Today the plants are exactly two weeks old and I've decided to transplant the two healthiest looking ones into 5inch Jiffy pots that I got from Walmart, and throw out the rest. The reason I haven't put them into even bigger pots is because I've read in several places that it is better for the plant if you transplant it to the next size pot as it grows. Am loving the jiffy pots. The entire pot gets wet when you have watered thoroughly so it gives you a visual idea of how well you are watering. Personally I'm always worried about doing too little or too much so having any kind of indicator eases my mind some. I lined the bottom with a short layer of perlite, and used Black Gold potting soil (ordered it online from Amazon, is organic, good reviews and cheaper than Fox Farm). Have seen it mentioned in a few grows so though I'd give it a try. Made sure to water the plants thoroughly before removing from green house pails. Ended up having to use a plastic knife to remove without damaging anything. I noticed that some were turning yellow and were droopy...I am not sure if this is because the seed starting soil has barely any nutrients in it, because the plants needed to moved to a bigger pot, or if I didn't water enough. Hopefully, moving to the new soil and into the jiffy pots will treat this issue. I am trying not to use any fertilizer until the plants are at least 5 week old...however I am considering a crazy / maybe nasty idea
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I have been hearing good things about using your own pee to fertilize your plant. Before you say, "Yo, Lady J you are one dirty girl," hear me out lol. As I have said before, this grow is going to be purely organic. There are enough chemicals the government is allowing us to be polluted with, I want to keep my green GREEN. Urine has a strong presence of Nitrogen and adequate amounts of potassium and phosphorus. Not to mention, it also contains many other trace minerals. What is pee but the liquids you have consumed after your body has taken it's desired nutrients. Also, it is sterile (unless you have some kind of bacterial infection you need cleared up). I drink water all day, what's so bad about using my pee in a mixture of distilled water if it would help my plant to grow naturally? You can also drink your own pee as a survival method if you were in danger of being dehydrated(discovery channel ftw). I have to say if I had to choose between a glass of pee and water I'd choose the water everytime lol...but the more I think about it, read about it, see the benefits from it, the more practical it seem to use to help my plants grow instead of chemicals. And it's free!
https://www.rollitup.org/organics/17800-using-urine-fertilizer.html - Thread I found that got me interested in the subject. Before you tell me how gross I am and how I'll have piss buds...read it for yourself, find some stuff on Google, and THEN say some sh-t. For those of you who are with me on this, or even know more about this, feel free to share.
Here are the babies: