Here's my third grow. They popped on October 21st, so they're still only a few days old. The Zookies seed has Whorled Phyllotaxy, which is a mutation that causes it to grow 3 cotyledon and 3 leaves per node instead of 2, which is pretty neat.
They're currently in solo cups with just coco and grow dots. I'm planning on amending the coco in their final pots with earthworm castings and a bit of vermiculite in addition to the normal perlite to increase the cation exchange capacity, which is how the medium holds onto nutrients and releases them back into plants. Not the norm in coco, but I think it will increase the effectiveness of grow dots. Coco by itself has a rather low CEC and perlite has effectively 0. It'll most likely be something like 20% worm castings, 5% vermiculite and 15% perlite. Only leaves 60% coco, but should be good.
Recharge is recommended to be used with the grow dots and I'm putting in some great white and in the final pot I'll add LABS. I used to run coco sterile with hydrogen peroxide, but I've heard beneficial bacteria will improve flavors, so trying that out.
They'll be in here for about 2 weeks before going into their final 5 gallon air pots.
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240 watt kingbrite quantum board
Grow dots and some supplements
Yeah, it's currently a bit smaller than the others, but it should catch up. I hope, at least.
Well, those 2 are nice and plucky and one is just failing to thrive despite being in exactly the same conditions. Guess I have to pop a new seed.
Second seed soaked for about 24 hours, just put it in coco with great white sprinkled in the seed hole.
Made up some pH 6.1 water with recharge and 3ml/gal of seaweed extract to give them all a little boost.
I'm going to try to put as much info here as I can for everything I do to keep track better and actually use it as a full diary.
Coming along nicely
I got pretty sick and the plants got neglected a bit. Last night I finally potted them up to 5 gallon pots. Roughly 10 gallons of coco, 2 gallons of perlite and 3 gallons of worm castings with 200 grams of grow dots and great white myco sprinkled around. The worm castings should hold onto the nutrients from the grow dots better than coco as they're released and make them available to the roots as well as probably supporting bacteria better.
The super lemon haze tip died about a week ago for some reason and the side nodes took over, so I guess it just topped itself. I topped it again as well as topping the grandaddy purple today. The zookies is barely at the 4th node, so I'm going to wait to top it until it's grown out a bit more.
From left to right Super lemon haze, zookies and grandaddy purple.
I've had some weird issues with the grow dots in solo cups. The first zookies just died for seemingly no reason, I got nitrogen toxicity with auto amputation of the top in the super lemon haze and something weird in the grandaddy purple. Didn't take pictures of that, but they seem to have mostly resolved now. It might just not be enough media to work well. I'm hoping it works out better now that they're in the bigger pots and next time I might do normal fertigation when they're seedlings and then switch to grow dots when I pot them up.
Last night I squirted them with foliar spray containing seaweed extract and silica. I'll do that twice a week during veg. For regular watering, phed to 5.9 and added silica to that also.
Today I decided to try some LST to get the growth tips spread out in preparation of the scrog.
Also topped the zookies at the third node.
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