Thanks for the reply. These girls aren't going to get repotted at this point. They've sunk their roots through the hundreds of holes between the media holding bucket and the water/nutrient bucket below. They're also flowering now so will need to ride out the problems as best they can. It looks...
I'm growing Purple Maroc from female seeds outdoors in 5 gallon self watering containers. Starting with 4 seeds, I did an Uncle Ben's top to induce 4 main stems and then went on to root the 4 pinched off tops and am also growing those as well . This is my second year using self watering...
I did one very dilute feed from the top. We're now had over 5" of rain since then so any overfeed should be nicely flushed.
Here are a couple of more recent photos.
Doski,
Thanks for the detailed and helpful reply. The girls were doing so well pre-topping it makes me really sad to see them so stressed afterwards. Last year I carried out a much more subtle double topping and didn't see such a setback. Then again the 3 .5 inch rain may have had a pretty...
After much reading I decided to go with an Uncle Ben's 4 cola top technique on my 4 Female Seeds Purple Marocs. They were looking great before hand with nice growth up through 6 nodes but it's now a week after the operation and their color has yellowed and some of the new leaves are distorted. I...
Last year I had pretty good success growing out a few bag seeds but the plants were just barely finishing off in mid-October as frost as well as bud rot became potential problems. This year I'd love to grow a strain that would finish in mid to late September to avoid or at least minimize those...