Thanks everybody!
Kap- your illustration was the way I was taught to do it. I may combine the two methods. @Davyg, @pptrsha1, and @GreenJewels thanks for all your input. Making a note to myself that I need to add something in the future to help the soil clump together better. Ever evolving recipe. Thanks again y’all. I will have pictures up when I do it this evening. I’m just not feeling that well on this oral chemo. Hopefully I will get the biopsy results soon and maybe we can stop the chemo. Peace…
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Good luck with transplant,
Hope you receive good news from the biopsy my friend 
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Hello out there-
@Davyg, @garrigan62, @kaptain3d, @Enlightened420
Hey I wanted to ask you all what I might be able to add to my living soil so that it clumps together more. After hearing from hellraiser (“…reason your soil isn’t holding together might be due to your roots not being developed enough to hold it all together…”), I decided to hold the transplant to let her grow a little more or find something to add to the soil so it holds together better. So any suggestions? Got tons of red clay here, but I didn’t want to add that because I thought it might hurt the quality of the soil. I am going to get some perlite as the soil is holding moisture a little more than I’d like. If you all have any suggestions you’d make me the happiest one-eyed marijuana grower on planet earth!!! Thanks, peace
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Perlite will assist with clumping,
if that’s what you desire?
My last grow, the soil clumped like concrete, but the Rhizosphere was super healthy and produced a plentiful yield
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Introduce Mycorrhizae to your soil. That will send your root structure into overdrive which has got to help in bonding that soil. Just be careful though as a heavily compacted soil will be too dense and end up inhibiting your growth
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Davyg-
I put some myco in the soil when I was making the soil up. Myco isn’t good for teas, but I will have some in the hole where Betty is going. Thanks for the advice! Peace…
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Hey everybody-
I hope everybody has the monster grow they have always wanted to grow going! Betty is doing fine. I am going to get some perlite today to add to my living soil. Hopefully that will help it drain a little better and help the clumping factor too. Here is a picture or two to show you what she looks like. We are at the 3 week, 2 day mark and I am happy with what I am seeing.
You’ll note the two sticky traps on either side of the cup. I have had them for awhile, and thought I would put them to use. I haven’t heard back from many that I asked to offer some guidance, so I am going to go ahead and do the transplant after I get the perlite mixed in to the 2 future homes that Betty will live in. The worms seemed to be doing well. I am trying to keep the soil they are in moist. Apparently one worm thought I put too much water into the three gallon pot. It was taking an air bath on top of the soil. The rest were down below. Have a good day peeps. Peace…
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As well you should! She looks gorgeous and healthy! 
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Thanks kaptain3d, I appreciate it.
Yep, good ole mycorrhizal fungus makes soil glue, aka glomalin.
Chemo sucks, don’t forget to replace your bodies chemo killed off microbes too. Good luck 
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I’m always impressed by the amount of knowledge you have and share with us @GreenJewels . Thank you for teaching me something this morning! I love learning just as much as I love to grow! 
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That’s me 
I read a LOT. Some say to much 
Im not reading romance novel bs. I just love to learn. I’ve also recently discovered audiobooks so I can learn while busy with mundane tasks. You made me blush 
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That will teach you to teach me!!! 
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GreenJewels-
Thank you for the info and well wishes. Yep, I have done chemo before. When I was treated 36 years ago they threw everything they could at us. We got 2 years of treatments in a 6 month window. 6 rounds of nasty chemo, 7 weeks of local radiation, then when you were termed cancer free, you got to go home and beef up for a couple of weeks. Then you come back for two really big doses of chemo, 2 days of total body radiation at 400 rads. Then wIt a day, and get your stored bone marrow back. That’s called an autologous bone marrow transplant. No need for rejection drugs the rest of your life because its my own marrow. They do the marrow that way because the total body radiation kills all of your bone marrow. It also kills any cancer cells that are still alive that wouldn’t be detected by MRI. The first day of that total body radiation made me sick. And by then, at least one person had died because her bone marrow wouldn’t grow and produce all the things it does. Your counts are literally zero for a month or so while you are waiting for your marrow to grow back. You are in the hospital for 6-8 weeks until they can finally discharge you. But you couldn’t go home until your counts got high enough that you didn’t need blood or platelets every day. Ok, enough of that. I dont mind talking about it, but I am not sure everyone wants to hear it. Oh, watch Kaptain3d- he is a self proclaimed lesbian. I just thought you should know. lol. Have a great day miss jewels!!! Peace…
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Don’t give away all my secrets! 
But seriously, are you okay now? 
I truly hope you are getting better mister friend!
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I’ll be rooting for you! It all definitely sucks. I’m a registered nurse with autoimmune disorders (RA and Lupus) my lymphoma is currently in remission 
I love the fact that you know what the hell is going on. So many people have no clue about, what the Dr just said 
I’m glad you are knowledgeable about it all.
Patients need to know and understand what’s happening.
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My dad went through all of this as well. They irradiated him that much that he almost glowed in the dark 
. Sending you good wishes from across the pond buddy. Off to google glomalin now 
Miss Jewels-
I became a professional patient in May 1984. I was treated at NIH on an experimental protocol. They abandoned it because they lost too many kids. What I had was rare. They had seen the kind of cancer I had- Rhabdomyosarcoma, but they had never treated a rhabdo of the sinus cavities. They told my parents I was going to die. They obviously underestimated my stubbornness! I have had so many good doctors. I have also had a couple of not so good doctors. Everybody please keep this in mind when it comes to doctors. They are working for YOU!!! If you are not happy with, don’t have confidence in, or something about them rubs you the wrong way, fire them please! You deserve great care from your doctors. Your primary doctor is the “quarterback” of your treatment team. He refers you to any specialists. Ok, I am climbing down from my soapbox now. Thanks Miss Jewels for your kind words. I was a medical social worker before I had to give it all up for disability. Oh- if you are at the doctor and they want to refer you to someone, ask the Dr. “If it was your wife or mother who would you send them to?” Peace…
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Good morning everybody! I got up a 3:30am and decided to do the transplant during dark time. She definitely has some good roots! I didn’t get any pictures of the process, as I got her out of the cup I realized I hadn’t put the myco down in her spot. So back in the solo cup mumbling under my lips that this would have gone better if I had been thinking clearly and not done it by the seat of my pants. But she is in and looking relatively happy. I put a few worms into the new property this morning as well. Most of the worms will go in the 3 gallon pot. Here’s a picture or two.
Look at the last picture. We are 4 days from being a month above ground and she still has her nice green cotyledons!!!
I have never seen them hang on this long. She is still 18" away from the light and the 135 r spec is about at half power. @dbrn32, should I gradually start lowering the light a couple of inches and/or turn up the power. I have to get one of those watt meters so I know exactly how much power its pulling. She looked a little flustered after the transplant, but this morning she’s all good. I am always open to comments, suggestions, criticism, etc. In many ways this is like my first grow, but I am not anxious at all about it. I am learning to look at what she needs and I’d she’s happy. Have a great day everybody! Peace…
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Leave it there and turn it up some.
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