Malawi Gold ScrOG with Magenta Kessil

**Mohican** · 04-27-2012, 08:06 PM

I expected to see her go nuts with exploding growth. Instead she seemed to get more and more distressed. The pH was 8! I got some Mad Farmer pH down and started using it instead of vinegar. I also learned that CalMag raises your pH.
There was a thread in RIU where a guy was growing his seedlings in bubbling cups with just water until they were clone sized and then he put them in his tote. So I dug her out of the Hydroton trying not to break any roots (a couple did break that were stuck to the Hydroton) and I removed most of the rockwool and set here in a coil of wire suspended in a bubbling cup to try and revive her. I also turned off the LED.

Bubbling cup:

This seemed like it would work better until I had some nice roots. I also needed to get a new smaller net pot for the tote that would allow more water to reach the roots from below.

Cheers,
Mo

**Mohican** · 04-27-2012, 08:22 PM

The next day when I went to check on her, the cup was dry! I did not realize that that air stone I had would totally blow away all of the water so quickly.
So I needed to modify the cup setup. No problem, I’ll just gently set the rockwool and baby in the res water, fill the cup, take the baby out of the res water – Oh, look, her stem snapped right off at the base of the rockwool – FUCK!!!!!
So now I am screwed. I angrily ripped open the rockwool and stuck the stem in between the two halves and squeezed it back together. I stuck the murdered baby in a shot glass of res water and stuck her on a window sill to die.

Oh well. I prepared another cube of rockwool, dropped in a Holy Smokes Mulanje seed, stuck it in my new smaller net pot and waited.

Maybe this will be better

**LemonAssistance** · 04-27-2012, 08:30 PM

sorry for your loss, hope the next is a success!

**ourkansaw** · 04-27-2012, 08:45 PM

Awww man, I was really excited about that one! Better luck next time...

**Mohican** · 04-27-2012, 09:14 PM

Do not be sad fellow growers - it gets better!

Hey Lemon - are you in WA?

**Mohican** · 04-27-2012, 09:30 PM

So I am waiting patiently for the Holy Smoke Mulanje Sativa seed to pop and something cool is happening.

The thing is, the dead baby started growing again and so I moved it to a bigger cup and added a small aquarium bubbler. It is just a little silicone tube with a line of bubbles coming out - I added a brass nozzle to the end of the tube to weigh it down and keep it at the bottom of the cup. And guess what – the baby kept growing!

After a week I opened the rockwool cube in the tote and the Mulanje seed had not popped. So I took the dud seed out of the tote and replaced it with the resuscitated Malawi baby (Thursday March 1, 2012). I put the Mulanje seed in a paper towel and it never popped.

I changed out the 360 degree sprinkler heads in the tote with 90 degree heads and I pointed them at the net pot. Then I moved the Malawi baby back to the tote under the 5500K CFL.

**Syn311** · 04-27-2012, 09:34 PM

I'm subbed!

**Mohican** · 04-27-2012, 09:43 PM

After 10 days in the tote the Malawi baby started to show some nice growth:

And look at the roots she was spreading across the Hydroton:

She was happy in the dialed-in tote!

**Mohican** · 04-27-2012, 09:55 PM

Welcome Syn311!

**Mohican** · 04-27-2012, 10:03 PM

Got a timer for the sprinklers, changed the CFL to a 6500K I found at Ace Hardware, and got some good nutes.

She seems much happier. Maybe the LED is just too strong for seedlings?

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