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Welcome to my new grow.
This time I will try my new method, which involves cheap garden store products, which should compete with more expensive cannabis products:
- Regular pots up to 11 liters
- Plagron Allmix soil
- Cuxin DCM Wurzelaktivator (chicken manure pellets with mycorrhizae, NPK 5 - 4 - 3)
- Dolomite Lime
- Going to use Root Juice from BioBizz, as it does work
- Tap water (might pH, not sure just yet)
I might add something along the way. I'm looking for a cheap living soil additive, like beneficial bacteria and yeast and such. Comparing organic grows online I firmly believe that these types of products make a difference, it's not more fertiziler that does the trick. You hardly need to add any phosphorus and potassium. It's about keeping the soil rich and living.
So please, follow along on this journey, which might become a Tangerine Dream.
(I'm also seeking to improve the photo quality)
August 31st (Day 1): Plants came out perfectly tonight. Yellow at first, but got green within a few hours. Added tiny amounts of Cuxin DCM Wurzelaktivator (chicken shit / cow manure pellets with mycorrhiza) to inoculate with mycorrhiza.
Let the veg start!
September 2nd (Day 3) First watering with Root Juice
Week 2 just startet with Day 7 since sprouting.
Day 7 (6th september): new pot, added Root Juice, Dolomite Lime and some small amounts of Cuxin to further inoculate. Plants are im Allmix now. I plantet them a little too high (not me being high) into the pot, that's why they need a little support. But they'll be fine.
Day 11: Plants gained lots of height and begin to stabilise the stem.
Week three has begun on Friday 13th.
So fahr the plants showed signs of Cal/Mag deficiency. As a quick remedy I gave some BioBizz Calmag to stop the deficiency from advancing.
Day 19: Moved the little underwatered plants to a new pot. 11 litres pot with 8 tablespoons of dolomite lime (70% Ca, 30% Mg). I upped it this time, just to make sure. The little dusting at the beginning didn't seem to work. What did work though, was the myorrhizae in the Cuxin fertilizer. You can see stronger fine roots. Unfortunately I didn't fotograpg the other plants roots, which where baffingly strong. Overall the plants seem much more resistant to the stress I've put them through.
As I ran out of earth I mixed just a couple of hands of seedling earth into the pot on the right, added some small amounts of DCM Cuxin and mixed the earth, to even it out.
Week 4 starts at the 20th September.
This week the plants developed their Ca / Mg deficiency (mostly Mg). I seemed to have stopped it, though. The plants had shown some slowed growth before, but recovered quickly. The deficiency stopped advancing, new leaves appear dark green an healthy.
This proves the use of dolomite lime works within several days, even with deficient plants. Let's see how it keeps developing.
Day 30: Watered roughly 2.5 litres tap water each plant, no run off as I had to do it in a hurry.
Day 33:
Plants fully recovered and grow lusciously.
Day 36 or Sept. 29th: Today marks the first day of flipping to 12-12
Unfortunately I forgot to raise the light after I increased the intensity, so I gave the left plant some light burn :( Hoping it won't turn out too bad
Week 6 or week 2 since the flip:
Plants have been growing and stretching vigorously. So much in fact, that the humidity was going out of control. I wanted to wait until next week, but I decided to massively defoliate now. Let's see how they'll react. Light is reaching almost down to the pot.
Still only tap water is used. Most LED-burnt leaves have been removed. Any nutrient burn symptoms disappeared on newer leaves. I take this as a sign to now watch out for hunger on the plants.
This week starts of with another defoliation. The plants reacted to the first one by growing out massive amounts of leaves again. I also removed some smaller branches, which likely would produce popcorn buds anyways.
I've got to watch out for humidity, trying to keep it low. Somehow it became really humid in my appartment.
Also looking out for signs of hunger on the plants, which did not appear so far.
Overall I am happy with the plants. I've never had healthier plants, despite them having started off with deficiencies and light burn. I suspect this might actually be thanks to the mycorrhizae. They don't even use much water it seems. I only water about 3 litres of tap water per 5 days. Which is like 0.6 litres of water per day. Of course, the higher humidity also plays it's part.
Plants look good. Lighten up a little, so I might give some nutrients this week. Unfortunately I forgot to raise the lamp once again, so I burned them a little, but the damage is minor.
Right plant is lighter in comparison. Might be due to them being different phenos. Maybe I need to raise the light some more. Might be hunger. Going to check this.
Kratzman
