Cultivo en suelo vivo

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Sergi0 The first two are The Ultimate and the two at the back are Frisian Dew, I have a Frisian Dew that I keep on a window in my house, that one will go outside in spring. The substrate is black soil obtained from a nearby field mixed with homemade worm humus and dry grass, I added mate leaves as mulch, and I also put in California worms, pill bugs, trichoderma, and mycorrhizae, no fertilizer so far. The tent is 1 square meter, 2 meters tall, with a cooler (4" and an airflow of 95 m3/h) at the top that works as an extractor. The pots are 80L each, geotextiles. And the light comes from an AML 400w Mixed Panel from the Amnesia brand.

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Sergi0 Here I added the Frisian Dew that was left out, I'll keep it inside as long as I have space. I also started adding urine to the watering water, at a rate of 1.5 L of urine in 6 liters of water, giving 2 liters of water to each plant once a week, along with a teaspoon of leftover ash from the barbecues (added to the 6L). The little jar with water is to trap the flies that are inside the indoor, like a passive trap.

Sergi0 I added more water jars, I had a plague of 2 caterpillars, one on each The Ultimate, I found them and released them in the yard. Throughout the grow, I had leaf miners, but in very low amounts, I never applied neem oil, I have the theory that if you take too much care of the plants, they become weak.

Sergi0 Here I added a homemade Scrog made with wire and string, and a little jar with beer; the flies and miners love getting trapped there haha... I also did FIM on the The Ultimate on the right and added 2 shoots of Paulownia tomentosa.

Sergi0 Here I did FIM on the Frisian Dew on the right.

Sergi0 Here I did FIM on the two plants on the left, LST on the two on the right, and on the Frisian Dew on the left. I increased the watering to 2 times a week, with 1.5 liters of water mixed with urine (4/1) for each plant (except for the one in the middle, I just eye-balled it). And I added the bacteria Azospirillum.

Sergi0 I should be considering switching to flowering, but I want to fill the SCROG well for the maximum possible yield, I'm not in a hurry.

Sergi0 If it were up to me, I would already switch to flowering, but a month ago I bought a 400w LED to add to the flowering and have 800w, and it still hasn't arrived.

Sergi0 I just got the second LED panel, specifically on Friday. Tomorrow I'm taking some cuttings for outdoor growing in spring (we're about to enter winter here). And I'm sure after a week I'll switch to flowering.

Sergi0 This was the last week of Growth, from now on I switched to Flowering. During the first 3 weeks of flower, I will keep giving them diluted urine in water with ash, and then I will only give them water with ash and a flowering fertilizer that was gifted to me for my first grow (this is the second). The plant The Ultimate, which used to be the most vigorous, the one at the bottom right, has been stressed since I added the second light; I think it's light stress, it's not temperature because it’s always low. I hope it gets better now in flower; I also have an anti-stress product that I’ll definitely give her at any moment.

Sergi0 First week of Flowering, you can already see they're stretching... and the The Ultimate on the right started to improve, but I suspect it won't produce much since when it was sick it didn't grow and the others overtook it, in the end, it was due to excess ash, I realized this because of the spots that appeared on the leaves, now it's gradually taking on a darker green color. I was using two tablespoons in 6 liters of water, before I was using just 1 tablespoon and they were doing well, now I've canceled the use of ash until the end of the 3rd week, and then I'll resume with a teaspoon and flora fertilizer, of which I'll upload photos as well. I was surprised by the Frisian Dew and the vigor they have, and they handled the over-fertilization very well. I wanted to do defoliation on the lower part, but I prefer not to, I want them to take advantage of the maximum amount of light, and to have leaves left for when I do the revegetation. That said, any leaves that look a bit old, ugly, or sick, I'm pruning anyway.

Sergi0 2nd week of flowering, nothing to say, they're doing well, they're already growing a lot of hairs and keep stretching, I managed to fix the heating problem I had in my room so now I have better temperatures.

Sergi0 This is the last day of watering with urine, starting Friday I'll use water with ash and flowering fertilizer. I'm going to try to moderate the ash because it seems to have a lot of nutrients and it's easy to over-fertilize. Since I have living soil and a thick mulch (mate and dry grass) with California worms, pill bugs (if you have a lot, they eat the resin from the flowers), springtails, and mites, I don't need to fertilize much since many nutrients are generated in the mulch. This last week they really stretched out and put out a lot of hairs, I hope they fatten up well in what's left.

