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Eyes4grandpa said:
Oh, and just to be sure, do i ph the water before giving it to her?
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I always pH my water Gramps.....but I have shit for water (9.2 or 9.3 pH out of the tap). But I guess the answer to that is how bad is your water? If its 7.5 or below, I probably wouldn't waste my time doing it in good soil. But thats just me.
 
EDIT: Had to correct some of my wording

Before you transplant Grandpa, I want you to hold your cup with plain jane in it and I want you to just gently guide your finger along the rim of your cup. Slowly, you will feel that the leaves of plain jane overlap the edge of your cup. Now record that in your sensory.

Your cup has a curved edge, so put your finger along the soil line too. It covers a smaller area space than the rim of your cup. Don't be afraid to get your fingers dirty. You can actually do this transplant totally on your own, you got this!

This is how you can tell if your seedlings need transplanting. Those young roots are searching for water and wanting to grow. When I look at your cup I see that it's time to up pot/transplant, but how would you know for the future? Use this technique, when she does over reach the edge, it's time to up-pot her. If you feel yours, you can feel about 20-30% (not accurate) of the leaves are hanging over the soil line.

Now this technique doesn't apply in late veg and flower because you want them to overgrow the edge. What you are looking for is a consecutive outgrowing of your pot till it's time to flower. This shows active and fast growth for you to touch and learn. When we get you through the cycles of this plant, you can start touching your plant and start to figure out how old she really is by touching the length of your stalks, and wideness of your flowers.

I know it's obvious to us, but now that you're growing photo period plants, you will have the chance to learn about growth stages easier than with an auto.

Hope this helps...;)
 
Van Stank said:
I always pH my water Gramps.....but I have shit for water (9.2 or 9.3 pH out of the tap). But I guess the answer to that is how bad is your water? If its 7.5 or below, I probably wouldn't waste my time doing it in good soil. But thats just me.
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Well... Generally the water out of the tap is anywhere from 7.0 to 7.6. Rarely, it will read at about 8 to 8.1. So, I think it will be best to at least check it before giving it to Jane. Thanks again!
 
Grow2HealMe said:
Before you transplant Grandpa, I want you to hold your cup with plain jane in it and I want you to just gently guide your finger along the rim of your cup. Slowly, you will feel that the leaves of plain jane overlap the edge of your cup. Now record that in your sensory.

Your cup has a curved edge, so put your finger along the soil line too. It covers a smaller area space than the rim of your cup. Don't be afraid to get your fingers dirty. You can actually do this transplant totally on your own, you got this!

This is how you can tell if your seedlings need transplanting. Those young roots are searching for water and wanting to grow. When I look at your cup I see that it's time to up pot/transplant, but how would you know for the future? Use this technique, because you don't want your plant to reach beyond her edge too much. If you feel yours, you can feel about 20% (not accurate) of the leaves are hanging over.

Now this technique doesn't apply in late veg and flower because you want them to overgrow the edge. What you are looking for is a consecutive outgrowing of your pot till it's time to flower. This shows active and fast growth for you to touch and learn. When we get you through the cycles of this plant, you can start touching your plant and start to figure out how old she really is by touching the length of your stalks, and wideness of your flowers.

I know it's obvious to us, but now that you're growing fem's, you will have the chance to learn about growth stages easier than with an auto.

Hope this helps...;)
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Wow, G2H...dthat's something I never would have thought to do! That is nothing but awesome. I need these kind of things so I can do exactly what you say. I have had a goal and still do, to learn what the plants feel like in each stage of growth. Awesome method to use for this! Thank you so much!

P.S. the next chapter of the story will be coming soon. Been rather busy, and frankly, haven't felt much up to doing anything at all the past couple of days.
 
I did have to correct some of my wording Grandpa, so reread and see if my directions make more sense. I do have experience working with my friend who couldn't see, so I learned how to describe the environment as if I were blind. It's a great lesson if anyone wants to learn a fraction of your daily challenges. He could actually hear me smile, how cool was that.

