2015 Yogurt Cup Grow Contest

[Only Ornamental]

Only Ornamental,
Why did you put multiple seeds in one pot if i may ask? I think i already know the answer... but you have to rip the roots apart later when they get bigger. No bad experiences with that?
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I know that ripping roots apart isn't perfect but I'm too lazy to transplant anyway so I will just cut one aboveground if it doesn't come free smoothly . And I haven't had real bad experience so far. Maybe a small stall in growth but I don't care about yield, size, or time, so what the heck, right?

 

[Mitsuharu]

Soooo right!

 

[exploziv]

Seed Planting

Seed Planting

I finally managed to plants the seeds.
Decided to go with:

2 x Swazi Rooibaard (RedBeard) F2 = 100% sativa landrace, F2's made by me
2 x BooBerry Kush F2 = Ghost OG x Bubba x Digiberry BX1 from dank_frank, F2's made by me
1 x (F13 x Blueberry) x Swazi Rooibaard = cross of Dj Short gear x a nice swazi male I found, made by me aswell

I actually planted 2 seeds for every cup, 1 in the actual cup for the contest, another one in a back-up cup from where I can tranplant later if any of the 5 seeds in the cups don't germinate.

Some pics of the process:



You can see the perlite from the bottom of the cup, the soil mix, and the cups filled with it and saturated with water. I then aerated it at the surface with a stick and planted the seeds.

See u guys in about 1 week, when I hope I'll have the 5 needed seedlings germinated and ready for pics.

 

[Waldgeist]

I know that ripping roots apart isn't perfect but I'm too lazy to transplant anyway so I will just cut one aboveground if it doesn't come free smoothly . And I haven't had real bad experience so far. Maybe a small stall in growth but I don't care about yield, size, or time, so what the heck, right?

yeah thats what my gradma always does when shes starting her tomatos, all seed in one big tray like 400plants and then she takes the strongest, so only keepers go to the stakes later
i think its called pikieren

anyways,

the zamaldelica #6(12 days flower) and jaggen(9 days flower)

im handwatering once per day with a fuckin huge amount of drain.
they sit here under 100w with 24(22,lol) others, so thats actually 4,1666 watt per plant, low light level is no excuse, you have to train harder fellas

best

 

[dabking]

sour hawaiian punch

sour hawaiian punch

and its above ground.

 

[#1cheesebuds]

still cant seem to figure u guys r getting such big plants in those lil yogy cups. it hast to be what ever ferts yall are using. have any of u ever tried to scrog or super crop these.

 

[Garuda]

My seeds are out in the wild:

 

[stihgnobevoli]

i don't eat yogurt. i'll have to find something 6oz.

 

[Avinash.miles]

still cant seem to figure u guys r getting such big plants in those lil yogy cups. it hast to be what ever ferts yall are using. have any of u ever tried to scrog or super crop these.

yes i've supercropped and there is a yogurt cup SOG thread on icmag somewhere....

it's all about genetics and environment & technique; E&A uses SAMPLES of nutrients he gets of various lines.

 

[exploziv]

It's good the talk got to this point. I want to ask some details ahead to be prepared too.

Should I top the plants or just leave them to grow out like mother nature intended?
And, I plan on starting fertilising after 7-10 days since they germinate, with half of a full dose. Is this a good plan? What about after that, when do I go full strenght? Or.. should it go full strenght? How often do I apply nutrients?

 

[GreeeeN GRassss]

im growing mine just as i would any other plant at their varying stages.

i started off at .3 EC now im up to .8 EC and it only has its second set of leaves.

ye i might try topping them and LSTing it to. well ill see how its growing first.

 

[trichrider]

things were looking sad for my original yogi, yellowing and drooping, showing her dislike for the transition to pseudo-soil I guess...but has since exploded with new growth and was topped several days ago.



watering several times a day, I think I may have overwatered this first week causing the drooping. there is nice vibrant growth on the nodes though so she may be over the shock...



the seedling thinks it's a little rich in that cup too although I didn't include a photo of her.

the other three are recovering beautifully from revegging in the cloner.
they were in there about a month...I just didn't want to trash them and now they have gotten their second wind...







be at peace.

