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Indoor Teetee's 2021 Monster Hunt
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looking good broHi, back to work tomorrow, so just a quick one.
Day 21, and they are doing very well.
The Night Queen's in a 25L Airpot and is going for it....
From the side you can see loads going on underneath. She's got plenty of light getting in there to give those side shoots a boost....
The Colorado Cookies in a 5L airpot, doing well and although a bit spotty in places from the heat stress, is looking lush up top....
I might whip off her top fan leaves in a day or two to let the developing side shoots underneath get some light....
Lastly the Blackberry Kush, also looking very well....
She's very happy in that 5L airpot too, but I reckon she'll explode with growth when I get her into a 25L.
I'm hoping the new Coco will come in the next few days, they are growing very quickly and they are into their 4th week, so it wont be long till the stretch and they start to flower.
They each have their own Skyline 400 now.... I started with one, but after repotting I put a second one in, and today I added the third. I keep them on 24/7.
Temps are blistering, always 30°C or more, so I've put in an air circulation fan and upped the intake and extraction to get some air flowing round, and I'm watering every day to keep the medium at the right EC as much as possible.
Evaporation of the water component in the Coco will mean the nutes will become more concentrated and fuck things up. The 4th week is crucial, as they really speed up..... this is where monsters are born.
Keeping the nute EC fairly low will also help keep things on track, they started on an EC 0.7 feed and are now on an EC 0.8 pH 5.8 feed with plenty of Cal-Mag and a little bit of extra nitrogen, plus the usual Multizyme, Roots Excellurator and Drip Clean.
Anyway hope you're all having a good one, thanks for looking in!
It could be my VPNThat's weird Bro, is it only happening with my threads?
Let me know as I haven't changed anything about how I post stuff.
Gotta be my VPN. I changed to a UK server and it still won't show. The server thinks it's an attack.
edit...........Yup! VPN! I turned it off and the pics loaded. I guess that since you link them and don't upload here. the server must have changed something and doesn't like a VPN.
Do you use a VPN?
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Yeah, I don't use a VPN, and you're right, I do upload on a different site, then copy it over to AFN.... my bad. I'm just too lazy to re upload, and I think the other site removes all my info so that's why I do it.
Hope all is good your way Bro!
Hope all is good your way Bro!
Day 28 - all in their final pots
Welcome back, it's day 28, and all is well.... so far.
@WildBill let me know if you can see any of the images this time???
Here they are as a group, with the Colorado Cookies on the left, Night Queen centre and the Blackberry Kush on the right.... all now in 25L airpots.
Avid readers will remember I had to get them out of the Solo cups and into larger pots back on day 16, but I didn't have enough Coco so I put the NQ in a 25L airpot and the other two into 5L airpots.
The Coco arrived last week, so on day 22 I moved the NQ and CC into their final 25L airpots.... not as easy as doing it with Solo cups.
I firmly believe any fucking around with Autos will slow them down, that's why I usually use Solo cups to start off.... I cut the bottom off, and slit it up the side, and pop the whole lot in the new Coco filled pot. Then I carefully slide the old Solo cup out job done. This way there's no handling of roots, no light exposure to the roots, and it's very quick.... minimal stress to the plants.
Moving a plant from a 5L airpot to a 25L airpot was more difficult because of the indentations in the airpot itself. No smooth sides to slide the pot out this time, so as I unwrapped the pot from the plant, the Coco stuck in the indentations and crumbled away a little.
Petrified the whole lot was gonna fall apart in my hands, I had to plonk it in the 25L airpot and frantically fill it in around the sides.
The diameter of the 5L airpot left me with about 3cm around the inside of the 25L pot to fill in, so it all got a bit messy as I furiously packed the Coco down with my (gloved) hands.
I don't know why I just can't be more prepared.... I seem to do this quite often. My excuse this time was the difficulty in getting a delivery around the Christmas and New Year at short notice, but I have to say a big thanks to the Hydro store that sorted this one out!
You can see the difference in the plants... the NQ is much bigger than the other two, because she's had the least stress to go through.
Here she is...
Looking pretty good for day 28. I've done nothing except a little bit of leaf tucking to let the underlying new tops show through.
Inside there's plenty going on and enough space to let it all happen....
And from above you can see she has...... potential.....
The Blackberry Kush was initially the runt of the pack, but she recovered from the heat stress and repot shock quickly and is storming away.....
See how I've tucked that fan leaf in the centre to allow those new tops to pop out either side.
The air-pruned root tips from being in the 5L airpot literally took off once repotted.... that's why they call them 'rocket pots' over here, and it's why I chose to use a 5L airpot rather than a standard smooth pot.
The plants were only in the 5L airpot for 6 days, but had developed quickly in that time. Had they been in a standard pot, the roots would have started to coil up rather than air-prune and they would have had a slower start in the 25L airpot.
Again, she's got plenty of space underneath to let those new side shoots to develop...
And from above, she looks very healthy with nice big fan leaves sucking up the Skyline goodness....
The Colorado Cookie is the smallest plant of the grow. I've always found her in the past to be a bit shorter and bushier, and this seems to be much the same.
I've had to whip off 3-4 pairs of fan leaves from the mid region of the main stem (as and when rather than all in one go) to allow the new stems underneath to get any light....
From above you can see how the uppermost fan leaves at 12 and 6 o clock are pretty wide, stopping any light getting to what's underneath.
