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Day 1: It's hard to keep my environment stable due to cracks in my house foundation so I need to keep my seeds under the dome and monitor the temp and RH% for now. I am soaking my seeds in a horticultural aloe and coco mix for 12 hours then placing them in a coco/rice hull mix to further germinate and prevent any unnecessary stress to the seedling.
Day 3: seedlings emerged from coco/rice hull mix. 100% germination
Day 4: set them in a 2x2 with 75F/70%RH as the environment.
Beginning: Seedlings are starting to grow out their Codyledon leaves (one of my seedlings is looking like a runt so far) I added some coco/aloe solution to the cups to protect the tap root and baby roots from drought. It's all a waiting game now.
Starting this week adding some fish emulsion 5-1-1 to start the feeding process. I also added a few drops of fish shit for a microbial boost. Growth is a little slow because of the coco but they should start to form in a couple of days feeding off the fish emulsion. Gonna start using the azos to help strengthen the roots for the first transplant into a 1 gal in about two weeks or once I have three nodes
The third nodes started to form so I've decided to transplant into 1 gal pots. I amended the soil with dry amendment, home made EWC and added Mykos/Azos to help with transplant shock. I also added cover crop to help with soil erosion. Cover crops also pull nitrogen from the air and convert it into plant available nitrogen.
The cover crop is booming out of every which way! I'm going to trim down the longer legumes like Vetch as it takes over the pot a little too fast. Keeping the soil occupied with plants with keep the soil from eroding too fast and a more even watering. I started using the Recharge and I will switch that and the coco/aloe around every week. I also added some aminos and will add a few red wiggler worms to take care of any dead material I clip down.
The plants have finally healed from the main line top. They are starting to form and stretch. It's gonna take a good month extra veg to train it how I want. I also added a few worms and cut down all the cover crop and covered it in dried stems from my last harvest last year.
So a month later I ended up with one plant out of 5. After realizing that they are mainly male I decided to pick up a 50 gal pot to finish this first run off and to grab clones to start a full run of plants. Going with the living soil 50 gal pot I will regrow the cover crop and chop it once it over grows to start creating the first humus layer for the worms and microbes. I tried to mainline but it didn't come out as I wanted. While LST one of the stems snapped from too much tension. Im going to continue to push the plant horizontally until I get the canopy I want.
I allowed the cover crop to take over the soil area so it can capture as much nitrogen as possible. I also staked certain parts of the plant to stretch the canopy out. It's bowflex time!
Preparing to mulch the cover crop I covered it with soil and a bit of composted material and ordered some barley hay and red wigglers to seal the deal. I also topdressed 3 cups of Bio Live and malted barley and watered in some aminos from impello and fish shit microbes. Once I get the hay and worms I will prepare to cut some clones and continue to sculpt the canopy
Finally got my hands on some straw and some more worms from Uncle Jim. I mulched the pot with the straw to slow the evaporation rates and keep the top of the soil moist for microbes and worms to feed. I will be cutting clones in the next couple of days and preparing to throw this plant into flower. I also added some Malted Barley for the worms and microbes to feed on. Also excited to see the middle growth fighting for apical dominance I may wait til I have as equal of height as the plant will give me before flipping 12-12
Today is day one since flipping to 12-12. I took some clones from the bottom to start a quick 2nd run of this so I can get a cycle going. Yesterday I lollipopped and defoliated the plant so the younger shoots can still have a chance. Gonna be creating a tea for the plant in the coming days
This week has been nothing but stretching. Plants are still waiting for their tea but I've been using recharge as a backup. Been adding malted barley for the worms and microbes. Also waterings with aloe and coco.
Week 4 is looking good so far. I added some natural potassium into the soil from dehydrated banana powder. Still no visible deficiencies. I think the nutrients from previous topdresses have finally broken down enough to keep the plant healthy. I still haven't added anything else but aloe Vera coconut water recharge fish shit and shrimp proteins. Also gonna be adding a SST from corn.
Good ol fungus gnats came to say hello at the first weeks of growing. Adding some sticky traps to prevent them from making more eggs. I also covered my soil with brown paper bags to separate them. Just been watering every other day 2 gallons and switching off from recharge and aloe/coco water. Top dressed a few things just to add more to the pot.
Nothing spectacular happened other than catching gnats. Just water and aloe/coco water until harvest. Gonna probably do a bit of leaf stripping just to open up the canopy for the next 3 weeks.
Been scoping for milky amber trichomes. Nothing major but bud building and buds frosting up with more trichomes. Only thing I'm using is coco water and regular water. Gonna push it one more week and see where the trichomes are at
Final days of this grow on day 68 gonna push it to day 70 no more watering and making sure the Temps are cold at night to signal the plant to prepare. See you in a couple of weeks when I have some beautiful buds to show off
GrandDaddyByrd
