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I didn't win that...WE did. It's simply the wonderful family that we have in this thread, and the entire site for that matter. The feeling of family, brings that feeling. All of us did that, not just one.
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That should help Grandpa
Gramps, just out of curiosity what are you using to adjust your water? That plant really should be growing better by now in water only soil by now.
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pH up and down. It's all I have ever used to adjust that. I was thinking along the same lines, VS. It has seemed to me that she hasn't really started growing yet. Initially I wrote it off to my less than perfect transplant. But she seemed to recover, and now she's just not growing. Frankly, I was going to ask about it this morning. With everything going on in this house, I truly didn't have much time to devote to her like usual.
Have you got a recent picture grandpa? Are tbere roots coming out through the pot anywhere. Im wondering if you have a ròot issue.
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I cannot feel anything that feels like it is coming through the pot or sticking up through the dirt. I'll see what I can do to get a picture as soon as I can. I've gotten to the point where I am afraid to even open the 10th. If we lose her, then it's back to square one... Again. I guess the only positive thing would be that we could start a photo and and auto at the same time, using both lights and the soil as described earlier in the journal.
I'm here to help again gramps
Forgive me i havent read the whole journal and i really dont have the time too. So im not 100% sure what you can and cant do. So i will make a couple suggestions and see where you arw at.
Add some great white mycorrhizae and carboload to your waterings. It will bring root health back and they will take off. You give the mycorrhizae for a week then once per week at the carboload after that. Theu arent too expensive and will make a difference.
If you start again is growing in coco an option? I could guide you through a grow on a basic mix that will absolutely guarantee that you get some quality meds and maximise what you can from yoir lighy and space.
Add some great white mycorrhizae and carboload to your waterings. It will bring root health back and they will take off. You give the mycorrhizae for a week then once per week at the carboload after that. Theu arent too expensive and will make a difference.
If you start again is growing in coco an option? I could guide you through a grow on a basic mix that will absolutely guarantee that you get some quality meds and maximise what you can from yoir lighy and space.
Sorry about typos. Im using my phone and my fingers arw too big for this stupid touch screen. I hate it, bit a necessary evil unfortunately.
Hi Grandpa, I see there are some brains going at high speed today.
*I have never chimed in on soil, nor do I think I can advise on this situation. I'm learning as well.
*Cultivator, coco you have to add nutes and water daily, that might be difficult? maybe?
*Grandpa, this could all be managed better if you stagger your growth cycles in smaller pots. This plant is searching, she is on a perpetual MS Windows update search and forgot what she's supposed to do.
If she had been in a smaller pot, she would have less distance to travel when building her root ball. Also, this nutrient laden soil could have been thinned out and she could have been uppotted.
I'm just saying, when you have big pots, unless you have experience growing in one, you have to start smaller. Noone ever starts huge, when you have a disability, we graduate in steps to learn processes first.
You could have started a seed, gone through veg and flower, and harvest in a 1 gallon pot just to get through a grow cycle. Totally again, not your fault. We are all doing our best to figure things out for you. But as a person with a sensory impairment, I did this, I stuck to 1 gallon pots till I got through 2 harvests so that when shiz hit the fan, I had a back up plant to focus on right behind it.
Everything is easier to a grower with disabilities when you start off smaller, you can still do 2 seeds. but do the veg in 1 gallon pots, then you'll know by then whether to uppot to your 3 gallon, or just flower her for bud.
That is just my humble opinion, you don't have to follow. It's all that I can offer looking from the outside in.
BTW, I'm doing fantastic things in the background Grandpa, you will be proud. We are helping a brain cancer patient and it's truly a gift.
Hey K, you must be talking up a storm now that you can move your neck in ways you forgot you could.
Have a wonderful holly-daze and ask Santa for some veg pots.
Much luv and soulfulness. Lady G
*I have never chimed in on soil, nor do I think I can advise on this situation. I'm learning as well.
*Cultivator, coco you have to add nutes and water daily, that might be difficult? maybe?
*Grandpa, this could all be managed better if you stagger your growth cycles in smaller pots. This plant is searching, she is on a perpetual MS Windows update search and forgot what she's supposed to do.
