MNS Medicine Man and Shark Shock grow

Indeed, it is too much perlite to overwater. But cold can also be an issue. I would not place a Brazillian in the cold. Next winter, place some cold resistant plants. U2, ASH, ...
I had many faillures in winter until I went for cold resistant plants, I don’t even heat and sleep with window open all year long. Cocos can be a little too wet imo, it gets dry fast and needs a regular waterfeed. It’s hard to overwater cocos. Specially in small containers packed with perlite.
 
Cannalicous said:
Indeed, it is too much perlite to overwater. But cold can also be an issue. I would not place a Brazillian in the cold. Next winter, place some cold resistant plants. U2, ASH, ...
I had many faillures in winter until I went for cold resistant plants, I don’t even heat and sleep with window open all year long. Cocos can be a little too wet imo, it gets dry fast and needs a regular waterfeed. It’s hard to overwater cocos. Specially in small containers packed with perlite.
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Thanks mate! I'm trying to find a way of insulating under the tent. The floor is insulated but the tent floor still feels cold, which may be what's going on too.
 
Id say virus myth hit the nail on the head. ive been looking into giving coco a go for the first time for cost and sustainability. what was the brand youre using? my friend buys compacted bricks and mixes in dolomite, perlite and organic compost and has no issues. always been hesitant to try myself. hope the transplant goes well. edit: i think he probably mixes in a bit of soil too...
 
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Id say virus myth hit the nail on the head. ive been looking into giving coco a go for the first time for cost and sustainability. what was the brand youre using? my friend buys compacted bricks and mixes in dolomite, perlite and organic compost and has no issues. always been hesitant to try myself. hope the transplant goes well. edit: i think he probably mixes in a bit of soil too...
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I'm with you, Virus Myth was on the money. I went from using 100% perlite in a hempy thinking I could go 60/40 Coco/perlite in a hempy. The Coco was staying too wet as the cups had no drainage holes in the bottom. The brand of Coco I use is called PineGro Coco Peat and it has been 'charged' with calcium and magnesium apparently. When I repot the girls they'll go back into full perlite hempy buckets.
 
As mentioned above, I put some holes in the bottom of the cups to allow for drainage. Silly me thinking Coco/perlite would be a good mix for hempy's! It is more suited to a normal pot!
Anyway, they aren't looking as droopy as they were and they are growing so hopefully from here they bounce back and take off! Some very cool phenotypes showing up in both the Shark and Med Man. One of the sharks has these wicked sharp serrations, I like the look of it already!

Shark shock
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Med Man
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Well, things are going along ok, the droopiness seems to happen straight after I water them (as you'll see in the photos, I watered them about 10 mins prior to the photo) and then they pick back up over the next day. I got a humidifier in the tent now too so they are looking better than they were! Just need them big enough to take some clones and once sexed I can put to flower!

Shark shock:
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Med Man:
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Well, I turned the lights back to 14 hours on/10 off about 3 days ago and the plants are looking great. I experimented with using 14 hours of light for the first 4 weeks of flower, a few grows ago and it added about 4 ounces onto my yield so I'm hoping it will do the same this time. It also allows me a little more time to sex the clones I took a week or so ago, they should be showing me sex any day now.
Here's a couple of pics!

Full shot
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Shark shock
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Medicine Man
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As I start to repot the females, I'll get better pics of the Shark and Med Man, I promise!

Cheers and hope the Europeans on here are keeping safe with the heat and fires everywhere!

Easty
 
easty said:
Well, I turned the lights back to 14 hours on/10 off about 3 days ago and the plants are looking great. I experimented with using 14 hours of light for the first 4 weeks of flower, a few grows ago and it added about 4 ounces onto my yield so I'm hoping it will do the same this time. It also allows me a little more time to sex the clones I took a week or so ago, they should be showing me sex any day now.
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I have discovered the same thing. If you have the time to reduce light to the point of flower and are able to maintain maximize light time in that state until harvest, it really does make a difference. And as we all know, root space also has an impact as it increases the ability to maximize nutrient intake. Great job brah!

mu
 
musashi said:
I have discovered the same thing. If you have the time to reduce light to the point of flower and are able to maintain maximize light time in that state until harvest, it really does make a difference. And as we all know, root space also has an impact as it increases the ability to maximize nutrient intake. Great job brah!

mu
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Thanks Mu! Yeah I totally agree, ever since I did this a couple of grows ago, the results have been amazing. For the extra 56 hours of light, to get an extra 4 oz, it sure hit the winning note for me!
Thanks for stopping by mate, I appreciate it and I hope you're well :)
 
Well, all the plants are looking great, nice and green and healthy. That humidifier is doing wonders!

So it looks like I've got 8/9 female shark shock and 9/10 female Medicine Man. I also got 3/4 female hubba Bubba and 5/6 female Jack Shit! These ratios are nuts and now I have to choose which ones I want to keep flowering as I need to repot these girls! Never had this many females before!

Shark:
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Med man
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Swifty said:
It's a real jungle @easty:).
They look really good!
Now comes the hard part, selection😬.

Greetings!
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Hey Swifty, thanks for popping in mate!

Yes it sure is a jungle in there, hard to work out which ones need water too haha. I worked out today I can fit an extra 4 in there when I repot so I reckon I may just keep all the shark and all the med man! That will help with the choosing anyway :LOL:
 
Hi everyone, sorry been super busy this last week.
Does anyone have any ideas what this may be caused from? I'm thinking too much potassium as it only happened when I gave them a hit of potassium with the veg nutes while they were stretching? It hasn't gotten any worse and I have all the plants a flush with some LAB and fresh rainwater. I'll now move to flower nutes from here. It's only the Med Man that is has affected. Initially I thought it was light bleaching but I'm not convinced!

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Anyway, I ended up with 8 Shark shock and 8 Medicine Man so I kept them all. I still can't believey hit rate with females this time, never had it before in my 25 years of growing lol.

I have to do some defoliation this weekend so I'll get a group shot of the girls when I do that!

Have a great day all :)
 
easty said:
Hi everyone, sorry been super busy this last week.
Does anyone have any ideas what this may be caused from? I'm thinking too much potassium as it only happened when I gave them a hit of potassium with the veg nutes while they were stretching? It hasn't gotten any worse and I have all the plants a flush with some LAB and fresh rainwater. I'll now move to flower nutes from here. It's only the Med Man that is has affected. Initially I thought it was light bleaching but I'm not convinced!

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Anyway, I ended up with 8 Shark shock and 8 Medicine Man so I kept them all. I still can't believey hit rate with females this time, never had it before in my 25 years of growing lol.

I have to do some defoliation this weekend so I'll get a group shot of the girls when I do that!

Have a great day all :)
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Appears to be light stress . How close you have the lights
 
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