Sipping Super Sativa Seed Club Strawberry Cookies In Sanlight

[Azimuth]

Good thing I did, if I poured it, it would have run over the ring into the pot as the top layer was hydrophobic.

Next time, try misting the soil surface with a sprayer first. The fine water droplets help get the dry soil to absorb water.

 

[Fenderbender]

I'm going to introduce a dark cycle but I'm gonna do it gradually.. If I now switch to 18/6 they're gonna stretch like crazy and they're exactly like I like them, just 2 inch above ground and staying put.

Although the sheit is I tried to run the heating in the weekend and water came pouring out of the corner in the boiler room... so I got a bust pipe .. meaning I can't heat the room yet. As long as the light stays on they're tropical warm though.
I just listened to a whole thing about dark cycles being important for the plant and the microbial life in the soil so all kinds of different processes can take place that kinda don't when the plant is always on, and it creates a more resilient plant versus one that's driven hard 24/7.

I also managed to get the humidity level to reach 52%!! It's usually 25% by using distilled water in the spray bottle, which also gives a perfect fine mist without any droplets or sputters vs tap or spring or distilled but with a product mixed in. I mean I know I'm stoned but I was quite impressed by my mister .. such a fine and even mist.. no droplets leaking from the spout and then I'm like huh such small impurities making such a big difference in behaviour.

It also evaporates better increasing humidity by well 12-14% it seems as misting tap or spring water only got me to 38-40%
And if I also really wet the floor it stays that way for hours. It's still not a lot but well at least it's not bone dry!
According to the vdp thingy that puts it with the current temp almost in the ideal range for the period instead of right next to the danger zone.

Strawberry Cookies

Sugar Bomb Punch

 

[Fenderbender]

Day 7 after peeping above ground.

I've put them on 20/4 now, I'm thinking they will enjoy dark time as those first leaves look a bit overworked, although a nice big first set of leaves usually means there's good things to come.

I'm also gonna fill the reservoir coax the roots down into the pot, I'm gonna do one more rhizo combo so that gets soaked up in the medium on the first watering. And from then on I hope to be coasting on spring water & some calmag until something else seems needed.

Hmm the Plagron seems to have come with some gnats... but yeah is it them or the conditions the grow shops stores that stuff. But the butterflies, some DA and the old vacuum will have them gone soon.

Strawberry Cookies

Sugar Bomb Punch

 

[Fenderbender]

Day 10
I deployed another butterfly the gnat infestation in the right pot is pretty severe.. although looks like I caught a big bunch of the last hatch, and I haven't seen much flying around, I should really find some mosquito dunks around here but nobody carries that stuff.

The seedlings seem to be pretty huge though. Is that the Myco power? Or is it me trying to get the humidity in range at least making them develop normal instead of a bit slower.. or combo of both.

 

[Melville Hobbes]

I should really find some mosquito dunks around here but nobody carries that stuff.

BTI, bacillus thuringiensis israelensis is the active ingredient in those, if I remember correctly.
There should be products using it available in Europe.
I was just looking, and it is or was being used there for mosquito control.
I also found a product that had separate labels for Canada, including one that said "restricted", so it might be more regulated in the EU vs the US.

 

[Fenderbender]

bacillus thuringiensis israelensis

Aha that brought me to Culinex which sounds more like something for the kitchen but that seems to be available in tablets.

 

[Scottay]

I bought my dunks from the Zon. Cheap. First time I watered with it the numbers went down and after the second watering I've not seen any more. The little fuckers love it because I use banana peel water. Had to show them who's tent it was. Little flittering bastards!!! Happy Sunday!!

 

[Fenderbender]

I feel like I'm growing lettuce or cabbage look at the veins on those first leaves they are huge.
Don't know why they are so warped though, maybe some damage from being 24hrs under the light in the beginning, or the gnats as this pot had loads of them.

This stem will be ripping soon too as she has already way bigger branches coming out.

 

[Melville Hobbes]

I feel like I'm growing lettuce or cabbage look at the veins on those first leaves they are huge.
Don't know why they are so warped though, maybe some damage from being 24hrs under the light in the beginning, or the gnats as this pot had loads of them.

This stem will be ripping soon too as she has already way bigger branches coming out.

I get wavy first leaves like those on a lot of my grows.
They don't hurt anything, and the plants seem to grow out of it.