If she had been in a smaller pot, she would have less distance to travel when building her root ball. Also, this nutrient laden soil could have been thinned out and she could have been uppotted.
I'm just saying, when you have big pots, unless you have experience growing in one, you have to start smaller. Noone ever starts huge, when you have a disability, we graduate in steps to learn processes first.
You could have started a seed, gone through veg and flower, and harvest in a 1 gallon pot just to get through a grow cycle. Totally again, not your fault. We are all doing our best to figure things out for you. But as a person with a sensory impairment, I did this, I stuck to 1 gallon pots till I got through 2 harvests so that when shiz hit the fan, I had a back up plant to focus on right behind it.
Everything is easier to a grower with disabilities when you start off smaller, you can still do 2 seeds. but do the veg in 1 gallon pots, then you'll know by then whether to uppot to your 3 gallon, or just flower her for bud.
That is just my humble opinion, you don't have to follow. It's all that I can offer looking from the outside in.
BTW, I'm doing fantastic things in the background Grandpa, you will be proud. We are helping a brain cancer patient and it's truly a gift.
Hey K, you must be talking up a storm now that you can move your neck in ways you forgot you could.
Have a wonderful holly-daze and ask Santa for some veg pots.
Much luv and soulfulness. Lady G
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Thanks so much for those suggestions! The great white makes perfect sense, we just haven't had a chance to put it into our budget. Never heard of the other, though. I know it's not expensive, but with our budget, especially with Christmas and for grandkids birthdays coming up, even the 12 or $15 for a humidity meter needs to be budgeted. Social Security does not pay much at all.
It's possible that Coco would be an option, but I need to learn a lot more about it. I haven't really taken the time, as I have been trying to fix the soil mixture. We still have some of the water only and a full cubic foot of Fox Farms Ocean Forest. We were going to do the same thing as what Kind soil recommends. That use to put the kind soil at the bottom of the pot, and then the basic soil on top. I believe the idea is to keep her from burning as a Seedling in the hot soil, and have her more or less mature Roots reach the water only soil and take off. This one we're doing now is straight water only soil, and we've been battling burning from it. I know you are really busy, but when you can could you give me a little quick tutorial on your Coco mixture and any reasons why it seems to work as well as it does? It will be truly appreciated. Oh, and by the way, welcome to my journal! Certainly glad you took the time to chime in and I hope you continue when time allows. May God bless!
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No worries at all. My fingers are the same way, and my voice dictation requires me to go back and fix errors that it makes. It adds time to actually posting something, but at least I have it. It is a necessary feature on a phone or tablet that makes it much easier for those of us visually impaired or blind.
Cult s here to save the day .
Here is ways to pre charge coco so it's self released nutes when need just water I'm sure of it
And pro mix has a special blend organic that people are growing only water . and bloom boosters at flowering. Crazy . lol
And pro mix has a special blend organic that people are growing only water . and bloom boosters at flowering. Crazy . lol
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You and all the others here have done a wonderful job trying to help. It's in the execution, I'm sure. I like the idea of using the one gallon pots. The single transplant from the plastic cups to the 1 gallon pots would make it a lot easier for me, and I can see that it would be better for the girls. Maybe start them in straight Fox Farms, then transplant to a 1 gallon pot with the water only at the bottom and the Fox Farms on top. I'm also thinking that with an E Auto, just start her in the one gallon pot like we would for a transplanted seedling and let her just go.Hi Grandpa, I see there are some brains going at high speed today.
*I have never chimed in on soil, nor do I think I can advise on this situation. I'm learning as well.
*Cultivator, coco you have to add nutes and water daily, that might be difficult? maybe?
*Grandpa, this could all be managed better if you stagger your growth cycles in smaller pots. This plant is searching, she is on a perpetual MS Windows update search and forgot what she's supposed to do.
If she had been in a smaller pot, she would have less distance to travel when building her root ball. Also, this nutrient laden soil could have been thinned out and she could have been uppotted.
I'm just saying, when you have big pots, unless you have experience growing in one, you have to start smaller. Noone ever starts huge, when you have a disability, we graduate in steps to learn processes first.
