Day 4 to 11 - how I repot
2020's been a bit of a crap year for most.... crazy viruses, lockdown, financial woes etc
Luckily that bit of time at home in isolation meant I could spend more time on my grows and dial in my set up.
20.8 ounces of hard, sticky, Auto Night Queen buds was the highlight of my last grow...
A special plant, with more than twice the normal yield! Lockdown time well spent!
As I rent this place, I am plagued by house inspections every 3 months.
I'm sick of having to pull everything down mid grow, so seeing that the next inspection will be at the end of November, I sowed some more seeds at the end of August, so that they'd be ready before the next intrusion..... and dried and cured just in time for Christmas and the New Year!!!
I started them the usual way, seeds straight into EC0.7 nutrient soaked Coco. Clingfilm over the top and into a box with a heatpad.
100% success over 20 grows averaging 4 plants per grow.
3 days later they popped through, and here they are on day 4.....
As you can see, Dutch Passion 'Night Queen' (as always), Dinafem's 'Blue Amnesia' (also a big fav of mine), then there's Sweet Seeds 'Cream Mandarine XL' (that was part of a prize for winning AFN's Plant of the Month back in Nov 2017) and the unlabelled one is Dinafem's 'Cookie'. Read on and you'll see why the 'Cookie' is unlabelled and looking a little worse for wear......
As always, there's some sort of ganja related cock up, this time, I got mixed up sowing my seeds, and like an idiot, I put 2 seeds in one pot, and none in another.
I had it all set up, cups filled with wet Coco.... I planted the BA, put the pot down, got my Cookie seed, then couldn't remember which one had the BA in. Sod's law I picked the wrong cup up to plant the Cookie seed.
BA popped out first, followed by the NQ and then the CM, but the 4th cup remained empty, I had a dig around and couldn't find the seed, so I planted another Cookie.
Typically, the very next day, a 2nd seedling popped out in the Blue Amnesia cup, confirming my cock up.... I pulled it out and replanted it into another cup, and it took root. With all the handling, I probably damaged her very immature first leaves which is why she's looking a bit mashed in the pic above.
So now I have 5 seedlings, BA, NQ, CM and 2 Cookies.... and not enough room in the tent to do them all to their full potential.
Because of this stoney balls up, I'm not sure if the BA is actually a BA or if it's a Cookie.... I'll just have to wait and see.
Earlier this year, I cocked up a couple of grows because I repotted them very late in the day. I rectified that problem on the last grow, and I wasn't gonna make the same mistake again.
Right on time, on day 9, I moved the NQ, BA and CM into 25L airpots....
The 2 Cookies were doing OK but as they were a little younger, I wanted to wait a couple of days so I could repot the best one and ditch the other.
There was just enough room in the tent to squeeze them all in. Look at the size of the old Night Queen compared to the tiny sedlings
(Daiquiri Lime in the background)
On day 11 I repotted the original Cookie. I thought she had recovered from the transplant, and you never know... she might be a Blue Amnesia.
You wanna be careful with Autos, any stress will slow them down, so if you need to repot them, you have to be quick and delicate.
Here's how I do it...
I get my 25L airpot and fill it with Coco. I make a hole for the new seedling using an empty Solo cup to shape it...
I check the depth so that the seedling will sit at the correct height....
Then I cut the bottom off the Solo cup, and run a slit up the side....
.... pop it in the hole.....
.... and pull the Solo cup out to leave the seedling in place.....
.... then just pat the Coco down....
.... and into the tent after a light feed.
That seedling medium looked a bit dry - the Coco straight out of the bag was wetter!
I would usually water the seedling 6 hours or so before repotting so that the Coco wouldn't fall apart during the transplant, but the Cookie was fine.... this method minimizes any root disturbance.... meaning less stress and no slow down in growth.
There we are then... my 20th grow on the way, hopefully dried and cured just in time for Chrissy.
Thanks for popping in!
Luckily that bit of time at home in isolation meant I could spend more time on my grows and dial in my set up.
