1999sq' Sun Powered Greenhouse Humboldt

Plants have doubled in size in last 5 days. They are about 8" tall and the leaves span about 4". Nice healthy stems are developing. They are still inside in south facing sunroom with fluorescent lights. They are so delicate when they are this small and everything eats them. Mice, snails, moths... They will be moved to a screened in protected shelving unit outside in the next few weeks when we warm up a little and the sun comes out! (Northern Cali is having worst winter in decades and we have not seen the sun much since September. All outdoor growers I have spoken to have had seeds fail or are waiting to start them. At least the drought is over!). I switched from the Bio Root to the BioThrive Grow. This product line is organic and as most organic products tend to be, their amount of nutrients is lower. This product is 4-3-3 which is higher than most organic fertilizers, but still pretty mellow. So.... I will be watering at the light feeding usage for first feeding and then I will be mixing it at the recommended heavy feeding concentration. The product recommends using it at every feeding, but I will flush with clean water every 5th or 6th watering depending on how the plants look. Thanks to the great people at Humboldt Seed Company I have added another two strains that I am germinating now. Dream Queen and Trufullo Tree. The Humboldt Seed Company is local and most of their strains finish outdoors before the end of September which enables me to harvest three times a season without having to pull a single tarp (pulling tarps is a light dep technique to trigger plants into flowering early by shortening the hours of sun they get daily. It tricks the plants into finishing). In July the auto strains that I will plant in May will be done. (Auto strains are plants that are not dependent on light cycles to finish, they just have a definitive lifespan regardless of the time of the year or hours of sun). I put the autos in the greenhouse in bags around the full season plants that are in the ground. The autos finish just as the full season plants need all the space in the greenhouse. I simply harvest the autos and allow the full season to continue. When the full season is done, I fill up the greenhouse again with clones that I make off the full season plants. I keep the clones outside with supplemental lights, letting them flip to flowering mid September then I put them in the greenhouse after the full season are done. The clones finish by November.