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Days are getting shorter, and the girls are getting ready for flower! I could probably call this week 1 of flower but I'm going to mark it as veg so they have 10 weeks total in veg. I did a few things in preparation for flower. Aside from their weekly KNF and BioAg Ful-Humix, I also gave them a compost extract and oceanic hydrolysate to increase and feed the microbiology in the soil. And I kept up the IPM, this week but I switched it up to Monterey Horticultural oil, no phytotoxicity. New growth is still looking good, so I redid all of the LST tie downs, probably going to be the last or second to last time I tie them down since whites pistils are beginning to pop up all over the place and I don't want to harm them and I like to leave them in place for two weeks so the branches stay in place. Then I striped a lot of the lower and damaged leaves.
Lastly, I did a big top dress so they have everything the need to get them to the end of the cycle. I copied Build a Soil's Craft Blend recipe and made it myself from bulk dry amendments from my local organic gardening store (some of which are Down to Earth products they buy and resell, so I listed them above). Everything was added at 1 TBSP per pot, except some minerals I was missing when I first mixed the soil, so I added extra of those in the top dress. All in all it was about 3 cups of dry amendments plus 10 cups castings/compost.
My DIY adjusted Build a Soil Craft Blend recipe:
1/2 cup Azomite Rock Dust
1/2 cup Oyster Shell flour
2 TBSP Ground Barley
1 TBSP of each of the following: kelp, alfalfa, soft rock phosphate, crab meal, soybean meal, gypsum, cottonseed meal, fish bone meal, insect frass, cal-phos, FF Marine Cuisine, and DtE Acid Mix and BioLive.
I mixed all that up, spread it across the soil, and then on top of amendments I also layered on the following (in order):
1/4 cup Kashi Blend
4 cups Black Gold worm castings
6 cups compost and rice hulls as mulch layer (3 cups of each mixed together)
1/4 cup neem meal + 2 TBSP karanja meal (for IPM
I have not seen many others using KNF techniques, and you’re doing the full program while I’m only using some parts of it. It seems to work great though, and I’m very happy with it. Cheers.
@Rasjavi420, I like KNF but I think I was shorting the plants for N so I’ve been supplementing with Megacrop to get rid of the yellow tinge. Megacrop is very good and organic, but I’m sure KNF is preferred and I’ll be doing this again. I have not checked out JMS but I will now. I think my soil was a bit microbe poor initially and two rounds of compost tea helped a lot. Anyway, fun stuff.
@Northern_Ent, yeah man, I actually started following you cause you were doing KNF, your right there's very few of us lol. I also use fish hydrolysate instead of FAA, smells like ocean shit.
OHN was a pain in the ass to make but worth it. Works as a pest repellent and I feel comfortable that my soil can handle pathogens or anything bad that makes its way into the soil. And now I have a gallon of it lol. IMO seems hard but like you I make it up with compost tea and Jadam Microbe Solution (you try JMS yet?)
It's a bit time consuming, so next run I'm thinking of doing a side by side KNF vs Build-a-Soil way to see to see which I keep doing.
@Rasjavi420, I’ve found one other person here using KNF. Growdiaries reveals their commercial bias with things like this. You can search for whatever obscure cannabis specific nutrient that people might buy but you can’t search for molasses or KNF techniques. Oh well, it’s still a great site.
I’m using LAB, FPJs and FFJ but not going all in and using IMO or OHN or the fish fermentation (FAA). I figure regular fish fertilizer is much the same as FAA and Fish fertilizer is gross enough even without having to make it yourself.
Overall I think KNF is totally worth it except for maybe a single plant. It’s not more work necessarily you just need to plan ahead. My buds certainly look good so far. 😎. Cheers and good luck.