I forgot to explain the transplant, my bad.. So last grow I quickly figured out carbon was a big limiting factor for flowering in a 3 gallon. I made a couple changes this time around to hopefully ward off that issue.
This time, the plants will only be in these pots for 2 weeks before I flip them to flower, whereas last time I believe they were in there for 4-5 weeks before flip. I also mixed in an extra gallon and a half of lobster compost into the base mix itself.
In the pots themselves I put in: on the very bottom 1 tbsp of Stonington Plant food, 1 tbsp of 4-4-4 All purpose, 1 tbsp of Fish Bone Meal and 1 tsp of blood meal. I then placed a 2ish inch layer of lobster compost mixed with EWC and perlite. Then my base mix.
2 of the pots also got a layer of perlite just beneath the new root ball. Once I transplanted into the pots I then put another 1-2 inch layer of compost, EWC, and perlite on top. I then put another band of 1 tbsp of Stonington Plant food, 1 tbsp of 4-4-4 All purpose, 1 tbsp of Fish Bone Meal and 1 tsp of blood meal on top of that. I placed the dry nutrients in bands in between the root ball and the edge of the pot.
I then took a stick of bamboo and pushed 4 holes into the pot in between the edge of the pot and the edge of the root ball, all the way to the bottom and rotated slightly to widen these holes. I filled the holes with a mix of EWC, Compost and perlite. I then put 2 inches of new mulch down on everyone
I watered everyone in with a quart and a half of myco water and calmag at 60 ppms. 3 of the plants took it no issues, the smart pot plant had slight runoff which was reabsorbed. I also trimmed the plants. I removed all of the first node growth tips on the lateral branches, leaving their leaves. 2 of the plants needed the 2nd node on the axial branches removed as well.
Everyone seems to have been shocked slightly which is no surprise. The fight to get them out of the 1 gallons was ridiculous and such a hassle I will never use plastic past the solo cup point again, unless it’s a final container like a SIP.
I have 3-3-2 Hydrolyzed fish and seaweed extract that I will mix in at 1 ml/L for my next watering which should be today for the two taller ones and I’ll be holding off on the other 2 while I let my watering *experiment play out.
*there’s no control and these are all different plants so it’s more of an anecdotal observation