re: Antics Perpetual Learning Experience
Late update, but a good update.
The past week or so, Big Bang has been looking terrible, a few times I wasn't even sure she'd pull through, as all the leaves were looking dead, or dying, curled margins, and overall it almost gave a first impression of "How the hell is it still alive?"
And when I have problems already documented, I really hate beating a dead horse, constantly posting pictures of how my plant(s) look(s) like complete shit. It's enough of a downer seeing it every day, I don't need to repost it and make it worse. Hell, a few times I even wondered if I should just give up, and replant a new seed to grow along with the Strawberry Blue that I have going, but that one guy a few pages back kept me going. (Thanks for your negativity buddy, I'm going to exceed your 1/2 ounce prediction lol)
So here we are today. Just to recap, I transplanted both girls into coco/perlite with mycorrhizae added. Coco was soaked, flushed etc.. And after finding a few pieces of salt still left in the coco in my pots with the girls in there, I gave Big Bang a massive flush, at least 10-15 gallons of water. Strawberry Blue has had massive runoff waterings as well, and I'm seeing very little salt left over now.
Big Bang has had dead/almost dead leaves defoliated every day this past week, and she continues pushing out new growth. There hasn't been a lot in the way of height increase, but she's getting there slowly. New growth looks much better, healthier, and vibrant. Very little curling on the new growth and the PH has slowly been lowered this week and is now stable. Current PH is 5.9, and will be brought down 1 more point at the next watering/feeding. She is being fed nutes at a level of 10ml/gal of grow, micro and bloom. No signs of nute burn on the new growth.
Next we have Strawberry Blue. Flushed and watered like crazy to ensure I have no salts left, so her leaves are sagging a little. I tilled the coco a bit last night, and it has dried up a lot, but there's still a bit of water left, so I won't be watering for a few days yet. PH has been lowered slowly over the course of this week as well, and is now stable at 5.8. PH doesn't climb like it did in my soil, doesn't drop, it's perfect. She is being fed at a rate of 5ml/gal grow, micro and bloom. Zero nute burn, Zero deficiencies. Her only problem is the slightly wilted leaves from the amount of water and flushing she's received, and should now be totally on track and clear of salts.
So far the coco experience has been great. Now I don't like having to clear the medium of salts that have built up (Using GH Cocotek, so it's not cheap garbage), but it's worth the tradeoff. Where I set my PH is where it stays. In my previous soil, if I set my PH to 6.5, the next morning, the PH would already be at 6.8-7.5. It just constantly climbed, and it was a headache trying to time my waterings/feedings with my PH adjustments, which needed to be done more often than the plants wanted water/nutes.
The transplant itself is a pain, removing the soil without destroying the roots is so tedious and risky, yet well worth it.
erlite, and 2 teaspoons of mycorrhizae blend in each pot.
