Day 14 - Big Changes for Blackstrap - Possible Dangers
I wanted to get all of the plants into the same tent, so I called Two Men and Truck for young Blackstrap.
Here's the setup:
For the last week or so, I would take a little good medicine and put it in the yellow bucket. That did two things, it started getting the coco damp and it added microbes into the mix.
The problem is that I may have gone a little too wet. It didn't seem so bad until I went to pot-up the BS. As she made her root-end down into the performed hole, the coco seemed pretty wet. Not soaked, but maybe a little heavier than her little roots can move through.
To complicate matters, I added a weak nutrient mix to the bottom of the bucket so that it could get to wicking up. This means no chance of drying up from the bottom end.
Although, I may have a solution to the bottom. The overflow hole is a 5/16 or 3/8 hole. My hand-pump siphon tip and hose is about 1/2". If I open up the hole a little I could get the bottom fluid out of there.
This could help speed up a little dry-back. Making the hole a little bigger won't interefere with the wicking bucket's SIP design.
If you note in one of the photos I have my photography graycard shading the seedling. Left alone she would be getting 22 - 24 DLI and that is a little too much at this age. Next week it will be fine.
The group photo shows that the tent is getting busy. I'll introduce you to the rest of the gang, even though are not part of this journal.
If you look to the right you will see two very strange-looking Purple Lemonades. The never made any real branches. I did stress them a little early on and their look may be from that stress. I don't know. The front one is making one big fat cola though. The back one has always fallen behind the front one.
The back right one went through a major lockout. I went to bed one night to beautiful plants, and woke of to dried up and shriveled plant. Some of her leaves were like parchment paper.
I flushed and flushed and cut away the damage and she got back in the game. The front one has the strangest leaves I've ever seen. It could be a lockout, but the small reservoir at the bottom of her pot matches the large reservoir. Her vitals all match the big rez.
To the left, the tiny one up front is a Mystery plant. I was given seeds from a podcaster after buying a t-shirt. I reached out to ask what they were, but he never replied. I am 99.9% it is an AutoFlower because this podcaster specialized in AFs.
Behind that is Critical Purple. I train and train and clip leaves and it just gets bigger and bushier. I checked with other grow logs and these are late bloomers and then come on strong.
In the very back left, is Gorilla Glue. A dwarf (most likely my fault from overwatering a seedling. She is starting to flower and has a lot of potential bud sites that I keep clear to receive the light.
No fancy photos for tonight ... just some plain iPhone pics.
but do love the pics very nice 
