Kick Off-Super Bowel for the Superbowl!

Well the White Widow Autos germ'd and are in the rapid rooters. The Little Durban Poison seed is still up but not growing. If it does start growing I canput all three seeds in my system, but it'll be tight.

49ers lost in a shocker. Jimmy got hurt and looks like he's out for a while. The Kid came in and did well, but Wilson was deadly and in the end a field goal sealed the fate of the 9ers!

Well WW seeds popped thier heads up and are already taller than the little 4 week old Durban. So it looks like it's going to be White Widow this go around. I've been wanting to try them for a while now. This means I can get 28 days veg and 70 days of flower and get in under the playoff start.

OMG! The Durbans are growing!!! I just went in to see if the first WW had shed it's seed pod and noticed that the two Durban Poisons are starting to grow! Now I'll have to either put four in a 2'X3" or kill a baby! I've done 2x in a 2x2 but never three in a 2x3. I may have to set up a second grow tub and rotate the lights (1 105 Watt and two ~50 watt cheapies.)

The Littlest Durban seed that stalled for four weeks has now put out it's third leaf and it's not over 3/4" tall! The Reserve seed which just sprouted and never grew for three weeks is now starting to stand up and reach for light. Maybe they just needed some competition?

Well the Reserve Durban seed crapped out. The WW's this morning are putting out roots below the rapid rooter. Now I just need to figure out how to remove the rapid rooter from the seedlings so that they do not contribute to root rot when they go into the NFT rooting chamber net pots.

The surviving Durban is still under an inch tall on it's fourth true leaf. I'm thinking that I should just transplant it into soil to see if that will get it to put down roots and start growing. I've got three lights so I can split up the grow and let the Durban be a little freer to move around in the tub. I'm thinking a 3 gal pot will be about right to have flexibility.

Well what do you know. The Little Durban is starting to put roots out of the Rapid Rooter! So I better get some soil as I don't think I can fit three into the NFT and have it SCROG right. I'll put it into the soil and run it as a separate plant. I haven't run soil since my first grow but had a beautiful Xmas Tree of a short little indica, Grape Ape.
THe WW are putting out masses of roots and just about ready to put in the net pots.

Need some help, can the rapid rooter contribute to root rot if I leave them on in the net Pots? How do I remove them in that case???????

I bought some Vigro potting soil and a ~3 gal pot. Loaded it up and watered it with about a gal of water. It took over five hours for the soil to drain enought to transplant as the pot has small drain holes and the soil is not very permeable. Anyway the Durban is in the dirt and seems to be doing well. But will it root out and get bigger? After five weeks it is still less than an inch tall, ( after five weeks!)

The WW's are on their second node now and have enough roots to get them into the NFT cell. I'm still wondering if the Rapid rooter will cause problems if I leave it in the net pot????

I've been running 24/0 lights with my ~50 watt lights. I'm going to set up the new Bestva 105 W light this week. The 50 watt burples close enough to give 8-11 K Candlepower seem to be doing well. Seedlings are green and look fine. Pix soon. the 50's cover the seedlings well and will suffice for at least the next three weeks, unless the Widows really explode.

Well my 100 watt burple finally died and I put up my new Bestava 105 watt light. Much more yellow spectrum, with 5000K leds and lots of infrared. Light is a lot more concentrated than the burples.

I can get 2200 Candle Power at ~18" with it so a lot better that the ~1000 CP with the burples. Plus a much better spectrum with 730 mM boost.THe Manual says it'll put out 961 PPFD at 12"& 532 at 24", so pretty good for 105 watts at the wall.

I need to sort out the Vander Life lamp and get some new drivers to replace the ones that died. The LED board is still good so replacing the drivers should get it back on board.

Since no one answered my question about Rapid rooters, I transferred the White Widows into t net pots and put them in the NFT pod. I put the Bestva light over the NFT and a burple on the Durban because it is a lot lower than the NFT'd plants. I need to find a height booster to get the soil pot up to the same level so I can move the lights around to spread the Bestva spectrum over both soil and NFT.

Some Pix:
1. White Widow Autos at 2 weeks
2. Durban Poison Auto at five weeks!
3. White WIdow at 2 weeks #2

After four days the WW's are looking good and the Durban is perking up. Looks like the Durban is starting to stretch, over an inch tall now!
Checked the pH/ppms and it looks like the ppm is down a bit (385) and the pH was 6.8. Added a little down (2 ml) and 20 cc Grow to boost ppms.

