posted up what they do to drain pots. Whoever it was had hooks they hung from the ceiling that they would hook to the lip of the pot and have it drain over another bucket while they dunked their next plant.
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Wouldn’t that be cool! A pulley system like that one. I saw that - it was for dunking big pots and looked amazing.
I am a natural DIY person and it’s proving to be a hard adjustment to needing to buy stuff. I tried to not spend very much on a tent initiall but the cheaper one was terrible - on a number of levels - and not suitable for my hands at all. I expected better from the cost of the Gorilla but I’ve mostly heard good things about them and really, for my needs the zippers are unsurpassable in their ease of use - so I’m sold on having one. The sales rep in the ‘States was awesome when I spoke them originally and he put me in touch with the distributor here, so I can always go back to him if need be. I’ll see what happens.
And I’m excited about cruising the recycling shop later - I dont get out much so it will be a fun adventure after the hospital!
I am a natural DIY person and it’s proving to be a hard adjustment to needing to buy stuff. I tried to not spend very much on a tent initiall but the cheaper one was terrible - on a number of levels - and not suitable for my hands at all. I expected better from the cost of the Gorilla but I’ve mostly heard good things about them and really, for my needs the zippers are unsurpassable in their ease of use - so I’m sold on having one. The sales rep in the ‘States was awesome when I spoke them originally and he put me in touch with the distributor here, so I can always go back to him if need be. I’ll see what happens.
And I’m excited about cruising the recycling shop later - I dont get out much so it will be a fun adventure after the hospital!
Most people seem to love their Gorilla tents but I tend to have bad luck so I pay attention to the bad reviews I see people post. I have cheap tents and they are aweful. I would love to have Gorilla tents, if they would really be a big step forward. I am not the handiest person or I would have built rooms forever ago. I need to talk some buddies in to helping me at some point so I can build rooms and be done with it. Until I can I think I am just going to stick it out in my tents.
I hope the doctors goes well and you are able to enjoy your time out at the recycling shop. Hoping you find something you can use to make growing easier on you while you are there.
Hi Amy, Yeti, and friends...I can't offer advise with 'dunking'...cuz i've never done it . I always just use a waterinig can with a 'rain shower' nozzle. Tired...long hot day...man it was hot! Evenin gang.
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Yah - thanks Duggs. I might have to do things a bit that way myself at the moment. Don’t really want to risk dropping it again!
Hope you get to cool down a bit for the evening - bloody cold wind here... i’ll Try to blow some of it your way with this cloud of smoke I’m working on
Hope you get to cool down a bit for the evening - bloody cold wind here... i’ll Try to blow some of it your way with this cloud of smoke I’m working on
Tomster420
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Lookin good in here amy! It'll be nice to see her flowers bloom
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Evening wings
It really will! I can see them already...
I’m knackered after my trip out, nighty night
It really will! I can see them already...
I’m knackered after my trip out, nighty night
dynamo1
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Tomster420
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Yep I'm knackered too.
Dreaming of blue dream? Get it? lol so lame
Night night
Dreaming of blue dream? Get it? lol so lame
Night night