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MATTYMATT726 said:

You use those as transplanting pots than and don't grow full plants in them? I know people use the bigger ones and love them, but i would never switch from coco to soil. I water 1 and sometimes 2x a day so i could probably use them if i wanted too.

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Now I do yeah. If I was doing photos I’d use a 20l airpot as the life cycle is usually longer than autos.

If you can keep up the watering airpots for final pots are better than solid. It was a combination of ease/practicality that settled me on solid pots.

The tallest one in this pic (sorry for the sideways photo) is blue cheese in a 12.5l airpot. Was a monster and needed watering every second day.

Poking holes with a bbq skewer really helps with them too when they are dry.

Once you use them youll be surprised and the speed of growth!

So day after transplant and they are looking beautiful. Transplanting the strawberry today and the sherbet is now up and she’ll off so all systems are go

Cheers!

All done for now - time to wait for that sherbet.

Going to top the orange and blue dream. Need to wait a couple days so I can snip the top clear of the two shoots beside it.

Love natural looking plants so the strawberry and sherbet are just going to grow naturally with some selective pruning.

Cheers!

Well I decided to tip the orange and the blue dream today. Strawberry pie is squat as a mofo and I don’t see it getting much of 1m in final height.

Never topped an auto before but it made sense to do it young.

Let’s see what happens

Cheers guys!

Nutty sKunK said:

Well I decided to tip the orange and the blue dream today. Strawberry pie is squat as a mofo and I don’t see it getting much of 1m in final height.

Never topped an auto before but it made sense to do it young.

Let’s see what happens

Cheers guys!

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When i top, i like to do it by 18 to 21 days. If growing healthy it usually has 4 full nodes and either just growing or a bery small grown 5th node. If it's not this far by these days it'll be a no go for me.

MATTYMATT726 said:

When i top, i like to do it by 18 to 21 days. If growing healthy it usually has 4 full nodes and either just growing or a bery small grown 5th node. If it's not this far by these days it'll be a no go for me.

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Well it was the 3rd node just peaking through - was too small yesterday to do a clean cup and no damage to two new tops.

Hopefully the extra vegging time helps them bush out that’s the plan anyways lol

Well 2 weeks since breaking soil and they are doing really well.

strawberry is a bit behind so glad I didn’t top. Hopefully she speeds up soon.

New colas are starting to for. Gave them a dose of PM evolution which essentially is a bunch of hormones/sugars and acids which the plants need. It’s suppose to encourage top end growth which is why I did it the night of topping them.

Cheers!

Nutty sKunK said:

Well 2 weeks since breaking soil and they are doing really well.

strawberry is a bit behind so glad I didn’t top. Hopefully she speeds up soon.

New colas are starting to for. Gave them a dose of PM evolution which essentially is a bunch of hormones/sugars and acids which the plants need. It’s suppose to encourage top end growth which is why I did it the night of topping them.

Cheers!

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Blue Dreamatic is looking a good size this early. Liking what i see. Gets me pumped when i find time for mine. I'm sure by 1st to 2nd week of October they should be past the stretching from flower and that would be a good time for me to add a few of them based oh the heights i see from yours(granted they won't all be the same, but atleast yours is something to go off of.)

MATTYMATT726 said:

Blue Dreamatic is looking a good size this early. Liking what i see. Gets me pumped when i find time for mine. I'm sure by 1st to 2nd week of October they should be past the stretching from flower and that would be a good time for me to add a few of them based oh the heights i see from yours(granted they won't all be the same, but atleast yours is something to go off of.)

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Yeah this one seems like some good genetics! Orange is speeding up with it now. Not even fed them yet - they will explode when some NPK hits them

Sounds like a plan dude! Will watch yours as will be interesting to see phenotype variations.

The two which are topped are showing promising signs of recovery. I bent the oranges too fan leaves down a bit to let light in to the bottom (hope to be) tops. 6 would be lovely but 4 is fine. Blue dream has shown a preflowers already! Going back through my photos there is the slightest of indications that it was forming the day I made the cut. The day after cutting it is already there with a white hair poking out.

Very fast and I’m wary to how big she’ll get overall. Flowering at the 2 week mark is not ideal. Although she was big for her size.

I had one preflower at 16 days before but she grew over 4ft and yielded around 5ozs.

Let’s see were they go from here. Cheers!

So two have just had there first watering in their new pots. Strawberry is due tomorrow.

First time including any feed so excited to see them shoot off in the next few days.

I did some minimal LST to widen out the canopy. Never done LST before but understand the principle. The lowest branches I’m gonna left stretch a bit more before bending them down to grow laterally.

Look a bit ugly now but hopefully get there beauty back soon.

Cheers guys

Took really well to the nutrients yesterday! Orange sherbet could’ve gone a couple more days before watering but she’ll dry out soon. Blue dream is like they said - loves a frequent watering and food! Grew over an inch in one night.

