Monday update, then the quotes...
Everything got citric acid spray Saturday, and this morning everything got neemed, from babies to big'ns.
I haven't had a lot of luck rooting my cuttings lately and I figure it's either old Dip'n Grow, used ProMix HP, or both. So last week I ordered a new bottle of D'nG (which won't be here until Friday), and I am now using
Kellogg Patio Plus potting soil. Unfortunately, that meant I couldn't thin either the Tin Can Kush or the Red Dragon as I couldn't try making clones of them until the D'nG arrives. Next weekend for that.
In the meantime, I thinned the Candidas in preparation for STS reversal (fixing arrived today...thanks to Chris for sending and
@Virgin Ground for coordinating). I didn't take before and after pics, but here is one I didn't thin next to one I did so you can see how much goes into the
salve bin.
And here are all the Candidas lined up with their futures labeled below.
I'm swapping mothers since my original (in the cloth pot) suffered a broken stem in a fall. It's fine, but I thought I'd use it for seeds and keep an unbroken one for a mother. I'll thin the mother next weekend and try making some more clones to keep on hand.
In other news, I transplanted the Sour G and the
Jack Herer (from
WSE) this weekend using the new potting soil. This is what the soil looks like in the bag:
So I mixed it with 50% perlite to make it drain much more quickly. To make sure I was 50/50, I filled a pot halfway with soil and the rest of the way with perlite, dumped it in a bucket and blended it all together. It looks like this when it's done:
Much better! To that I added
@DYNOMYCO and Earth Alive Soil Activator, mixed it up, and transplanted the Jack Herer:
Then I mixed in GeoFlora Veg for the Sour G transplant, which will be another test of GF nutes for the summer:
Here are the two transplanted alongside next week's assignment,
Chiquita Banana:
You may notice that the lower leaves on the GeoFlora Sour G are yellower than the nute-fed Jack Herer even though I top dressed the Sour G two weeks ago, which was a week before I started feeding the JH. I may give the Sour G nute-water to ease the transition, which seems to be a challenge designed into the GeoFlora system.
I hope everyone here had a good mother's day: mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons.
Shoot forgot what i was going to say (brain Fart) Anyway plants look Good and growed up
Happens to the best of us...thanks sb!
Showing up is 90% of it! Or was that 88% i forget.
And the remaining 10 (or 12) percent is constipation! Or is it recreation...?
So do you have a regular schedule or routine you do such as weekly, monthly, etc?
I never had a regular schedule before and I would always just deal with them after the fact. I've decided to get more proactive, so I'm spraying with something at least every three days. I'm being especially careful now because I need the Candidas aphid-free when they go into isolation, as the aphids leave sap on the collection mirror, and moisture ruins pollen. I also can't spray for bugs once they're in the box for the same reason.
I may slack off a bit once the seedmaking process is over and I only have the Spring and Summer grows going.
Happy Mother’s Day to Mrs. Shed
Thanks double H! I hope yours was relaxing and fun.
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