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[fruity86]

woody i find that plants in rockwool take a little longer to start then even just soil but once in your system they will soon boom
have you tryed soaking the cubes in a weak solution, when seedling are in soil they have nutes around them so why not soak the cubes you may find gowth is a little faster with a per nuted cube LOL
peace fruity

 

[woodydude]

Nice thought fruity, I will give it a try.
On previous grows, I have found clones always seem to root faster in rockwool but seeds do better in root riot cubes. I tend to do half and half to see which is better.
Course, now I have said that, it will go the other way!
Oh, I nearly chopped my finger off today cutting a piece of hose, didnt hurt at the time but is stinging like a mf just now so I am back to typing with 1 finger!
Thanks for the interest guys.
W

 

[fruity86]

snap woody did the same thing takeing the system down on tuesday first pipe i cut i cut my finger the blades ran up both side lucky they wernt that sharp just a stingy little cut
dont do diy stoned hehe

 

[bho_expertz]

Stoned DIY's are the worst thing !!! But since i'm always stoned it is hard not do it stoned

 

[woodydude]

Disaster!

I have been hand feeding when the cubes feel light, ph of 5.8 and on Saturday I gave them their first light food, 3ml of plant babyfood Formulex in 1L of ph'd water. What happened and how fast it happened has shocked me. The leaves are very brittle, flaking and snapping if touched, the pictures do not do how bad they are justice.





I squeezed some liquid out of each of the rockwool blocks and the ph on each was up between 6.6 and 6.8 and I have no idea how or why. The ph of everything they have been watered has been the same and the temps are a constant 75, humidity is around 65. Air is extracted and there is a fan blowing half hour every hour.

I have watered/flushed them, plain ph'd water with a drop of Superthrive and a couple of ml of H2O2 in the hope they can recover.
The good news is one seems fine despite being treated the same as the others, Just hope its a girl when she matures!

Suggestions appreciates.
Peace

 

[MosesPMG]

green mojo Hope they make a full recovery :aok:

 

[fruity86]

woody were you cubes soaked in ph'd water ? did you monitor the ph wilst the cubes where soaking ? i find that rockwool has a high ph i can soak them in a ph of 5.6 and 24hours later ph would have rised quite alot, i keep ph,ing the cubes wilst there soaking till the ph is stable
dont no if it helps

 

[woodydude]

Thanks guys,
When I bring home new rockwool cubes, I soak them in water ph'd to 5.5 for at least a day. The seeds were in Root Riot cubes to start with which may not have helped. I think this is the last time I am using 4" rockwool, I seem to have had one problem after another with it.

Just spoken to my son who helps me with stuff since I cannot lift and he tells me he sprayed them with "that stuff in the sprayer". It is a solution of Nitrozyme & rooting booster I use for mother plants & fresh cuttings. He then put the light back to where it was so it looks like my thoughts were wrong. I now think they have been burned with wet leaves under a 4 tube T5HO.
I will update hopefully when they recover although my sons injuries may extend to a few broken ribs, black eye, a few missing teeth and a fat lip! Kids eh!!!! (He is 22btw)

 

[MosesPMG]

well hopefully the problem is solved :aok:

 

[powerplanter]

My son is twenty and I know what you speak of. LOL. Good luck woody. GREEN MOJO!!!

 

[kytsam]

Thought id pop in and check your girl's out woody looking well some Green Mojo

 

[woodydude]

Latest update


This is all that is left from the 8 seeds I originally cracked.

At 6 weeks old it is very poor though between my son and I, we did our best to kill it!
I have decided I am not very good at this seed thing and must do better!
I seem to be doing ok with clones now but I am struggling with seeds.
This one is doing ok now though, it is in a dwc bubbler and is gertting on much better since I went away from the drippers. It is now on full strength AN Sensi veg nutes and was topped at the weekend.

Peace
W

 

[woodydude]

Update time.
I got rid of my old system with drippers and moved to dwc buckets. I think a major part of the problem I had with these plants was covering the top of the 4" rockwool with cut up bin liners to try and stop that unsightly green of algae. BIG mistake, it stopped the cubes from breathing and they never dried out meaning the plants roots were starved of oxygen. I am amazed even this one made it.


Strong plant IMO, it is now doing really well and is growing over half an inch per day, now standing 11" tall and loving the full strength nutes it is getting. It was not due to go into flower for another 3 weeks but I may put it in with my next batch this weekend, still undecided.
I have taken a few clones from it which seem very robust and are among the best looking clones I have taken. 10 days after taking them and they still look like fresh cuttings!
The only down side now is sex, I think it look female but the seeds were regular so it could be male. Better not be, I have been talking to it, telling it how sexy it is, lets hope it's not a Brazilian ladyboy or gay!!!!!

 

[fruity86]

lol woody mojo for a female
peace fruity

 

[Gixxerman420]

Good luck woody,maybe she'll pump out some weight with the early stress?

 

[woodydude]

So, the sole survivor of this foray into the world of paid for genetics went into flower 9 days ago, it showed signs of sex before flowering so I was prety sure it was a lady. After just 4 days of flowering there were thingys (caylaxes?) with pistils showing around most of the flower sites.
These pictures were taken last night.


She is not large, only around 18" or so but if I straighten out the bits where I supercropped her, she is around 2'.
There are some signs she has been nibbled by something but I have given her a thorough looking over, working my way round scanning every leaf with a magnifying glass but cannot find the hungry culprit, greedy bassa.

I made some bad mistakes with these plants, massive learning still going on here but this little girl is beautiful and I cannot wait to see her in full bloom, it is exciting opening up my flowering room again.
Peace
W

 

[fruity86]

let the magic begin woody hehe