CaliCreations
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First off.... hello all! I love RIU. 
good site. SOO down to buisness. I am managing a 80 plant S.O.G. growop. using 4 600's over a 4x8 tray. the plants are in 1.5 gallon buckets, I transplanted them 3 days ago.
let me start from the begining. when my room was completed. I began searching for genetics. I am really picky about what genetics I work with. (Ive never worked with purple.) Having checked most places in my home town with no luck. I started calling places in San francisco. I found out that the most popular place to get clones was grassroots. So on dec 12 I made my way to the bay. I arrived at the collective and asked about their selection of clones. I wanted 80 of the same strain. but they where at the end of their inventory. I talked to the budtender and found out that they had 37 PK and 41 GDP. and 2 GC 80 total. (my tray fits 72 and my mom room fits
So I had a choice to make, grow 2 strains, 2 purple strains. Or drive all the way home with nothing. I went to the car to think. After much deliberation I got the clones from them. I took them home. (what I didn't realize at that time was the health and watering cycles of the clones. you see bolth the GDP and the PK had progression of (N)(P)(K) and (Mg) they where just using plain water. also when they aranged the clones for me they took clones from lots of different trays that where being watered at different times. this causes problems for me later.)
They were so small (4 inches)I decided it was in my best intrest to put them into 16oz styrofoam cups under a t5 light for two weeks before I introduce the sodium light. So i prepare a 5% neem oil dip to make sure their will be no pests coming from the club to my room. I dipped the clones and transplanted them into soil. then watered with a Earth Juice microbiotea solution. (I will list what that contains.) After they where all transplanted and watered I began to study their health. 2 days goes by. they recover some what from the shock of the transplant. Hovever on the third day I realized I had waited too long to water again! 20 of my GDP are sick! the PK are still moist and can go for 12 more hours but the GDP are bone dry and haiting life! having no tea prepared. I watered plain water. so the (N) defcency got worse. As the days go on the rate they are using water becomes further apart. I water 25 then 12 hours later another 20 then 6 hours later another 15. then the last 20 are wet for another day! I water three more times with little growth. during this time ten of the sick clones are so bad i kill them off.(leaving me with 70) then on day 17 I realized I had left them in the cups for 4 days too long!! I began an emergency transplant into the 1.5's that night. New Years Eve. I finished the last plant at 8am january first. about half of my garden is badly root bound. all of them have some kind of defcency that I cant get rid of beacuse their not drinking very fast. only about 5 out of 70 are heathy It has been three days since the transpland and still little improvements. I know the root bound will take time and the shock from the transplant is taking its toll. so i am vegging them for at least a week with my sodiums. But thats costly. I just dont want to have to buy more clones! (Im already beating myself up for not building the mom room first
)
so that is where I am at right now. my plants are recovering from the transplant and hardening up to the HPS. I will post detailed pictures of every phase of growth asap! also the tea ingredience if anyone is intrested.
good site. SOO down to buisness. I am managing a 80 plant S.O.G. growop. using 4 600's over a 4x8 tray. the plants are in 1.5 gallon buckets, I transplanted them 3 days ago.let me start from the begining. when my room was completed. I began searching for genetics. I am really picky about what genetics I work with. (Ive never worked with purple.) Having checked most places in my home town with no luck. I started calling places in San francisco. I found out that the most popular place to get clones was grassroots. So on dec 12 I made my way to the bay. I arrived at the collective and asked about their selection of clones. I wanted 80 of the same strain. but they where at the end of their inventory. I talked to the budtender and found out that they had 37 PK and 41 GDP. and 2 GC 80 total. (my tray fits 72 and my mom room fits
So I had a choice to make, grow 2 strains, 2 purple strains. Or drive all the way home with nothing. I went to the car to think. After much deliberation I got the clones from them. I took them home. (what I didn't realize at that time was the health and watering cycles of the clones. you see bolth the GDP and the PK had progression of (N)(P)(K) and (Mg) they where just using plain water. also when they aranged the clones for me they took clones from lots of different trays that where being watered at different times. this causes problems for me later.)They were so small (4 inches)I decided it was in my best intrest to put them into 16oz styrofoam cups under a t5 light for two weeks before I introduce the sodium light. So i prepare a 5% neem oil dip to make sure their will be no pests coming from the club to my room. I dipped the clones and transplanted them into soil. then watered with a Earth Juice microbiotea solution. (I will list what that contains.) After they where all transplanted and watered I began to study their health. 2 days goes by. they recover some what from the shock of the transplant. Hovever on the third day I realized I had waited too long to water again! 20 of my GDP are sick! the PK are still moist and can go for 12 more hours but the GDP are bone dry and haiting life! having no tea prepared. I watered plain water. so the (N) defcency got worse. As the days go on the rate they are using water becomes further apart. I water 25 then 12 hours later another 20 then 6 hours later another 15. then the last 20 are wet for another day! I water three more times with little growth. during this time ten of the sick clones are so bad i kill them off.(leaving me with 70) then on day 17 I realized I had left them in the cups for 4 days too long!! I began an emergency transplant into the 1.5's that night. New Years Eve. I finished the last plant at 8am january first. about half of my garden is badly root bound. all of them have some kind of defcency that I cant get rid of beacuse their not drinking very fast. only about 5 out of 70 are heathy It has been three days since the transpland and still little improvements. I know the root bound will take time and the shock from the transplant is taking its toll. so i am vegging them for at least a week with my sodiums. But thats costly. I just dont want to have to buy more clones! (Im already beating myself up for not building the mom room first
)so that is where I am at right now. my plants are recovering from the transplant and hardening up to the HPS. I will post detailed pictures of every phase of growth asap! also the tea ingredience if anyone is intrested.
