Here are the girls at week #4 from seed, Day 5 or 6 flowering.
I am moving them to a DIY system that I am modeling after the AG this weekend. I've just overgrown the AG, and don't want to kill my babies. Italian basil is the biggest, she is so damn bushy I can't even see the stem without moving leave out of the way. I had one leaf burn from touching the light, which is crazy because when I checked her in the morning before work she was a couple inches away, and by 6pm she had reached one of my CFL side lights and burned. I trimmed that leaf after I took this pic. I switch from Salad greens setting to Herbs/Basil and that seemed to make them grow even faster! I am also still only using the stock AG nutes, with no apparent ill-effects. I cut the mix from 2 tablets to 1.5 per gallon. Maybe I have a hardy strain or something. These are all mixed bag seeds from California, Oregon, and Mexico. I have no idea which seed came from where, but of the 35 or so seeds I had collected over the last 3 years, 25 of them came from some Schwag weed I got in Cabo. I tired to pick seeds that looked different from each other (for whatever that's worth) Anyway, who knows what strain they are, but so far so good. I hope they're girls!
As you can see, the roots are a tangled mess, In fact the roots from Italian Basil alone are taking up 1/3 of the resevoir at least!
I am hoping that it will not kill them to cut the roots a little when I move them. I am obviously going to try to minimize damage to the root system, but it is going to be inevitable. Any advice?