It's ironic, you have the brain that I need, and I have the eyes that you need. Together, we should be able to get you through this Photo period grow. So much easier than autos, in my opinion. I can grow photo period plants beautifully, try to grow an auto and they end up looking just like your's and I have eyes. hahahaha
 
Grandpa just make sure you don't compact the soil to tight as this will cause the water you feed it to find the path of least resistance and not get the whole soil damp. Will do the same with Jane's roots
 
It's always best to come here and see that Grandpa is getting the best help from some of the best people around - his journal is really in high speed now too, can't believe Jane is up for transplant!!
 
Derbybud said:
Grandpa just make sure you don't compact the soil to tight as this will cause the water you feed it to find the path of least resistance and not get the whole soil damp. Will do the same with Jane's roots
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Excellent advice. Once I got the soil compacted, I went the whole way outside of the pot and pushed it in just a little bit to help the soil compaction be as consistent as possible. I'll have a picture of the final product in just a bit. Thanks for posting that, DB! It sure helps me for this stuff to be posted, and I know it will help others that don't know about soil compaction. :thumb:
 
hortishorti said:
It's always best to come here and see that Grandpa is getting the best help from some of the best people around - his journal is really in high speed now too, can't believe Jane is up for transplant!!
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I couldn't have said that better! I can't believe that it's moving as quickly as it is. I am a little concerned about her right now. I hope I didn't leave her in that cup too long.
You are 100% correct about all these wonderful people. Please... Count yourself among them. I know I do. I am quite impressed with what you are doing with your girls. .
 
Transplant is done. I hope I got it okay. Yes, I know she's not in the center of the pot. I tried my best, but that's where it came to. Hopefully, that won't make much of a difference in root growth. If anything looks amiss, please let me know so we can get it fixed. Thanks a lot, everyone. Thanks for helping me through that...

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Well gramps you did it!!! Congrats bud :) she looks a little frazzled but I never ever judge a transplant until a few hours later. If she's perky and facing the lights that means your golden. From the looks of it though you nailed it! From my experience as long as you get them upright and in the hole they will take care of the rest. Haha.
 
TheMadDabber said:
Well gramps you did it!!! Congrats bud :) she looks a little frazzled but I never ever judge a transplant until a few hours later. If she's perky and facing the lights that means your golden. From the looks of it though you nailed it! From my experience as long as you get them upright and in the hole they will take care of the rest. Haha.
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Thanks a lot for the review on my uncentered transplant. I will take a picture first thing in the morning and we'll see how she looks. :thumb: :tongue-out:
 
Derbybud said:
Grandpa having it off center is what I sometimes do if I'm training I want it to 1 side so I can pull it down toward the other end
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Jeeez, I hope she does get tall enough so that I can do something like that. Maybe I'll learn something else this run. LOL!
 
Eyes4grandpa said:
Jeeez, I hope she does get tall enough so that I can do something like that. Maybe I'll learn something else this run. LOL!
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Training is far scarier than it sounds. I did the uncentered plant on one of my 2 girls gramps. Honestly getting her safely into the hole was all that mattered. You got this now! It would be cool if we could het a little light stress training on Jane to increase her colas and yield :)
 
TheMadDabber said:
Training is far scarier than it sounds. I did the uncentered plant on one of my 2 girls gramps. Honestly getting her safely into the hole was all that mattered. You got this now! It would be cool if we could het a little light stress training on Jane to increase her colas and yield :)
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Yes, it would be nice to see if we could do that. It would require Kelley's eyes and hands, which is just not possible right now. It may be a few weeks before we can even try that. We'll see, though. If it's something simple that she may be able to direct me on, then maybe.
 
Eyes4grandpa said:
Yes, it would be nice to see if we could do that. It would require Kelley's eyes and hands, which is just not possible right now. It may be a few weeks before we can even try that. We'll see, though. If it's something simple that she may be able to direct me on, then maybe.
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Woo Grandpa, looks like you nailed the transplant nicely, She'll really take off once her roots break into all that new soil ;) good job Gramps
 
hortishorti said:
Woo Grandpa, looks like you nailed the transplant nicely, She'll really take off once her roots break into all that new soil ;) good job Gramps
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Thanks HS. I'm really curious to see how she looks tomorrow morning after her six hour dark period. As MD says, if she looks perky and is standing in the light, I think we'll be okay.
 
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