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I've decided to move away from synthetic nutrients, not only for obvious health reasons, but I found myself relying on a feed regimen, spending more time calculating and mixing nutes instead of paying attention to what the plant actually needs. So after following a ton of videos online I decided to give organics a go with a method used my Mr. Flogrow 420 https://youtu.be/TxPtYIxAnVs using the living soil method. So I mixed 60/40 FoxFarm Ocean Forest with Happy Frog, added Perlite and Organic Rice Hulls. Filled 4 3 Gallon Vivosun Fabric pots with soil leaving 1 inches from the top, then dumped the contents into my mixing tub and reserved the remaining for later. I then measured out the Nature's Living Soil Organic Autoflower Concentrate (by doing a bunch of math that you can see in the video by Mr. Flogrow I've smoked too much to bother with explaining the conversion); then filled the pots to the 2 inch line and placed a starter pot filled with the reserve FFOF/HF mix, finished filling with the compost mixture then topped off with the FFOF/HF. I then mixed a solution of one gallon 6.0 ph water with a Nematode solution and drenched each pot equally, I placed the pots in the 3X3 side of the tent under the SF2000 and monitored the temps and humidity for 24 hours. While this was going on I dropped my seeds into a jar of ph 6.0 water and placed into my dry tent in the dark with daytime temp of 67 and night time temp of 62 and RH of....well it's in a jar of water 100. The next day 3 of 4 seeds had fully popped tap roots and 1 looked like it was starting to break the shell so I put them in a damp papertowel and put that in a plastic bag and placed that in the dry tent.
On the 24th 3 of the 4 seeds were over .25 inches long so I dropped them into their forever pots, on the 25th the last girl finally went down, I put humidity domes over them and placed Rice Hulls on the top soil to help retain moisture, using a spray bottle to moisten.
At this point still just plain water using the water bottle to spray to keep the rice hulls down and moist, once the popped I pulled the domes and began giving them a little more water with the bottle and pouring about 100 mil around the edge of the pot. On the 1st of November I gave them 300 Mil of water that was enriched with EB Stone Fish Emulsion with Kelp 4-1-1
So the growth has been insane, I don't know if I can say this is week one really, it feels like week 2. The stalks are nice and thick due to the wind flow and the extra silca from the Rice Hulls. I have been keeping the soil moist but not wet.
11/08 Watered 500 mil 6.5 ph water with Great White raised lights 1 inch and increased intensity to 75%
11/09 Spritz with Yucca Water found a Ladybug in the veg area must have made it from next door.
11/10 Spritz with Yucca and watered 300 Mil 6.5 water an additional 50 mil at the bottom of the pots in the pan to keep the bottom of the pots moist to encourage the roots to reach to the bottom of the pot.
11/11 These girls are going CRAZY they are so big, started bending Amy and Rosa to ready them for the tie down
11/12 I am going to have to tie these girls down tomorrow which is about a week earlier than I thought. The genetics are on point, they are strong, take to bending, beautiful plants, the healthiest things I've ever grown.
11/13 Started Super Cropping on Amy, Gina, and Rosa, Judy is just at her 4th node, so i reached the second node and twisted the stalk until I could feel the fiber break and then I bent the stalk in the direction that I will ultimately tie down in, not long enough yet to get to the edge of the pot. In an hour I checked on the girls and they were all back to normal.
11/14 Watered 500 mil 6.5 PH tied down Amy, Gina and Rosa, broke a leaf off of Amy while bending
11/15 Spritz with Yucca foliar spray reapplied LST girls are looking great really healthy and green
11/16 Reapplied LST and accidentally broke the main stem on Gina, decided to go ahead and top her since the break was at a node and impossible to tape, so I guess we are also testing topping as well as going Organic. Adjusted lights to 25 inches above Judy the shortest girl. Brewed up an Organic Tea using 1 Cup Nature's Living Soil Concentrate, 1 Cup EB Stone Earth Worm Casings, 1 Tablespoon Unsulphered Molasses, 1 Tablespoon Fish Meal with Kelp, let the tea brew for 18 hours.
11/17 Fed each girl 1 Liter of Compost Tea reapplied LST the thought is the plants are three weeks in the soil and are growing at a healthy pace (with the exception of Judy), I want to make sure they have enough food in the soil available to them now to take them to flower. Next week I will apply dry amendments and 2-8-8 fertilizer to be available that first week of flower.
11/18 Out of town so gave them a light spritz of Yucca before lights on and that's it.
