Radogast's Hi-Brix Basement Grow - New Location - New Soil - New Experiences

[Amy Gardner]

Hi Radogast, glad to see your garden has settled again. Things are looking smooth over here ..

Can you explain for me what you're talking about when you say it's up to 'alternate nodes'? And why that would be a preferable time to chop/prune the way sue is describing?

Thanks.

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[Radogast]

I was going to plant her, but the only pot I have ready is a hempy and I want to make sure I read a bit of your Hempy Headquarters thread before I risk my one genetic copy.

Seeing that in print I realized I was being a wimp. I planted this 6 day old cutting into perlite and took a new clone from Guawi 4 days into flower.

Guawi Clone in 6" PVC hempy with 19 grams osmocote+. I plan to water every 2 days and foliar spray about once every 10 days.

When I started this grow with Hi-Brix soil I didn't plan for space to cook soil. I can't squeeze anything larger than a 14 gallon soil tote into my flower area and I don't have warm space to cook or store a full batch of soil, let alone enough soil to last through the 55 degree basement in winter. I heat the grow area in winter, and I can store some pre-heated RO water in the grow areas, but I'm not prepared to heat more of the basement. The overnight low last night was 41F, so the first frost isn't far away.

My plan for now is to run Hempy with slow release and/or bottled nutes during the chill of winter, store my used soil in as warm a spot as I can find, and cook the soil in my garage next spring when the temperatures warm.

I'll be using 3 gallon buckets and coarse perlite for future hempys, I just happened to have medium perlite and this 1.5 gallon 6" PVC pipe ready to be used as a hempy.

 

[Radogast]

Hi Radogast, glad to see your garden has settled again. Things are looking smooth over here ..

Can you explain for me what you're talking about when you say it's up to 'alternate nodes'? And why that would be a preferable time to chop/prune the way sue is describing?

Thanks.

.

I had to laugh You posted my garden has settled in again, at the same time I announce I am switching to hempy for the winter


Early in a seedlings life, when the nodes have parallel branching, it you cut a leader it forms two or more branches at the node below where you cut (topping and FIMing.) This may also force lower nodes to develop more branching.

Once the seedling reaches sexual maturity, branching shifts from parallel to alternating, so if you cut a leader, it only sprouts one new branch from the node below where you cut. This basically makes the branch regrow as a single branch from the node just below where you cut. It still may also force lower node development, but it results in less branching than when the node would form two new branches.

For a sexed plant with alternating modes, I usually use LST to force lower node development when I want to create more branching.

In my world, a plant can have too many branches, so topping instead of LST, especially topping only an inch or two, should avoid a lot of new branching, for those times when I want to avoid new branching - especially If I remember to trim the new growth from the lower nodes.

 

[Amy Gardner]

I had to laugh You posted my garden has settled in again, at the same time I announce I am switching to hempy for the winter


Early in a seedlings life, when the nodes have parallel branching, it you cut a leader it forms two or more branches at the node below where you cut (topping and FIMing.) This may also force lower nodes to develop more branching.

Once the seedling reaches sexual maturity, branching shifts from parallel to alternating, so if you cut a leader, it only sprouts one new branch from the node below where you cut. This basically makes the branch regrow as a single branch from the node just below where you cut. It still may also force lower node development, but it results in less branching than when the node would form two new branches.

For a sexed plant with alternating modes, I usually use LST to force lower node development when I want to create more branching.

In my world, a plant can have too many branches, so topping instead of LST, especially topping only an inch or two, should avoid a lot of new branching, for those times when I want to avoid new branching - especially If I remember to trim the new growth from the lower nodes.

Thanks!

I guess I meant settled from the challenges and problems you were wrangling a couple of weeks ago... so settled enough that you can improvise and experiment with something new - & create your own productive chaos!!


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[Radogast]

Foliar Day Photos

Today was foliar day so I pulled most of the plants out of the flower stall for spraying and photos


Borderliner (46+ days)

Buds have at least a week until harvest

AK47 XTRM(31+ days)

3 or 4 more weeks until harvest

Bud and pen photo

Amherst Sour Diesel (51+ days) She stretched sideways to find light (out from under the shadow of larger plants)

She looks like she has at least 2 weeks until harvest

Bud and pen photo

Carnival (58 days) She'll probably be done within the next two weeks,

I had to tie her up 10 days ago because she was sprawling and hogging the light, She seems happy.

Bud and pen photo

How about bud and light bulb photos?

There are still some fresh pistils and clear trichimes on her.

Little Frodo was cutting leaves with his sword so I switched out sting for a whip.

Haze x Kali China (23 days)

She has lots of little buds and a deep canopy

Most of her buds are about this size

I trimmed off all the budlets this size and smaller

This took her from this

to this

With the flowering in veg, there will be several small harvests in October.

 

[Radogast]

Guawi Clone had a rough first day in her hempy with perlite. Going from this:

to this,

so I watered the perlite again today.


The backup clone I took yesterday already has a single 1/4" root.

 

[NorCaliwood]

Scary when you do that first transplant. Or even take a dome off a tray of clones for the first time... GL hope she'll pull thru...

Keepem Green

 

[kelticBlue]

i like the before and after pictures you do, very informative.

for some reason the who's song guitar and pen is paying in my head now.

 

[Radogast]

i like the before and after pictures you do, very informative.

for some reason the who's song guitar and pen is paying in my head now.

You get paid to have songs stuck in your head - ooooh I love this new technology



So how about a before, during, after, and after sequence.


Guawi Clone - planting day

Day 2

Day 2 after watering

Day 3 in the morning

Scary when you do that first transplant. Or even take a dome off a tray of clones for the first time... GL hope she'll pull thru...

