The picture is of the auto that started flowering. I have 3 more plants that’s from a stash of weed I picked up and had some seeds in the buds which is hermies. I’m growing one auto from mephisto and 4 other from those hermied buds. One already happened to have balls which I killed already. I’m afraid that rest 3 are hermies and would fck up my auto grow which is going very nicely.
Quick question about reusing soil. Do you reuse your soil and if so, what do you do with the root hairs that’s left behind after pulling out the root ball?
Can you stick the other 3 outdoors? Or does discretion and/or legality prevent you from doing so? If you stick them outdoors, it won't be a total loss and you can make concentrate/edibles out of them. This assumes that your grow is perfectly sealed, if you aren't running a sealed grow and use ventilation then even putting the hermies outside is a bad idea because the pollen will still infect your grow.
Sorry man, but you gotta kill those other 3.
As for reusing soil, there are two practices: ROLS and no-till.
ROLS = Recycled Organic Living Soil
No-till = just that, no-till.
I don't dump pots and re-amend, kills all the microbiology that built up over months. I simply plant my clones/seedlings straight into the pots and leave the roots from the last grow alone. In fact, I don't even pull out the root ball (again, don't want to damage the microbe web). I just cut at the base of the stem and plant a new plant in the pot. Over time, the roots and stem will decompose naturally.
Microbes and plants have a symbiotic relationship with one another, when one dies so too will the other. The microbes will quickly latch on to the roots of your new clone/seedling, and get to work decomposing the remains of the last plant's root mass.
No-till stops working when one of two things happens.
1) Soil compaction. Yet another reason I go with 40% perlite in my soil, this helps to buy more time before the soil compacts, but ultimately the soil will compact on you and you'll need to dump the no-till pots and go the ROLS route.
2) Compost. Goes hand and hand with the soil compaction. Gravity will cause compaction naturally over time, but the peat moss and organic inputs decomposing into compost will also contribute to soil compaction. As with above, you'll need to dump the pot and go the ROLS route. However, what you do is slightly different. A soil that has compacted, but not fully decomposed will still have some organic inputs and peat/coco in it.
If your no-till has actually gone long enough though? It will be pure compost and perlite. That 33-40% peat moss you started (as well as the organic inputs you started with) with will eventually become pure compost. This pure compost can then be used for the next batch of soil you make up. No need to procure compost, because your no-till pots ideally will become pure compost.
When this happens, simply mix the no-till compost with more perlite and peat moss and some more organic inputs and minerals and the process begins anew.
