Finally starting to see some growth this week. I also bought some Blumat classic to see how they do in keeping them watered. I use Blumat Tropf's in the raised bed and I never have to manually water. The system has been working really well for me. The classics should be good for the 1 gallon pots up until its time to move them to the raised bed. If not, I'll remove them and go back to manually watering.
8/8 - Watered in again with plain filtered water. Also gave the cover crop a major cut back and broke it up and evenly spread over the surface of the soil. Growth is looking good. Still a little discoloration on #1 but growth is good. I think the compost tea I'll be brewing tomorrow should make sure its getting all the nutrients it needs.
8/9 - Started brewing a compost tea I'll be feeding them tomorrow. The compost tea recipe I'm using is the following.
5 gal De-Chlorinated Filtered Tap Water
1 tbs Fish Hydrolysate
1 tbs Unsulfured Black strap molasses
2 tbs Homemade EM5
1 tbs Down to Earth Kelp Meal
1 tbs Down to Earth Alfalfa Meal
2 cup Homemade Worm Castings
1 tbs Extreme Gardening Mykos
1 tbs Down to Earth Bio Live
Mix everything together except for the last two ingredients and aerate for 16 hours.
8/10 - Just before feeding the compost tea I added the Mykos and Bio Live, mixed it in and aerated the tea for an additional 10-15 minutes. Diluted the tea 2:1 with more de-chlorinated filtered tap water and gave both of them a good soil drench. Applied the rest to the garden outside, the other three plants from my other grow, and the raised bed. Shortly after I installed the Blumat Classics. I'll be keeping an eye on the moisture level and see if the reservoir needs to be raised any to provide more water.
8/12 - The compost tea seems to be doing its job for #1 which had a slight discoloration. New growth looks healthy and really starting to take off. Today I applied a foliar of water, aloe, and neem oil.