Gwe: Solo cup grow off : 2020

[JohnEmad]

2 of my 3 solo cup plants are like yours OJH. except your little gal has a much thicker stalk. hope she stretches for ya

[oldjarhead100]

shes a tiny little thing already in bloom ,I hope she stretches alot lol. in the second picture the plant right next to the solo is the same strain so shes really small

[oldjarhead100]

we had to shave our 2 cats when they were getting older they would mat up something awful

[JohnEmad]

Day 32 and started to do a little light trimming underneath to open things up a bit. Surprised at how thick the main stalk is already.
Made a new batch of nutes and did a mini flush with 5.8 ph'd water.
Drip waters 3 times a day for 15 mins.

[Gingerbeard]

The Gawds love animal savers. We're all pretty cool.
But that is funny. Not necessarily in a mean way. Necessarily. I always figured you'd have to put the cat to sleep, so to speak, before doing something like that.

[FunkyButtLovin]

My wife owns a grooming shop and I can attest to the fact that once an animals hair gets matted badly, you have to shave them. There's a real good chance that it was hard to do, especially being a stray. Kudos to whomever accomplished it.

[Gingerbeard]

Millennial? Man, I got that beat by 30 years.

[SoOrbudgal]

Good luck Obi-Wan how fun hopefully she won't pull herself out LOL

[SoOrbudgal]

Hmm no one "liked" the haircut LOL well I don't either but it's what you do when you rescue a stray/abandoned animal that's matted and uncomfortable.

[DingusKhan]

Good, cuz I was going to start calling you GingerWhispyWhiskers the millennial.

[Obi-Wan]

Day 28 and she had a bit of minor surgery. I pulled the cup and flipped in upside down in my hand, removed about a 1/2 inch of perlite from the bottom of the cup. I then slid her back into the cup and topped the cup off with perlite. I then bent the main stem over and secured it. I’m hoping that I’ve stressed her just enough to delay flowering for another 14-21 days.

[Obi-Wan]

4-15 minute feedings, 6 hours apart

[Mr.furley]

Obi-Wan
are you running a continuous top feed or is it broke up into intervals?

[Obi-Wan]

I’m more concerned about keeping the roots in the cup than I am about getting root bound. I’ve already pinched a few feeder roots that have poked through the my drainage cuts.

[Mr.furley]

As long as I keep the plants small I have no problems SoOrbudgal and no differences in Sq pot or round pot except square is easier to cut for root pruning. As JohnEmad has said rootbound and root circling seams to only cause a slow down, it is when the plants try and stretch that I see a problem.
Eliot Pryor it is common to use soil for mothers, Iv been running mine in Coco perlite mix with no problems.
Greenlivin use a serrated bread knife and a square pot, cut 1/4 of a inch off each side and 1/2 inchs off the bottom with a dryer pot. Here is the Gwe.com article on mothers

https://www.growweedeasy.com/how-to-keep-a-bonsai-mother-for-unlimited-clones