i have failed at updating this journal like i failed at journals they forced me to write in school lol...
ill catch up the last few weeks now. i had a couple week stall in set up, but things are really beginning to roll now. i ended up changing my mind on materials i wanted to use for my diy ebb n flow system. my new rez and table should be here tomorrow and thursday...
last sunday i picked up a few girls to begin my grow. i was told they are white rhino but i really cant be sure
lol....
this is how the girls looked when i got them. they were various sizes, he said they were clones, but the two smallest ones looked like spouts from seeds. but im not expert yet.
this wasnt the media or pots i want to use for my grow, but since my ebb n flow was stalled, i left them in the pots they were given to me in. i just watered them with rain water over about 5 days. i was also adjusting my grow light in this time to find the height the plants liked.
and this is how they looked on friday (day 5 of having them....
i had noticed some growth over the 5 days, but it took seeing those pics next to each other to really appreciate how much they had grown...
the one that had been the biggest was lookin like it was cooking up a deficiency. it really started to worry me. i am guessing because it was the biggest one in the smallest pot. the potting mix it was in also looked pretty wet, so i didnt give her water for a couple days. the newer growth looks better.
since my new ebb n flow stuff will still be about a week out from completion, i decided to go ahead and re pot anyway. im gonna hand flood them and pour off the run off for now.
i used coco coir brick that i rehydrated, rinsed, buffered, then added perlite to. after my media was ready, i mixed up a gallon of nute water to give them after repotting. since i wasnt sure exactly what they were growin in, i removed almost all of the media by gently teasing the roots with my fingers, n rinsing the roots. i dunno if that was necessary and prolly was risky, but i wanted a clean slate with what i planned to use goin forward.
my tap water is runnin at ph of 8.5 and tds/ppms of 120ish. 8.5 seems high but google says thats on the high of normal but still normal for municipal drinking water. i was curious and tested the filtered water that i bottle n drink myself... roughly the same ph value... 2 totally different sources. i thought the pen may be off, so i used the liquid test kit( the drops that turn the water different color based on its ph) and the results correlated with the pen. it is what it is i guess...
my nute water i added some micro gro and the tiniest bit of bloom and a lil calmag... ph of 6 and ppms just under 700. after i repotted them i gave them nute water til i got run off then let the rest drain away. my lights are on from 5 am to 11 pm so i repotted them when they would have bout 2 hrs of light time after transplant, and then a good nights rest.
my tent temps are between 75 and 80 when lights on and 65-70 lights off humidity seems to be hovering 45-60 day and night. so far just using lights and a couple fans
heres the pic i took after repot and puttin them to bed... well see how they handled this dramatic day tomorrow...
)... still wasnt here in time to get set up before leaving tho.
