calliandra
Well-Known Member
This is the story of badly mistreated clones getting an enormous boost from vermicompost extract 
I took clones off a SensiSeeds Northern Lights #5 x Haze girl called Dawn in mid-December and kind of forgot them under horrid conditions - low light, cold temperatures, insufficient aeration...
By the time I gave them some attention in mid-January, the survivors had begun getting traces of beginning PM, one of them grew into the spiral of the 2700k CFL I had added in as a temporary improvement (whilst hunting for better veg lights for my shelf), burning off a leaf in the attempt to get more light, and both were trying to go into flower.
So I started out by topping both of them to get them onto an even level and cutting away a good part of the plants that had begun to bloom, and gave them 2 weeks of 24/0 110W CFL lights and another 16/8 to get them to reveg.
It wasn't easy, they were really stubborn, and the retarded growth they put out kept my mind wandering to the thought of just killing them both lol
But my plan had been to use these clones to experiment with mainlining, so I decided to keep going.
I now think it's not a good idea to mainline clones that already have alternating leaves. At least I couldn't get them to go back to symmetrical growth despite training.
On reveg day 9 and a fair amount of trimming and training:
Finally, after 31 days of reveg, the girls got their "not-really-mainlines" pinned down, a good trim,
11L pots of recycled soil (nothing fancy, just a 50:50 mix of soil from an earlier grow, compost-heavy potting mix, and 1/3 lavarock), and went into my grow closet with a proper 150W MH light and good ventilation.
Veg day 1 on March 2:
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They liked that
Ten days later:
However, I still found them weakish and flimsy, was unsure the long flower time of the nl5xhaze was going to be worth the electricity, and found my mind wandering back to the possibility of chop and toss
lol
So I gave them 2 rounds of vermicompost extract a week apart.
I chose extract over adding the compost itself because I only have one not-quite-done-yet tray of vermicompost going at the mo AND also wanted to foliar to make sure the foliage is nicely covered with microorganisms too.
To make the extract, I took a handful of that vermicompost, put it into a cloth bag and "massaged" the microorganisms into a pail with about 5L tap water until it had this nice tawny color somewhere between fulvic and humic acid color, and foliar sprayed and watered the plants with that. (There was lots left over, so my other house plants also got spoiled).
Sadly, I wasn't really able to record their reaction in pictures - it was like a big sigh of relief and outbreak of joy
Their growth from one extract foliar/feeding to the next:
And a canopy that looks like something I want to let go into bloom haha!
That was last Saturday.
I've switched the light schedule to 12/12 and added in my 200W CFL - still 6500°K to match the 150W MH, which I'm leaving in for a week to slow the stretch.
My height is limited in the closet and they're starting to go bonkers now they're well-provided for
I plan to just let them do their thing from here -- maybe just a tiensy bit of lollipopping, which I'll decide on on Saturday - when I'll also update how they're doing now.
Cheers!
I took clones off a SensiSeeds Northern Lights #5 x Haze girl called Dawn in mid-December and kind of forgot them under horrid conditions - low light, cold temperatures, insufficient aeration...
By the time I gave them some attention in mid-January, the survivors had begun getting traces of beginning PM, one of them grew into the spiral of the 2700k CFL I had added in as a temporary improvement (whilst hunting for better veg lights for my shelf), burning off a leaf in the attempt to get more light, and both were trying to go into flower.
So I started out by topping both of them to get them onto an even level and cutting away a good part of the plants that had begun to bloom, and gave them 2 weeks of 24/0 110W CFL lights and another 16/8 to get them to reveg.
It wasn't easy, they were really stubborn, and the retarded growth they put out kept my mind wandering to the thought of just killing them both lol
But my plan had been to use these clones to experiment with mainlining, so I decided to keep going.
I now think it's not a good idea to mainline clones that already have alternating leaves. At least I couldn't get them to go back to symmetrical growth despite training.
On reveg day 9 and a fair amount of trimming and training:
Finally, after 31 days of reveg, the girls got their "not-really-mainlines" pinned down, a good trim,
11L pots of recycled soil (nothing fancy, just a 50:50 mix of soil from an earlier grow, compost-heavy potting mix, and 1/3 lavarock), and went into my grow closet with a proper 150W MH light and good ventilation.
Veg day 1 on March 2:
.
They liked that
Ten days later:However, I still found them weakish and flimsy, was unsure the long flower time of the nl5xhaze was going to be worth the electricity, and found my mind wandering back to the possibility of chop and toss
lolSo I gave them 2 rounds of vermicompost extract a week apart.
I chose extract over adding the compost itself because I only have one not-quite-done-yet tray of vermicompost going at the mo AND also wanted to foliar to make sure the foliage is nicely covered with microorganisms too.
To make the extract, I took a handful of that vermicompost, put it into a cloth bag and "massaged" the microorganisms into a pail with about 5L tap water until it had this nice tawny color somewhere between fulvic and humic acid color, and foliar sprayed and watered the plants with that. (There was lots left over, so my other house plants also got spoiled).
Sadly, I wasn't really able to record their reaction in pictures - it was like a big sigh of relief and outbreak of joy
Their growth from one extract foliar/feeding to the next: And a canopy that looks like something I want to let go into bloom haha!
That was last Saturday.
I've switched the light schedule to 12/12 and added in my 200W CFL - still 6500°K to match the 150W MH, which I'm leaving in for a week to slow the stretch.
My height is limited in the closet and they're starting to go bonkers now they're well-provided for
I plan to just let them do their thing from here -- maybe just a tiensy bit of lollipopping, which I'll decide on on Saturday - when I'll also update how they're doing now.
Cheers!
)
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