Wish I'd seen those before I ordered mine... but I almost can't imagine using them without the handles... makes it much easier and they'd shift more i think if you picked'em up from the bottom. FYI the bottom stays wet forever. I am NOT sold on these smartpots. They stay wet for a long time with no place at the bottom for air to get in. I'll probably do a side by side comparison on clones down the road to see, but so far I still prefer my airpots. I have pretty much got the watering down to being very simple, although the airpots definitely waste more water than the smartpots. I think the airpots definitely help -- the plants don't get rootbound in the traditional sense they just build a big ass root/dirtball.
Will be taking week 7 pics shortly. My 12/12 schedule got ALL screwed up due to my doctor's appointment yesterday. I am going 11:45/11:45 for a couple of days to get the schedule back to normal. She seems to be responding well to the nutes I gave her yesterday (slightly larger than normal feeding of foxfarm big bloom). They are getting bigger and more reddening pistils now, but still way more white than red and a lot more bud material to be built I think #2 has about 2 weeks and #1 has 3 weeks. I am planning on moving in roughly 3 weeks. We scoped out homes today... probably gonna go with a 2 story that's big with a nice area to hide my grow... BUT there was a nice 1 story we liked... only problem was guess who lives next door? COUNTY SHERIFF! Dude even was getting stuff out of his cop car and said hi as he was doing it. It's completely crazy to rent a place next to a cop right????
White Russian keeps looking sweeter and sweeter buds continuing to plumpen up at this point her buds are denser/thicker than the medicine man. Medicine Man must be going to be a long flowerer buds not thickening up a ton yet.
OGK #1 & #2 both thickening buds. Had to tie G13xHP down for an indica she is turning into a beast on height.
I must've missed something in the last few years... cmh??? is that some kind of metal halide? yeah my digital is a switchable digital 400w (can be either mh or hps) -- gonna hook it back up when we get moved and grow some super duper dank.