Great week! Plants are growing with vigor just as they should after transplant. Before transplant last week, I amended the two earthboxes with BAS Craft Blend and Earthworm castings on the Earthbox. I top watered as I have experienced anaerobic conditions if you fill the reservoir before allowing the plants to throw out roots after transplant. I watered after amending at less than 8% of soil volume. There is still a lot of moisture as I check with a moisture meter daily. The plants love the environment as well growing 6" in one week after transplant. There was no slowing down and I waited a full week to top the plants and start training. I will water when the earthbox moisture levels are lower. Both earthboxes have a mulch layer. On the Earthbox Jr, I am using the shower curtain cover as a mulch layer. On the Earthbox I am using several layers of barley straw sourced from BAS. I also used some bokashi treated bran under the layer of straw to help make the amendments available to the plant faster. I have both earthboxes in the same tent but will move the Earthbox Jr to the other tent before filling the reservoir when needed. So far, so good... I will look at the side branching next and will put in a scrog net to assist with training in about two weeks and then flip to flower...
Hey there Marc, you got some nice plants there! it seems like they are missing something though!
I dont know what nutrients you are using but if you ever get tired of having to adjust ph and add bottled nutrients then i can show you are one for all solution, its a dry amendment (sort of), it contains all you need for microbial life aswell. Its called FLO - Florian's Living Organics.
Very easy to use and i have had a great experience with it. All you have to with it is mix this one dry amendment with soil and just water with regular water.. The pH adjusts itself.
reason im giving you this tip is because i saw how much stuff you use for nutrients, so maybe it would be nice with a more simple 100% organic solution.
check out my recent diary where im using it from seed to harvest.
Happy growing! 😎
@Earthling37,
Maybe you confused me with someone else, or perhaps you are attempting to sell a product. This grow is completely organic and sourced by Build a soil. It's a no till water only type of grow that relies totally on microbes. Cheers!
I’m sitting on these exact seeds MarcGrows…. You’ve certainly have done well with them….what a beautiful grow!!
It appears that the 10 week “max flowering time” on their website is accurate. Best of luck with the rest of your grow.