 

[Eighths-n-Aces]

i think there are a bunch of things that make everybody's situation unique.

i'm usually using seeds of strains that i have never grown out before so i don't do anything but top them. some pruning and bending has worked pretty well too but i ended up killing most of the roots that round and stalled the plants so bad i never got them turned back around. IMHO that fuck up had more to do with not night watering and letting them dry out more than it had anything to do with the pruning , bending, or nutrients

my guess is that watering and nutes are going to have a lot to do with lighting. i think i need the pumps and timers because of the amount of light hitting the plants. 2000 watts of HPS is going to drive the plants harder than 200 watts of CFL's and make it so that the girls need more of everything ........ more of everything leads to faster growth which leads to a need for more of everything and the end result is a bigger plant. more nutes are not going to make the plant grow faster if it doesn't have all the light it needs (at least that is how the math works in my head ........ i'm not saying it is right)

i start feeding light because the coco mixes i use are empty and start cranking things up as i go. the last grow proved to me that everything is not going to respond as well to nutes. one breeders white widow loved it and one got cooked.

i don't think there is a perfect formula for every plant, every grow or every system because there are just so many variables and to be honest i think i just got lucky that i read h3ad's sticky and what i thought would work actually did. i have also had a few rounds to dial the system in and that makes all the difference in any grow

WHAT I DO BELIEVE but again don't know for sure is that coco is the way to get things done in a yogurt cup and that Regen-a-Root from CX nutrients is the product that i think has made things work for me more than anything i've done. that stuff does what the makers say it does!

 

[GreeeeN GRassss]

what do you guys thing of letting the cups sit in water when lights are off.

i can water as many times as i want during lights on by hand?

ye i agree eights and aces more light more food water

 

[Avinash.miles]

what do you guys thing of letting the cups sit in water when lights are off.

i can water as many times as i want during lights on by hand?

ye i agree eights and aces more light more food water

sounds like a recipe for disaster, just my 2cents

 

[Eighths-n-Aces]

letting the whole cup sit under water for 12 hours? i would say NO

doing some bottom feeding while lights are off so you can get some sleep and the plants never dry out? i would say YES .... most definitely

over watering is going to be a problem no matter what media or pot size you're using. you can water as many times as you want but you never want to cross the line. some media are going to be more forgiving of over watering than others and of course your watering schedule is going to change as the plants needs change. sorry if that sounds pretty vague but i don't think there are any really solid answers in this game

lots of paths lead to the same goal some paths have bars and strip clubs, some are quiet and there are mushrooms growing right next to the trail. both have their own set of advantages i'll be the guy with the dilated pupils sitting under the tree

puff,puff,pass

 

[GreeeeN GRassss]

yes that's more so what i meant bottom feeding, sounds like something that happens at a gay bar but each to there own

ill be the dude sitting beside you eating them mushrooms that were growing

 

[Waldgeist]

ena is spot on,

the nutritional requirements of a plant grown till harvest into a yogi cup or a container of similar volume are strongly dependent on your individual conditions.
Light intensity, transpiration/air exchange, temperature and the medias own capacity like oxygen holding and cation exchange will determine the necessary nutrient requirements for a certain growing case.
The plants size and phenotypical expression is predetermined by genetics, seed or clone and of course the size when it is switched to flower, if all factors are optimized it can get huge and yield very high in a yogi cup if the genes would do so in bigger pots.

best

 

[Dr.King]

letting the whole cup sit under water for 12 hours? i would say NO

doing some bottom feeding while lights are off so you can get some sleep and the plants never dry out? i would say YES .... most definitely

over watering is going to be a problem no matter what media or pot size you're using. you can water as many times as you want but you never want to cross the line. some media are going to be more forgiving of over watering than others and of course your watering schedule is going to change as the plants needs change. sorry if that sounds pretty vague but i don't think there are any really solid answers in this game

lots of paths lead to the same goal some paths have bars and strip clubs, some are quiet and there are mushrooms growing right next to the trail. both have their own set of advantages i'll be the guy with the dilated pupils sitting under the tree

puff,puff,pass

Why would one need to water their Yogurt cups during lights out? As long as one waters if needed before lights out, you'd be fine. Right? I haven't done much growers in small containers, littlest being 1 gallon. At mid to late flowering do the Yogurt cups really need that much watering? I would guess once a day, later in the day before lights out. The more information about growing in small containers we spread and share the better for everyone in the end result . I am starting 5 myself as this is my first time doing the contest. 4 Clones, 1 seed. Good luck to all.

Note to anyone using pure coco. Coco weighs less then water. The first cup I made, I followed the instructions and added water till I got 250 ml's. Once I filled the cup with pure coco I reweighed it and found it was only 170g's. The rules clearly state you can use a cup that can be filled with 250g's of medium, so I was losing 80g's of root spacing. Which I think is quite a lot if you break it down percentage wise, 30% more root space.

 

[vitamingreeninc]

I'm down, just got to get a clone or two going lol. I will be back