Hi growmies! After having a semi-successful first grow, I’m back with my second grow - taking my lessons learned from my first attempt.
Strain: Girl Scout Cookies Extreme Auto
Soil: A Pot For Pot (5 gallons)
I went with A Pot For Pot again since it did so well with my first grow. If it’s not broke, right?
Today I mixed up my soil and just dropped a seed in water to get that sucker to crack on open. I should be moving the seed over to a jiffy pellet tomorrow.
I’ve picked up some LST clips for this grow as well as a WiFi microscope after realizing that my cell camera just can’t get good enough pics for the trichomes.
Things I’ll be doing different with this grow:
Paying closer attention to my DLI.
Do a much better job with LST. The clips should make life a bit easier.
Don’t helicopter and worry so much.
Be more careful with my drying process.
See #3 again! Hahaha
Line the walls around my plant with a thermal blanket to maximize the light.
It took about 48 hours for the seed to pop and sprout a tail, but it finally happened. Planted it into my jiffy pod. I still need to line the walls in my closet with the reflective thermal blanket, but I’ll get to that in the next day or two.
@Reb Looks like mold to me. You may want to get a larger drip pan and an insert that elevates the pot out of the pan itself. That drip pan looks constrictive to allow proper water runoff.
Not sure about that but I would get that pot out of that pan elevated on an oven rack with a couple bricks or something similar just to make sure you get a good dry on the entire pot bottom until you can get a bigger drip pan and insert. I believe if you can get it dry the mold will lose its environment. If you can DIY it that’s better. Just get something under there that will catch all the runoff and you don’t end up with a mess. Also if you raise your pot look at your lighting distances too and adjust those accordingly.
I’m gonna spray the outside of the pot to kill the existing mold (if that’s what it is). My last grow, I found white mold in my main cola, so this has me a bit worried. I cleaned out the closet really well between grows, so hoping I’m not gonna be fighting this going forward.
ETA - made a solution of Neem oil (4 drops) and dish soap (1 drop) in a quart of water and sprayed the bottom of the pot as well as the surface of the soil. Fingers crossed…
@Reb That’s fine and will work well. I’m not surprised there wasn’t standing water it was trapped in the pot. I’m sure that won’t affect your plants and probably did not contribute to bud mold in your last grow. I would just wash the spots with a damp sponge and some Dawn anti-bacterial soap. You’ll be fine now there is airflow beneath that pot. All my advice should be taken as conjecture and possible misinformation until it is verified by a qualified source
@Reb I’m just now going back and realize you have only planted that plant plug with the baby in that pot. Did you dampen your entire medium down before you planted? Obviously you haven’t watered to runoff yet so I’m more concerned about that mold. What are the ingredients for apotforpot soil? Just want to be sure. White Mold? Fuzzy Coconut Coir? Here's How To Fix This! – Coco and Seed
I did add a little water around the outer edge, but not very much at all.
From their website:
Pot Drain Saucer
Seed Germination Kit
Superb Soil(s)
Beneficial Bacteria
Diatomaceous Earth
Aeration Top Soil Mix
Coco Brick(s)
Rooting Booster
You basically add 1-2 gallons of water to the two coco bricks, let them sit for a bit and mix it up. Then add the bacteria, diatomaceous, and root booster. You then dump the already premixed soil to the bottom of the pot and then the soil you mixed up to it. So, it’s a really dense living soil.
Thanks for that link! Looks like I’ll be trying that out!
The appearance of white particles on the outside of your pot could be a number of things. The most common are 1) salts from tap water or 2) mycelium from the mycorrhizal fungi and beneficial bacteria from your rooting booster. The presence of this mycelium is actually a great thing as it’s visual proof of the the mycorrhizae doing their jobs of supporting your plant’s roots receiving of oxygen.
Totally okay to brush it off. However, either of these options are hurting your plant.
Do not raise the pot off the drain saucer. It is important to catch moisture from watering which supports maintaining an even level of moisture throughout the soil. Sometimes we will water directly into the saucer itself so that water may diffuse upwardly. Never let your soil dry out completely.
We strongly discourage this method with our grow kits. It makes it harder to maintain an even level of moisture throughout the pot and soil.
Mycorrhizal networks are not bad. This is a living soil system. We are always happy to talk about all things growing related specifically, growing in our kits, through our customer support email.
