Soil arrived today. Prepped some 5 gallon pots to transplant 3 of the 4 girls in the next few days as time allows.
Watered again, just over 200mls.
Do you guys think there’s any point to transplanting or feeding the stunted blackberry kush?
@ChittyChittyBangin @dbrn32 @TransplantedFarmgirl @MartyMarajuanaseed
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There’s always a point. Even if you lose the plant, you learn how to recover a plant or what nutes and stress can do and what happens when stuff don’t go right. The only time I pull a plant is when all hope is gone, like no leaves, it just fell three feet and splatted on the floor, etc.
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I would if it’s a photoperiod plant and you have the resources. A slow plant will produce better than no plant. And something these end up being much better than anticipated.
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Appreciate the encouragement @TransplantedFarmgirl & @dbrn32.
She looked to have no growth at all for about a week so wasn’t sure if there was a point of no return at this stage. But happy to give her a shot!
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Stunted plants have always turned out to be some top producers… never give up 
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Here they are in their new homes. While preparing to transplant before “lights on” today, I realized I accidentally left the light on 24 hours since Friday. They seem fine so they’ll continue they’re 18/6 light schedule tomorrow.
Merry Christmas! 
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Plants are in veg, you could leave lights on indefinitely while in veg and they will be fine. No worries there.
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Girls appear to have taken their transplant well. This is them after 23 hours. I was thinking of going with some lst and no topping this run in hopes of not running too long. How soon after transplant do you guys think it’s safe to bend these over?
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I’m already noticing the difference a winter grow has on the electric bill in the NE, so every little bit of efficiency helps. If nature suggests 18 hours of light, I’m good with that!
I give mine at least a week to acclimate.
Nature doesn’t determine this. The longest daylight of the year where i live is typically about 15 hours and 13 minutes. This gets shorter as you get closer to equator and longer the further away you get. Right at the equator every daylight period is around 12 hours year round, and weed grows fine there. It just doesn’t veg for longer periods as it would further away.
I don’t really train my plants but like to give them about 7-10 days to acclimate after transplant.
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I actually do it when I transplant if I do LST.
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Interesting stuff @dbrn32. Any idea why 18 hours became the indoor min for photos in veg then? I would think you could get away with less. I’d also be interested to read studies on gradually increasing/decreasing day lengths to simulate seasons more closely. Have you ever played around with this?
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I’m sure there’s a story, i’m just not sure what it is. But plenty of other people’s here veg on schedules other than 18 hours successfully.
Replication of seasons changes things but it’s not like things that make your weed better. The facts are that bud density, cannabinoid, and terpene content is better when produced indoors in controlled environment over naturally occurring, so it makes very little sense to attempt replicating nature as a whole. There are certainly some situations where bits and pieces of certain aspects coulf be refuted, but big picture there is always other ways.
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Arrived home tonight after dinner and girls seemed to be crying for some loving. 
Evenings is when I’m bravest 
, so I went ahead and started LST.
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Happy New Year all! Hope you’re all ringing it in your own special way… and all with a nice phattie!
I watered the girls til a bit of runoff tonight. Mainly to get a sense of where the soil is with existing nutrients. My first grow I didn’t check run off numbers until I started feeding, which I just started off which week I was in rather than when the plants had depleted the available nutes, so this is new to me.
I watered each plant a little under a gallon of water, phd to 6.3 with an initial PPM of ~190 (I’m using tap water left out at least 2 days). My runoff read 5.2 with a PPM of ~4000! Is this common? Should I increase my ph in to account for the apparent current acidity of the soil?
@ChittyChittyBangin @dbrn32 @TransplantedFarmgirl
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Sounds normal for amended soils. You can adjust ph up some, I just wouldn’t exceed 7. If this were me I would probably top dress with a little dolomite lime. Like 2-3 tbsp per gallon of soil. Will take a little bit before you see any difference but this will help to buffer your ph.
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Awesome! Thank you @dbrn32. Happy 2024!
So the idea is that I can run in this soil without additional nutrients until the runoff PPM drops around 1000, right? This is way later than I started feeding first time around. I did do one less transplant less time and saw runoff much sooner, so maybe I was washing the soil out early? I adjusted their LST tonight too.