Wednesday Summer grow planting update, so let's step through the old and new!
Here they were last night before I went to bed:
Since I can just see a tiny bit of the 5 Killer Cookies I'm calling yesterday Day 1.
Here they were this morning:
So out in the sun they go, ready for planting:
Let's take the new first. I want to create a SWICK similar to the one I made for the Le Creme CBG clone, but I wanted a full cup's-worth of soil rather than losing 1/3 of the cup to perlite. So I took a cup and filled the bottom with perlite so it was above the drain hole:
Side view:
Then I cut the bottom off a leaky old red solo cup:
I melted the edge to make it less sharp:
And I wedged it down into the perlite:
Then it was ready to pack the bottom with soil to make sure it wicks up from the perlite, and I sprinkled
@DYNOMYCO on the top layer:
Time to unwrap the peat puck and sprinkle Dynomyco on it too:
And plant it in the cup-in-a-cup. Watering the reservoir at the bottom is easy because of the gap between the two cups!
I also top watered just this once to get the wicking action started.
And then it was on to the old planting method for the Grandpa's Moonshine:
I water down the outside edge avoiding the peat puck. Leaving the peat dry helps prevent the stem from rotting.
And here they are, planted and ready to go!
I don't have all the colors of tape
some folks have access to, but I do have three colors of electrical tape, so I used them to tie the SWICK pots together for structural integrity. The blue cup is just to keep the water from spilling.
That was my morning, and I hope yours went well.
Quotes:
Thanks Azi! I figured since the clone did so well I'd see if I could replicate that with a seed plant. We'll see!
I guess the concept/method has been around for a long time, but it doesn't seem to have been often applied to growing cannabis, at least on the site. Azi and
@ReservoirDog have put their heads together to spread the word, and a few successful grows here was all it took to catch on.
