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GuppyGirl posted an update in the group
2 months agoAsk a Grow Question These have been under 24 hour a day light for around two months now. When should I flip them to 12/12? Should I move them to 18/6 for a couple of weeks first?
The larger one is the mystery seed from dispensary weed. No herm after 8 weeks!
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I always run veg at 18/6. Plants like sleep. The only time I run 24 is when popping seeds to keep environment stable. As soon as they pop I switch 18/6
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Intersex traits will show during flower. There is no telling how big an unknown plant will grow during the transition to flower. After you flip to 12-12, the plants could double to 4x+ their current size. That will depend on their vigor, transitional time and total flowering time. The transition is the most important time when it comes to building structure to hold weight. The first few weeks of flower are the plant’s most vigorous period of it’s entire life and is something new growers don’t plan for space wise or want they to speed up the process.
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@jmystro so, I should definitely top them?
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I would, several times to bush them out at this point. When I’m testing unknown genetics I put a clone to flower when it’s only a few inches tall and let it do what it wants the first time. If you veg a plant for a couple weeks before flowering it, it could grow 6+ foot tall untopped. It could just grow a foot. No one knows.
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So, clones out of both tops top start with, and let them veg a few more weeks. I think I might FIM whatever grows out from that, possibly one or twice even. Thoughts?
Also was debating making a whole new post, but since we’re here, I would really appreciate your advice on another problem I’m having:
I’d like to get off the nutrients I’m on now and switch to growdots and recharge. If I’m a few weeks to a month or so from flipping them into flower, is it safe for me to transplant them entirely into fresh Canna Coco Coir in my new Grow Buckets? Or, is that asking for dead plants?
Brief backstory recap: I’m a brand new medical patient, and grower. I’m a veteran with PTSD, Major Depression, and Anxiety Disorder. Cannabis makes me a functional human being. So we decided to stop paying highway robbery prices at the dispensary and grow our own medicine. In all this, my son was supposed to help me by basically running the day by day of the grow. He did for a while. Then he abruptly just stopped, and I’ve been playing educational catch-up for what feels like months at this point ever since. This is literally my first grow.
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I know one thing for sure: Tomorrow I cut some clones. How many should I take from each plant? I have Clonex and water, and will have my Grow Buckets shortly. I’m thinking about making a hydroponic clone growing station. Somewhere that clones can grow for a few weeks while I decide what to do with them. I can then take like, the best 4 or so for next harvest, and have two buckets left over for pet projects. I also have soil and buckets for at least another two fully mature plants, if I want to add that to the detail. I’m also going to setup a fish tank down here for future aquaponic exploration.
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You want a backup of each plant from seed. Every seedling is an individual. Grow Dots in coco being bottom fed in Real Buckets should be thoroughly mixed in for best results. You could remove the plants from their current pot and put them in the Real buckets with coco and Grow Dots. As long as you don’t damage too much of the root ball they’ll recover. Cut out about a 6-8 inch wide square around the stalk down to about 8-10 inches deep. Carefully transplant what you cut out in to the Real buckets. Here’s a few articles I wrote that will help you get started.
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@jmystro Dumb question: my Real Bucket came with wicks. Where / How should they be installed?
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Real Buckets have a lower basket that sits below water line that is the ‘wick’. They don’t come with rope wicks, but if you do have a bucket system with rope wicks then you’ll want to have them run down through the media, out the bottom of the pot and in to a water source. The wick will pull water up and in to the media.
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@jmystro how odd. Each bucket has about a 10″ or so thin rope that were in the bag. I assumed it was a wick.
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Can you take a picture?
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@jmystro there was one per bucket, all the same length.
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Sorry, I meant of the buckets you have. Are they Scotty’s Real Buckets or some other system?
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@jmystro Real Buckets. Ordered the 4 bucket system, and 2 extension bucks, 6 in total. All ordered from Scotty’s shop directly.
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There’s no need for a rope wick with the Real Buckets. Maybe make some rope handles out of them or something. 🤷♂️
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@jmystro I can’t wait to meet Scotty and ask him what was up with that. 🤣🤣🤣
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