Return of the Yogurt Cup Challenge; Winter 2017

[ReikoX]

I'm not understanding this what is the point ? To grow a crappy plant? A cup really I don't get this at all. Your wasting a seed/cutting for this , plus growing anything in that plastic will leech . So can someone tell me the point ?

Right there in the name buddy, a challange.

 

[Dropped Cat]

I'm not understanding this what is the point ? To grow a crappy plant? A cup really I don't get this at all. Your wasting a seed/cutting for this , plus growing anything in that plastic will leech . So can someone tell me the point ?

lol

The point is to find enrichment through a personal
challenge while sharing those experiences with others
to gain perspective on a given task.

Pretty sure you know this, but seemingly lacking the
maturity to express yourself in any way other than a
contrarian aspect you have invited criticism and derision
upon yourself.

Perhaps compensating for a lack of skill or expertise in
any area of what seems like a small, miserable existence.

So, can you tell me the point of your presence here,
or for that matter, anywhere?

lol

 

[GastroGrower]

I'm not understanding this what is the point ? To grow a crappy plant? A cup really I don't get this at all. Your wasting a seed/cutting for this , plus growing anything in that plastic will leech . So can someone tell me the point ?

Yogurt is good

 

[Sforza]

Update photo taken this evening. The little plant that is budding is looking better than I thought it ever would. The seedling in the Layla cup died, so I popped in another little seedling I had that sprouted at the same time as the one that died.

Noosa is doing best, probably because it has a lot of surface area so the media drys out overnight while the other styles probably stay too wet at this stage with the plant being so small that it is not drawing out much water. I just need to water the tall skinny bottles less.

 

[Sforza]

Sforza, why go through all that trouble, when you can buy a Burpee Seed Starting Kit, and use the Cap Mat/Res to water your plants. Once they reach the saturation level you're happy with, simply remove them from the mat. Put back on shortly before they need water. Its so simple and easy, and this is coming from a guy who has used blumats for 5 years! I love my blumats, but the cap mats are so much fucking easier to deal with.

You make some good points, David, and I have a small cap mat/res from a little seed starting kit that I bought a couple years ago. I was just looking at it this evening.

In some ways, making it difficult and complicated is almost the raison d'être for the yogurt cup, isn't it?

I guess I will see if I can manage to get the plants big enough that they need more than a once a day watering and decide.

 

[Sforza]

It's for fun, and to showcase your creativity and ingenuity.

True, and in my case, to admire and learn from other people's creativity and ingenuity.

 

[Avinash.miles]

flipped my yogurt cups:

shown day 2, in a bread pan in the big room

 

[GastroGrower]

flipped my yogurt cups:

shown day 2, in a bread pan in the big room

They look so cute in there with the rest of your plants. Cheers for the start of this run!

 

[Gramse]

Damn, back on 2/1/17 you wrote that you were going to flip her in a week. What made you decide to let it ride for more than three weeks before flipping her?

Did you keep on using the blumat system you showed on your 2/1/17 photo or did that not work out for you? There was no sign of the blumat in your 2/24/17 photo, so had you already switched watering systems by that time?

Are you using the saucer under the plant to water and watering the pot from the bottom now? Does that work better than the blumat? Whatever you are doing it is working great.

I was thinking of putting the carrot of a blumat in a separate little cup of media, putting that cup next to the cup with the plant in it, and having the dripper of the blumat run over to the cup with the plant in it. That way you would get the drip drip drip of the blumat.

Perhaps if both cups have holes in the bottom and both cups are sitting in a saucer, the automatic watering nature of the blumat could be used without having the carrot in the same cup that holds the plant. There would be some lag time, but the dripper would, in theory, overfill the cup with the plant in it, which would run into the saucer. The water in the saucer would wick up into the cup with the carrot, causing the carrot to shut off the water to the dripper.

I have little seedlings that don't need much water yet, so I can water them once a day. Maybe I will try the system I have described with one or two of them and we can see if it works, even if the plants are not be ready by May 24th.

Thanks!

I had a little delay with the other clones that went in in the flower tent together with the cup. It would just cause problem to have plants in various stages of flower at the same time in the tent(3x3)

The carrot is still there. You can see it in all pictures if you look closely.

 

[DoubleTripleOG]

Here's my weekly. Posting a little late for last week, but that's when I took the pics.

 

[Gramse]

Here's my weekly. Posting a little late for last week, but that's when I took the pics.

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Can I have a look aswell? Please

 

[ReikoX]

Here are my yogurt girls. All four are confirmed females. I must be doing something wrong here. These girls are only 24" tall after two weeks flowering. Clearly I'm wasting these seeds.

 

[DoubleTripleOG]

Nice rosin press and plants too,lol.

 

[ReikoX]

Nice rosin press and plants too,lol.

Dry sift screens on the left too

 

[Londonbum69]

Ouch to the harsh , I wouldn't waste a plant from my legal plant count on this. But I get it now thanks.

 

[Sforza]

Thanks!

The carrot is still there. You can see it in all pictures if you look closely.

Cool! Bad eyes strike again. Thanks for the update.

 

[Sforza]

Can I have a look as well? Please

Send him a friend request. His Albums are private, so you have to be a friend to see the pictures. But it is impressive!

 

[Gramse]

Send him a friend request. His Albums are private, so you have to be a friend to see the pictures. But it is impressive!

Dtog took care of that. Thanks

 

[GastroGrower]

Here's our weekly update. The ruler is upside down because I'm fucking stupid, lol, but about 2 inches of growth on the taller plant since the last update.

 

[Chevy cHaze]

Here's our weekly update. The ruler is upside down because I'm fucking stupid, lol, but about 2 inches of growth on the taller plant since the last update.

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The ruler is correct and you my friend have just converted to metric