I'll be whipping those two off when the newer leaves at 3 and 9 o clock are more substantial....
Can you see the thermometer reading? It was only around 9am when I took the pic... it's even hotter in there now!
I don't like cutting healthy leaves off, I see them as 'solar panels' for the plant, so removing them can only be detrimental. Especially in the first 4 weeks.
Having said that, if the leaf is yellowing or not getting any light, I'll consider removing it to stop it from draining the plant's energy.
Now that they are 28 days plus, I can start to think about the impending stretch, so I have to make sure that every new shoot gets enough direct light on them so they can lift up from the main body of the plant and knock out some candy canes.
Getting a plant to focus it's energy on that will mean some light staking out and then clearing out anything underneath that looks like it won't get to the canopy. Stake first then cut, not the other way.
A lot of growth can happen in the next 10 days, so I'll have to go in and do some surgery a couple of times to keep things in check.
Hope you're all doing well and keeping safe. Thanks for looking in, more soon!
@WildBill let me know if you can see any of the images this time???
Here they are as a group, with the Colorado Cookies on the left, Night Queen centre and the Blackberry Kush on the right.... all now in 25L airpots.
Avid readers will remember I had to get them out of the Solo cups and into larger pots back on day 16, but I didn't have enough Coco so I put the NQ in a 25L airpot and the other two into 5L airpots.
The Coco arrived last week, so on day 22 I moved the NQ and CC into their final 25L airpots.... not as easy as doing it with Solo cups.
I firmly believe any fucking around with Autos will slow them down, that's why I usually use Solo cups to start off.... I cut the bottom off, and slit it up the side, and pop the whole lot in the new Coco filled pot. Then I carefully slide the old Solo cup out job done. This way there's no handling of roots, no light exposure to the roots, and it's very quick.... minimal stress to the plants.
Moving a plant from a 5L airpot to a 25L airpot was more difficult because of the indentations in the airpot itself. No smooth sides to slide the pot out this time, so as I unwrapped the pot from the plant, the Coco stuck in the indentations and crumbled away a little.
Petrified the whole lot was gonna fall apart in my hands, I had to plonk it in the 25L airpot and frantically fill it in around the sides.
The diameter of the 5L airpot left me with about 3cm around the inside of the 25L pot to fill in, so it all got a bit messy as I furiously packed the Coco down with my (gloved) hands.
I don't know why I just can't be more prepared.... I seem to do this quite often. My excuse this time was the difficulty in getting a delivery around the Christmas and New Year at short notice, but I have to say a big thanks to the Hydro store that sorted this one out!
You can see the difference in the plants... the NQ is much bigger than the other two, because she's had the least stress to go through.
Here she is...
Looking pretty good for day 28. I've done nothing except a little bit of leaf tucking to let the underlying new tops show through.
Inside there's plenty going on and enough space to let it all happen....
And from above you can see she has...... potential.....
The Blackberry Kush was initially the runt of the pack, but she recovered from the heat stress and repot shock quickly and is storming away.....
See how I've tucked that fan leaf in the centre to allow those new tops to pop out either side.
The air-pruned root tips from being in the 5L airpot literally took off once repotted.... that's why they call them 'rocket pots' over here, and it's why I chose to use a 5L airpot rather than a standard smooth pot.
The plants were only in the 5L airpot for 6 days, but had developed quickly in that time. Had they been in a standard pot, the roots would have started to coil up rather than air-prune and they would have had a slower start in the 25L airpot.
Again, she's got plenty of space underneath to let those new side shoots to develop...
And from above, she looks very healthy with nice big fan leaves sucking up the Skyline goodness....
The Colorado Cookie is the smallest plant of the grow. I've always found her in the past to be a bit shorter and bushier, and this seems to be much the same.
I've had to whip off 3-4 pairs of fan leaves from the mid region of the main stem (as and when rather than all in one go) to allow the new stems underneath to get any light....
From above you can see how the uppermost fan leaves at 12 and 6 o clock are pretty wide, stopping any light getting to what's underneath.
I'll be whipping those two off when the newer leaves at 3 and 9 o clock are more substantial....
Can you see the thermometer reading? It was only around 9am when I took the pic... it's even hotter in there now!
I don't like cutting healthy leaves off, I see them as 'solar panels' for the plant, so removing them can only be detrimental. Especially in the first 4 weeks.
Having said that, if the leaf is yellowing or not getting any light, I'll consider removing it to stop it from draining the plant's energy.
Now that they are 28 days plus, I can start to think about the impending stretch, so I have to make sure that every new shoot gets enough direct light on them so they can lift up from the main body of the plant and knock out some candy canes.
Getting a plant to focus it's energy on that will mean some light staking out and then clearing out anything underneath that looks like it won't get to the canopy. Stake first then cut, not the other way.
A lot of growth can happen in the next 10 days, so I'll have to go in and do some surgery a couple of times to keep things in check.
Hope you're all doing well and keeping safe. Thanks for looking in, more soon!
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Shaping up well my friend.. I've been through that crumbling soil/coco panic plonk in transplant quite a few times.. and the 3cm of space to try and stuff with soil after.. chuckled when I read that.. fkn nightmare. And what can you do with temps but battle on!! All set now for the teetee treatment after an unconventional start 
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Beautiful looking plants, look like they’re all just about ready to explode! Very detailed and informative thread, nice work.
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