With my over stocking of clones, I had to plant this new tray earlier than usual. The clones just get too big if I wait too long.
The tray to its right is 11 days ahead, but the plants are almost the same size! Got some of my new Durban poison ladies in this tray, can't wait to see who flowers best so I can mom that pheno. She is replacing Trainwreck, that used to be my best sativa. But she's not producing the way she used to (about half of that), and she's degraded enough genetically where I just have to let her die gracefully. She's been with me from the beginning, I've been cloning her for a decade.
I've started using a vermiculite/perlite blend again (75/25) so that the plants don't dry out too quickly as they do with straight perlite. This last tray to the right is about 6 weeks, and the tray is stunted because I wanted to try pure vermiculite. It hold too much water like that, and the plants couldn't grow to their full potential. Nice quality buds, just short-ass plants.
See the tray to its left at 4 weeks, notice the size difference when I add in 25% perlite. Lots of air gets to the roots.
My drying rack right in the flower room. Shitty dark pic, sorry.
Here's some almost dry Strawberry Cheesecake in the rack. Heavy, medicinal indica. She'll cure what ails you.
Here's the true innovation of my grow, my lightproof mom tent. She's the magic that lets me veg, flower, and dry all in the same small room. I even keep vegging clones under the mom tray, I can fit about 35 clones down there comfortably.
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