11/19 Man one day without reapplying LST and it freaking shows!! I had to go to town and really work the stems back into shape, really started to figure out what I am actually trying to achieve with spreading the stems out to expose as many sites as possible and trying to get as even a canopy as possible. So at the end of it I had to Super Crop a few stems on Rosa that had grown a little too long, tied down the rest of her stems and tucked the large leaves as best as I could to get as many sites as possible exposed. Applied the same approach to Gina but since she was inadvertently topped little easier to do, also I can see since I fed them the Compost Tea Gina has bounced back from her chop and her leaves are upright and pointing to the light, the two new "main stems" are growing outward and are close to the Mesa that i am creating. Judy is the weird little runt with tight, tight nodes like she's hiding something.....Trudy Judy.....So I just bent her main down and moved the stems as best as I can, I would love to let her just do her thing but I also wanted to try ScrOG on this run but we'll see after next week. Amy, Amy, Amy my pouty princess I don't think she likes being shorter than Rosa because she's become almost shy, not as aggressive growth that she was showing before. Reapplied LST on her main and tucked leaves, also started defoliating some of the lower leaves off of her. I'm going to start plucking lower leaves off of all of the plants going forward to prepare them for the switch to flower. The girls are all showing their sex and I can safely say that they are all Ladies, I'm seeing pistils forming and sites starting to show. I soaked the ladies down with 1/4 tsp Nectar of the Gods Bloom Khaos and 16 oz PH 6.2 bottle. Checked back on them 3 hours later and all of their faces are pointing to the lights, the leaves look amazingly green with no noticeable deficiencies. The Ladybugs are going to town and I don't know what I'm more excited about the amazing growth of the girls or seeing a ladybug crawling on a leaf!
11/17 1 Litre Compost tea comprised of .5 cup Nature's Living Soil Autoflower Super Concentrate, 1.5 cup EB Stone Organic Earth Worm Castings, 1 Tablespoon Black Strap Molasses, 1 Tablespoon Crab Meal brewed for 18 hours.
11/18 Nothing they look great seeing pistils and it appears that they are all female, lots of preflower sites.
11/19 Sprayed with Nectar of the Gods Bloom Khaos, reapplied LST and super cropped Rosa, began defoliation on Amy. Gina appears to have bounced back from her accidental chop, Amy has slowed down growth going to try to take it easy on her
11/20 1 Litre 6.5 PH water light defoliation just bottom
11/21 Light spray and reapplied LST
11/22 Same same light spray and LST
11/23 Light Spray
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Week 4. Flowering
3 years ago
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45.72 cm
12 hrs
50 °C
6.5
Weak
61 %
20 °C
50 °C
3 L
1 L
63.5 cm
Nutrients 7
E.B. Stone Recipe 420 Organic Ultra Bloom 2-8-8 5.208 mll
11/24 I let the pots dry over the last few days just keeping the tops soil moist I switch to flower, by the looks of the photos at this point I'm probably 3 days late. Top dressed with .5 cup 420 Recipe 2-8-8 .5 cup Earth Worm Castings, 1 Tablespoon Crab Meal 1 Liter of water with a solution of Nectar of the Gods Herculean Harvest and Zeus Juice. Lowered the lights to 25 inches above canopy and increased intensity to 100%
11/25 set Trellis 24 inches above the floor and started tucking Rosa
11/26 Gave the girls each 600 mil of 6.2 ph water and then 16oz of Great white solution
11/27 Nothing tucked leaves, light defoliation
11/28 Nothing tucked leaves
11/29 Spray 30 minutes before lights on with Bloom Khaos drenched the leaves upper and lower, then watered with ph 6.5 water 1 liter each. All the ladies have grown past the scrog net with the exception of Amy who I suspect never got over being super cropped back in week 2. She is super healthy but just short and squatty.
11/30 Nothing just tucked leaves to keep flower sites getting as much light as possible, no signs of deficiencies.
This week switched to 12/12 haven't seen any deficiencies, all healthy green the healthiest that I've taken into flower. These girls are all growing at different rates at first Amy the girl in the lower right was the tallest and fastest grower, she definitely has the largest fan leaves and the tightest internodes. Rosa the rear left was the second tallest and now is the strongest grower out of all of them, I super cropped all the girls at week 2.5 of Veg and had to come back and super crop Rosa again because she was growing so damn fast I don't want her dwarfing all of the other plants and sucking up the air and light. Gina who was accidentally topped has rebounded nicely and is right there with Rosa. Finally Trudy Judy is the little lady just trucking along. I am really trying to look at what the plants are doing instead of trying to fit a schedule which is why this journal got a little wonky. These genetics went straight to Veg a week before I figured and by all accords were in Flower before I thought they would go into flower which is going to be interesting with this slow release food.
12/01 Fed the soil with 1 liter of a mixture of Nectar of the God's Zeus Juice, Herculean Harvest, and Hygeia's Hydration
12/02 Girls all look great and now little Trudy Judy is no longer little!!! She shot past Amy and is now the tallest in the tent, her flowers are a little wispy compared to the others.
