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Attempting a living soil grow in 20lt / 5G pots.
Soil was roughly made up of:
Worm castings (10KG)
Worm castings + Compost (30KG)
Seedling Raising Mix (15KG)
Organic Humate (5kg)
Pumice (8KG)
Herbi's All Natural 4-4-4 (500KG)
Seeds soaked in a glass of water until they dropped and then planted directly into the soil. In the center of the pot, plain potting mix used, so the seedling has a bit of time before hitting the main enriched potting mix.
Seedlings growing fast. 1st true leaf developing with 2nd set forming. OG Kush has developed the fastest of all the seedlings (Auto WW / Auto GSC and Pineapple express photos - the only one close is the Super Skunk)
The pots spend last 3 days / nights out side in the glass house.
The glass house is old and broken - no roof and missing panes of glass on the side but does give SOME shelter to the wind.
Weather most good but the week ended with heavy topical style rain (10mm in an hour), so the seedlings have been moved back into the garage by a west facing window.
Added some table lamps and turned on the garages fluorescent to help provide at some light for this gloomy day.
Started heavy on the water - some on the base and regular spraying with a weak seaweed and water solution. But on day 6 started backing off on the water. Did forget to water the living soil around the seedling - doh!
So gave the whole pot a bit of a water. Started making a compost tea (Worm casings / compost / liquid seaweed / liquid fish fert / molasses)
Still wild weather (heavy topical-type rain with strong winds). The plants have to spend whole or part days inside this week, with only direct sunlight from 6 am to 12 pm.
Gave them a small amount compost tea (worm castings + humate + Molasses + Seaweed extract) at the start of the week and pushed it slightly too long (3 days) until the next watering.
Slight droop on the largest of the 2 seedlings (DOH!). Working on repairing the glasshouse roof, so we can stop all this moving about, its farking with my back!
Bit disappointed with the seeds - one bean didn't pop and one of the 2 remaining has deformed set of 1st true leaves.
Still, I'm committed now and I hope it can catch up with the other one.
Growth has been a bit slow. Decided to give the p[lants a boost with a liquid Blood and Bone (NPK 11-5-7).
The mutant plant still hasn't formed a set of leaves that don't have some form of deflect. Still lets see where it goes'.
Grow starting to pick up.
Made a compost tea with Seaweed / liquid blood and bone / Worm castings / humate
Spread diatomaceous earth to control insects. It was a mistake with the relative humidity of 80+% - just went to mush and got on the leave. I then used mineral Oil and I suspect that was a major mistake as well.
Started SLT on the larger plant, which in hindsight was a week too early.
Managed to get a 100W growth light and set up that in side. Weather is terrible and the long range (10 day) forecast looks more of the same - high winds and heavy rain. LOL Might need to change the title of this growth from outdoor Autos to indoor...
Fed liquid Blood and Bone (NPK 11-5-7) again this week. Plants seem to be really responding to it.
Spend most of the week inside, under a 100W grow light. The rain and resulting high humidity, meant the soil was overly wet and not drying out. Looks like they will stay under lights for the next week at least but looking like 2weeks.
The mutant plant has started to really put height on. Lateral growth looking good.
The SLT plant has had some issues -
First I put mineral oil on the plant, which as damaged it and its fan leaves had brown spots.
Second my SLT was a bit hard - I tried to get the main stork parallel with the ground. and some leaves where touching the wet soil, causing some rot.
Thirdly I managed to snap a small fan leaf off - I think I have stressed this plant out a bit too much, I managed to snap a main stem on my GSC, so need to be more gentle!
We can see signs of preflower!
This is the last official week of veg!