20.8 ounces of hard, sticky, Auto Night Queen buds was the highlight of my last grow...
A special plant, with more than twice the normal yield! Lockdown time well spent!
As I rent this place, I am plagued by house inspections every 3 months.
I'm sick of having to pull everything down mid grow, so seeing that the next inspection will be at the end of November, I sowed some more seeds at the end of August, so that they'd be ready before the next intrusion..... and dried and cured just in time for Christmas and the New Year!!!
I started them the usual way, seeds straight into EC0.7 nutrient soaked Coco. Clingfilm over the top and into a box with a heatpad.
100% success over 20 grows averaging 4 plants per grow.
3 days later they popped through, and here they are on day 4.....
As you can see, Dutch Passion 'Night Queen' (as always), Dinafem's 'Blue Amnesia' (also a big fav of mine), then there's Sweet Seeds 'Cream Mandarine XL' (that was part of a prize for winning AFN's Plant of the Month back in Nov 2017) and the unlabelled one is Dinafem's 'Cookie'. Read on and you'll see why the 'Cookie' is unlabelled and looking a little worse for wear......
As always, there's some sort of ganja related cock up, this time, I got mixed up sowing my seeds, and like an idiot, I put 2 seeds in one pot, and none in another.
I had it all set up, cups filled with wet Coco.... I planted the BA, put the pot down, got my Cookie seed, then couldn't remember which one had the BA in. Sod's law I picked the wrong cup up to plant the Cookie seed.
BA popped out first, followed by the NQ and then the CM, but the 4th cup remained empty, I had a dig around and couldn't find the seed, so I planted another Cookie.
Typically, the very next day, a 2nd seedling popped out in the Blue Amnesia cup, confirming my cock up.... I pulled it out and replanted it into another cup, and it took root. With all the handling, I probably damaged her very immature first leaves which is why she's looking a bit mashed in the pic above.
So now I have 5 seedlings, BA, NQ, CM and 2 Cookies.... and not enough room in the tent to do them all to their full potential.
Because of this stoney balls up, I'm not sure if the BA is actually a BA or if it's a Cookie.... I'll just have to wait and see.
Earlier this year, I cocked up a couple of grows because I repotted them very late in the day. I rectified that problem on the last grow, and I wasn't gonna make the same mistake again.
Right on time, on day 9, I moved the NQ, BA and CM into 25L airpots....
The 2 Cookies were doing OK but as they were a little younger, I wanted to wait a couple of days so I could repot the best one and ditch the other.
There was just enough room in the tent to squeeze them all in. Look at the size of the old Night Queen compared to the tiny sedlings
(Daiquiri Lime in the background)
On day 11 I repotted the original Cookie. I thought she had recovered from the transplant, and you never know... she might be a Blue Amnesia.
You wanna be careful with Autos, any stress will slow them down, so if you need to repot them, you have to be quick and delicate.
Here's how I do it...
I get my 25L airpot and fill it with Coco. I make a hole for the new seedling using an empty Solo cup to shape it...
I check the depth so that the seedling will sit at the correct height....
Then I cut the bottom off the Solo cup, and run a slit up the side....
.... pop it in the hole.....
.... and pull the Solo cup out to leave the seedling in place.....
.... then just pat the Coco down....
.... and into the tent after a light feed.
That seedling medium looked a bit dry - the Coco straight out of the bag was wetter!
I would usually water the seedling 6 hours or so before repotting so that the Coco wouldn't fall apart during the transplant, but the Cookie was fine.... this method minimizes any root disturbance.... meaning less stress and no slow down in growth.
There we are then... my 20th grow on the way, hopefully dried and cured just in time for Chrissy.
Thanks for popping in!
Great work again TeeTee with the girls, nice and big for their ages, coco must have excellent drainage. I may try it someday. Bro, i have to get Night Queen sometime she is more like a photo than an auto, and Auto Ultimate is anohter big auto.
Thanks mate hope you having a good weekend also, sure is warming up not bad like other springs at least, been some hot ones in October.
