Hello all!
I'm back with another update on my little outdoor project.
After a somewhat lazy start this morning to getting the little FKC outdoors and hardening, I've made some progress during the day!
I've been sitting on my back porch a lot today, watching my little FKC sitting out in the back yard with tons of bugs around flying and her only protection being the SNS PC spray that I gave her before evicting her. And she's so small!
This feelings is much more stressful than when I recently took another plant to a remote location to be grown outdoors. That plant was damn near 2 feet tall and seemed a lot more likely to withstand whatever the outdoors had to throw at her, IMO.
Anyhoo, shortly before sunset I started thinking about the fact that she had been under 18/6 lighting indoors, but when I put her outside today she got maybe 10 hours of shade and no direct sunlight.
Is she going to think she's been flipped to flower? It's a clone, I guess she could see it that way! (These are stressful thoughts for me, outdoor folks!)
So when I brought her in this evening I thought, she needs more light! (I will never take her back upstairs to the tent she's been in. I'm much too paranoid about her bringing bugs along.)
Since I'm going to keep her on my back porch at night until she's ready for a permanent outdoor spot, I got my little cheap LED that I use for seedlings and brought it down to the back porch. I put her under that (very weak) light and will probably leave her under it overnight.
Later on I transplanted her into a plastic pot. I'm not certain of the size but I'd guess it's about a 3 gallon, maybe a little less. It has some drainage holes at the bottom, which are more than large enough to allow roots to escape when they reach the bottom of the pot. Where I plan to place to her to grow (not harden) is ideal for nurturing a weed plant, because it's where I've been dumping all of the soil from previous grows when I no longer wanted to reuse the soil. I'm thinking that if all goes well, the roots will eventually escape the pot and go into soil that was previously used to grow weed plants. I've read on 420, and believe, that's a good thing!
Here she is about now:
I prepped her pot with used soil, bokashi, earth worm castings and a bit of perlite. After I got her in there, I also used some of
@StoneOtter's spike blends, inputting two spikes of his general purpose blend and two of his veg blend. I hope I didn't use too much for such a small pot, but again, I'm counting on the roots growing into the soil beneath.
And now I'm going to try to get a good night's sleep. With all that's on my mind I thought that might be difficult, so I ate 1/2 of one of my zoot bomb cookies!
Thanks for you time.
PEACE
