Week 7: I'm on a good way with fixing my watering and nutrition problelms. It's way better to have all the feeding in the soil. If u mix it right theres no need for checking ph and the use of acid or so. But using my Urine as a main Nitrogen supply is working pretty well. I'd probably consider doing this complementary to a planned grow soil (main feeding in there is chicken pellets with roughly 4-4-4 or so). I worked out my OHSB mix for the last two years and it's working perfectly. The only thing i have to add during bloom is ash once or twice and not even this. The buds werde always super dense and i had ~ 1.25 g/W also considering the fan and running my Q5W at 80% wattage. I recycle my soil since years but was always buying seedlings of clones... There was also a gap for 7 years during my studies where i didn't grow. I'm now realizing that i lost some knowledge or feeling. This years goal is to work out a circulatory three phase seeding, grow and bloom soil. Currently working out my own Bokashi and Worm Farm to upcycle my biological waste completely. But i will also do some experiments with organic and mineralic fertilizers this year for comparison.
A friend told me yesterday that the phosphor fertilizers result from an overproduction of bombs in WWII. They were looking for a way to process it industrially. Also i found a scientific paper from Israel supporting that the amount of phosphor growers feed the plants is way way to high and has no effect at all .
day 43: The plants like my Urine Nitrogen supply and their dry feet. I promise to engage my brain on those lil living organisms to prevent further harm. I underestimated the plants hunger completely. This was a teaching.
day 45: Everything goes well considering my underfeeding in the beginning. One can see the effect of additional N support looking at the elongated pheno of AB+ (second mugshot).
I add Biobizz' BioBloom only cause i still got a rest in stock since years and wanna use it up.
day 46: Today is feeding day: I will add an extra of 20 ml ash and 20 g guano-mix. I split the dose i normally feed the soil with to have an average weekly dose to split again for 2 feedings.
day 48: OH, THINK TWICE! I realized today that i overdosed my urine by the factor of 10, but it seems that the plants can handle it^^The turned their color into a saturated dark green and seem healthy despite the horrendous lack of nutrients i had. Considering that i read some company produces liquid one time feedings i'm not suprised. I didn't check PH at all. I only regulated the pure water. From now on it's only worm castings, ash and guano.
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Calculated the used space is ~ 0.35 m^2 in my Homebox Q80+ having a light fraction of 100 W with Q5W. The rest of the space distributes to my other reports on Cocopopo, Watermelon Jam and Big Bud i run in parallel. Preparing ...
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5 AB+ fem plants organic grow in 6.5 l pots.
3 phase medium (amount per plant):
- 1l early grow (mix: 1/2 used soil from last grow + 1/2 no peat tomato soil + 1 hand full of my organic super bloom mix[ OHSB])
- 2 l grow (mix: 10l tomato soil + 3 l OHSB + 1 hand full of crushed chicken shit pellets)
- 3.5 l hot soil (mix: 15 l tomato soil + 5 l OHSB + ash + 2 hands chicken pellets)
OHSB consists of used up soil from last grows, enriched with worm humus, guano, ash, coffee grounds, primal rock flour, Ghassoul.
I'm changing/experimenting with different ingredients from time to time. Sometimes I add a Mykorrhiza/Trichoderma mix.
This time, as i'm dealing with autos, I decided to not use guano, and instead compensate with a mix of just chicken pellets and ash. I'm sure one can compensate the guano somehow for a regular grow as well.
I will add some Guano and more ash during flowering stage, if needed. Maybe also Molasses.
Dosing the ingredients I roughly follow the suggestions from GK and so also for the ash even though I have my own one (wood ash).