 

[Fenderbender]

The Shedding has started.
I said it yesterday and today opening the tent I could see the thin skin around the stem.
I'm gonna count Friday the 4th as day 1 as they day before they were still just coming up and opening up, one had cleared the husk the other needed a bit of help so one full light cycle would be on the 4th. That would make today day 12

They're getting their daily half hour of strong wind simulation

And well I was hoping this was going to happen returning back to the SIPS and setting up the pots like that, but damn this just instantly kick starts the plants.
@cbdhemp808 might want to try starting in sips vs transplanting into them, as I think why you're not seeing any major difference is that it's gonna take a long time before the plants colonises the pot and adapts to sipping.
Or I'm thinking you might be extremely good at watering and feeding regularly and can't be much improved upon

 

[cbdhemp808]

@cbdhemp808 might want to try starting in sips vs transplanting into them, as I think why you're not seeing any major difference is that it's gonna take a long time before the plants colonises the pot and adapts to sipping.
Or I'm thinking you might be extremely good at watering and feeding regularly and can't be much improved upon

@Azimuth says the SIP is going to pull away, so I'm just a waitin'. Well, I transferred from 1 gal to the SIP, and I realized that the bottom of the root ball was already something like 2" from the rez. So I figgered that the roots would find the rez very quickly, and I think there's plenty evidence of that... the rez level has been dropping from 2" to empty in like 3 days. What I'm a tad worried about right now is that my SIP medium may be too light on the nutes, because I'm used to making a custom potting mix with a lot less coco in it. And I am not yet feeding. My SIP mix is fully 1/3 coco. I've got the same amount of nutes in there, basically, as my usual custom potting mix, but the coco makes the water drain through very fast. Then again, everything is winding up in the rez, so I dunno. MAYBE EVERYTHING IS PERFECT!

I think my SIP will take off (compared to the nursery pot) when the containers get crowded with roots, because the SIP will have better access to water and air. Also, when I start fertigating.

 

[Fenderbender]

@Azimuth says the SIP is going to pull away, so I'm just a waitin'. Well, I transferred from 1 gal to the SIP, and I realized that the bottom of the root ball was already something like 2" from the rez. So I figgered that the roots would find the rez very quickly, and I think there's plenty evidence of that... the rez level has been dropping from 2" to empty in like 3 days. What I'm a tad worried about right now is that my SIP medium may be too light on the nutes, because I'm used to making a custom potting mix with a lot less coco in it. And I am not yet feeding. My SIP mix is fully 1/3 coco. I've got the same amount of nutes in there, basically, as my usual custom potting mix, but the coco makes the water drain through very fast. Then again, everything is winding up in the rez, so I dunno. MAYBE EVERYTHING IS PERFECT!

I think my SIP will take off (compared to the nursery pot) when the containers get crowded with roots, because the SIP will have better access to water and air. Also, when I start fertigating.

Yeah that's also a nice thing, everything gets used in sips there's nothing running through or off.
Sounds like she's sipping though, didn't you mention that Cannabis evolved around the lakes and riverbeds in India?
Cause they do seem to like a constant access to water. And well the root systems she throws out in DWC is an alien life form on its own.
Our outdoor area used to have a water vein running under the plants until someone decided to build a swimming pool which seems to have cut through the access. Plants used to grow there 7 to 10' without any care, you'd just plonk it in the ground and it kept growing ankle sized stems.

And like now I just can't believe how fast & large this Strawberry Cookie is growing in the first two weeks of life.
The Sugar Bomb has similar stem and level advancement but not as wide a leaf structure and thus way less surface area.

 

[Fenderbender]

Day 14 Strawberry cookies is getting a lot larger than Sugar Bomb Punch, but stem development is in similar stage.
I've lowered the lights they're getting around 350 ppfd now and they are just at the distance where the light beams merge.. there's no lights directly above the plants funny I still haven't cut back the hours to 18 as I'm kinda feeling if I keep 20hrs I can get away with keeping the light at 76watts for a bit longer.

Strawberry Cookies

Sugar Bomb Punch`

I feel like I definitely found my jam for starting these sips.. who's laughing at my ring now?
As the previous times it worked like a charm as well and the myco seems to supercharge the process even more.

With the SIP full of soil instead of intermedium hydropebbles I'm noticing the level goes down much slower and the uptake of water is also much slower.. and now it's been stuck on the same low level the past days.. And I'm wondering isn't there gonna be a water pool stuck at the bottom way longer as what the hydroballs would do is completely empty out the reservoir when they get dry as that whole hydro area could slurp up and hold a lot of water in an instant but that displacement isn't really happening right now so the behaviour is different.
So i'm thinking I should top up instead of waiting for it to go down completely as I'm thinking too much of the soil has to dry out before that last bit of water gets asked.

