First living soil

Annakonda Pachamama soil Osmose fertilizer NPK 6-8-5 Geotextile pots (from my old grow, no washing ⚠️) I followed the Biotabs scheme except for the tablets; I would add them 2 weeks before flowering. I added hay; I was told it’s really good for nitrogen (I’ll add the photo in the coming days) and I watered with tap water. I’ll check if it’s better not to control the pH and then lower it slightly (with a maximum of 0.13 /liter of water) with ascorbic acid. We’ll see... ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ Note that for the nutrients, except for Lorgatrex and Batrex, all other values are in grams per liter of soil. June 16. The plants are growing super well. But as we can see in the photos, I feel like the plants are growing in a very dark green color. So is it just an impression or is it due to the living soil? And since the two plants are different strains, I lean more towards the second option. I put hay on 2 of the 3 plants; I’ll add it to the Gorilla Fast in a few days, as soon as the plant is big enough to place the hay underneath.

Annakonda Tap water and nothing more June 21. Everything is okay for now.... let's hope it lasts.

Annakonda 27 June Nothing to report Living soil... some grass is starting to grow (see photo) 28 June Topping on the Tropicana fast and on the zkittles fast

Annakonda July 7 For the Tropicana and the zkittles, I soaked the pot in a mixture of one liter of water + 1 gram of bactrex and 5 ml of orgatrex. For the gorilla, I did a topping since it's a bit behind the others; I'll wait a bit before stressing it with HST. July 13 I invested in a Mars Hydro FC 3000. I've only heard good things, so I'm giving it a try to see the results.

Annakonda July 15 So everything is going well for now as I have other plants in flowering (autos) in the box, I raised them so they can be at the same height as the others. I set the lamp power to 75%, I don't know if I'm going to increase it because I want to find a balance between the flowering of my autos (see on my page) and the growth of this grow. At home during the day, it's currently between 25 to 32°C and it's going to rise in a few days, we will reach between 40 to 45. 🙄🙄🙄🙄 Already now it’s 27 degrees at night in the box with this new lamp. I'm going to have to find a solution for next week. So I did everything to them: topping, LST, HST, supercropping, hypercropping, defoliation, the whole package. 😅 The zkittles really has branches growing everywhere, it impressed me... I think if there are no problems, it's going to become really big. It has a very particular smell compared to all the plants I have, it's the only one with such a special scent. After my open-heart operation ❤️ 😂😅 it that was starting to look like a bush now looks more like a big jellyfish. 😏😏 Big HST on all the branches, topping. It looks like it has guts. 😂 Gorilla. So the Gorilla is 1 week behind the other 2 because the seed popped 6 days later. So this plant is a few days younger and is therefore a bit less substantial. I still did an HST and a topping + light LST. On this one too, after my surgical intervention, it looks like nothing. 😅 But all this takes up space and I estimate another 4 to 5 weeks of growth until my autos are mature and these can be replaced afterward to fill the box. Tropicana. So I did everything to it: HST, hypercropping, supercropping, HST, LST, topping, defoliation, everything, everything, everything. I did LST and now it looks like a spider. 🕷️ 🕷️ 🕷️ with its legs well cropped. 🙄 It's the one that after my intervention had a nice look. 😂😂 A slight smell is coming out, but it's very light. It already looked like a small tree with a plant that was growing well. I only watered it with water this week, nothing else. Honestly, I put them through the worst misery, there’s no way to hurt them more than what I did. 👹👹👹 The only thing that bothers me a bit is the lack of space, so I can't LST and place the plants as I want. But changing the lamp has helped me a lot on this topic because it is much better distributed in my box.

Annakonda Just lacking space but I did everything for them. I did a very light defoliation, just the few leaves that were hiding the lower leads. I topped the taller heads on the 3 plants. From now on, I’ll let them grow without touching them anymore. The outside heat has gone down, which makes it more manageable than these last 3 days. Just 2 to max 3 weeks and I’ll add the tablets from Biotabs. I put in some Vita Race from Plagron that I had left over from another grow, but only 2.5 ml / 0.5 liters of water per spray. I set my lamp to max level but at 50 cm, I checked the PPFD and I'm around 600 to 700 PPFD. Which seems correct to me at this stage of my grow.

Annakonda July 25 I think I made a mistake by spraying the vita race last week, the leaves are slightly changing color as if they have deficiencies. The gorilla fast is less affected by this phenomenon, but the other two are showing it strongly. Despite that, they continue to grow well. The topping from last week worked well, and we can already see the two heads emerging. I've tried to do a proper LST (with the lack of space) and I topped the last heads where it hadn't been done yet and that were growing faster compared to the others. And to finish, I did some hypercropping on the branches where I hadn't done it yet. I still removed 4 or 5 leaves that were in the way and could take up too much space. I'm on the fifth day of growth for the zkittles and the Tropicana, but 43 days for the gorilla. From now on, I'm not touching anything.

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Annakonda On August 18 I switched to 12/12 And for feeding, I added the tablets directly into the soil. August 21 It's growing well and the stretch is starting nicely. I did LST to try to get the most light. The Gorilla is back in the box, but the other two are in the garden.

Annakonda August 31 and September 1 Gorilla in the box Tropicana and zkittles in the garden

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