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Radogast's Hi-Brix Basement Grow - New Location - New Soil - New Experiences
Moving on.........
Morglie
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Nice catch there. Nothing but a broken branch and a hot summer day for your girls.
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Transplanting 3 qt soil plant into 3 gal hempy pot
Today I decided to try the most extreme transplant Ishould ever need to do from soil into a perlite hempy.
It seemed like a good way to try my first transplant from soil to hempy
Delicatessen Lily has been in a 3 qt soil pot for 80 days. She is not a very happy girl, having gone into flower in veg and then a reveg back into veg
Her rootball is the size where I usually like to transplant into the final size soil pot.
I soaked her rootball in plain water for a few minutes and then gently teased out more and more soil for several minutes. Working on the center bottom of the mass seemed to be most effective at loosening soil from roots.
When I got to this point the water was so fiull of soil that I changed the water
After the water change I did more gentle agitation and manipulation. At this pont I decided it was enough.
I spread the roots into a fan shape and draped them on a slope of perlite, then backfilled and watered (PH adjusted RO.)
I was willing to take on this extreme case first, because I have a smaller clone of Lily taken during the reveg
I also have a well rooted reveg cutting of Lily that I can place directly into perlite.
Now we will watch and wait ")
Today I decided to try the most extreme transplant Ishould ever need to do from soil into a perlite hempy.
It seemed like a good way to try my first transplant from soil to hempy
Delicatessen Lily has been in a 3 qt soil pot for 80 days. She is not a very happy girl, having gone into flower in veg and then a reveg back into veg
Her rootball is the size where I usually like to transplant into the final size soil pot.
I soaked her rootball in plain water for a few minutes and then gently teased out more and more soil for several minutes. Working on the center bottom of the mass seemed to be most effective at loosening soil from roots.
When I got to this point the water was so fiull of soil that I changed the water
After the water change I did more gentle agitation and manipulation. At this pont I decided it was enough.
I spread the roots into a fan shape and draped them on a slope of perlite, then backfilled and watered (PH adjusted RO.)
I was willing to take on this extreme case first, because I have a smaller clone of Lily taken during the reveg
I also have a well rooted reveg cutting of Lily that I can place directly into perlite.
Now we will watch and wait ")
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After the transplant of Lily, I was admiring my 3 hempy pots.
6" tube girl with 20g of osmo+ spread out in 3 layers,
green bucket Carnival with 60g of osmo+ 1/2 in the middle and half in the bottom. and
green bucket Lily - with no osmocote plus !!!
I noticed yesterday that 60g osmo+ prills were about 60ml (a little less) so I decided to switch from weighing grams to measuring ml.
50ml of osmo+ ready to be added to the soil. I'd already done enough to her roots today. so I just mixed where I could reach, the top half of the bucket.
After adding nutrients, I exchanged the water.
My current water exchange technique is:
A) place grow bucket to be watered on overturned bucket next to a drain bucket.
B) tip to pour used water from reservoir into the drain bucket
C) pour new water in the grow bucket (all at once.)
D) wait until most of the water pees out into the drain bucket
E) discard used water
When I get brave, I have a few more candidates to transplant,
The largest 2 are an unsexed UltraDawg seedling (in back) and a Haze x Kali China clone.
If Lily survives her transplant, these two should transplant just fine. I don't have backup cuttings of these.
6" tube girl with 20g of osmo+ spread out in 3 layers,
green bucket Carnival with 60g of osmo+ 1/2 in the middle and half in the bottom. and
green bucket Lily - with no osmocote plus !!!
I noticed yesterday that 60g osmo+ prills were about 60ml (a little less) so I decided to switch from weighing grams to measuring ml.
50ml of osmo+ ready to be added to the soil. I'd already done enough to her roots today. so I just mixed where I could reach, the top half of the bucket.
After adding nutrients, I exchanged the water.
My current water exchange technique is:
A) place grow bucket to be watered on overturned bucket next to a drain bucket.
B) tip to pour used water from reservoir into the drain bucket
C) pour new water in the grow bucket (all at once.)
D) wait until most of the water pees out into the drain bucket
E) discard used water
When I get brave, I have a few more candidates to transplant,
The largest 2 are an unsexed UltraDawg seedling (in back) and a Haze x Kali China clone.
If Lily survives her transplant, these two should transplant just fine. I don't have backup cuttings of these.
