The Time Has Come
Hi everyone, and happy Saturday! I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Lots and lots of pics are incoming.
Last night the AP was a bit down and I knew we were at just under 2 days from her last watering, so now's the time for the up-can. Finally. After 63 days in a solo cup, she'll be able to stretch her feet out a little bit and hopefully just keep on going.
Originally I was going to layer Fox Farms Ocean Forest in the bottom 2/3rd of the pot, then the top 1/3rd would be Happy Frog. Then I decided...I don't want her taking off in growth due to the OF being hot, so I mixed up 20% perlite and FF Happy Frog and loaded my pot. Just as an aside, I always put down a coffee filter in the bottom of every pot. This way I can pick it up and move it around without media coming through the holes. I do this even with nursery cups, just cut the filter up so it'll fit. I don't fold it, there's only a single layer of filter. This is important for 2 of the pics here shortly.
The pot was filled last night and placed in the tent overnight to get up to temperature. This morning I sprayed PH 6.3 water inside the hole so the myco will stick, and popped in about 2 tbsp all on the walls and the bottom of the hole.
Next up was to finally take a peek at her roots. Everything looks great. Nice and white, fluffy roots. She wasn't root bound, and you can see the development is extraordinarily small compared to what you'd think a 63 day solo cup would look like.
Remember what I said about the coffee filter? It's completely gone after 63 days. Literally no evidence of it existing what-so-ever. Where the heck does it go? Hah. By this time the roots are obviously holding everything together so the filter isn't needed. I just find it interesting every time I take a plant out of a nursery cup the filter seems to have disappeared.
After I added more soil to fill up to the top of the rim entirely she needed to be fed and tied back down. I bought an awl used in leather making which made poking holes in the pot effortless. No soldering irons or split plastic here. The awl works perfectly.
She got week 3 on the FF nute schedule, including calmag this time. PH 6.3 and PPM 1540. The media was a bit moist from being out in the shed during our wet winter so she only received 5 cups before run off. It took almost an hour to water her as I'd poor in a cup and wait 10 mins or so for it to soak in before adding more.
This pic shows how flat the top node is. I want these as flat as possible so I can get the bottom two shoots to catch up.
And then this pic shows the bottom node and how both shoots are angled up a bit to encourage more vigorous growth.
Blueberries Day 31
As for the blueberries they were both topped two days ago and they both have 4 new shoots coming up. I'm just letting both of them go now until their shoots are big enough to tie down, maybe a week from now? We'll see.
It's really interesting to me to see the difference between the two plants. #1 has thinner fan leaves than #2, so I'm really curious to see if there will be any difference in how they smoke.
Group shot of the tent:
The AP is a bit lower than the blueberries in terms of distance from the light, but after a day or two her tops will be turned towards the light and won't have any issues catching up a bit.
If anyone is curious, the two mason jars were painted with black chalkboard spray paint and have 3" net cups. I planted some Flashy Butter Gem lettuce on the 15th (13 days ago) and they're going to be growing using the Kratky method. I'm curious how it's going to turn out, so this is just a mini-project going on as the magic plants veg out these next few weeks.
And last but certainly not least I just had to show my tent defender, Lily. If she's not running around the house (1 yr old maine coon mix) going batshit insane she's sleeping up there. Must be warm!
Heavy update today, thank you for reading and making it to the end! I appreciate everyone's support, and it looks like now we're going to be on auto-pilot for a while. Till next time!
..
no expert here I just muddle along & see what works.
