Yes. It seems that the weather is becoming more extreme everywhere you look these days.
Excellent GDB!Quite doable, Carmen.
Sounds like a good plan to me, and I know a "good plan" when I see one. You can ask anyone!
Yay! Thanks
WHOA. I was catching up and this took my breath away!Thank you Shed. This makes me so happy
You can stay a month in those pots.Tuesday 21 June UPDATE
AUTOS
Caramel King and Lavender Best, the two autos are 7 and 5 weeks old respectively. They both got 2 Litres of nute water this morning. I removed some of the books from the stack that are keeping the Lavender Best close to the light as she had stretched a bit more. She is now level-ish with the Caramel King.
PHOTOPERIODS
Bruce Banner #2 and Wedding Cake, the two photos are both 19 days old. I got lucky this morning because my pots arrived and I was able to up-pot to 5 Litre / 1 gal. They are square plastic pots on legs, like the ones I used to use with coco-perlite grows. I hope that a month is enough time to establish a strong root structure in there before an up-pot to the 20 L / 5 gal fabric pots? Do you folk think this is doable? I want to veg until end July and then flower.
LEAF ISSUES
All four of my plants have had leaf issues in this soil. Asking around about the cause has not produced definitive answers. It's possible the soil is too hot for seedlings. It is also possible that the cold weather causes a nute lockout. I doubt it is a watering issue as I have followed @Jon's method for starting seedlings and I know I haven't over or under watered with these two. The autos grew out of it. I hope the photos do too.
Thank you for taking an interest in my grow and for knowledge and wisdom shared
Hey BK
Thank you so much! I think you may be wise to plant closer to one side to accommodate the bend. This plant hasn't exceeded the boundaries so I got lucky. How does it affect root development if the root ball is placed close to one side of the grow bag?
I'm pretty sure that roots will grow wherever there is space for them! Parkinson's law for plants!
Thank you Shed! Happy longest day of the year for you.... enjoy!Happy shortest day of the year Carmen! Tomorrow will be a little longer (and brighter I hope!) and that means that spring is on its way.
Any chance those leaves were touching the soil at some point?
Thanks Shed this sorta breaks my brain
I promise to try to understand it!
Thank you so much Jon
and thanks for the confirmation about the pots.
It's basically the theory that work grows to fill the time allotted to get it done.Thanks Shed this sorta breaks my brain
I'm going to take your word for it
I think what you are telling me is that the roots will fill out to match the work that they need to do, and will colonize the soil in the bag if they are healthy and well fed.
Thank you BK, that makes perfect sense to me.
Oh no... that could very well be. I up-potted them yesterday into slightly moist soil, and gave them their first water today. I was careful to water them around the outer circle into a moat. I didn't give them much, possibly 1/2 L into each 5 L pot but it did run-off. I have been following instruction by @Jon, but my notes don't include the up-pot. I lost track and improvised. Damn, I should have asked
HI Tra, I grow a bonzai which hardly ever gets any water, and outdoor potted plants which get water daily in summer and are over-watered by rain in winter. I think the trouble is that I watered the plants to run-off too soon. I have confused myself with information over-load. I am freaking out because I can't seem to retain information that I read. I have copied notes from @Jon's instructions but my notes stop before the up-pot. Watering has become a fucking nightmare.
Hi Azi. I use a living organic soil that is premixed and laboratory tested. I told Jamie (the manufacturer) that several people suggest calcium deficiency, and he responded by shaking his head and saying it is quite incorrect to use synthetic nutes in his soil. He doesn't agree with the calmag diagnosis. I just have to wait it out and hope it improves, as there is nothing to be done at this time.
Hi girlfriend
Ah girlfriend you make me lol properly... thank you! Yes, it does feel as if I have become water obsessed. I am going to try to find my zen with thisHi girlfriend
I ask because the same thing happened to me when I joined. I felt everyone was so water obsessed I needed to be water obsessed too. I forgot I know how to grow regular plants. I get the water confusion if the poster has no idea about growing plants, coz so many people don’t and MJ is their first taste of growing. But if you do love to grow regular plants MJ is just a plant. Stop overthinking it. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel. I wish someone had given me this advice when I joined lol. It literally took me a year in here to realise this fact. While I continue to face grow challenges, knowing when to water my plants isn’t one of them.
You got this.
