I know that many of you have heard of switching from soil to hydro. This is my usual way to go; I drop a seed in water for a day or two until the tap root pokes out. I then fold a damp napkin over it and put in a sandwich bag with no air in my cupboard for another day. This adds a little length to the tap root. I plant that into the soil for about a week to sprout and leave until it has one or two sets of leaves after the cotyledons. I rinse the soil off of it and hold it in a net cup and carefully place clay pellets around and put in the dwc bubbler. This works great for me and the growth takes off.
I try to do experimenting to make the experience much more enlightening. I once had a bagseed hermie at beginning of flower. I then carefully removed every male preflower I saw after close daily inspections. Like Mendel did to his peas. After a week it never grew any more pods. All colas grew seedless except for one lower one that mysteriously seeded itself.
I know I am ranting but I am relatively new and these experimental things are interesting and hard to find.
Anyways. I grew a kush seed I got from seeds4free.com as described at the top of post. Before switching it to the flowering stage I took a cutting from it and put it in a cube of rockwool and into a little dwc bubbler. I grow it slowly with indirect window light because I only have lights to flower one plant at a time. Since veg is about a month and flower is two (for me). I veg slowly for two, for height restrictions. I use indirect sunlight and flourescent. Its about a 7 week old clone. It looks fine but the root system was very small for the size of the plant, about 5 4" root chutes and thats it. The days are getting close to natural 12/12 and I dont want to plug and move this plant around to veg and continue on to flower.
I flower with cfls and substitute natural sunlight when I can. But with dwc and 100 degree heat. Hot reservoir water is a risk.
Today I took the vegging clone in the dwc system and pulled the net cup out of the lid. I dumped the pellets out of the cup and were left with the rockwool and 5 roots. I straightened them out and removed the plant by grabbing the rockwool and it slid out of the net cup. I filled a bucket 4 inches up with soil and laid a root, covered it, laid another root facing different covered it and so forth. It was now a soil plant. It was cloudy out and I set it out into the cloudy partially sprinkling weather. when the sun started to peak and hit it with direct, it started to wilt. I thought I just killed the plant. So I took it inside and placed the pot into a large mixing bowl and filled the bowl with water which raised the saturated water level in the soil pot. Stuck an air bubbler tube with airstone to the bottom of the saturated soil pot and bubbled air into it. The plant regained its structure!!! So now I have a hydro to soil transition phase under flourescent long tubes in "recovery mode" hanging in there. Heres the pics. What do you think?
I try to do experimenting to make the experience much more enlightening. I once had a bagseed hermie at beginning of flower. I then carefully removed every male preflower I saw after close daily inspections. Like Mendel did to his peas. After a week it never grew any more pods. All colas grew seedless except for one lower one that mysteriously seeded itself.
I know I am ranting but I am relatively new and these experimental things are interesting and hard to find.
Anyways. I grew a kush seed I got from seeds4free.com as described at the top of post. Before switching it to the flowering stage I took a cutting from it and put it in a cube of rockwool and into a little dwc bubbler. I grow it slowly with indirect window light because I only have lights to flower one plant at a time. Since veg is about a month and flower is two (for me). I veg slowly for two, for height restrictions. I use indirect sunlight and flourescent. Its about a 7 week old clone. It looks fine but the root system was very small for the size of the plant, about 5 4" root chutes and thats it. The days are getting close to natural 12/12 and I dont want to plug and move this plant around to veg and continue on to flower.
I flower with cfls and substitute natural sunlight when I can. But with dwc and 100 degree heat. Hot reservoir water is a risk.
Today I took the vegging clone in the dwc system and pulled the net cup out of the lid. I dumped the pellets out of the cup and were left with the rockwool and 5 roots. I straightened them out and removed the plant by grabbing the rockwool and it slid out of the net cup. I filled a bucket 4 inches up with soil and laid a root, covered it, laid another root facing different covered it and so forth. It was now a soil plant. It was cloudy out and I set it out into the cloudy partially sprinkling weather. when the sun started to peak and hit it with direct, it started to wilt. I thought I just killed the plant. So I took it inside and placed the pot into a large mixing bowl and filled the bowl with water which raised the saturated water level in the soil pot. Stuck an air bubbler tube with airstone to the bottom of the saturated soil pot and bubbled air into it. The plant regained its structure!!! So now I have a hydro to soil transition phase under flourescent long tubes in "recovery mode" hanging in there. Heres the pics. What do you think?
