Indoor Testing the eazyplug pyramid mini.

[The Iconoclast]

Only five days but much has happened.

Gorilla Cookies has shot up and is doing a pretty good impersonation of what my original expectation was when I first used the mini pyramid, which is not very impressive and maybe a decent but on top. Both she and Jack47XL have begun to grow at an inch a day. I got a bit gung ho with the LST clip and the branch snapped and was literally hanging on by a thread, impossibly it appears to be ok after I taped her up. Remarkable. The new GC looks like it is supposed to, I have put an early shot of the old GC so you don't have to scroll back to compare. This is very puzzling I mean it looks like a completely different bean, apart from the mutation but what are the odds that I get both a mutation and get given a wrong bean. Seems very unlikely so we'll have to grow her out and see if we can solve the mystery.

GC 8days newGC 9days


Jack 47 has also begun to grow at an inch a day and has maintained her symmetrical shape the LST clips have done their job so well, I caught myself today looking down on her and forgetting she is in a one litre plug, it was just like looking at my normal hydro grow. She is looking very dramatic at the moment. I had to take all the gignormous lower fan leaves off because after the LST work they were pointing straight down.

However, I am forming a bit of a bro science hypothesis and that is that all the giant lower leaves or the first three sets usually that the autos form are just for laying out the foundations for building a solid root structure, and after the plant has gone into flower it basically doesn't need any of that infrastructure any longer. This is one of the tests I have in mind for when I start doing these in pairs.

 

[The Iconoclast]

Lemon Pie, still with a very similar form to the first Purple Haze, even similar colour leaves, only difference is that not much stretch and more budding, she is already at one week of flowering pretty heavy with trichomes, so if this one continues like the purple haze she should be very very chunky. Lemon Pie is really showing her pedigree, what a handsome and classy plant she is doesn't really draw attention to herself, just gets on with pumping out those buds. It's all so exciting.



Amnesia is just a very big gangly plant, very curious to see how she looks in the end if she buds up well. She is another one from the top that looks like a normal hydro grow.

 

[Dankerson]

Gotta say, great work! Definitely making these pyramids look very enticing

 

[kfigerm]

yeah, that's what i want to see...it' some kind of alteration of the furture of my plants. Interested to see if they all behave alike, and what those pyramids can even out concerning ph and nutes, especially excess. Thats where most damage can be done.

 

[>Potato]

I'm not a solo cup competitor, but this might be an ideal medium if someone carved one down to fit.

You could freak everyone out by doing upside down solo cup

 

[The Iconoclast]

OK a week has flown by and I'm itching to get my brooklyn sunrise out of the closet and go full tabletop but it's cold and dry at the moment and she is getting very crusty so I'm gonna see if I can let her go for more than I'd normally chance due to bud rot.

It appears that I erred when I put the block on the large pyramid early, I think it would have been better to grow her for at least a week, maybe 10 days till there were multiple roots coming out the bottom. She sent down one tap root early that poked out the bottom but I didn't spy any more roots for a while and compared to my earlier Jedi's the leaves looked a little small, she still does but there might be some surprises in store, there are a couple of root tips out all four sides and bottom so she has explored the full size of the container, and maybe this will influence her growth, it may delay flowering compared to small pyramid, or it just might be overkill.



Meanwhile I was thinking that if you slice the top one inch off the large pyramid then it will be the perfect fit for the mini pyramid to sit on top. I also will try to grow a bean to completion in the cube just to see what happens. The cube has a very different structure to the pyramids much tougher and holds less fluid, looks like it's been designed for something particular.

Jack47 is very branchy, droopy leaves at night but perks up in the day, unlike say Lemon Pie whose dark green leaves remain permanently perky. If this is a plant I've not grown before and she is very branchy so at this stage I don't really know whether I should prune her or not, if I had two of these growing right now, I'd prune one severely, but I'll let this one go. And I think this one will be a good candidate bean to do a side by side test with severe pruning and no pruning. That is unless I can see that this one didn't do well on the lower bud sites, but she's remaining in her square symmetrical layout so I have to let her run without too much interference.

