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Feel the pot. Be the pot my friend. Don't water again until that pot is as light as a feather. Then hit them with a lekker nutrient feed. They will strive. Avoid any form of stress to the plants until they are fully recovered. Sterkte

I think I made a mistake of soaking my peat and then immediately transplanting the seedlings, and then I continued to water with my nute solution. I did change my peat brand so I'm wondering whether that may be the case because this peat is way darker than my regular one and seems to hold alot more moisture as well. Do they look over watered? I'm using a 50 50 perlite peat combo. I also think my addition of perlite is contributing to the issue as I never used perlite before and never had any overwatering issues.

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So I decided to remove the last plant because she wasn't doing too well. Of the remaining 2 plants one is doing better then the other but the pots are extremely wet at the moment, so I'm going to hold off watering and then hit them with just Ph 5.5 water to see if I can't resolve the nute issues on the struggling one. I will top them both in the coming days.

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4 hours ago, 420SA said:

Day 31

Pics taken last night

Pace of growth picking up nicely. Bit of a stretch going on for #2.... 

Otherwise growth is nice and healthy at the moment.

The plants tend to come out more yellow in the pics. They are greener to the naked eye. The spectrum of the bulb and colour correction on the phone seems to cause this

 

Looking good!Did you top when they had 6 nodes?Whats your watering regimen like at this stage?

Day 25.
Transplanted into 15l pots with a 50/50 coco perlite mix because they were root bound and gave them ec0.6 hortimix nutes.

Moved them into my 120cm tent and changed to a 150hps for veg.

The last one isn't looking too good, might pull her if she doesn't pull through.

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Just a pic of Totemics Bubba kush mom I have going in a dwc. She lives inside at night by the window and some days she goes out for a tan lol. She gets nutrifeed and microbe spray on the roots and sprayed with neem and Aqsf to handle bugs and mold since I'm close to the sea and am plague by mold issues consistently. She has about 9 tops, in a 20l bucket. I'm not sure what I'm doing with her yet though.

*This is not part of the comp.

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Man this makes me want to dig out my old 400w hps lol they are the leaders in size as far as I can see.

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Day 18 since plant, 22 days since sprout.
I'm using nothing but a light feeding of nutrifeed. They have exploded

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Tried to get some close up shots of the leader. You know the end product is going to be high quality if you see those tiny hairs developing at this stage

Also added a pic of my microbes and sick bay treatment items should I need them. I used the biodyne already as a spray on all the ladies already.
Also I fed the ladies last night their first weak solution of nutrifeed.

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the concentration is hectic strong according to the internet... 2% of the volume, so like 200ml in 10l mix....
but dont go that strong...
you dont need to worry about it burning your plants, but have had good results with teaspoon or 2 per 10l. do you have a powder or the black balls? 

So I have a fine powder, my medium is coco peat and feeding with light nute solution at the moment.

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Well done, these are taking off nicely. I have some powered humic but I'm unsure how much to use. What concentration is your mix?

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Hi all, better late than never hehe, been a bit crazy with work atm. So I tried out some foliar microbes and one of the plants didn't take too kindly to it. Seems like a burn to me. The 2nd pic is the leader in size and the 3rd just coming along.

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100% as usual with Totemics beans

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Hey All,

 

So I dropped my beans on the 8th May into some damp tissue inside a container using plain ol tap water 

I gave them 4 days inside the damp tissue ,the roots grew uniformly and were around 2cm when I transplanted them last night.

 

This is a picture of them this morning in plain coco peat,recovered and starting to enjoy the small 18w LED tube above.

 

 

 

 

The plan now is to wait for them to dry out and then only water from the bottom.I've had success with this in the past.My intention here it to force the roots to grow by limiting water.Keeping a young seedling consistently wet is the worse thing you can do,but obviously there is a fine balance

For me personally, I noticed improved disease, pest resistance, taste with organic soil compared to the same plant grown under the same light in soil less. It makes sense though because to produce really potent bud a plant needs slight stress and I stress my plants in veg so they are able to build up tolerances. This is alot of work though, brewing tea, mixing smelly liquid ferts, which is why farms go soiless when growing indoor, automated nute mixing and dispensing systems means you plant, veg harvest in a set system with plants that enjoy growing in that setup.

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@Totemic
never grew that strain... you have us newbies some hints regarding feeding? They are more hungry, not so or rather normal? Looking very much forward to dip into your genetics 

Yes I would like to know also. I'm going to try in Hydro and others in soil/soiless hehe

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Got my beans! Time to bleach my tent!

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Hey, is it too late, I just signed up

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"MPK NUTRIENT

 

Monopotassium phosphate (also potassium dihydrogen phosphate, KDP, or monobasic potassium phosphate, MKP or MPK) — KH2PO4 — is a soluble salt which is used as a fertilizer, a food additive and a fungicide. It is a source of phosphorus and potassium."

 

I intend on using this to douse my plants after the rains to prevent mold.I read that using a 1% mixture will achieve this,but how do I figure the ratios out lol.I have a 125g packet that needs to go into 5l water.

Is this accurate : A one percent solution is defined as 1 gram of solute per 100 milliliters final volume. For example, 1 gram of sodium chloride, brought to a final volume of 100 ml with distilled water, is a 1% NaCl solution. To help recall the definition of a 1% solution, remember that one gram is the mass of one milliliter of water.

How far along is she? Looks amazing, did you do any training?

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Very interesting, how much heat comes off the new one?

It's slightly less, but not by much, let's just say you can't touch it for more than a second lol

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Thank you guys for the kind words... On a job again in the harbour today but I am itching to get home to finish up..

Let me be your motivation, :D

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I'm in, you guys are going down, I have xp with 3 of his older strains going atm muhuhahahaha

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So I ended up going for another acdc floodlight to add to the existing 150w I bought last year. Here is where it gets interesting, the new module is bigger and the leads more spaced out for more or less the same price of the old model. Does anyone know what leds these things use?

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Thanks guys, so I squashed them and they stink, it was the right call!

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Don't know if this pic will do the badass og cheese justice, but damn I'm happy with her.

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