ANYWAYS here is a little info update just to keep things moving, i wont have pics till sunday or monday i dont think so:
So everything is going nicely in the "cab" so far considering a few things:
-i dont have ANY ventilation other then moving the front piece of bristol board that i put in front of it every so often.
-i dont have ANY air movement aswell, same idea just waving the piece of bristol board
-its not completely light tight
-there are probly still the od spider mite kickin around
i intend to upgrade everything obviously.. upgrade isnt even the word becuz it was the plan anyways just havent gotten to completeing the build yet. For now ive just bin making sure the temperature and humidity are in tune and progress seems to be ok considering the environment provided:
-nice root growth
-nice new shiny leaves
-about 2" vertical growth
-temperature 70-74 degrees F
-humidity 50-70% (obviously helps when the soil is moist from fresh feeding/watering)
so as i said things are doing ok but i clearly need to get some ventilation in there along with air movement, this will help AMAZINGLY.. the pots will dry out quicker and the cab will recieve new fresh air constantly allowing more exchange of CO2 aswell (growing in my bedroom where both me and my girlfriend sleep, so lots of CO2 to be taken in at night), plus the air movement will make my stems strong and cause the plant to have reason for more growth.
i will obviously take care of the spider mite issue so that doesnt need to be addressed here unless you have any kool ways to get rid of them that you want to mention.
2" of vertical growth isnt bad but its bin 10 days since the transplant and im thinking i should of had more, these are the things i did that may have resulted in less growth:
-i did a shitty job of rooting them, i was moving the dome and light around alot aswell as turning on and off my heater that emits under it
-i didnt open the vents/take the dome off very often at all so there wasnt an often exchange of fresh air once they did root
-when they did root the ones that rooted first i let get root bound
-there were spider mites, some had lots and i ended up tossing actually, out of the 17 ive kept 12
-when i transplanted i gave them the same nutrients as "cutting and seedlings" which i use to root them, im suppose to be uping to "week 1" of nutrients when i transplant
-no ventilation
-no air movement
-medium doesnt dry out quick enough
when i transplanted ive learnt on RIU its best to just use water and ease the transplant but i wanted more root growth becuz i was afraid i killed some of the roots by root bounding it.. i know that doesnt make sense but either way i figured it didnt matter they were VERY weak nutes so i thot it should work in my favor..
i have yellowing perlite:
i think this is due to no ventilation/air movement so the pots arent drying out quicker... ive only used a very weak nutrient solution during the transplant, then it dryed out nice after a week so i watered it with plain distilled water and that all sounds fine to me, i believe it would be from either:
-the salts in my water - which shouldnt happen becuz im using distilled water
-over feeding- which clearly i havent done
-not enough airation - which i suspect
ANY COMMENTS!?