Well, it has been ~3 weeks since I returned from visiting my daughters for Thanksgiving (here in the States).
Out of four plants, I got a grand total of 44 grams (just over an ounce and a half) of Ortega. So that is 11 grams per plant while my Medicine Man grows were 84 grams/plant and something like 42 grams/plant with the ensuing grow (where I had many more plants, but it was crowded).
Now, I am having the itch to do my next grow. Partly for cost purposes and after doing a bit of reading, I am gonna stick to coco (reused). I also decided to go with 3 gallon smart pots as I actually yielded more with 3 gal than 5, realizing the grow with 5 was the over-crowded one. Anyway, this way no transplanting save the one from seedling to the pot they will live the rest of their lives in!
As I mentioned in my most recent post, those poor Ortega girls were midgets. My best guess is the cause was a)a real shitty job of transplanting from 3 to 5 gal pots where I basically sheered the crap out of the root system when extracting those poor girls from the 3 gallon pots -or- b)a pH lock with coco where the pH remained at ~7.4 and would not budge -or- a and b.
So, anyway, I want to get this going and my first step is processing my coco. Do any of you have any suggestions on processing? I know enough to remove as much weed mass as I can and also to use an enzyme. What I am mostly wondering about is getting the coco to an optimum pH.
Making the latter easier, I can have the coco sitting in the pots without having plants in them yet and douse them with low pH water.
I suppose the indication that all is well would be to be at the place of giving the coco 5.8 pH water where the exit pH is also 5.8?
Oh, my next grow will be 6 ssh and 6 mango haze and so here I am for the first time attempting to grow a plant where it is suggested not for beginners, my other grows being Medicine Man and Ortega.
Tony (o2)