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LUI Day 31

LUI Day 31
One month from popping their heads above the soil . . .

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Here’s a group shot of the LUI’s . . . they are getting so big it’s almost hard to call them babes . . . they are turning into legitimate lil bushes . . . Day 31 care [...]

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LUI Day 30

LUI Day 30
if you look back a page or two you see that they were all top cloned a few days back . . . each plant has 6 very nice arms . . . some are more symmetrical than others . . . but all were cut back to the same [...]

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LUI Day 25

LUI Day 25

We’ll be showing these girls getting transplanted . . . but wanted to get the . . . day 25 group shot shown . . . the next time these babes are shown as a group they . . . will be [...]

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LUI Day 24

LUI Day 24
the LUI’s are looking very nice and filling in the canopy nicely where the top clones had been taken . . . here’s a few views . . .

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LUI Backup Clones Day 2
these clones were given a little drink of pure water today to make [...]

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LUI Day 22 And A Lesson in Cloning

LUI Day 22
tonight we top cloned our babes . . .
if we’re fortunate enough to get a 100% success rate at rooting this will provide us with a prefect set of back-up clones so the original babes can be moved to bloom . . . our soil mix for clones is [...]

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LUI Day 21

LUI Day 21 - 3 weeks of LUI
here’s a couple of shots at day 21. . . we’d planned on cloning tonight. . . but even the best laid plans oft go awry. . . we didn’t have the soil mix we use for clones (which is identical to the seedling mix). . . .so [...]

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LUI Day 20

LUI Day 20
our normal routine would be to top-clone these babes and as soon as we’re sure that the new cuttings/clones are rooted. . . then the originals (from the seed) move to bloom. . . so looking at a calendar we’ll be doing some top-cloning in the next few days. . . .then it’s [...]

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LUI Day 19

LUI Day 19
The critical time for plants is in bloom, as for interrupting the light cycle that’s something that is pretty commonly misunderstood. . . . Cannabis reacts to extended periods ofdarkness and if blooming plants nighttime is interrupted. . . . it can cause problems. . . . but vegging plants are certainly [...]

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LUI Day 18

LUI Day 18
today we gave the LUI’s a light spray with a liquid kelp solution. . . . this is a form of foliar feeding. . . . for new growers this means our plants will actually absorb nutrients and hormones directly through their leaves. . . . [...]

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LUI Day 16

LUI Day 16
the intermediate step is usually gallon or 5 quart “ice cream” buckets. . . . . . from there we’d normally step up to our 2′x 3′ containers but in cases where the babes are not sexed yet we’ll use 3 gallon or 5 gallon containers as the final destination. [...]

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LUI Day 15

LUI Day 15
the advantage of more frequent light waterings is better soil oxygen levels
and therefore better plant vigor and health. . . . we believe in getting the soil
good and damp throughout but never sopping wet. . . . plant roots like a mix of
water, nutrients and oxygen and light waterings provide this. [...]

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LUI Day 11

LUI Day 11
The lil LUI’s continue to show great development. . . individual plants were rotated in their planting flats to make sure everyone grows straight and any outer edge seedlings do not lean in towards the light. . . today the seedlings got a soil drench with a light fert solution. . . [...]

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LUI-Day-9

LUI-Day-9
no special action or care was taken on day 9. . . . the lil seedlings were simply checked on and admired. . . .
since we provided “ad copy” for the ferts we’ll follow suit where possible with all the products we use. . . . here’s the info on the GardenSafe soil . [...]

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LUI-Day-8

LUI Day 8

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here’s a nice view of a lil LUI seedling at day 8. so far so good!
tonight the LUI seedlings were fed a very mild solution containing fish fert and liquid kelp. the plants weren’t soaked. just a light watering
from above for each container. the fish fert is [...]

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