Antics Perpetual Learning Experience

[SBG]

re: Antics Perpetual Learning Experience

Thanks for the reassurance, after all the problems I had I'm a little paranoid and overly cautious over everything right now.

I know how your feeling about being cautious. Some times I feel I over think things instead of letting the plants just do there thing, grow.

Stick with it, I know you'll get things all sorted out and growing fine.

 

[GreenKitty]

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For a while in my grow I would also get really paranoid xD But then I learned to let go a little bit and be more confident

Antics you have a lot of knowledge and you're a good grower, you're adapting to LEDs and I think when you manage to get things right you'll have some amazing looking plants, good luck

 

[jinn]

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For a while in my grow I would also get really paranoid xD But then I learned to let go a little bit and be more confident

Antics you have a lot of knowledge and you're a good grower, you're adapting to LEDs and I think when you manage to get things right you'll have some amazing looking plants, good luck

Im fighting quite a bit of paranoia and the learning curve with LEDs. But you got this Antics, once we get a little more LED time under our belts, this will all seem like a bad dream =p

 

[Ascended Master Kief]

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Paranoia sucks. Led me to hack a few plants before they were ready. I've got anxiety bad, cannabis helps.

 

[Antics]

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Thanks for the kind words everyone!

Quick update. My order arrived today (early!!), so I have my coco soaking in water now. Final coco rinse tomorrow, and Perlite rinse comes tomorrow, then the transplant.

And the Mycorrhizae I'll be using contains:

Mycorrhizae

Ectomycorrhizae:
Pisolithus Tinctorius
Rhizopogon Luteolus
Rhizopogon Fulvigleba
Rhizopogon Villosullus
Rhizopogon Amylopogon
Scleroderma Cepa
Scleroderma Citrinum

Endomycorrhizae:
Glomus Etunicatum
Glomus Intraradices
Glomus Mosseae
Glomus Aggregatum

Tricoderma Koningii
Tricoderma Harzianum

The seedling is doing great, no problems to report. Plant looks to be doing alright, possibly better, as I have some new growth with no curling. Pics to come tomorrow!

 

[Antics]

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Picture time.

Big Bang right after transplant:

Leaves were wilted when I opened the grow this morning from the soil drying out a little bit, I expect a certain degree of transplant shock as well, but we'll know more in a few days.

The seedling is doing great, and looking nice and healthy:

I'll be transplanting the seedling into coco tomorrow or the following day, depending on when I have time, but most likely tomorrow.

 

[Dusty Kiefers]

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Thats a healthy looking baby.

 

[Ascended Master Kief]

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My best wishes that Big Bang recovers well, mate. Nice looking baby girl there.

 

[Antics]

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Quick update again, Strawberry Blue has been transplanted into coco now.

She had really strong root growth, roots were starting to circle inside the pot already. Soil was removed, a couple small roots broke, but she's been good for a few hours now, with no signs as of yet. I really hate transplants where the soil needs to be removed. Phew!

I gave her a small watering with nutes, 2.5ml grow, micro and bloom /gal.

Medium is a 5:1 cocoerlite, and 2 teaspoons of mycorrhizae blend in each pot.

 

[jinn]

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shes looking perfect mate, well done

 

[Subnoise]

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Tuff little plants I did the rinse the soil off the roots thing once. After I was done and had it transplanted it looked over watered for a few hours and then perked back up by the next day. Looks great and I'm sure it's gonna love coco.

 

[Antics]

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And I just checked on her again, leaves are pointing upwards more than earlier. I expected a little bit of wilting, since there were a couple roots that ended up broken during the rinse and removal of the soil, but I didn't expect her to be this happy.

This transplant has been successful so far.

The older plant, Big Bang, is still in rough shape and needs some serious TLC still to bring her back though.

 

[jinn]

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youd hardly believe she was a transplant.

 

[Kola320]

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Looking good bro that blue will take a beating pretty well it can take nutes real well too doesn't really burn I tried to burn my last one at the end and didn't even bother her I got 3 going this round and no problems. Watch her though she stretches like crazy in flower lol

 

[Jesstar]

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Good luck with the BB, Antics. It's so sad when one of your girls is unwell..
If you were around here I'd give you my Chocolope to put under ya LED, I realized after I germ'd her that she is set to grow into a monster. Not something I can really deal with but I'd like to see it grown under some heavy duty lights..

Hit us with an update when you get a chance, I struggle not to do daily updates..

-J.

 

[skunnymonster]

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Congrats on the successful transplant buddy, she looks well happy

 

[Colesdad]

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Sub'd. Sorry for being late to the party.

But I brought a bag a Cool Ranch, a tube of Pringles and a box of those Little Debbie Christmas tree things.

 

[Buster Cherry]

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The transplant looks good and hopefully while it grows it will give you enough time to nurse the other plant back to health.

 

[Antics]

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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.

 

[Teddy Edwards]

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Good, solid, meaningful. hard work, Antics. That is paying off. Well done.