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For perlite hempy geeks only
Ever wonder how much silt and dust is in a new bag of perlite?
This is the waste from about 10 gallons of washed perlite in the bottom of a 50 gallon tote
1 1/2 pints of muck removed from 10 gallons of perlite poured from the top of the bag.
750 ml. Enough to fill a wine bottle!
Washed perlite ready to be used in a hempy.
Ever wonder how much silt and dust is in a new bag of perlite?
This is the waste from about 10 gallons of washed perlite in the bottom of a 50 gallon tote
1 1/2 pints of muck removed from 10 gallons of perlite poured from the top of the bag.
750 ml. Enough to fill a wine bottle!
Washed perlite ready to be used in a hempy.
Transplanting 3 qt soil plant into 3 gal hempy pot
Delicatessen Lily has been in a 3 qt soil pot for 80 days. She is not a very happy girl, having gone into flower in veg and then a reveg back into veg
She may not know if she's coming or going, but at least she knows she's Martha not arthur!
It's great for inexperienced growers too see these semi mutant 'events' followed by the success they turn into - as beautiful bud laden beauties!
Her rootball is the size where I usually like to transplant into the final size soil pot.
Nice roots too! I'm learning, and they look like pretty healthy roots to me.
Well Sue, I'm thinking I would! So I'm watching this with interest as well. My current plant is going ok with osmo+ in soil, and if it can work for me in perlite it's likely the answer to my 'out of season' growing, which needs to involve minimal physical taxation!
It's looking good so far Rad! You're diving into the new process with great relish and the kind of attention to detail common to all the good grows I've seen. Nice save on the other 'event' too - glad it wasn't the disaster it could have been! Guardian angels taking care ...
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It's looking good so far Rad! You're diving into the new process with great relish and the kind of attention to detail common to all the good grows I've seen. Nice save on the other 'event' too - glad it wasn't the disaster it could have been! Guardian angels taking care ...
I have to be very structured and detailed, otherwise I do things like leave the water running for 7 hours or forget to check the plants for 3 days. Unfortunately that makes me a bit rigid in my processes. One interuption and I have to rethink everything from the last activity checkpoint.
I have 4 girls potentially ready for harvest in the next week. I need to remember to check them tomorrow.
We have more guardian angels and spirits in the house than we really need. So many that some of them are sleeping on the job.
I turned down the amplification on my subwoofer in the grow room, so I won't shake down the filter again this month
TripleBeam
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My mini tower fan on a stand fell over on a plant a few weeks ago. Luckily I found right after it happened. It weighs nothing next to that filter. It does sound like disaster overted for you. 
No-till... I keep a large tote of already used soil in the house all the time. when going from VEG to FLOWER I scoop half the flower container soil out and put it in the large tote with the used soil. Put a hand full of amendments and a cup of EWC with mycos in the new hole and a VEG plant... fill in around the edges with some that old soil. Done... Well then I have to cart the new flower pot to the flower room. It's a lot heavier than a hempy pot... so yeah feeling your non-pain already! hahahaha
Dosn't Doc have some sort of soil conditioner/amendment for used soil???
Frozen temps doesn't really kill any microbes/fungi... slows them down a little, and worms make cocoons.
I leave soil outside all year, I only really have it inside because I'm a lazy ass and don't feel like walking outdoors to get my soil.. even in the warmer months. Actually specially in the warmer months. Gets too hot and sweaty... can't have that!
Rad I think running some Hempy Pots will be a nice change, the plants get watered from the roots up, and I think you will see a positive change just from that perspective.
I have 4 girls in flower, they just drank up 40 gal of water in 7 days... it's been pretty hot here and the ladies are large but even for me that's a lot of water. I think you will find your plants will be up-taking more water than you've been top watering in by a fair amount. You should see a difference in plant size..
Good luck with the new setup... change is a good thing, and an opportunity to learn something new.
Sub'd for the Hempy flowers!
EDIT: the muck from the per-lite will be good in the garden... spread it around should be fine. It's actually made up of granite glass, wont hurt worms and should add to the tilth in the soil and give microbes a nice handy apartment living.
EDIT II - be careful breathing any of the dust in... that is NOT healthy. Water with per-lite is our friend.