Orange is a bit sensitive to N - slightest curl on the tips of the new growth but will be no bother. She’ll simple grow into the feed. Next feed will include no Grow for her but feeding all the way for the Blue dream. Took it like a champ!

Will update next watering unless something big comes up.

Cheers guys!

Well 3 weeks old now for blue dream and orange. Orange never recovered properly from what I suspect was overwatering. Properly dry yet bottom leaves drooping so I attributed it to maybe pH and lack of oxygen.

Poked some more holes and added an anti stress agent hoping it can help. Apart from the few fan leaves she’s taking off really well and should produce some lovely buds. She smells really sour already..

Blue dream is just a dream to grow. Can take nutes well impossible it seems to overwater it and grows like a weed haha.

Strawberry Pie is picking up in growth and shows no signs of over/under watering so all good on that front.

Transplanted the sherbet today and decided to go for an air-pot. Requires more watering and attention but figured I’ve got fuck all else to do in lockdown haha.

Cheers guys!

Nice job on those fastbuds. Good selection of strains and your topping was spot on apparently. I personally top every plant I grow but a bit later. I'm slowly changing all my pots to airpots, 1 gal size for ease of handling and fitting in a tent. Small pots but growing bonzai for over 50 yrs has been an advantage.

Oldreefer said:

Nice job on those fastbuds. Good selection of strains and your topping was spot on apparently. I personally top every plant I grow but a bit later. I'm slowly changing all my pots to airpots, 1 gal size for ease of handling and fitting in a tent. Small pots but growing bonzai for over 50 yrs has been an advantage.

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Thanks buddy Yeah seemed to work out quite nicely so far. Blue dream would be massive by now if I didn’t top. Tbh I find you can tell their final structure quite early on.

You won’t look back! Air-pots produce some fantastic results. The only drawback is more frequent watering.

Also if you find water beading our from the sides it could be that your soil is too dry or it wasn’t compacted enough around the edges.

I lightly press the soil into the holes around the edge to stop this happening. Also if it does happen a thin BBQ skewer works wonders on getting that water down into the pot.

All the best with the bonsais’

Nutty sKunK said:

Thanks buddy Yeah seemed to work out quite nicely so far. Blue dream would be massive by now if I didn’t top. Tbh I find you can tell their final structure quite early on.

You won’t look back! Air-pots produce some fantastic results. The only drawback is more frequent watering.

Also if you find water beading our from the sides it could be that your soil is too dry or it wasn’t compacted enough around the edges.

I lightly press the soil into the holes around the edge to stop this happening. Also if it does happen a thin BBQ skewer works wonders on getting that water down into the pot.

All the best with the bonsais’

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I remember when one could trust an auto to remain small in structure since they were actually developed to hide among other plants. Years ago, due to their popularity, breeders altered genetics by breeding in more photo qualities and autos became what they are now.
Still, when I start a new strain, I always top one and let the other do its thing but typically end up topping any subsequent grows. Even in small pots, sometimes they can be bullies in a tent.
Yes, filling airpots properly is key to how they work and I've developed a watering system that makes that easy too. With 1 gal airpots with small surface area, I water with a funnel that waters from the center. If packed properly, seldom have mining issues. A bit of surfactant in ya water helps absorption and reduces hydrophobic shit.
I use a moisture meter to indicate when feeding has reached the lower levels which is usually 1 ltr volume. Using bio bizz nutes, I never feed to runoff.
Bonzai is where I learned the best tool of growing....PATIENCE.

Oldreefer said:

I remember when one could trust auto to remain small in structure since they were actually developed to hide among other plants. Years ago, due to their popularity, breeders altered genetics by breeding in more photo gualities and autos became what they are now.
Still, when I start a new strain, I always top one and let the other do its thing but typically end up topping any subsequent grows. Even in small pots, sometimes they can be bullies in a tent.
Yes, filling airpots properly is key to how they work and I've developed a watering system that makes that easy too. With 1 gal airpots with small surface area, I water with a funnel that waters from the center. If packed properly, seldom have mining issues. A bit of surfactant in ya water helps absorption and reduces hydrophobic shit.
I use a moisture meter to indicate when feeding has reached the lower levels which is usually 1 ltr volume. Using bio bizz nutes, I never feed to runoff.

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Good ideas man! usually go with a 3rd of the pots volume of water too.

So the surfactant/stress reliever which softens compacted soil seems to of helped on the orange.

I also added some Epsom salts as you need more magnesium when running increased amounts of nitrogen.

She’s looking much better - nice and perky. Feels good to fix an issue!

The blue dream is really leggy and her top 2 heads are pulling ahead of the other 2.

In hindsight I should’ve done this earlier but LSTing is all new to me so my timings are a bit off I guess.

Tied the tops as best I could to allow an even canopy and also not block other bud sites on her.

Before and after;

Canopy is looking better now. Sherbet is taking off. All good so far