Indoor Mephisto, ALF #5 x Azian Haze CBD, Jem...

[MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea]

It is consistent amongst the Biochar soil filled pots only though, not sure what else it could be. CEC should be spot on since it is new soil. The PH is right, soil moisture is right, cover crop is growing nicely, so not sure how the weed plants are horribly tiny. The clover is outgrowing the weed plant, cannabis, marijuana, and pot plant. Most places you read about them say they have enough stored energy in the seed to get bigger than they are already. Also, it is consistently around 80F and 52% humidity lights on, 74F and 52% lights off, so pretty sure it is not a temperature issue causing problems or contributing to them. Your cannabis plant is 3x as big as mine at pre-flower, I would be stoked if this one made it to 10" when it was finished. Yours should get closer to two feet being at that height already. Pics not needed, I totally believe you.

 

[BCBudlady]

It is consistent amongst the Biochar soil filled pots only though, not sure what else it could be. CEC should be spot on since it is new soil. The PH is right, soil moisture is right, cover crop is growing nicely, so not sure how the weed plants are horribly tiny. The clover is outgrowing the weed plant, cannabis, marijuana, and pot plant. Most places you read about them say they have enough stored energy in the seed to get bigger than they are already. Also, it is consistently around 80F and 52% humidity lights on, 74F and 52% lights off, so pretty sure it is not a temperature issue causing problems or contributing to them. Your cannabis plant is 3x as big as mine at pre-flower, I would be stoked if this one made it to 10" when it was finished. Yours should get closer to two feet being at that height already. Pics not needed, I totally believe you.

We will see @MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea . I had to go out of town for a week(family issues) leaving my waterboy hubby in charge. I might be returning to ruin. The girls will be on their own basically and get plain, unph’d water if they are lucky.

 

[MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea]

Well I hope everything is ok for you and your family @BCBudlady , and the plants of course too, positive thoughts from Oregon!

 

[RivetGrrl]

I love microbes now that I am using an organic tea, I'll never not use it that's for sure.
Sorry to hear about the culls, but the next run should prove fruitful and your current gals should fill out nicely and give you some quality bud.

 

[MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea]

These guys are trying to hit 100k thumbs ups, definitely encourage you joint smokers to give this a like on Youtube!

 

[MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea]

My main thing for the next time around is streamlining everything to 3gal pot size, mainly because they fit well together in the tent. The current staggering of height works pretty well, but the 7.5's are just a bit too tall to work perfectly. I only used them before because KIS suggests using 7gal minimum pot size for maximum nutrient cycling and the 7.5gal tall version was all that was available at the time. I also intend to add a small amount of aeration amendment to the rest of my Biochar soil. The owner of KIS recommended not adding any, because the first batch of plants will build soil structure with their root networks, and subsequent plantings should do much better as a result of the pre-existing channels for the next root networks to follow, but the first set of plantings are obviously having troubles, so it's time to just do my own thing.

The other option is just going back to Happy Frog for a third the price of the KIS stuff, which I had excellent results with as a person who knew nothing about growing pot besides the handful of articles I read on Grow Weed Easy. Now that I know a fair amount I am disappointed that I have a $40 bag of soil sitting there unopened that I have 0 confidence in. I could compost it in a tote in my garage, but that seems like a spendy science experiment to start with $40 dirt just to amend it with other stuff. I can buy top soil for $5 for the same sized bag. Of course that will require more feeding, but not enough to offset the cost. Decisions.

 

[BCBudlady]

My main thing for the next time around is streamlining everything to 3gal pot size, mainly because they fit well together in the tent. The current staggering of height works pretty well, but the 7.5's are just a bit too tall to work perfectly. I only used them before because KIS suggests using 7gal minimum pot size for maximum nutrient cycling and the 7.5gal tall version was all that was available at the time. I also intend to add a small amount of aeration amendment to the rest of my Biochar soil. The owner of KIS recommended not adding any, because the first batch of plants will build soil structure with their root networks, and subsequent plantings should do much better as a result of the pre-existing channels for the next root networks to follow, but the first set of plantings are obviously having troubles, so it's time to just do my own thing.

The other option is just going back to Happy Frog for a third the price of the KIS stuff, which I had excellent results with as a person who knew nothing about growing pot besides the handful of articles I read on Grow Weed Easy. Now that I know a fair amount I am disappointed that I have a $40 bag of soil sitting there unopened that I have 0 confidence in. I could compost it in a tote in my garage, but that seems like a spendy science experiment to start with $40 dirt just to amend it with other stuff. I can buy top soil for $5 for the same sized bag. Of course that will require more feeding, but not enough to offset the cost. Decisions.

I keep changing up my routine as well. Trying to find a balance in pot size , healthy medium etc. I have found that most of the Mephisto Genetics finish by day 75 and I can usually finish without adding much besides cal-Mag to my supersoil mix in a 5 gal. Fabric pot. They just take up a lot of space , so I often go against better judgement, use a two gallon square and deal with deficiencies and add in bottled stuff. Decisions is right!

 

[MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea]

Got all the new seeds going in Solo "Squared" cups, they work nice because little 8oz clear cocktail cups fit inside the top opening for humidity domes, regular solo cups are the same size as the 8oz cups so it's a pain to use them together, just a thought.

Three older plants are all growing buds nicely, fed them some fish emulsion yesterday and they showed growth overnight, pretty cool to watch the change. Not going to cull the remaining smallish plants as they are just getting going with preflowers, it's just water basically to keep them going, so just going to let them roll.

Vishnu is going to have to come out for now, or be moved into a different spot, because I need to remove one of the 1gal pots but put three 3gal pots back in, so it's going to be a very tight fit!

Next go around I am thinking I might just do four or six plants to keep it mellow, though I like having all the pots filling up the floor space because it actually helps immensely in creating a nice growing environment.

 

[BCBudlady]

Got all the new seeds going in Solo "Squared" cups, they work nice because little 8oz clear cocktail cups fit inside the top opening for humidity domes, regular solo cups are the same size as the 8oz cups so it's a pain to use them together, just a thought.

Three older plants are all growing buds nicely, fed them some fish emulsion yesterday and they showed growth overnight, pretty cool to watch the change. Not going to cull the remaining smallish plants as they are just getting going with preflowers, it's just water basically to keep them going, so just going to let them roll.

Vishnu is going to have to come out for now, or be moved into a different spot, because I need to remove one of the 1gal pots but put three 3gal pots back in, so it's going to be a very tight fit!

Next go around I am thinking I might just do four or six plants to keep it mellow, though I like having all the pots filling up the floor space because it actually helps immensely in creating a nice growing environment.

@MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea , What are squared cups? Love to see that set up. I’m planning to get a couple photooeriods going in the corners of the tent in the next week or two.
( always room for a solo cup or two!

 

[RivetGrrl]

I'm curious too about the square cups, do you have pictures?
I had to move Buddha out as well until I get my new tent next week, it is VERY crowded in the tent.
I'll do an update soon, but things aren't looking much different until they start budding up more.