Today the WW's are really starting to grow. Leaf lobes are expanding and the roots are exploding. I checked the pH and ppm and was surprised that with only2 mL of Down & 20 mL of GH Grow the pH had dropped to 6.41 and the ppm was 943! This is with a 10 gal (~40 L) rez.
Little Durban is starting to grow too. Only four days since potting it in soil. The Vigero soil is very moisture retentive and they say no need for Ferts for 9 Months!

Not sure if it's a problem but I noticed that WW #1 was starting to really grow, but the inner foliage of the plant is less green, more yellowish. I increased the light a little while ago to 2200 Candle Power (Lux) and WW #2 is doing fine still green and growing. Looks like a different phenotype from #1?
Lil' Durban is picking up and I'd guess putting down roots into the soil.
Pix tomorrow. I switched to 18/6 a few days ago and lights are out now.
PH was 6.43 and ppm down to 546. So I added 15 mL of Down and 20 ml of GH Micro. If it's lock out do I add Epsom Salts? Have to research.

Well, Surprise, Surprise, That worked! This PM the WW #1 is back an even green and pH is down to 5.7 and ppms are 646.

Having trouble importing pix. May have save pix to wrong directory???

Whooo Boy! The WW's are really moving now and the Lil' Durban is picking up. It's three weeks ahead of the WW's and should sttart to flower soon. Autos are supposed o start after five -six weeks.

After I lowered the Ph to 5.7 and upped the ppms to 1.6 EC (750 ppm) they jumped out of the ground! Roots at least 8" down now.

GoatSoup said:

Whooo Boy! The WW's are really moving now and the Lil' Durban is picking up. It's three weeks ahead of the WW's and should sttart to flower soon. Autos are supposed o start after five -six weeks.

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Crazy shit. I was just talking about Durban a second ago, lol.

WW#1 is busting out and #2 is growing taller. #1's leaves are getting much bigger than #2's and it's covered about half the space already. Lil' Durban is starting to spread now. I switched the BUrple to be over the WW's and moved the Bestva to the Lil' Durban to see if it would help it catch up, also to get the light closer as the hangers are longer and the Durban is down below the WW's in the taller NFT system. I haven water it since the transplant and it's not showing any sgns of getting dry!

Lot's of rain today as the storm sweeps thru the Central Valley. We go twice as much rain today (so far) as all the rest of the year. Humidity is up inside too. Up to 54% inside from the usual 20%.

Today's games were crazy. Lots of blowouts, but the 9ers are dropping the ball in the rain. I'm gonna roll one up for the second half!

What a change a few days make WW's 10-15-21
WW's Now 10-25-21

Lil' Durban 10-15-21

Now Lil' Durban 10-25-21

I just gave Lil' Durban 500 Ml of H2O, first time since 10-15. NFT's exploding!

pH is holding at 5.7 and ppms are down a bit so I added ~10 ml of micro to see how much it changes ~10 gal rez. My rez water is holding up really well this grow. Previously it would drop level really fast but this grow I changed the angle of the sprayers to be mostly horizontal so I'm not wasting so much water in leakage.
The storm that swept thru Sunday left 4.6" of rain now we are up to 4.9 " for the season!

WW's are extremely tight noded. All the nodes are sprouting branches and I'm debating if I should top them as they are up to the sixth node and still not 8" tall. Is it the ruderalis that is keeping them so short? WW's are doing well under the Burple light but I'll have to switch the lights to get good Lux all over the WW's as the Burple doesn't have the footprint spread to give the plants uniform light across the canopy. Wondering if I should forget the SCROG screen and just let them grow?

Lil Durban is doing well in soil, but not as well as the NFT'd WW's, under the Bestva. I'll switch the lights today and see if the Burple will help the Lil' Durban catch up? Could be genetics of the seeds.

Well in the last five days since the last pix, WW's doing well and Lil' Durban is growing. Looks like she's put down some roots now.
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#1 Lil' Durban is starting to grow, giving her max Burple at ~10" from light.
#2 WW #1 interior. WW's very tight nodes and showing a lot of potential flowering.
#3 WW's in the NFT with the Bestva 105 Watt light, lights off.
#4 WW #2 showing its node development.
Lil' Durban is six weeks from Ger and WW's are 4 weeks from germ.
I'm going to expand my SCROG net frame today as the WW's will need it. The PVC on the NFT is the foundation for my SCROG frame. I'm stretching it from 21" X 21" to 21" x 30" due to the increased footprint of the Bestva light.