You could have started a seed, gone through veg and flower, and harvest in a 1 gallon pot just to get through a grow cycle. Totally again, not your fault. We are all doing our best to figure things out for you. But as a person with a sensory impairment, I did this, I stuck to 1 gallon pots till I got through 2 harvests so that when shiz hit the fan, I had a back up plant to focus on right behind it.
Everything is easier to a grower with disabilities when you start off smaller, you can still do 2 seeds. but do the veg in 1 gallon pots, then you'll know by then whether to uppot to your 3 gallon, or just flower her for bud.
That is just my humble opinion, you don't have to follow. It's all that I can offer looking from the outside in.
BTW, I'm doing fantastic things in the background Grandpa, you will be proud. We are helping a brain cancer patient and it's truly a gift.
Hey K, you must be talking up a storm now that you can move your neck in ways you forgot you could.
Have a wonderful holly-daze and ask Santa for some veg pots.
Much luv and soulfulness. Lady G
I have absolutely no doubt that you are doing great things in the background! I would love to hear about it when you have time. My time has been reduced Freight late due to the holiday season, Kelley's surgery and continuing recovery and trying to figure out how to keep myself up and running. The bronchitis is mostly gone, praise God. I am working on the things that you and I are talking about in the background, but it will take a bit longer than I thought it would. I will get it sent to you as soon as humanly possible. Much love from the old folks, and God bless! :folded-hands: : heart:
Thanks so much for those suggestions! The great white makes perfect sense, we just haven't had a chance to put it into our budget. Never heard of the other, though. I know it's not expensive, but with our budget, especially with Christmas and for grandkids birthdays coming up, even the 12 or $15 for a humidity meter needs to be budgeted. Social Security does not pay much at all.
It's possible that Coco would be an option, but I need to learn a lot more about it. I haven't really taken the time, as I have been trying to fix the soil mixture. We still have some of the water only and a full cubic foot of Fox Farms Ocean Forest. We were going to do the same thing as what Kind soil recommends. That use to put the kind soil at the bottom of the pot, and then the basic soil on top. I believe the idea is to keep her from burning as a Seedling in the hot soil, and have her more or less mature Roots reach the water only soil and take off. This one we're doing now is straight water only soil, and we've been battling burning from it. I know you are really busy, but when you can could you give me a little quick tutorial on your Coco mixture and any reasons why it seems to work as well as it does? It will be truly appreciated. Oh, and by the way, welcome to my journal! Certainly glad you took the time to chime in and I hope you continue when time allows. May God bless!
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Hiyas KJ! I'm glad to see you in this thread again. I have been trying to keep up on everyone's Journal, but commenting is just too much right now. I will when I can.
Hiyas KJ! I'm glad to see you in this thread again. I have been trying to keep up on everyone's Journal, but commenting is just too much right now. I will when I can.
I know where I can find ya bud
Curious to see a pic update
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If there is no Saving Jane, then we will start one each of an auto and a photo. I'll be more than interested to see the differences in growth patterns. I'm thinking starting the auto in her final 1 gallon pot, and then doing the photo in the plastic cup, then transplanting into the one gallon for the rest of the growth cycle. We will use the Fox Farms soil to start the photo, and the auto will go into Fox Farms at the top, and the water only at the bottom. There will be the same soil in the final pot for the photo. Also add the Growant light and use them both for the entire grow.
You soil experts... Good plan? Suggestions?
You soil experts... Good plan? Suggestions?
No expert. But sounds like you are doiing exactly what I would be!
Can we see her ? I don't wanna lose her!
Can we see her ? I don't wanna lose her!
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I was thinking that Jane was a goner by didnt have the heart to say it, I am glad to hear you are not going to let it stop you on another grow. I started a Gorilla Glue auto this week I named her Jungle Jane, viva la Jane!
I am actually thinking that a soil less coco grow might be best for you. It costs more in nutes (eventually offset by cost of meds) and you have to tend to the plants daily(30 minutes once a week to mix nutes and 5 minutes a day to water) but there is no guess work and its like following a recipe from start to finish. After a short stint into soil I switched to coco hempy buckets and havent looked back, keep in mind though I have only been doing this since September but my 4 very healthy plants dont know the difference.