I pulled her
Before...
Photos don't really show how crappy she looks. Day 28 Double Grape, been grumpy since the first week. Tried a few different things to fix, but i'm not messing around with pH etc etc, i've seen pH Perfect results and i believe in 'em. My other plants are 1 and 2 days younger than the DG but are twice the size. She grows, but she makes such a damn fuss about it. I've threatened her with termination since her second week and looking at her now, she's not making waves.
Space is limited and as always, a premium. I'd rather take action now, and either way I get a healthier plant worthy of the space, or a space for a new girl to try again. I (thankfully) have two other girls running on my first grow whom are being much more forgiving than this girl, so i'm not putting the entire grow on the line.
tipped on side and gently worked the plant/root ball/medium out of the pot.
root ball around 6/7 inches...didn't look that well developed for a 12L air pot to me but was tough to picture.
perhaps relevant - when this plant first gave me some bother (first set of leaves became discoloured, crinkled), a google search specific to my medium suggested the possibility of larger bits of bark/twig etc can be found in these peat based lightmixes and can be highly acidic. These bits were all pulled out from within the actual root zone as carefully as I could.
Repotted, same medium with the addition of some fresh lightmix left over. i think the heavier, denser soil shifts to the bottom of the bag and leaves the light and fluffy fibres and other components of this lightmix to the top of the bag. for the effort i've made here, i probably should have sourced a replacement medium, but we'll see if she survives.
1L of water (non pH'd) run through the pot. couple of hours later, 1L feed, 1ml Bloom A&B, 1ml CalMag and 1ml Voodoo Juice. This is her the following morning;
she has a week to show me she's worthy of the cupboard space, otherwise she will be replaced with my other DG bean in a new medium choice.
