[EddieShoestring]

Alright guys
This is my second run using coco. The first run, after switching from hydro, seemed to go well. That was with Canna Coco mixed with 30% pearlite. This run is with pure coco.

The plants are cuttings that have been rooted up and vegged under a 400w mh. Already had a little drama; it is the first time i have ever accepted cuttings from other growers/breeders and also the first time my plants have got Spider Mite. Spotted them 6 days after certain cuts came into the room after noticing a few pale specks on the larger fan leaves. Searched with a x20 lens and found two animals and some eggs.

I sprayed them with Growth Technology Spider Mite Control, @25ml/L twice 12 hours apart. Looked closely for 5days and found nothing. I've just sprayed again as a precaution. I was allowing the room temp to get up to 29c before finding the mites-since finding them have dropped lights on temps to 22-24c.

The problem is the humidity-over the years i've tried everything to raise humidity in early veg, barring buying a humidifier. I need to get one pretty quick.

The strains have all come to me as gifted cuts-Madsat is a creation by the diesel magician Baklo. A man who has created some v serious strains sent this with the short comment: 'the finest weed available to humanity' so i've got high hopes for this one. Its a sat dom 10 weeker.
Saturn and M32 came from Mysterious Keith, along with some little friends. These are crosses by a breeder in West London. They are both long flowering sat doms-by the look of the leaves-Saturn looks to be the most sat in the room.
UK Cheese is the original clone only vibe-not one of the the commercial hacks. The yield is supposed to be low and the strain is prone to mite attack.
Thanks to Rabbit aka Prawn Science for that one.
Finally-a single K2 cut from the Vietcong. A really wierd pheno-they hardly stretch and grow into little bushy balls of bud-you'll see.













ok-i've waffled on too much-more waffle later
love the technical shit in the coco section

peace-eddie

[NPK]

Hey man, how'd your Bubblegum turn out? The pics you posted in another thread were impressive.

Good luck with this run--I'll tune in for updates.

[HashishinReidi]

Very nice strains there , the m32 and the saturn look very plants .Be nice to see how the cheese turn out as it sure is a nice toke though it is a mite magnet forsure which s not good .

[bullseye]

hope your spidermite probs go away eddie nasty little bastsrds have you got plenty of room for them big sats just got a k2 cut myself from a pal who's had it a long time say's its a cracker.cant wait to see more good luck dude

[EddieShoestring]

alright guys-thanks for the vibes

yo-NPK-the bubblegum turned out real nice, the smell of them growing and drying was wonderfull.
I'm still concerned about whether the mites will come back and am going to continue spraying them with some form of pest control until buds start to form-


one thing that i found with the first coco run was the plants went a bit pale and growth slowed for a while when they were first put into coco-Rabbit told me to give them lots of foliar feeding at this point-so i sprayed them with every watering/feed and the difference was marked-they stayed deep green and started growing straight away

another thing was the density of the buds-the heaviest i've produced. I'd assumed this was due to the lower temps in the growroom-but have since been told buds tend to be denser with coco-time will tell i guess-

Bit more detail: the plants are currently getting two feeds a day of Canna Coco (ec 1.3-1.5) , Cannazyme 3ml/L, Rhitzotonic 2ml/L, GT Silicon 1ml/L, ph 6.0. I water them until a little run off shows out of the 6" pots. They need potting up into 15L pots but i've been holding off until i get this Tropt Blumat irrigation-need to get my finger out on that one.

The leading shoots on all but the Cheese and K2 have been pinched out-and i've been snapping some of the stems to keep them down a bit-they are going to be scrogged (under a horizontal screen) and if they get too big i'll fix screens to the walls and open up the reflectors-i've done it before with Powerplant grows that have got out of hand.

cheers guys
eddie

[gaiusmarius]

Hey EddieShoestring,

nice looking plants, can't wait to see what you get out of them, they look real healthy so far, except for the cheese clone that is, lol. is that the one that had mites?

[EddieShoestring]

Hi Gaius
fair play for pulling me on the cheese -it was in quarentine for almost a couple of months , under my desk in a prop in a 3/4" cube. It very nearly died several times due to me forgetting about it. Laziness combined with a failing short term memory:(
it looks better today tho

just potted up a madsat and m32. Look how much faster the m32 has rooted compared to the madsat plant-i wonder why

another thing that i have not seen before is the growth pattern on the m32. Looks like it's trying to flower under 24h of light. There are two of them and both of them are doing it-throwing out lots of pistils on the new growth.

more potting up later

[gaiusmarius]

yeah her cheesyness is looking a lot better today. maybe the madsat was taken off a plant in the first 2 weeks of 12/12? or she's just a very sexy lady LOL.

very nice looking root ball, perfect egsample of when to repot.

peace and good growings

Nice man, they lookin healthy in there

[Miss Fit]

they look well healthy.. interested to see em grow.. green fingers and good luck