i am always one feed behind the increase in nutes it seems. the cbdream held me up a bit but could've ramped harder faster even with them. they've shown the ability to handle it.
this is how we were looking a couple days ago ..
healthy but the bottoms are getting cannibalized. part of the problem is they were asking for up pot and they weren't in need of a bump in nutes as much as they were in need of the bigger res.
check out the hotshot bagged in the background. i have an entire covid's worth of beer bottles in the place and an annoying squadron of fruit flies as a result. we can't take the bottles in as there is a carry only limit at the recycler. swear to god i'm tossing them in the alley. let the alley bandits have 'em.
i been hanging the hotshot a couple hours a day just so they don't go near the veg space. they don't really harm anything, i'm just finicky.
i waited a couple days more and up potted. i like to up pot a hempy when it is dry. very similar to soil, then water/feed the plant in. as a result a couple fed off themselves a bit deeper.
sorry for the blurry pics ... when i up pot hempy,i start by adding dry perlite in the bottom of the new pot. i want enough that the solo cup would sit at the lip of the new pot when placed in, or even slightly above. i like a plant big enough that it ties up the majority of the perlite in the hempy cup.
i invert the cup over the new pot and let the loose stuff fall in. then turn the plant over and plunk it in.
then just fill in around the sides with more perlite and water in. this up pot is going from hempy cup to 2L, i have 5L pots i can up pot to again if i want monsters. i let the perlite get even more locked up between the 2 and 5L.
all done
12 hrs in and they don't even show shock. the roots are above the new res, but they'll hook up quick. i'm feeding just under an extended veg strength.
gonna go two more feeds and start training. will probably lose a couple nodes, but i want them established before i start snipping and intervening. also thinking about uncle ben's technique maybe - just not familiar. will pull the yellow leaves at the next feed.
Finally made it here. Looks like I've arrived at a good time. I'm looking forward to seeing this. Nice setup.
