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Hello, long time, no grow. I’m trilled to start on a new grow project, i’m away from growing a long time, but my love for ot was always present, i miss it a lot so i have got a few strains from Fastbuds to test and come back with a minimal setup.
I have got the Fastberry, Bluedream, and the 1:20 cbd, they have sent in the Banana Purple punch
Ok, so what is a minimal setup? For this grow i have choose to grow in my balcony, it is fairly big and i gave good sunlight, we are in summer now, so temps are high, swinging a lot. It is raining often as well so I did not need to water much.
For the nutrients i will go organic i think, in my substrate i have about 30% warm castings, so i’m good for till mid grow length +-, i might add a bit of nutrients in 30 days mark.
The objective of this experiment is to use as little as possible, 360 degrees.
For the germination process i have used a mixed process method, that i have learned from Fastbuds and i have loved it, 24h in a glass of filtered water, paper towel for about 24h -48h and then the Floraflex gremination pellets, i have tested on the jiffy and worked fine as well. Cool about this method, if you are more on the anxious side or like to control more the process this is the way, you can follow the hole process and see the development in parts. I will add images later on, for this breakdown.
Well that is it, lets hope for a cool, safe journey for this girls.
Smooth week.
I’m using velokelp from
Remo and Nature’s candy i had laying around. That is compatible with living soil, and Moringa extract once a week.
And have planted some companion plants as a soil cover.
We are at week 3 now. A lot of development, i have not used liquid nutes this week, it is raining a lot so no water needed, thus no liquid nutrients.
I have top feed of dry nutrients mix, basically a mixture of a super soil recipe that usually is used within to make a hot soil:
I mix all tue ingredients together and use it gradually about 40g as a powder, in the top of the soil.
- Azomite 500g
- Natural fosfate 500g
- Biochar 1kg
- Bokashi 1kg
-Kelp meal 500g
-Mamona meal 1kg
-chicken meal 1kg
-Potassium silicate 500g
-Gypsum farm 500g
-Diatomaceous earth 500g
Mix all keep it in a soil bag, this pure mix and use it once every month.
The companion plants have emerged and will protect the soil humidity mainly.
WEEK 1 of flower. This is insanely quick, veg for three weeks and on week 4 we are flowering strong.
It is raining a lot, so i had to use a top dressing, ingredients on the week 3, to manage the soil nutrients till the end of the cycle. About two table spoons.
Watering once a week, with the mix above, otherwise rain is taking care of them, very natural as a grow, nothing much complicated, no science fiction with fertilizer or chemistry.
I’m curious about the yield, and how much can i pull out of this way, with minimal work and a nearly inert soil. Let’s see how this experiment turns out.
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Week 5. Flowering
a year ago
55 cm
16 hrs
30 °C
6.5
500 PPM
75 %
30 °C
30 °C
25 °C
25 L
0 L
3 cm
Nutrients 1
TOP DRESSING ORGANICS - RECIPE IN THE DISCRIPTION. 5 mll
The plats are not been trained, defoliated or anything, grown naturally.
I’m blown away how fast this plants are growing. First time outdoors and the experience is very nice, I love the fact it requires little to no effort, in the setup I have chosen.
As it is raining a lot, I’m using only a dry amendment I have built to use on them periodically, this way I’m not adding more liquids to the root system that is already highly saturated, essentially I’m using the following recipe update, I don’t know if it is correct but I live it all mixed. Use about a table spoon and a half every 15 days.
- Azomite 500g
- Natural fosfate 500g
- Biochar 1kg
- Bokashi 1kg
-Kelp meal 500g
-Mamona meal 1kg
-chicken meal 1kg
-Potassium silicate 500g
-Gypsum farm 500g
-Diatomaceous earth 500g
-Bunny guano 300g
-Bat guano 1kg
-Oyster shell powder 1kg
-Cow blood meal 1kg
-Cow bones powder meal 1kg.
-Wormcastings, spare use not in the mix.
The plants are showing good coloring, no fade and no deficiencies, the green is not to deep, nor too light. As the leafs are taking a lot of water and strong sun and wind, the leafs are feeling a bit. As the wind is high since day 1 the stems are very resistant, strong.
The Fastberry Is on the smaller size if compared to the other plants, together with the Banana purple punch, then we have the Bluedream and the CBD crack on the larger sizes thriving a lot, I expect to approach the end of flowed in a few weeks, the girls are very fast indeed. I’m looking forward to collect the fruits :)
A lot of rain and wind, continuously. Temps have dropped as well.
I’m reading another week or two to chop this plants.
Sativa dominant hybrids did the best, the Fastberry and the banana purple punch did not really develop as the other two.
In specifics the cbd crack developed sizable buds, and the blue dream as well, the flowers are not as developed tight and dense as in the indoor grow. A bit of fox-tailing nothing too expressive.
Minimal work, as per the setup chosen, an no extra nutes this week.