Well not leaving town tell tomorrow. I decided to water good before I went and my plants look pissed off. Definitely a lack of O2 in the root zone. Guess it is time to repot to there larger pots after my trip. Nope just decided to do it now hahaha...
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Got some soil.
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So as you can see the plants were drooping before I transplanted. The roots took a little more of a beating than I would have liked them too. Although they look a little beat up these plants have only broke the surface on the 20th of last month and are only 2+ weeks old and already in pre flower and have good size to them.
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A little curious as to what size in gallons these pots really are. They say #15 on the bottom and I believe my bags of soil at 1.5 CF to be around 7.5 gallons, maybe I am wrong. Each pot has about a bag worth of soil and about 1, 8qt bag of worm castings. I did not use all my soil either. I probably only have about 8.5 gallons of soil in each pot. Either way I probably have close to $30 invested in each pot in soil after the worm castings and amendments so I hope I get a good harvest this grow. I think I am going to omit the worm castings next grow as the ones I used were very low quality and expensive.
O ya forgot to touch on it. My plants are off set for a reason and not centered in there pots. If they end up getting large enough you will see the benefits of not centering them. It allows me to move the plant while keeping the pot in place when things start to get crowded. The Purple Kush dose not really spread much so it probably will not be much of a problem but the red dwarf might. Don't need to be off center much.
I've never tried transplanting autos before, so far so good
O ya they always transplant fine for me. The trick is timing and watering before the transplant. If the roots have not filed the pot enough the soil breaks away, damages the roots and stunts the plant. Too late and you get root bound and stunt the plant. Depends on pot size on what age you transplant. Solo cup I usually do it around week 2. If you wait tell the plant is in pre flower in your solo cup you are already starting to stunt the plant. In a 1 or 2 gallon about day 30 is usually good. I did these early.
So surprisingly my plants look un happy. I expected the nitrogen toxicity a little bit but I have some leaf twisting going on in the Red Dwarf too. What is weird is I ran this mix last grow with Red Dwarf and it was amazing. Only difference last time is I used a little super soil in the bottom the starting pot. Wondering if even though my plant was over fed that maybe it was more balanced apposed to this time with out any super soil in the starting pot. Have new bags of soil for next grow to start cooking already. Going to definitely change the base soil and lighten it up.
