Thanks for your help Pete! I hope to reflower many of the plants again this autumn. It will be interesting to see the improvements.
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I like that you chose the large rockwool cubes as a medium. The small cubes in the larger, taller pot would probably have reduced the air too much. This next year’s growth and flowering will be exciting to see.
Thanks Terry, there won’t now be a cull of the plants until next autumn. I know Jason Fischer say that you should flower them three times to see full potential but I may run out of growing space.
For the repot of the larger plants in the large growing tray I have a problem in that I have no large rockwool cubes left and at present cannot find a supplier. Smaller cubes are easy to find. I will continue the search.
For the repot of the larger plants in the large growing tray I have a problem in that I have no large rockwool cubes left and at present cannot find a supplier. Smaller cubes are easy to find. I will continue the search.
Maybe the small cubes would be fine until they start to compact? Perhaps you can find the large cubes by then.
Thanks. I found that the plants took around six months to settle down before really starting to grow very strongly.
The larger set of 16 plants have been repotted into five inch net pots but this time in small rockwool cubes. I couldn’t find a suitable supplier of the larger cubes. The best plant that flowered last autumn, a super red that I’ve christened ‘St Ives’ has had special treatment and is in its own tray, a smaller version of the previous one. It takes up too much room to put them all into these, but this one may be worth it.
This is the most advanced clone and it was the first one to flower at the very beginning of this thread. After I had repotted them all, I noticed that the new growths were quite a bit paler than the older ones. To counteract this I’m using an old trick from the Fischers, concentrated foliar feed. They told me that phrags love a 6x normal rate foliar feed. The plants have this about twice a week and are starting to green up nicely.
The new growth looks very strong. Are you using the same fertilizer (RainMix) for the foliar feed? I may try this too.
Yes, exactly the same.
David, are you trying to specifically get the foliar spray to the undersides of the leaves where the stomata lie?
The flower is beautiful and it is truly a pleasure to see such well grown healthy plants. Congratulations!
breath-taking plants and blooms!
Terry, I’d never thought of that! Jerry never mentioned it but it’s certainly worth a try.
He finds it works wonders on seedlings.
David
He finds it works wonders on seedlings.
David
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Make sure to weigh the plants, so I can figure the shipping costs for the culled runts. In the meantime, I'll start looking for an insulated container. Remember it's "Fresh baked cookies" in the export documents, thanks. 
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