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No-till... I keep a large tote of already used soil in the house all the time. when going from VEG to FLOWER I scoop half the flower container soil out and put it in the large tote with the used soil. Put a hand full of amendments and a cup of EWC with mycos in the new hole and a VEG plant... fill in around the edges with some that old soil. Done... Well then I have to cart the new flower pot to the flower room. It's a lot heavier than a hempy pot... so yeah feeling your non-pain already! hahahaha
Dosn't Doc have some sort of soil conditioner/amendment for used soil???
Frozen temps doesn't really kill any microbes/fungi... slows them down a little, and worms make cocoons.
I leave soil outside all year, I only really have it inside because I'm a lazy ass and don't feel like walking outdoors to get my soil.. even in the warmer months. Actually specially in the warmer months. Gets too hot and sweaty... can't have that!
Rad I think running some Hempy Pots will be a nice change, the plants get watered from the roots up, and I think you will see a positive change just from that perspective.
I have 4 girls in flower, they just drank up 40 gal of water in 7 days... it's been pretty hot here and the ladies are large but even for me that's a lot of water. I think you will find your plants will be up-taking more water than you've been top watering in by a fair amount. You should see a difference in plant size..
Good luck with the new setup... change is a good thing, and an opportunity to learn something new.
Sub'd for the Hempy flowers!
EDIT: the muck from the per-lite will be good in the garden... spread it around should be fine. It's actually made up of granite glass, wont hurt worms and should add to the tilth in the soil and give microbes a nice handy apartment living.
EDIT II - be careful breathing any of the dust in... that is NOT healthy. Water with per-lite is our friend.
Thanks I did no till in winter before with the Clackamas Coot mix. A good way to go with soil, I just wasn't doing enough teas or an foliar.
Doc Bud's system uses amendment + EWC and cook for 30 days, between each run as well as the first run.
I don't mind the extra water use of Hhempy so much as the potential for extra humidity. Both of my large dehumidifiers needs service and my small dehumidifier extracts a pint a day at most. The lower humidity of winter should help.
NIce call on the perlite muck. Once I finish washing the perlite, I'll spread some on the compost heap and the earth pile I used to grow sunflowers and melons. I have my first two melons large but not yet ripe, I don't think I'll get much harvest at this late datae, but who knows. The tomatos and peppers are still producing at full speed.
I might actually have some free time soon. I finished the living room rehab (except for one electrical outlet) and moved furniture back into the living room. Without 2 sofas and 2 wing chairs, my front hallway looks a lot bigger
I think to myself this means I can slow down on the home rehab, but if stop to look around I can 5 projects from where I'm sitting - the most glaring being the front hall ceiling under the staircase that collapsed on one of the sofas when I was sitting on it. (Nothing structural, the rest of the ceiling is not at risk (per a friend who is a master plaster guy.) So maybe I won't have free time soon 
I checked the 4 girls in the flower room that should harvest this month. 3 of them had trichomes that are partially cloudy that will probably be ready by the weekend. The big girl is starting to foxtail, so she will run longer. I should have time to take pictures tomorrow.
Blazinjones
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Awesome idea i never thought to use my cat liter buckets to uppot my hempy girls i noticed from sweetsues thread that she said she notices that u get better yields doing smaller plants with some training versus letting them go she said her devils carnival got really tall but low yield and with hempy they tend to have thinner branches which cant support bigger buds so I figured if u top it and train the branches to stay low n alil longer veg then yields would prolly be alil bit better. I believe sue got an ounce dry off her D.C. that she let go n she thinks with her clone going now keeping it shorter is guna do better so that's what I'm guna give a shot this 1st round of trying my hand at hempy style but yea congrats rad on giving the hempy style a go i hope it works out good for you ill be keepn an eye on this grow im interested in seeing how it turns out 4 yaI looked at the tidy cat buckets, but I buy my cat litter in the tall sizes... I think the 12" ones would be better than the 16" ones.
My storebought buckets were only $1.97 each (I missed the 10% off sale.) - They came in green so I don't have to block the light that filters through like I would a yellow or white cat litter bucket - Saves on duck tape
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Flower stall update
Hempy shempy, let's see what's happening in the flower stall (all soil.)
First the two girls who were squished by the falling carbon filter.
AK47 XTRM - a few days short of harvest
Speaking of short, AK47 entered the room at 12" tall and is now 6" tall. Her average canopy height is probably -2"
I was not able to get good trichome photos today. The flash was not lighting the whole photo, and natural light photos don't show much.
