PLEASE!!!HELP!!!ASAP!!! Multiple Strains...Multiple Problems...Need a Guru!

el throttle

Well-Known Member
im new to all this and have only done one grow so far with no problems what so ever.. using the kiss method of course, but i think you should ditch the whole promix "mix" and just get some foxfarm ocean forest till you get your mix right, if thats what you really think it is....i know someone very successful that likes to mix foxfarm with their choice of soilless mix. oh yeah and my grow room would run 78,79 all day and at night it would dip to around 65 and never once gave a problem.. just gave me some nice color on the purple ones . here are a couple of pics


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boxorain

Member
I guess I need to ask several of you that think these should veg in 1 gallon pots why you would do this.

The more strong, healthy roots the more end material you are going to have. Everyone has their own methods, but if a person plans on completing the life cycle of a particular cannabis plant (that is you are going to keep them and you know they are female and quality) why transplant them more than once? Every time one transplants it take a week or more for the plant to get back on track. I prefer to go from aero-cloner to 7 gallon smart pot. This eliminates the shock and wasted time of going from 1 gallon to 5 or 7 of whatever you use to finish, and provides more meds in a shorter amount of time.
 

el throttle

Well-Known Member
on my run i transplanted four times and never once had "trans plant shock" or even a day of sad looks from them....in my experience these plants grew about an inch a day and can grow big in small containers.. i must have some super strand, and thats cause i was thinking of tossing it out since it was just some bag seeds of some purp kush cross afgan......
 

mikahdale

Active Member
I totally agree with you on the issue of root development, the health of the plant and eventual yield will depend primarily on healthy root development, and the plants ability to absorb and process nutes, but the reason I "double transplant" is mainly for practical purposes and to save on resources. I clone in 2" rockwool cubes. Once I see healthy root development extending an inch or so outside the cubes, I put them in 4.5" pots with ProMix, because I can remove the humidomes from my clone rack, and continue to veg the new little babies under my T8's without having to fire up those 4 1000w MH's just yet. Do the quick math on 1 week of 4 T8's as opposed to the 1000w MH's. I get 20 under each 4' shoplight with room to spare. Then I go from there to the 1 gals. and under the MH's, and I go 6 pots by 6 pots under 1 1000w MH for 10-14 days, my clones are usually at my preferred height by then (12"-18") to start flowering. THEN I transplant them to 5 gal. deep pots for flowering for 8-10 weeks. Then, and only then, do I have to start spending all the resources to fire those 4 1000W HPS's, with my plants in a 3 pot by 3 pot configuration under each light, and have to start dealing with the heat issues, cost, etc...

I've done it this way for MANY years, and with a decent indica strain, with everything dialed in, I have managed to pull consistantly almost 1.2 grams per watt of light utilized during flowering...oh yeah...and that's DRY weight! That's over 2lbs. per 1000w light, and those are real world, time proven, not hypothetical numbers, so though I may still have a bit of learning and fine-tuning to do, I gotta stick with what works for me. Yeah, granted, it's a little more work, but I don't mind getting my fingers a little dirty from time to time, I just turn on the radio and chill, very cheap therapy, and still seems like a noble thought, drawing your sustanence from the soil, if it was good enough for my forefathers, it's good enough for me!

Also, yes, I realize that we are dealing with a "weed", that has grown under some pretty adverse conditions for eons without the "help" of man, but I love this plant, and love the whole science and art behind growin' that perfect nug! So I don't mind at all puttin' in the time that it takes to do it...beats the hell out of hangin' out in bars or spendin' all my free time on "FaceBook"!

Thanks again for EVERYONE'S input. whether I ultimately agree with it or not, I do appreciate it, and that's how I continue to learn....
 
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