Keepem Green

I've never had a droop like that transplanting into soil. This one looked a lot like when I unplug the cloner bucket. In my experience in the cloner bucket, they usually survive one or two incidents of root drying if less than 24 hours. I imagine hempy should be about the same.

 

[dr.h00k]

Will be watching the Qauwi!...will be doing at least one of those in the spring, as well as some more Ace gear...I may have missed it, but what size pot do you have her in Rad?...cheerz...h00k...

 

[dr.h00k]

Will be watching the Qauwi!...will be doing at least one of those in the spring, as well as some more Ace gear...I may have missed it, but what size pot do you have her in Rad?...cheerz...h00k...

 

[Radogast]

Will be watching the Qauwi!...will be doing at least one of those in the spring, as well as some more Ace gear...I may have missed it, but what size pot do you have her in Rad?...cheerz...h00k...

Cheers back at ya! I've got a local Redfin Stout in the fridge - lots of blueberry and coffee flavors with only a touch of sour at 16/17 proof - good stuff.


I switched to all 7 gallon soil pots this summer to maximize my plant count in the veg area.

This winter I intend to run 3 gallon perlite hempy buckets for everyone.

 

[kelticBlue]

So how about a before, during, after, and after sequence.

super cool. I have 5 Guatemala regs in the fridge.
So i will be watching for sure the guawi!
(The tikal half of the guawi is 75 Guatamala..) Tikal mixed with Malawi pretty good idea i think!

Cheers

 

[dr.h00k]

Cheers back at ya! I've got a local Redfin Stout in the fridge - lots of blueberry and coffee flavors with only a touch of sour at 16/17 proof - good stuff.


I switched to all 7 gallon soil pots this summer to maximize my plant count in the veg area.

This winter I intend to run 3 gallon perlite hempy buckets for everyone.

Yeah, I went to fabric sevens as well...nice manageable size for moving girlz in and out of my shed...got a couple 15's and 20's that I may put 1 or 2 at the back of the room and call them stationary next season...I'll see what that leaves me for room...trying to break my overcrowding habit......cheerz...h00k...

 

[bobrown14]

Hey there Rad - lots of big beautiful flowers you have going there... looking mighty fine..

What's the strain info on Agatha?? I know you mentioned she's not related to the DT I'm running but man she looks like they could be sisters maybe so long lost sisters but your Agatha has a lot of the same traits..

Great vigor and leafage looks like she's got some Sativa in there and the curly tips to start fade...

That looks like to straight up goodness to me!

Great job, I bet the fam is happy and congrats on the harvests... looks like you have your perpetual on!

 

[Radogast]

Hey there Rad - lots of big beautiful flowers you have going there... looking mighty fine..

What's the strain info on Agatha?? I know you mentioned she's not related to the DT I'm running but man she looks like they could be sisters maybe so long lost sisters but your Agatha has a lot of the same traits..

Great vigor and leafage looks like she's got some Sativa in there and the curly tips to start fade...

That looks like to straight up goodness to me!

Great job, I bet the fam is happy and congrats on the harvests... looks like you have your perpetual on!

Agatha was sent to me as a freebie seed called 'Ace Mix' when I purchased Delicatessen Lily from Ace Seeds.

I wish she were Devil's Tit ! I probably should get a 50/50 Indica strain going, but I could find a slot for a DT clone or two in my rotation. Those girls of your's really fire up my imagination.

so .... on a totally unrelated question,

Do you think I can use horse tail fern tea to treat my outdoor annuals, such as Zinnia, as a powdery mildew preventative?
How about treating my outdoor perennials?

And finally, wlll dried or powdered horsetail fern work for tea if I can't find fresh? (Oddly, I haven't seen a horsetail fern since I moved!)

 

[MrGreene]

Looking good Rad. I'm looking forward to seeing how the hempy works out.

I haven't noticed anybody making comments about the light bulb pics yet. Bud Light

 

[NorCaliwood]

She was just acting like me,,, she wanted a drink and had a temper fit till she got it... JK but cool she standing tall. I lost count how many times I've forgotten to plug in the cloner...
Keepem Green

 

[Radogast]

Looking good Rad. I'm looking forward to seeing how the hempy works out.

Hey MrGreene - you've been pretty scarce the last month or so - I hope you aren't working too hard !

If she can make it through the first week until her roots hit water, I'm confident the hempy will grow just fine. I was planning on 3 gallon buckets (as in scrub the floors plastic buckets with handles) for most of my hempys. If I can just go from cloner bucket to final 3 gallon bucket with no transplanting, that will be great. If not I'll have to buy solo cups or something similar and have small and large sized pots like I do now for soil.

My living room rehab is finally nearing the end, (walls painted, floor sanded, stained, and varnished, baseboards painted yesterday and re-installed today - to do: list is down to baseboard 1/4 round trim install, floor cure time, install painted crown molding, sand, varnish, expanding foam seal, and re-install wood trim around windows and door frames, add new outlets to the newly installed pre-wired outlet boxes and connect the other end to power.) In a week to 10 days, I should be finished with the living room and I can focus on buying perlite and buckets to start my newest clones in hempy buckets.

I haven't noticed anybody making comments about the light bulb pics yet. Bud Light

Please, out of respect to my maiden name, that should be Miller Lite


I don't smoke regularly, so I never seem to have a lighter around. The closest prop of a standard size I could find was an incandescent light bulb.Plus the light bulb seems to make the green buds look bigger

 

[kelticBlue]

I might start the light bulb reference see if we can start a trend.
I need some easy to grab reference meself. Edit : cause I don't smoke regularly either. Don't have the lighter handy.