It's nice when the fixes turn out to be so much easier than the procrastination because you think it's going to be a major pain! 11 hours of getting the house in order gets a 48 hour break in my book...enjoy!
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That PC is Jolene's long lost cousin! Good job on the transplant!Tuesday update! Since I'm off work I got to work on the plants, and after this post...nap time!
Transplant day for the Peyote Critical on day 71 (I think). I reused the ProMix HP from BT1 and added a bit of new soil at the top. Yes, Mykos included in the soil, on the root ball, and Great White in the nute water!
Pretty root bound at the bottom:
I sunk it as far as I could without planting it at the bottom of the 10 gallon!
All tied up and ready to go! I did a bit of supercropping of the leaders in the middle:
I also thinned the Sour G, which looks like it has finally started growing again after a 2 month pause. Here is what I took off:
I took anything that was never going to reach the canopy even after I supercrop before I flip next month, as well as completely shaded leaves crowded in the middle. You can't even tell!
I topped a couple of clones and watered everything. Tomorrow I'll thin the AK and maybe up-can the two clones I'm keeping. With three big pots and the BT2 spread wide, I may be out of room under the light. The clones might have to live in the bike shed under the CFL with the AK! I'll know later
I also want feedback tomorrow as to whether to top the Candidas yet, so stay tuned for that as well.
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Nap time!
Thanks for stopping by Dutch! I think it was showing some deficiencies from being rootbound, so I hope this does the trick.
I'll never get roots like yours on this though. Temps for these plants never break 70 for long and in the low 60s at night. Damn LEDs put out no heat!That PC is Jolene's long lost cousin! Good job on the transplant!
She's gonna pop roots out the bottom real soon! Them 10 gal pots will be my new "standard" finishing pot.
Looking great over there brother!
Thanks newty!
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Now that I have this fancy light, how does translocation relate to light penetration from our lamps? Is light penetration as important as we make it out to be if translocation is moving nutrients around regardless of line-of-sight access to the light source?
I think it must have to do with the lower sugar fans - the new growth - getting more direct light than before.
Well, your plants do look rather frosty from top to bottom, so that's obviously a thingI noticed years ago, when I went from a 600W hps to 1000 watts of blurples, that my plants in the corners didn't have stunted growth in the shaded parts away from the lights. So the plants clearly move nutrients around when there's enough light.
But I also noticed a remarkable difference in my yields when I went to 670 watts of Samsungs - at least 30%. So there's something else involved. A lot of that improvement came from lower growth. Under the other lights it was airy and a PIA to harvest. Under the 4200 Samsung diodes it was all firm and solid, amounting to as much as a half ounce of some plants - not schwag.
I've also looked into hormone movement etc, trying to decide if defoliation made sense, and trying to better understand the organic processes. Fan leaves, for instance, grow out of the hormone loop, so if you remove them, it has little effect on the hormone processes. Fans are kinda off on their own, producing carbs for the plant. If you remove new growth it alters hormones in the nearby tissues and encourages new additional growth.
Obviously, something is happening in the lower growth because of the improved light dispersion - penetration if you will - that wasn't supplied with an equal intensity of 5 blurple panels spread across the sky.
That makes me think that in addition to translocation, a significant amount of nutrition is supplied by the nearby fans. I also notice that all my plants have a beautiful green skirt of foliage at the bottom now, and since it rarely gets too much light and always gets enough, it's always green and unstressed.
. I haven't grown any plants yet that have much spread in height so I won't be able to test that until something I grow actually stretches in flower. I train my autos pretty flat and so far my photos haven't had the sativa stretch.The no-tap root one is taller but shows less vigorous side growth from the lower nodes than the one that had a tap root. Other than that they look like identical phenotypes. Pics tomorrow!
SameI napped for both of us!!
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I napped for both of us!!
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Waxy! Good word!
Damn nappers...I'm jealous (not mention tired
Wait for 100% amber!