 

[The Iconoclast]

...Interested to see if they all behave alike, and what those pyramids can even out concerning ph and nutes, especially excess. Thats where most damage can be done.

I was just thinking today that these mini pyramids are very honest. The first Amnesia I grew has a massive root attack with root aphids, in the end my redundancy in my SWC saved me and she appeared undamaged, However the flowers were airy and she looked poorly sometimes. But seeing the current Amnesia in the mini pyramid that is growing large with droopy narrow leaves and looking a bit poorly look exactly like the first one I grew that I thought was sick. In other words the mini is showing me an honest representation of the plant not something caused my mishandling.

I can confidently say that because all the other beans are equally honest, for example the Lemon Pie getting the exact same treatment with the exactly same root structure (which is forced) is giving me resiny, tight and heavy, while the plant is short and stocky. And look at the Gorilla Cookies even after 10 days although she looked healthy nice green leaves, I could already see that something is very wrong, and so it proved to be true.

So I think they are an excellent tool to audition a plant for a larger grow, for example just plucking numbers out of the air. Someone who wanted to maybe grow a large quantity of one auto, could easily grow 10 in a small space and choose the candidate knowing what to expect.

 

[>Potato]

I have been searching for this everywhere: can they be reused? (they mention only recycling and the price per pyramid is borderline painful)

 

[The Iconoclast]

I have been searching for this everywhere: can they be reused? (they mention only recycling and the price per pyramid is borderline painful)

After I cut open the first mini and found that the root structure is mostly disappeared into the texture of the pot I wondered about reusing them, I definitely will test growing a single stem in one of the currently growing batch. Maybe just have to gouge out the top part and perhaps stuff that with some other plug material. So that will be coming up next month with these are finished.

At this stage I don't know if the big pyramid is going to work for me, she is looking very good right now, Jedi is not a large producer, I'd only expect about 8 zips maximum from a hydro grow, but the buds are small and tight and absolutely packed with resin so if I can't get close to 8 zips then it just might not work for me. Maybe I need to choose my strains carefully for the big pyramid, for example I'm not that happy with the size of the Amnesia, I would not grow that in a big pyramid. I know the Jedi is very reliable and easy to grow, if that doesn't work in the big pyramid then I might have to rethink things, but this thread is all about testing. So I'm trying to do tests that are useful to me, but also do not cause me any pain. If Jedi grows well then that will be my permanent big grow and then just use the small pyramids for fun and variety and auditioning.

If the big pyramid does give me what I can get using my big hydro then it would be an unnecessary expense for me, but it would be worth it to get rid of the hydro completely because I'm in a walk in wardrobe and its a bit annoying to try and have to spin the big hydro around to tend to a larger plant, I like the simplicity of the big pyramid and in the end one pyramid every 10 weeks seems fine. For the soil grower 16 USD is going to come close to quality soil in a fabric 5 gal pot. As for the small ones, for my purposes the pleasure it brings growing these like this, as if they were exotic orchids gives me a lot of pleasure and that coupled with the ability to grow more variety makes the ten bucks they cost me here, worth it to me. It's more of a psychological barrier than a financial barrier, it seems to be expensive to spend $100 bucks on plugs that I don't strictly need, but as we say in Australia, 'you're a long time dead'.

 

[kfigerm]

they say it can be reused, microwave or any other drying and desinfection before...spec sheet- Recycling after cultivation.
so give it a try.
Perhaps your girls react to the "heavy" preload with nutes. While my think different, which I know like heavy feed, just take off, the amnesia and euphoria do nut as well - but I can't find a value, nor any NPK they put into. I'll see too.
I'll start to build a dripper on them, cos I'll be some days away....will be interesting how to dial that in here.