Bob Bitchen’s Beans Community Journal.
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DarkWeb
Probably My Fault
That's a sweet bud!
Great job DW, I’m glad you’re enjoying it
laddyd
What fresh hell is this
well I had all these seeds and I was curious what a dancing lime and gelato cross would be like, ditto on the blue cheese. I didn't expect every seed to sprout. And it was such a pleasing pattern, my OCD loved the way everything fit so elegantly. plus flipping on 11/12, I liked those numbers.
Are you making seeds?
laddyd
What fresh hell is this
not really, I was going to dust a lower branch of the gelato 41 and the blue cheese with some dancing lime if I get a male. Looks like we have a candidate. I am surprised they are already starting to show, I flipped them 3 days ago.
laddyd
What fresh hell is this
I have 3 males so far, one looks like a good specimen, plus it's a Dancing Lime.
It's amazing that stoners like me ever get any thing grown.
The night before last I wanted to tend to the plants but the lights weren't on yet. So I turned them on, it was only 15 minutes early. I smoked a joint loaded with some badder and of course forgot to set the timer back on. So they got a 24 hour run of light because I didn't notice till last night.
I'm developing a drainage problem or maybe a soil problem. after a week they are still pretty moist. I'm on the verge of re transplanting with some more perlite. Last night I noticed some moss growing on the topsoil of a couple of the moister plants. I dug all it up and added some drier soil we'll see if that helps, if not I'm going to have to re transplant. Lesson learned, rice hulls do not work as well as perlite.
It's amazing that stoners like me ever get any thing grown.
The night before last I wanted to tend to the plants but the lights weren't on yet. So I turned them on, it was only 15 minutes early. I smoked a joint loaded with some badder and of course forgot to set the timer back on. So they got a 24 hour run of light because I didn't notice till last night.
I'm developing a drainage problem or maybe a soil problem. after a week they are still pretty moist. I'm on the verge of re transplanting with some more perlite. Last night I noticed some moss growing on the topsoil of a couple of the moister plants. I dug all it up and added some drier soil we'll see if that helps, if not I'm going to have to re transplant. Lesson learned, rice hulls do not work as well as perlite.
Dboybudz
Dazed and Confused 😛
I usually seen rice hulls on top couple inches of soil but not completely sure. Sometimes if I wanted a pot to dry out a little better was to till all round soil with a fork or anything similar not to hit roots. So it's not so compact,next day was dry.
laddyd
What fresh hell is this
That's what I was doing last night, we'll see how they look tonight.
I like a chopstick for that. Stab it down to the bottom of the pot all over.
laddyd
What fresh hell is this
we are up to 7 males so far.
Upon inspection there was a 2 inch or so section of packed wet soil at the bottom of the pots causing the stunting. We'll see if aerating the soil with a chopstick helps. If not I need to get more perlite, I'm out. On 2 of the plants I basically re-potted them with a couple inches of 50-50 perlite/dirt on the bottom. We'll see how they do,I may have to redo most of the rest. Whatever wetting agent they put in the sunshine mix #4 works too well, that shit will not dry out.
In the future we will up the perlite to dirt ratio to 50-50. I have 4 solo cup replacement plants that will get the amended mix when I transplant them.
I've been staying up late as my light schedule is 7 pm to 7 am to optimize the heat from the lights.
Upon inspection there was a 2 inch or so section of packed wet soil at the bottom of the pots causing the stunting. We'll see if aerating the soil with a chopstick helps. If not I need to get more perlite, I'm out. On 2 of the plants I basically re-potted them with a couple inches of 50-50 perlite/dirt on the bottom. We'll see how they do,I may have to redo most of the rest. Whatever wetting agent they put in the sunshine mix #4 works too well, that shit will not dry out.
In the future we will up the perlite to dirt ratio to 50-50. I have 4 solo cup replacement plants that will get the amended mix when I transplant them.
I've been staying up late as my light schedule is 7 pm to 7 am to optimize the heat from the lights.
laddyd
What fresh hell is this
The difference between frugal and cheap.
Frugal is re-using your pots.
Cheap is skimping on ingredients, such as perlite.
Like yours truly.
I ended up re-potting the whole dang grow. The bottom half of every pot was a wet dense no grow zone. I just knew something was amiss they were just growing too slowly, some were pretty stunted.
I will not use rice hulls again. I think they acted more like vermiculite than perlite.
Frugal is re-using your pots.
Cheap is skimping on ingredients, such as perlite.
Like yours truly.
I ended up re-potting the whole dang grow. The bottom half of every pot was a wet dense no grow zone. I just knew something was amiss they were just growing too slowly, some were pretty stunted.
I will not use rice hulls again. I think they acted more like vermiculite than perlite.
DCcan
Stoned on the Rocks
I got a small bag as a freebie at a grow shop, hated it too.
Dried slowly thru capillary action, not draining thru like perlite. Maybe a supersoil mix would be better.
laddyd
What fresh hell is this
I do believe I detect improvement one day after re-potting.
They were definitely drier. Looks like some females are starting to show, no more males.
Annie's Kosher Kush is flourishing, a week behind the others it looks like it's a week ahead. Slymer was struggling, looking better, same with gelato 41. Blue cheese is doing well.
I have 3 Dancing lime males to choose from for my breeding experiment. It all bodes well for my plan to mix the dancing lime with gelato 41 and blue cheese.
Disclaimer, sunshine mix #4 needs 50% perlite added to be suitable for cannabis. I have an ice chest full of the heaviest wettest dirt you ever saw, the shit won't dry. We fuck things up so you don't have to.
They were definitely drier. Looks like some females are starting to show, no more males.
Annie's Kosher Kush is flourishing, a week behind the others it looks like it's a week ahead. Slymer was struggling, looking better, same with gelato 41. Blue cheese is doing well.
I have 3 Dancing lime males to choose from for my breeding experiment. It all bodes well for my plan to mix the dancing lime with gelato 41 and blue cheese.
Disclaimer, sunshine mix #4 needs 50% perlite added to be suitable for cannabis. I have an ice chest full of the heaviest wettest dirt you ever saw, the shit won't dry. We fuck things up so you don't have to.
