Mephisto Pink Panama

Here starts my first run at Mephisto's Pink Panama. This will be the first run with me running Mephisto's that aren't freebies. In the same tent I have 3 Grizzly Crinkles that are a week behind these 2 Pink Panamas. I would've had 3 PP and 2 GC except one of the PP did not germinate. My last run I was constantly adjusting things as I learned more about the style of organic growing that I want to take, this run should be a bit more focused and consistent, both Pink Panama plants are in recycled organic living soil, they begun as Happy Frog, Natures Living Soil - Autoflower and Perlite...I have amended with ~3 cups of earth worm castings, 3 cups of perlite and a little over 1/2 cup of Nectar for the Gods One Shot. I plan on top dressing with Roots Organic Uprising (grow and bloom) as primary method of feeding. I plan to foliar feed compost tea every week or possibly just every other week (in addition to compost tea soil drenches), I plan to foliar feed a mix of aloe, silica and coconut water at least once per week as well. This is my first run using Azos in addition to Mykos for early germination and growth...I actually soaked the PP seeds in a Azos and RO water solution for a day before I put them in paper towels to germinate. After paper towels they went into rapid rooters until seeds popped, at which point I dampened each rapid rooter, coated each rooter with a 50/50 mix of Azos and Mykos and then poured remaining mixture into planting hole in 5 gal pot. Hopefully this will get enough root contact for beneficial use, going forward I will use Azos in addition to my bennies until the beginning of flower. I am experimenting again with this grow with the addition of Azos and foliar feeding, we'll see if I get good results. Also, this run I am only doing initial transplant from rapid rooter to 5 gal fabric pot and not starting in solo cups for 1-1.5 weeks. I only wanted to start these in rapid rooters so that I would hopefully be able to expose more of the roots to Mykos, I may be misguided here but here we are, time to find out!

7/17 update: Both ladies got their first foliar feeding of aloe, silica and coconut water this week and responded well. I gave it to them in the morning when lights came on before temps rose and didn't seem to have any issues with lights burning leaves. I've read that the aloe will act as a surfactant but I may look into some type of organic yucca extract as well. This week they will also get their first round of compost tea foliar fed and soil drenched. I introduced 1 tsp of Roots Organic Uprising Grow to both ladies this week and will probably up it to 1.25 - 1.5 tsp for next week. Ladies are growing well and I plan on pushing them as much as possible in this organic grow.

7/24 update: started tying down the ladies this week and also gave them their first bit of compost tea (applied foliar and soil drench), in addition to a foliar feed and soil drench of a diluted coconut water, aloe and silica mix, and then a third soil drench consisting of the bennies, Azos, recharge, fish shit and Mammoth P. This run I will be watering more frequently as I believe I've been borderline underwatering or at least not watering in the most effective or efficient manner. This week they have been getting a quart of water 3 times per week (in addition to the 2 foliar feeds that I haven't been measuring very well) and I haven't seen any signs of overwatering and ladies seem to be thriving. A couple preflower pistols showed up on both ladies a couple days back and I'm hoping I can get a bit more of some good veg growth before switching over to flower. Current plan is to keep up with the foliar feeds and this regimen till preflower really gets going and to keep tying them down. So far, so good!

7/31 update: Both ladies are showing excellent growth. Neither one got compost tea this week but they got a temporary substitute to get them through. Next week I will start topdressing 1/2 tsp of Uprising Bloom in addition to the 1tsp of Grow in hopes that it will help transition them into flower very nicely. Preflower has started and I'm ready to see what this strain will bring. Foliar feed of coconut water, silica and aloe this week and then regular feeding of beneficials. Lots of training this week!