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Cherry Atomic Sledgehammer and Purple Frost Giant Super Grape from Welcome to the Growtent. Bubbleberry F2 regs from Riot Seeds. Here's 30 days of seedling phase in two minutes.
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Diary: Bubbleberry, CASH, PFG Super Grape
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Cool video.
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Three females and a male moved to the veg tent.
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I've fallen way behind on updates here. These are the 3rd stringers from this run. I had a tent open after taking a break, so I figured what the hell. At the end of the seedling phase, these were less than half the size of the rockstars who are currently making babies in the 2x4. Three other pretty-good ones are flowering in another 4x4. These dipshits are 5 weeks into veg and are finally starting to look like they want to be there. Oh, and it's also three strains in a tent, so if that goes sideways, I have no one to blame but myself. Purple Frost Giant Super Grape and two Cherry Atomic Sledgehammers from WTTGT, and Bubbleberry from Riot Seeds.
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Great video !
Looking nice and healthy in flower too !
Wishing you a heavy harvest !
Looking nice and healthy in flower too !
Wishing you a heavy harvest !
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Purple Frost Giant, putting on some purple.
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Test nug #1 from the seed tent contained some seeds. That shouldn't have been a surprise, but it's my first time seed-making, so it was good to see.
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Yes indeed.
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You're just who I was looking for
Can you share experience? Doing that for long? Had any problems? Are you running fertilizer?
I use blumats for my motherplants and i am sick of soil. I can't find a good soil without perlite.
I have the problem that is a perlite grain gets in contact with the blumat sensor, then it just starts giving water and this way I had a few floods in my veg over the years. I keep thinking about switching to coco, but I keep wondering if that would really work. Not just in theory.
Any input from someone who has done that, would be gold for me.
Can you share experience? Doing that for long? Had any problems? Are you running fertilizer?
I use blumats for my motherplants and i am sick of soil. I can't find a good soil without perlite.
I have the problem that is a perlite grain gets in contact with the blumat sensor, then it just starts giving water and this way I had a few floods in my veg over the years. I keep thinking about switching to coco, but I keep wondering if that would really work. Not just in theory.
Any input from someone who has done that, would be gold for me.
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I've been running 100% coco with Blumats for about two years now. 10ish runs. I run Jack's nutes in the reservoirs, with H&G Drip Clean. Gravity fed. Three tents...one veg and two flower. I haven't had any clogging or buildup issues. I clean out the systems between runs. The Blumats work great, in general. I've had a few runaways, but it's always been user error, not system failure. Just make sure your pots are sitting in trays big enough to hold the entire contents of your rez.You're just who I was looking for
Can you share experience? Doing that for long? Had any problems? Are you running fertilizer?
There's an amazing (and very lengthy) thread here about running Blumats in 100% coco in small pots. The posts by the user "Rives" are often useful, and there's a fantastic summary post by "Flow Don't Stru." There are many other great nuggets to find in there. That thread got me started. Sustainable Village's YouTube channel also has a lot of good information, especially about dialing in carrots.
If you have any other questions about my setup, I'm happy to try to answer them.
PS If you don't want to abandon soil, a trick I've read about with Blumats is to make a hole in your soil big enough to hold the carrot, and fill it with coco. Then seat the carrot in that. I've never tried it, but I imagine it would help with the perlite problem.
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Endrega
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You're leaving me speechless here for a moment...
Thanks for the answer!
I have been doing the trick with a buffer between the soil and the Blumats but I am sick of this extra step. I used wormcast.
With mother plants I don't want to stick something in all the pots, because that can transmit viruses. So this step is kind of risky if you like shortcuts
When you use one tool to make the pre-hole, theoretically you'd have to clean it with chlorine between mothers.
anyway, I will change to coco entirely and I will check out that other thread.
Great stuff, bro
Thanks for the answer!
I have been doing the trick with a buffer between the soil and the Blumats but I am sick of this extra step. I used wormcast.
With mother plants I don't want to stick something in all the pots, because that can transmit viruses. So this step is kind of risky if you like shortcuts
When you use one tool to make the pre-hole, theoretically you'd have to clean it with chlorine between mothers.anyway, I will change to coco entirely and I will check out that other thread.
Great stuff, bro
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Chop day in flower tent #1. My whole house smells like candy. These were the 3rd stringers from the plants I started for a seed run, and they didn't fail to disappoint. Not as much stretch as I hoped for/expected. Clockwise from top left: CASH, CASH, PFGSG, Bubbleberry.
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Finally paroled from trim jail. That's a wrap on this run.