 

[Chuckeye]

Day 14

This is my solo cup girls at day 14 so if nothing else you have saved yourself the time to transplant

Hawaiian Snow is day 11.....

With the SIP full of soil instead of intermedium hydropebbles I'm noticing the level goes down much slower and the uptake of water is also much slower.. and now it's been stuck on the same low level the past days..

I don't think hydropebbles are of any benefit in SIP's, it already has a more readily available reservoir.

And it's too early for your girls to be drinking much. The day before transplant I water with a gallon from the top and at transplant (day 18?) I maintain about a 1/3 of a reservoir. I won't increase the amount of reservoir until they use that in a day.

So i'm thinking I should top up instead of waiting for it to go down completely as I'm thinking too much of the soil has to dry out before that last bit of water gets asked.

I don't think I've tried a full reservoir right from the start ? But, I see no reason to let it go dry

I use a wood skewer to check the level of moist of the top of the medium, no more than an 1" down is my goal but I have had it moist right to the top with no issues. But, that is when they are drinking at least 3/4 of the reservoirs in a day...

Cheers

 

[Fenderbender]

Mmmm I'd say leaf grow is pretty gargantuan though.
Snuck in the top half of a 650g Yoghurt container for comparison.

 

[Fenderbender]

Near the end of day 15
Sugar Bomb Punch is looking nice as well.
They're definitely already sipping as the reservoir is going down a lot faster than expected usually it hardly goes down the first weeks... I think that those roots turned into hungry sharks.
And I can stop misting as they are already capable of providing the tent with enough humidity as the tent was a nice 62%Rh & 25°c when I opened it after the night.

Sugar Bomb Punch, leaves are super straight I can photograph above and below.

Strawberry Cookies

Strawberry Cookie is already up to 9 fingers, she went 1-3-7-9, The Punch the classic 1-3-5-7
I do think finger count is yes genetics but also root health related, if the roots can bring in lots of stuff she can throw out veins to build around. I've also seen finger count decrease when a plant is not happy and pick up again after correcting.

I'm in love with the Cookies, she so huge.. I'm already thinking I need to get back in the big tent so i don't cramp their space.. but I'm only in the 4G sips so I can't let them go too crazy.

 

[Au510]

Near the end of day 15
Sugar Bomb Punch is looking nice as well.
They're definitely already sipping as the reservoir is going down a lot faster than expected usually it hardly goes down the first weeks... I think that those roots turned into hungry sharks.
And I can stop misting as they are already capable of providing the tent with enough humidity as the tent was a nice 62%Rh & 25°c when I opened it after the night.

Sugar Bomb Punch, leaves are super straight I can photograph above and below.

Strawberry Cookies

Strawberry Cookie is already up to 9 fingers, she went 1-3-7-9, The Punch the classic 1-3-5-7
I do think finger count is yes genetics but also root health related, if the roots can bring in lots of stuff she can throw out veins to build around. I've also seen finger count decrease when a plant is not happy and pick up again after correcting.

I'm in love with the Cookies, she so huge.. I'm already thinking I need to get back in the big tent so i don't cramp their space.. but I'm only in the 4G sips so I can't let them go too crazy.

Hey thanks for the like on my comment. It gives me an excuse to bug you now lol. I thought I'd ask you a quick question if you don't mind. I downloaded one of those pics you posted to repost here for simplicity sake. So the parts I circled red are where my confusion is. Are those parts circled a guaranteed way to know if a plant is male or female or is it not 100%?

 

[Fenderbender]

No those are leaf tips. did you buy regular seeds? as these are feminized photoperiods.
That's what you're looking for but it's still a bit early days for that..

 

[Au510]

I see and no they were from a tobacco store near me that started selling auto flower seeds. The specific brand or whatever is called *Hey you guys*. This is also the 2nd plant I've grown from that batch and the first was a male even though supposedly the seeds are 90% females. I grew the 1st one outside starting in August and it looked nothing like this. Here's a pic of what I'm worrying about. I keep reading different information and sources and it's all short circuiting my brain lol.

 

[Fenderbender]

Oh, hmm yeah I'd be worried about those too.. they're pushing off the stem those look like pollen sacs.