Re: James' BPN Farmer's Pride Soil, Multi-strain 2012 Grow
Alright, finally time for some updates!!!
I replanted all the girls so I could add lime and remove the pro-mix. They are all hempy setups of various containers. Once I had them replanted they still were not growing and when I checked the lower leaves they looked like this:
With my soil not getting any drier over 2 days and the life being sucked out of the lower leaves I figured my Ph was off again and the new growth was stealing from the lower leaves instead of through the roots.
I found my ph to be high again, I ran some water through and they were all back to 6.5 yesterday. In a little bit I'm going to go check them again and if all is good they will get another feeding.
I have seen new growth on all but 1 now (fugly) and they are at the shelf level which is when I wanted to switch them to 12/12. I have decided to not tie fugly back down and just let the 2 main tops grow up so they will catch up in height. I am hoping that Tuesday will be the day they get switched, as long as all the Ph's are good and they are showing a little growth from the next feeding.
The power kush clone showed a root out the side and one out of the bottom and received a new home in dirt for her efforts. (2L square apple juice container)
The Grape ape has about 7 roots starting to pop down but they are just not quite out the bottom of the cube yet so I will give this one a new home soon.
The clone that I took from Celeste is also doing great. This one I put in a red cup filled half way with perlite and then water until the perlite floated up about 1/2" from the bottom of the cup. She never even wilted in the slightest, and she was about 7 or 8 inches when I took her. The leaves have remained green with no signs of trouble. I decided to stick her in a 1 gallon hempy and went in the next day to find her weak and flopped over. I sprayed her and then checked the dirt.... When I planted her I forgot to water the container after she was in there
.. After giving her a little water she stood back up within 15 minutes and looked just as healthy as always!! This is what she looked like 5 days after getting cut when she went into dirt:
Down low:
Up high:
Here are the clones that I clipped from Aunt Bernice, I had to take 5 tops off to make her close to the right height. She is still taller than the rest but I'm just going to hope the others catch up. The one in the perlite cup is one of the two lowest branches that was 1 inch taller than the other branches so that was taken along with the 4 main tops.
I will have more updates soon, I will be fully updated before the 12/12 switchover!!!