Malawi Gold ScrOG with Magenta Kessil

My camera finally ran out of juice and so I only got a few indoor pics today. The cabinet was way more humid today either from the airstones or the plant. The res is running at 72 degrees F now that I got rid of the CFLs. Apparently the UVB bulb does not make much heat. I added more water today and got the ppm down.

ppm - 640
pH - 5.8


Whole shebang day 39 flip:








Flowers:













Cheers,
Mo

I think she's gonna be okay! she looks beautiful Mo, look like you've cleaned out the middle here and there, or you just got a fuckin sweet snapshot of her!
I really really hope things go well for your roots! the reward are going to soo much greater for you Mo, the time and effort you have displayed here, is A class, you can only get better from here on Mo keep it up, things really look awesome!

That plant is looking amazing! Can't wait to see how fat those buds get

How much more do you think its going to stretch? The developing buds look delicious!

I think the stretch is over. I am thinking of moving the second screen down lower but it will be difficult.

OK - I am a flush believer! I took a look at the roots today to see if I could see a difference and this is what I saw:














New roots busting out all over! Now I just need to figure out how to keep them from clogging my outfow pipe!





Cheers,
Happy Mo

Those white tips re-exerting themselves is just what we wanted to see.

Be sure to take a mild concentration of h202 (right around 3-4ml into a gallon of water) and inject your res with a generous amount of this weak solution every other day or so. That should help those white tips along. And make sure this weak solution you have set aside is protected from light. That gallon should last forever.

How about getting some mesh material and rubber-banding it around your flow pipe? Panty hose? No, it would get dirty too fast. How about getting a little mesh fry trap from the aquarium supply shop and loosely blocking that opening with mesh and a plastic frame? I think the mesh on those is a little wider holed... shouldn't get dirty as fast.

Maybe I can just snip them off and make the upper ones bush out more. Can you prune roots?

Mohican said:

Maybe I can just snip them off and make the upper ones bush out more. Can you prune roots?

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I wouldn't risk shocking the plant by removing roots. Those grungy looking roots swimming around under the res surface look bad, but they're actually still alive and vital to proper bud maturation. Just leave them alone and administer the h202 treatment I prescribed.

New roots - woohoo! I just can't stop smiling. New growth is sprouting out of the stems and the flowers are starting to bulk up. I got so excited and took so many pictures I forgot to take my water readings! I checked the clone tray for roots and saw that one of my clones was poked right through the cube - oops I fixed it but I do not have much hope for that one.

Having a fully charged camera makes me picture-happy. It took me a while just to pick which ones to crop and upload. I hope you like my choices


Mama Day 118 - Day 40 Flip







Flowers Day 40 Flip















Big clone Day 55








Flying Saucer?









FIM Top









FIM Side













CloneVille









Flower Clone Day 29









Micro Clone Day 33









Micro Fan Leaf!










Kitties!
















Cheers,
Mo

I love your cats.

I do too, thanks for the encouragement! They are soo much fun!

Hey mo,
Looking good. I have had roots like yours, big time. Had that shit for 6mnths plus. I have done h2o2 treatment, and hold nothing against it, as I had results with the roots. I would look into this beneficial bacteria tea aswell, have a read up and see how you go.

It's the only thing that has given me amazing new root growth, and brought the fun of growing back.

I haven't figured this clash out 100%, but when you add this tea to a feeding schedule which has organic products, it clashes and creates a gelatin on the roots.... Bad. I had to stop using my organic cal/mag, and problem solved.

It's simple az honestly,

Earth worm castings,20kg bag will last forever, and are found at nurseries .
Beneficial bacteria powder, this has your good bacteria and fungi in a dormant form. Ask your hydro shop for 1 with trichoderma bacteria in it.
A jar of Molasses from supermarket.

2gal (8ish Litres ) water in a bucket.
Add 1 cup of earth worm castings
Add 1 or 2 tablespoons of molasses.
Add half a teaspoon of your beneficial bacteria powder

Add an air stone to this bucket for 48hrs. Then strain through a stocking to remove solids, and into milk bottles.
The tea should be kept in fridge to dumb/ slow down the beneficial bacterias. Once you put it in your Rez, the warmer air rich conditions will wake them up, and they will feed like crazy on your dead crap.

I add this tea every 4 days at 1 cup per gal of solution.

It's your call, I run dwc, so I don't have jets to think about. I would just strain very well for your application.

Will continue to follow your grow mo. All the best

awesome work Mo!! white roots appearing!! excellent growing, listen to Jin, he will set you on the right path i agree with the material over the flow pipe, even an aquarium filter sponge cable tied on maybe? If you can bring the screen down a few inches it may help for sure, it will be possible bit by bit poke each tip through, she will still stretch a little in my opinion but not much.

oooh yeah

i was actually given some Great White powder today when i received my agro bulb, it has the trichoderma, beneficial bacteria and plant vitamins? anyone heard of this or used it? should i just give it a go, it says safe for all applications including hydro??? any goers?

I am glad you took my advice and were pro-active about your roots. Your plant will be set back a fair bit, and have to hope that it didn't stress her too much, as it could force it to hermie possibly. Good karma your way! You always have your outdoors you can clone off of for next round anyways!

I can honestly say the tea works wonders though. It literally ate away all the gunk and dead matter and my rez is clear as can be all the time now! I will never run without it!

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I am glad you took my advice and were pro-active about your roots. Your plant will be set back a fair bit, and have to hope that it didn't stress her too much, as it could force it to hermie possibly. Good karma your way! You always have your outdoors you can clone off of for next round anyways!

I can honestly say the tea works wonders though. It literally ate away all the gunk and dead matter and my rez is clear as can be all the time now! I will never run without it!

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Please elaborate on your process.

HI LJ - Are you asking me how I cleaned the roots? If so, here is the story.

I wish I had taken pictures but it was a very wet and trying day that did not lend itself to photography. Let my words be the pictures. Oh - I used a washer load of towels cleaning up my messes.

I removed the tote and used a medium sized tupperware tub with clean RO water and just swished it up and down on the roots until the water looked like mud and repeated this process until no more junk was coming off of the roots and the water stayed clean.

When that was done I put the thoroughly washed system back together (and then I took it apart and put the lid on!) and put it all back together.

Then I ran Clearex flush through the system for a couple hours.

The whole time I was doing this, the plant was suspended from the lower screen by my LST wire!

I also did the reassembly in green light because it was after lights out - this made it very slow and deliberate work, which was only more frustrating when I forgot the tote lid!

It worked great and now the roots are going nuts!

I think I am starting to get the hang of this indoor life!

Cheers,
Mo

Mohican for the McGyver grower of the year award

Raccacoons! My cats just got very frightened (they get fur ridges just like ridgeback dogs) and so I went to investigate. Two 50 pound raccoons were in our back yard. I had to get the high pressure nozzle out and coax them away. I hope they do not eat buds!

The indoor girl is looking great. No major changes, ppm is 640 and pH is 6.0.

Outdoors everything looks great. The flower clone is in second gear now and really starting to charge along with the micro clone. The big clone is looking great. I washed the poop off yesterday and there was more today. It is burning holes in the leaves. Took pics of the FIM sites and the dominant tip.

I will be spraying the Safer BT this weekend and putting some organic bug stuff on the lawn. I am really seeing a difference in the amount of pests since I started using the Sevin and I hope the other treatments will have just as positive an effect.



Flower Clone Side Day 30






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Micro clone side






Big clone Top FIM side view day 14






Top FIM top view






Side FIM side view






Top view






Other side view






Dominant tip





Cheers,
MoGyver hehe