LUI Day 41
here are the girls on Day 41 . . . the LUI’s recieved little care besides a simple “rotation” . . . we simply repositioned our 2′x3′ containers that hold the LUI’s in their 3 gallon planters . . . since they are on wheels (the containers [...]
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29 Jan, 2008
we missed getting in pics or posts on Day 38
. . . sorry about that . . . life happens even for birds . . . the plants did get one more drink of plain water during Day 38 . . . we could have used any of our standard grow [...]
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19 Jan, 2008
LUI Day 36 and friends
Here’s a Day 36 shot . . . we caught some of our garden helpers in action . . . the gnomes are the real secret to our success . . . at least since the Hobbits moved out . . . and a closer look at [...]
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19 Jan, 2008
This “grow along” of LUI actually dates from 4 years ago! Our sincere and heartfelt gratitude is due to the efforts of knowledgequest . . back from CW days. . . it is directly because of his and other’s diligence of saving our posts and reposting them that we were [...]
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13 Jan, 2008
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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20 Dec, 2007
LUI Day 29
The LUI’s are continuing to look great overall . . . strong growth has resumed and our babes are turning into little bushes! here’s one, and the same plant from the side . . .
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LU—Day-29-Side
although they were just re potted a few short days ago . . . these bushy [...]
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20 Dec, 2007
LUI Day 26
today’s shot.
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there is no real odor to these soils beyond a sort of general earthy aroma . . . the FFOF has a kind of a forest litter sort of smell but nothing strong . . . the mushroom compost is darker and richer but didn’t carry much scent at all [...]
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20 Dec, 2007
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 . . .
LUI-Day-24-Top-View
LUI-Day-24-Under-Canopy
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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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15 Dec, 2007
LUI Day 23
today is Day 23 for the seedlings and Day 1 for our LUI clones . . . the 13 original seedlings were watered tonight with about a gallon of water shared equally between them . . . we used the Age Old Organics grow [...]
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15 Dec, 2007
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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15 Dec, 2007
LUI Day 10
Our lil LUI’s aren’t so tiny anymore. here’s a day 10 shot.
024 LUI-Seedling-Day-10
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4 Dec, 2007
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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3 Dec, 2007
LUI Day 2
some stem elongation and the 1st set of full leaves developing. . . we’ll keep the humidity domes off for several hours to “harden off” the seedlings but put them back on before tucking the lil LUI seedlings in for the night . .
010 day-2-seedling (pic)
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1 Dec, 2007
008 7-of-8-LUI-tray
13 of 15 seeds planted are already above ground. . . strong and green and proudly basking in the 24/7 glow of fluorescent light. . . that’s an 87% germ rate (so far) and it’s still just 48 hours after planting so there’s still hope for the remaining pair of seeds that remain [...]
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1 Dec, 2007