Borderliner XTRM - a few days away from harvest, maybe more as she looks like she will foxtail
For going into flower in veg and getting crushed by a charcoal filter falling 6 feet, she looks pretty good.
The new girl in town, Guawi from Ace (14 days) - 41" tall
Guawi canopy view
There was too much foliage in the lower center of Gawi, where light doesn't reach well, so I spread apart the middle and cleaned up.
After defoliating the center, she still looks almost the same
A couple of photos showing buds forming. She wll probaby stretch another 7-10 inches.
Bubba's Gift reveg - meh
Haze x Kali China (31 days) - Grew from from 15" to 48" in a month
I get the impression she will need to be tied up and will flower for a long time.
She looks like she is almost ready for her CAT drench, maybe in a week.
Amherst Sour Diesel - The last of the flowered-early-in-veg girls
She is close to her harvest date
Little baby sized buds
MoC Carnival - 68 days in the flower area - 44" tall
She is done.. I harvested her today.
The top cola is the least ripe - 100% cloudy
Hempy shempy, let's see what's happening in the flower stall (all soil.)
First the two girls who were squished by the falling carbon filter.
AK47 XTRM - a few days short of harvest
Speaking of short, AK47 entered the room at 12" tall and is now 6" tall. Her average canopy height is probably -2"
I was not able to get good trichome photos today. The flash was not lighting the whole photo, and natural light photos don't show much.
Borderliner XTRM - a few days away from harvest, maybe more as she looks like she will foxtail
For going into flower in veg and getting crushed by a charcoal filter falling 6 feet, she looks pretty good.
The new girl in town, Guawi from Ace (14 days) - 41" tall
Guawi canopy view
There was too much foliage in the lower center of Gawi, where light doesn't reach well, so I spread apart the middle and cleaned up.
After defoliating the center, she still looks almost the same
A couple of photos showing buds forming. She wll probaby stretch another 7-10 inches.
Bubba's Gift reveg - meh
Haze x Kali China (31 days) - Grew from from 15" to 48" in a month
I get the impression she will need to be tied up and will flower for a long time.
She looks like she is almost ready for her CAT drench, maybe in a week.
Amherst Sour Diesel - The last of the flowered-early-in-veg girls
She is close to her harvest date
Little baby sized buds
MoC Carnival - 68 days in the flower area - 44" tall
She is done.. I harvested her today.
The top cola is the least ripe - 100% cloudy
Good stuff rad that haze x kali china looks like it will take foooorever. It looks nice and frosty though
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Graduation day
Carnival second generaton clone 17" high x 21x21" canopy goes into the flower stall to replace Carnival second generaton clone 16" high x 23x20
I'll be pleased if the clone comes out like her mother (pictured here pinned to the cork board for harvesting)
The last of my UltraDawg seedlings (50 days old)
The other ones presented as male
The branches are sliding into alternating positions, so we should see sex soon.
Carnival second generaton clone 17" high x 21x21" canopy goes into the flower stall to replace Carnival second generaton clone 16" high x 23x20
I'll be pleased if the clone comes out like her mother (pictured here pinned to the cork board for harvesting)
The last of my UltraDawg seedlings (50 days old)
The other ones presented as male
The branches are sliding into alternating positions, so we should see sex soon.
Morglie
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That guawi and Haze x Kali are stretching......... Looks like they shouldn't get to bad but yeah, that Haze cross is going to take a while. Should be some good smoke.
Carnival is looking good. I had a few seeds in going to have to repop. I might have to slip one of those in.
Carnival is looking good. I had a few seeds in going to have to repop. I might have to slip one of those in.
kelticBlue
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not enough 'E' in Sweeet.
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Carnival hanging to dry
I washed soil off the roots of Haze x Kali China and placed her in a perlite bucket
Haze x Kali China is now a hempy girl
Veg area is now 4 in soil, 4 in hempy - UtraDawg may stay in soil, depending on whether Lilly reveg survives her move to perlite.
I washed soil off the roots of Haze x Kali China and placed her in a perlite bucket
Haze x Kali China is now a hempy girl
Veg area is now 4 in soil, 4 in hempy - UtraDawg may stay in soil, depending on whether Lilly reveg survives her move to perlite.
Ya know... rinsing new stuff is really good. No need to take up 1 iota of space in the pot with that sludge.