Sergi0 Yesterday I was very busy and couldn't upload, I was just a day late. They're doing really well, some leaves are still hook-shaped even though I'm no longer giving them nitrogen, now I water on Fridays with fertilizer in the approximate doses I noted, and on Mondays just with water, just in case, I prefer them to be a bit short than to have too much, and since I have living soil it's more likely that there will be excess... the two fertilizers I use are gifted, so I take advantage of that, and the ash is from family barbecues, I have plenty haha... I don't measure pH or anything like that, but maybe a friend will lend me his devices to measure, I trust that the worms keep the soil pH balanced :)

Sergi0 The flowers are getting more and more fragrant, they've stopped stretching and are fattening up quite a bit, everything points to an abundant harvest 😁... I covered the soil below with plastic bags to reduce the fly population, they aren't leaf miners or my plants would be in really bad shape with the number of little flies I have. Now I've reduced watering to once a week, because with 80 liters they have plenty of moisture reserve. The pill bugs have also reproduced quite a bit, next time I'll definitely post a video or photos of the bugs I have in the pots.

Sergi0 Chill week, they're still fattening up, I think I'm going to have to harvest the Frisian Dew sooner, but I'll see. I have fewer flies now, but there are still quite a few. The 80 liters hold up really well for a week without water (now I water once a week).

Sergi0 Hey, the Frisian Dew are probably ready to harvest, they have almost all the orange hairs, and the buds are falling off from the weight, so I'll definitely harvest them next Monday. Yesterday I only watered them with water, the only one I added fertilizer to is the The Ultimate on the left, which looks like it could fatten up a bit more. I detected a spider mite infestation early on, they appeared due to the low humidity and high temperatures, so I was cutting off several affected leaves, and I already took care of lowering the temperature (by turning down the heater) and increasing the humidity (watering more). When I re-veg, I'll use some organic products like potassium soap and neem oil to keep them in check, and if I can add ladybugs, even better (the trick is to get them, haha). The The Ultimate on the right only got water with an anti-stress product; if I see it's doing well this week, I might give it a bit of fertilizer, but compared to before, it's doing much better. In the end, it was a pH problem; a friend brought his pH meter, and the water I use for watering has a pH of 9, so I'm going to start buying vinegar to lower the pH of the water, but they've held up pretty well all this time. The living soil helps a lot to regulate the pH... cheers :) (Addition: week 19 just went up when I added week 20, it had bugged out, haha)

Sergi0 I think they'll be ready in two more weeks. I'm doubting whether I'll reach 400g in final yield; I hope so, but we'll see. I had high pH problems because I didn't know I was watering with water that had a pH of 9, and now I'm lowering it with white vinegar, using 3.75 ml per liter of water...

Sergi0 In the end, I had a small spider mite infestation that I managed to keep at bay by cutting affected leaves, increasing humidity, and lowering the temperature... I'm not going to weigh them wet, just when they dry... After harvesting the The Ultimate, I'll move on to revegetate both, I hope they don't die before, hehe... Because I think the others have at least 2 more weeks left.

Sergi0 I couldn't pay much attention to them this week, but today for the photo I was taking off yellow leaves, and I'm just watering them with water and vinegar, I'm sure I'll harvest next week, or maybe the following one if they're not ready yet hehe...

Sergi0 Just today was the last week of flowering and I already harvested, they got smellier this week, the The Ultimate on the right had a nutrient lockout it seems, because it started to turn purple when I fertilized it again. Tomorrow I'll upload photos of the harvest... Now I turned off one light and left the other more in the middle, and set the schedule to 24/0, I’m going to keep it like that for about 3 days and then switch to 18/6... And an important note, I think the Frisian Dew on the left died, I'll see if any new shoots come out in the first 2 weeks, if I see that it definitely dies I'll take it out and put in an Auto Ultimate to fill the space, it won't get much light when the others are back in flowering, but it helps to get a few more grams and make use of the pot... Cheers :)

Sergi0 When they dry, I hope to get more than the Frisian Dew, but I don't know, we'll see when they're dry haha... I don't like the smell they have, but let's hope they taste good haha... and visually the flowers are very pretty, quite dense, the one on the right, despite having had problems, produced more flowers than the one on the left, which was the one that produced the biggest buds... cheers :)