12/03 Watered each lady with about a liter of ph 6.3 water with 1 tablespoon of unsulphered black strap molasses
12/04 Ladies are looking good, I think Judy's weird buds may be due to wind shock so I moved her one square over on the scrog will have to keep my eye on her to see if that shocks her
12/05 Watered with PH 6.4 water only I think we are done with the stretch. I don't think Amy recovered from being super cropped and that is what stunted her growth. Her leaves are beautiful and delicate but she isn't stretching any further I don't believe. Trudy Judy is just a freak her buds are whispy and she has some that are growing at weird angles but….whatever. From the above picture going clockwise from the upper left corner we have Rosa who was Super Cropped twice and is the tallest and strongest, next in the one oclock position we have Gina who was accidentally topped week 2.5 ish and she recovered excellently the two in the back are definitely the best looking pheno's. Next in the lower right corner is Amy the little lady who started off strong but now is just a pretty little thing buds are nice and plump she looks like she is going to be just fine…just short. Finally we have Trudy Judy…..freak
12/06 Did some light defoliation on the bottom skirt pulled some big fan leaves that aren't getting light and turning yellow, accidentally nicked a limb with buds on it from Judy but it was lower larf and weird and she's weird anyway so
12/07 I think Trudy is playing possum, she was a week behind everyone so I'm thinking these weird buds are a phase and she will start plumping up. The two ladies in the back are getting fat and starting to show some frost, Amy is getting fat but …..sigh I should raise her up to make her level. Fed everyone 1.3 Liters of Recharge.
12/08 I've decided that it was a mistake to put up the scrog, I need to focus more on learning the basics of pruning, the under skirt is a mess and the net is a pain in the ass. Just trying to clean this mess up, started brewing a Compost tea of 1 Cup Earthworm Castings, 1 Tsp Humic Acid Powder, .25 cup Insect Fras, Azomite, and Kelp Meal, 1 TBSP Bat Guano, and 2 TBSP Unsulphered Molasses, which I should have put in first.
12/09 Fed them each a little over 1 liter of the compost tea trying to put a quarter of the feed in the bottom of the tray, put enough to fill it and it is empty by the time I complete an entire watering rotation so that's good. The idea is this should be enough food to push them to the finish line especially if they are a 70 day cultivar and this is day 43 ish since they popped from the dirt, so that leaves 27 days..ish with at least 14 days of no feeding at all that means 13 days of heavy feeding of Phosphorus to plump these girls up. Also manned up and used a pot and stand to get Amy off the ground, I was worried from my last auto grow that hermied late in flower due to light fluctuations that I've become OVERLY cautious.
12/10 Ok first impressions post Tea..the girls look great nice and green EVEN green across the canopy. The girls in the back were a little darker green than the two ladies in the front and the differences don't stop there. The girls in the back are more developed bigger buds, frosty, the tent has a very nice smell. Amy looks a little happier now that she has access to more sun, I am really kicking myself on this grow, I should have left them alone but, it's about the lessons on the way. Now other than tucking some leaves and pulling the dead and dying I'm just going to let them do their thing. I really hope Trudy Judy is just messing with me and will pack on the weight, I mean…come on.
12/11 Watered each girl with a liter of 6.2 water, and let's be clear it was not that simple. First cleaned my water bucket because each day the ph was drifting higher which is weird, I do keep my air stones running in there but I figure hey if they run in aquariums 24/7 more air meh. But I decided to clean everything, cloroxed the water bucket and recalibrated the Bluelab, oh yeah this was on the 10th not today errr…whatever, then I filled the 5 gallon bucket that I use as a reservoir and put that back in the lab with the stone and let that run for 24 hours, tested and ph'd the water down to 6.2. Then I noticed the rust spots on Gina!!! Panicked like an idiot, I knew they were susceptible to Calcium deficiencies and that is exactly what it looks like. But I topped dressed the soil with Crab Meal…. And it only looks like it is on Gina. I'm thinking it could be an imbalance in the soil I haven't watered to run off since it's organic, and I can look back at what I've done and see that THIS is the first time they've had plain water all freaking week. So I think I'm going to water Gina with a little Epsom salt tomorrow, look over each girl more carefully and skip the next feed for a water and reset back to feed. I'm also done with packaged nutrients, reading the labels I have most of the stuff that's in here in one form or another so I'll figure out a simple organic feeding chart.
12/12 Checked on the girls, Gina's calcium deficiency isn't getting worse not that I would expect change in 24 hours, but I can see the deficiency on the back leaves, no water today so I am going to top dress with Epsom salt tomorrow, noticed the bottom fan was powered off probably due to the power outage two days ago, turned on and increased flow to the bottom of the pots.
12/13 Did more research this is a Calcium deficiency not Magnesium so Epsom salt is a no go, I was trying to avoid using CalMag as a liquid supplement by adding Crab Meal to the top dress but I think the real problem is the soil is TOO HOT! Maybe going with the living soil technique wasn't such a great idea, if the soil is too hot and out of balance I don't think I will have enough time to correct Gina, this is a 70 day strain and today is day 50 so maybe one more feeding
12/14 All nice and even green across the canopy….the canopy is uneven as fuck! Trudy Judy is tall and lanky her buds are starting to plump up with is good. Calcium deficiency on Gina…sigh, I don't see anything on new leaves, but the old leaves are spotting up. I am seeing a few spots on Rosa, which is par the course. The two ladies in the back are the best developed plants seem to be on schedule AND are showing Calcium deficiencies. The two ladies in the front are just freaks, Amy is short and deep green I'm concerned about Nitrogen Toxicity but I don't see any leaf curling.
Final feed on 12/17 with quick compost tea, water only the rest of the week.
Let the pots completely dry out and then gave a drenching with 6.0 ph water starting to see purple on Rosa
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