Monday update stage 2: the one where I move both Summer grow plants into really heavy buckets on day 34!
First up was the 5 Killer Cookies coming out of the 1 gallon perlite SWICK. Here are the roots in the perlite:
I knocked off as much perlite as I could without damaging the roots:
Here's the full rootball:
Notice that the root growth near the top is pretty sparse, to the extent that I had to handle this carefully to prevent the top from falling apart! It's definitely focused on growing roots where the water is.
I sprinkled the roots and the hole with
@DYNOMYCO, and put it in the new SWICK bucket:
I top-watered it with about 3/4 gallon Prescription Blend week-4 veg, and weighed it:
Oof on my back...and that's not with a full res!
Next up was Grandpa's Moonshine, moving from a regular top-watered 1 gallon pot to the SIP I built on Saturday. Here it was before transplant:
The more evenly-distributed roots:
I broke up the bottom per
@Azimuth's recommendations so that there would be more soil between the plant and the top of the SIP res tub, sprinkled it all with Dynomyco, and planted it:
At this point I was out of PB nutes so I top-watered it with half a gallon of MC at 4.5g/gallon (standard veg strength). Since the res is full that should last it for a while now!
Here they both are after I managed to carry them into the tent last night:
And this morning with the mother plants:
I increased the
@Mars Hydro SP 250 to 100 watts and set the height for 21,000lux at the tops:
The light is on a slant to make up for the height difference between them.
I mixed up more PB this morning and added a little less than 1/2 gallon to the SWICK res before it overflowed onto the tent floor, so it too should be set for water for a while. They're all living inside today becau