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contest Growdown Throwdown 2018 Yellow Brain Strain!

Update.  Plant appears to be growing.
 
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fcaruana said:
An interesting development: It turns out my LED light is better than I thought. It advertised "growing thicker stems," which I thought was a load of crap until I compared my YBS's with each other.. The ones under the LED look incredible - tight growth, short spaces between the nodes. The same exact plants under the T5s are tall and a little leggy, and when I moved them over to the LED the growth tightened again. Always happy to see something work as advertised. I've been really happy with the light so far! It's called MaxBloom X4 COB, I got it on Amazon for $220 or something.
 
Anyways, here's my growdown plant (most likely):
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I'm posting from work and having issues with my phone internet today (probably due to this "Nor'easter") and can't email myself the photo of the leggy plant.. I'll do it once I get home so you can see the difference; it's pretty remarkable!
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Wow that’s a great looking plant what do you feed it?


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Sinn said:
Wow that’s a great looking plant what do you feed it?


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Thanks! This year I've been feeding them the Gro-A and Gro-B nutrients from Dutch Nutrients at about 1/2 - 2/3 strength. I only water with that about once every 1-2 weeks, otherwise straight tap water. What's nice about use the hydro nutrients for soil is that I don't have to adjust the pH, it sits at about 6.7-6.8 after or mixed the nutrients with my home tap.


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I've been pretty busy and neglecting to update, but here are some more recent pics of my YBS. I have them in a few different environments atm to see how differently they grow. I have been somewhat handicapping them, because I have been having a hard time finding the time to eat, much less for potting up plants. I did, however make a couple DIY grow bags from cheap landscape fabric that I would estimate to be around .75 gal. Three of my YBS are in those with a mix of the cheap pennington soil mixed with a healthy amount of perlite and worm castings. The one I previously moved to a solo cup is still in the solo cup and has been on the screened-in back porch for a bit, and was recently joined by the ones in my grow bags. I have one that I am torturing, still sitting under the 45w LED in it's "jiffy-7" or whatever it is pellet. They've all been getting the Epsoma organic start at intervals that I can't quite recall.
 
Blurry pic from about 5 days ago, when they FINALLY came out of the jiffy pellets straight to these:
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Today:
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The solo cup:
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The tortured just in case my grow bags failed me:
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All but the solo cup and one of the ones in the grow bags look like they are showing signs of a calcium deficiency.
I need to find time to give these guys the attention they deserve!
 
You sewed those yourself? I was thinking about doing that for mine when I move outdoors, has to be about the cheapest you could get pots for
 
YEA!!!   :dance:
 
The plants appear to have survived my first serious attempt at killing them!  :rolleyes: 
Was futzing about a few evenings ago and forgot to put them back under the 30/70 shade cloth that they've been hiding under for the last while.  Got home the next day day to find them basking (broiling?) under the scorching, full-yield, Aridzona sun.  So far, no signs of distress!
 
80F tomorrow, so they're gonna stay in the partial shade until they get a bit bigger.  
 
Update from da Yoop: nothing too exciting, still battling with my mix holding water too long... 2oz of water via bottom watering and they didn't start to wilt for 10 days. I'd like a mix that I could water a decent amount once a week, to get them more nutes. Thinking of trying Coco or some sort of homemade mix. I even added 30% perlite to this mix and still holds that little bit of water that long. It's got way to much peat in it. I might experiment with a mix made for Cacti since it's more sandy and I have experience with that also and I know it doesn't hold water for very long at all.
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Geonerd said:
YEA!!!   :dance:
 
The plants appear to have survived my first serious attempt at killing them!  :rolleyes: 
Was futzing about a few evenings ago and forgot to put them back under the 30/70 shade cloth that they've been hiding under for the last while.  Got home the next day day to find them basking (broiling?) under the scorching, full-yield, Aridzona sun.  So far, no signs of distress!
 
80F tomorrow, so they're gonna stay in the partial shade until they get a bit bigger.  
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How long have they been outside? If the weather holds, I will start hardening off in about 3 weeks. They will hopefully be in their permanent residence by the first or second week of April[emoji51] They are ready to stretch out! My two remaining YBS that made the cut are in the back left corner. I think I have one picked out but lets see how they do with some new shoes...
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U)<now said:
Update from da Yoop: nothing too exciting, still battling with my mix holding water too long... 2oz of water via bottom watering and they didn't start to wilt for 10 days. I'd like a mix that I could water a decent amount once a week, to get them more nutes. Thinking of trying Coco or some sort of homemade mix. I even added 30% perlite to this mix and still holds that little bit of water that long. It's got way to much peat in it. I might experiment with a mix made for Cacti since it's more sandy and I have experience with that also and I know it doesn't hold water for very long at all.
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This year I started out using a 1:1:1 mix of Peat/Perlite/Compost. The moisture content from the initial pot up was enough to cause some edema and other overwatering symptoms, plus it was taking 10+ days after pot up to use all of that water( wasnt adding much to begin with, just enough to moisten the soil.) I switched to coir in place of the Peat and have had much better luck with that. Still have to be careful not to overwater because it seems to hold moisture pretty well, even with the 1/3 Perlite.
 
Walchit said:
You sewed those yourself? I was thinking about doing that for mine when I move outdoors, has to be about the cheapest you could get pots for
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I did. I didn't measure anything, just eyeballed random lengths of the fabric, folded over and seamed up two sides, then folded the corners of the sack inward and let the soil hold it for now.
 
I will probably invest a little more time into measuring exact sizes for bigger pots, but I didn't think I needed to worry so much about how exact or even uniform these "step-up" pots were. I suppose I would if I were setting up any true experiment, though.
 
I'll be sewing my own growbag too. Just went and bought a couple textile samples to try out different materials on a few test plants.

My growdown plant seems to be loving the new light I got for it.

It doesn't seem to be growing much in height yet. (But maybe that'll come once it fills out its current 2 gal pot)

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