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TheYuppies

TheYuppies

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The girls have been moved to the budding room. Transplanting was a little tricky but I think I developed a pretty good technique. Ill explain more with the pictures. After I transplanted all I kept them in about 16 hours of darkness then started topfeeding about three times a day. I top water with the water from the resi with the nutes in it. I am using more nutes than I thought I originally was. For this first week I used Sensi Bloom, Silica Blast, Great White, and Bud Blood. I was having problems with spider mites in previous grows, and was very cautious with this one. I saw one under the leaves and freaked out a couple weeks ago. I can spot them instantly now because Ive had them so much :/.. But I instantly got a Hot Shot Pest Strip and I havent seen any mites in the garden since. I highly recommend these strips if you haven't found a solution for mites yet. I bought 2 more strips for the budding room just to assure those bastards stay out. The plants haven't seemed to go under much stress at all and should be progressing real soon. The lights are about 2 feet above the top of the plants and the ballast are set to 50% for 2 or 3 days. I then lower the lights some and increase to 75% for 2 or 3 more days. They are then set to 100% and lights adjusted a little over a foot of the tops. Unfortunatlly the only splitting I got in the branches from FIM'ing was the one I topped.... Need to go lower next time >.< but they are still looking like bushy beauties. Didn't get much pictures of the right side but here ya go





I cut one bucket to help sculpt the hole for roots to go in. I cut one corner so that you can kinda unfold it out of its spot without harming the roots and plant. The release. You get a touch for it.



You shove the cut bucket down and then scoop the hydroton out.






This is the tricky part... you gently pull the plant out of the bucket and the root ball should fit nicely in the whole you've made it. Add more pebbles to make sure all the roots are hidden.


This is where the release comes in. Unfold it out of there with care.


And there happy!


 
sparkabowl

sparkabowl

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Awesome transplanting technique! Everything looks like it is coming along great - patience and practice is paying off.
 
TheYuppies

TheYuppies

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Thanks man. Ive had to top feed about 3 times a day until the roots reach the water level. They might be a little droopy in the mornings if I dont.
 
TheYuppies

TheYuppies

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I was very shocked to see that this strain grew very little after the switch to the budding room. I guess I should have looked into the strain a little bit but oh well you learn from your mistakes. Thats why I got the same clones for the next time around. Although the budding plants aren't as tall as I hoped to be, there is some pretty decent buds growing on them that smell delicious. They got 2 more weeks of nutrients then one more week flushing. Im going to veg for about a week longer and minimize the stress this time around. I chose to start with the bigger buckets so that I wouldnt have to transplant at all into the budding room. Simply just pick it up and drop it in the new flood tray. The clones are a little yellow right now but they should get their nice green leaves real soon. I changed my whole watering schedule to every 3 hours for 13 minutes, 5 times a day. The same goes for when they are moved in the budding room. This strain wasn't as thirsty as my previous ones, and I think it may be a bit underwatered with its curling. Sorry I havent updated in a while ive been busy with finals and such.... but should be updating regularly again. Spark up!











 
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