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Hello guys,
I am starting my outdoor organic experiment. First I germinate 2 autoflowers: Blackberry Kush Auto and Auto Orange Bud from Dutch Passion, later on I am going to plant 3 photoperiod ladies as well: Durban Poison (Dutch Passion), Durga Mata (Paradise Seeds) and Liberty Haze (Barney's Farm), but as I don't want monsters in my garden I'll start in a couple of weeks, before the next full moon.
I am using organic fertilizers as a top dressing: Guanokalong Bat Guano (and Palm Tree Ash during flowering), Seaweed (Ascophyllum Nodosum), Alfalfa meal, Fish meal and EM (Efficient Microorganisms). The same ingredients I used to make a Fermented Plant Juice as well, so I'll go slowly experimenting how that works.
Planning to add some sprout tea once every two weeks for boosting the enzymes and perhaps a compost tea made of worm casting and molasses, but I don't think that is going to be necessary. In case they will need extra Ca and Mg, I'll use the eggshell/vinegar combination.
I added some Diatomaceous earth to the soil for pest control and as a silica source.
So if You are interested in organic growing with homemade fertilizers, You are very welcome to check my diaries out.
Hope You will like it!
Bom Bolenath!
UPDATE:
Both the BBK and this one has been germinated with success. After just 2 and a half days the sprouts popped out. So far so good.
Today I put them into the soil.
15 L pots:
2,5 L Coco
1,5 L Worm castings
1,5 L Perlite
9,5 L Biosoil with ripen cow dung
Dressing: Mychorrhiza (10 g), Alfalfa meal (1 TBLS), Seaweed (1 TBLSP) Fish meal (1 TBLSP), Bat Guano (100 g), Diatomaceous earth (40 g)
Humic acid granules (20 g)
After planting I watered them with a bit of EM.
So far so good...
She poped out quite quickly a she seems healthy and strong. Maybe a tiny bit behind the Blackberry Kush.
The weather is still a bit capricious even though it seems it's gonna be nice and sunny during the next week. Just to be sure, I keep her in a mini greenhouse for one more week.
Difference of this one and the BBK is already visible.
Good weather has arrived, so I am looking forward the development the ladies are going to go through.
By the end of the week they get their first boom-boom spray shower.
Meanwhile I prepared an FPJ (fermented plant juice) out of common vetch. I am really curious how this homemade nitrogen rich fertilizer is going to affect the plants.
She is going well, by the end of the second week she grew bigger than the BBK. The 14th was their last day in the greenhouse.
Now she is going "into the wild" to become a real outdoor queen.
The weather forecast predicts quite a cloudy week. Finally I put the ladies out to the "wilderness".
This week I apply the sprouted seed tea for the first time. It is said to be an enzymatic heaven.
I'm gonna use it once every two weeks.
Update:
As I expected: weather is really shitty this week.
It might be too early to move her out, because storms seem to affect the ladies in a not so convenient way. Her soil is so soaked for now that the application of the sprouted seed tea may be delayed to the beginning of the next week.
This week I hope for a better weather.
Once the soil can dry out a little bit, I apply the sprouted seed tea and some neem oil against that misterious little bug who has tasted the leaves. For the second watering I am planning to use my own fermented juice which is made from:
EM, Fish meal, Alfalfa meal, Seaweed, Molasses
Update:
24.05 Watering with SST. Sprayed with diluted neem oil.
I was away for a week, and she grew nicely even though she still has some signs of some bugs. So i'll apply neem oil again.
Day 33 - Liquid Kelp foliar spray : I left 1 teaspoon in 0.5 liter chlorine free water for 2 days, until it got brown, then applied it in rhe morning.
Day 34 -
Sprouted seed tea: germinated 1 teaspoon of alfalfa seeds for 3-4 days, then ground it and mixed it with rainwater and a bit of humic acid.
Looking very healthy, she just started to show her first little flowers.
As I was watering her sister (BBK) with a palm tree ash coctail, I gave her too.
Meanwhile I prepared some Water Soluble Calcium (eggshells and vinegar) and Lacto Bacillus Serum. I am really curious about the effect of these homemade, organic potions.
She responds very well to LST.
She seems to like all the love I gave her: foliar calcium and kelp, and watering with guano and palm tree ashes mixed with LAB and humic acid.
She looks amazing.
So I continue with the nutes.
This week's feeding list:
Foliar: calcium, boom-boom spray, kelp
Water: 2x guano 6g/litre, 1 x palm tree ash 8 g/l
LAB 5 ml/litre, calcium 2 ml/litre
I think she also has stopped growing. Much bushier than her BBK sister.
I was a bit worried because trichome production wasn't really visible, but I think now she has just started to work on it.
Is that normal?
After 12 days of holidays I am back and my autos seem to be nearly ready. I am a bit disappointed by the amount of buds. I think it’s because of the size of the pots. Hopefully the quality of the buds will be quite good.
Unfortunately I committed a basic error: I was unpatient an harvested too early probably, I could have waited 1-2 weeks more. Plus probably the small size of the pots (15 liters pots not totally full, so ap. 12liter) contributed to the relatively poor harvest. I am disappointed by the quantity, but not by the quality of my nugs.
After 1 week of curing the flavour and the smell just started to open up. But the effects are already very present: longlasting nice high.
Your plants likely need more time. Breeders time estimates are for ideal indoor conditions but things take longer (and get bigger) outdoors. I made this mistakes on my first plant (Polar Express). Patience pays off and some plants really pack on weight in the last few weeks. Good luck.
@Northern_Ent,
Thank you again for your advices. I appreciate them and next time if I try to grow autos I’ll be more patient. Now I regret a bit I harvested :(
As I know and as I experienced outdoors they start to flower in mid/end of July, when they start to have at least 9 hours of darkness. In my climate (47 N) I don’t have problems with autumn temperatures because September is still quite hot here and October is just a little bit colder, around 15-20 C. So once again photoperiods suit more my climate and my taste as well.
@GardenOfTheRisingSun, I find that autos outdoors usually take about 100 days or 14 weeks. I also find that the trichomes don’t change very quickly from cloudy to amber. You can harvest the ripest colas and leave the rest to mature further for another week or two to maximize yields.
Photoperiods outdoors are usually more problematic because you need 12 hours of darkness to start flowering. At my northern latitude (53 N) that is much too late in the fall so I have to force flower them. Photos usually result in bigger plants but the finish is a race against the arrival of winter. Also the strength of sunlight drops faster than temperatures in the fall so we run out of good light before it gets too cold here. Autos are definitely easier to deal with outdoors.
@Northern_Ent, these are autos so the full lifecycle is supposed to be 10 weeks. I understand that this can be longer outdoor. So still my question is: should i wait even if trichomes are milky, some of them turning amber? I don’t like very “narcotic “ weed. As i know, the milky trichomes are the ones with THC and not CBD or CBN.
Anyway thank you for your advices!
If everything goes well I don’t really want to plant autos again (at least not outdoors) I believe in “slow cooking” so photoperiod strains suit my taste much more.
GardenOfTheRisingSun
