Grow Mediums Coco adventures!

[lazylathe]

Update time!!!

Here are some pics of the seedlings so far.
Some of the Swazi are having a tough time and some are doing really well.
Seems to be hit and miss with these guys!
Hopefully there will be at least one lady amongst the bunch!

And the Tangerine Dream

And an overall shot of the set up with gutter installed and DTW container on right side.

I should be planting the DieselXC99's in the next few days!
3 for 3 germination!!!
Another winner from RCMC!!!!

 

[lazylathe]

Everything is growing well, some oddities here and there but for the most part it is heading in the right direction.

The coco i am using seems to be working well so far!
The plants are happy and growing.
I think it may have been a bit strong for some seedlings as they are the oddities.
Pics up later tonight or tomorrow!

My BlueLabs truncheon arrived just in time too!!!
Time to start getting the nutes ready as some are starting their third set of leaves already!!!

I will plug the remaining pots lines that are lagging a bit and continue with PH'd water for them till they are ready for nutes!

Surprise, surprise!!!
The Swazi's are actually looking very good!!!
Seems to be some mixed genetics in these wild ones!
Pics later to explain better!

 

[lazylathe]

Update time!!!

Another week has gone by and the seedlings are doing well!!
This time around i will show pictures of all of them.
Some are doing great, others are oddities and some are just still very young!

I will start with the Wild Swazi seedlings.
3 out of the 5 are doing amazing!!
2 are lagging behind. the one topped itself!!!:Holy Moly:
Hope some are female!!

Swazi pics

The one that was a slow germinator!

And the last one that has self topped itself!

Tangerine Dream seedlings.
Only 2 out of the 5 seeds germinated...But they look very healthy and they are feminized.

And the last 3 are Diesel X C99 seedlings.
They are only a week old and settling into their new environment!

The bigger seedlings had their first feeding a few days ago using House and Garden nutes, Cocos A+B.
The smaller ones are still getting PH'd water with a drop of SuperThrive.
They are getting watered every third day till run off, the small ones mostly get a spray down a few times a day and a bit of PH'd water at the base of the plant. Some of the small ones still have humidity domes over them for a few more days.

So far the Coco Adventures are going well!!

 

[lazylathe]

Beasts!!!

So almost another week has gone by and the plants are doing well!
Coco seems to be treating me well so far!
And i LOVE my BluLabs Truncheon, makes mixing nutes an absolute breeze!!

Everything that could be topped was topped tonight!
Lets make some shrubs!!!:

Enough chatter and on with the pics!
Just an overall shot of what is going on

First up is the Swazi!!

And a structure shot, nice and compact!

And the Tangerine Dream that is under the Induction light.
Way smaller and less dense than the Swazi's!

And some weird Barney's Farm genetics...

So to recap:
Plants that could handle it were topped tonight.
Everyone was watered, the ones under the Dixie cups just got plain, PH'd water. The rest got nutes, keeping the EC at 1 or just below and they seem to like it!
Waterings are done maybe every 3 days, depending on what my moisture meter tells me.

 

[lazylathe]

Question time!!!

For anyone that is checking in:

How long do you think i should veg for before flipping to 12/12?
I don't want to veg monsters like i did last time and since i do not know what the Swazi is going to turn into, i am thinking of flipping after 4 weeks of veg?

Last time they vegged for close on 3 months...Noob mistake!

The only issue is i started some DieselXC99 and they are still fairly small.
Hoping they catch up soon or i will have the first mini varieties!!

 

[lazylathe]

La la la la la la la, talking to myself again...:stylez rasta smoke:

Anyway, no updates for a while as my computer decided to slow down to a snails pace!!!
First time in 6 years i have had to reload the software on my Mac!!
Should be up an running in a few days time!!!

 

[blue]

Hey Lazy ^_^

Sorry, just saw the question! 4-5 weeks should allow the plant to get big, but not monsterous.
I flipped my last one at 6 weeks, and that was about as big as i could deal with by the time it had finished.

High Five for the coco crowd! ^_^
:High 5:

 

[lazylathe]

Thanks Blue!!
This weekend it will be 5 weeks so i am thinking of flipping to 12/12, i need to sex the Swazi bunch.
At least the DieselXC99 are growing up, although much slower than the rest.

Those Swazi's i have are turning into monsters already!!
When i post the pics i will also do an "as of now" update.
The TD's are doing well but not nearly as vigorous as the Swazi's!!!
I already had to gently persuade the one to grow sideways but now it is just as tall as the others!!
I am thinking it is a male, if i left it to grow it would be a good 4 to 5 inches taller than the others!



EDIT:: Only 4 weeks old this weekend!

 

[Groff]

Pictures !!! Or its not true!! :X's Evil Laugh x:

hey Lazy, was thinking of picking up a dripper system for my airpots, but I have zero experience with them. Would you mind tutoring me on the subject a little? Could I see you setup and main rez? How do you run yours?

This has epicness written all over it. That Swazi looks like a bomb! Great structure

 

[lazylathe]

Last weeks update!

Okay the Mac is alive for a bit!!
Changing out hard drive for an SSD on the weekend!

This is the easiest garden i have ever had!!
It is idiot proof and i am proof! LOL!:

Not much to update except things are growing like crazy!
PPM is still at 600 and PH is 5.9

First up we have the Swazi Gang!
A side view

And a top view

The Tangerine Dream under the Induction light
First a side view

And a top view

The guy at the back is a smaller Swazi that seems to love the Induction.
It is short, stocky and super green!

And in the left corner we have a TD and 3 Diesel X C99. The Diesel are still small so i am trying to wait till they grow up a bit more before flipping to 12/12, kind of hard to wait because of the Swazi monsters!

Side view

Top view

And thats about it folks! LOL!!!

This weeks update in a few days time!