Aircoholic This new grow is more exciting than per usual. My old living soil mix is over, due to the Terra Preta part not being available anymore and the Canna Terra Professional being a peat based soil, which I want to not use anymore, due to environmental reasons.
Since I don't have the physical room to store many bags of soil and my chronic fatigue (post covid sucks!) getting pretty bad right now, I decided to go with a commercial living soil, to reduce stress. There are many positive reviews about Bio Hanferde by Sonnenerde, that made me curious.
Since the soil is a bit "hot" for planting the seed directly into, I added some seedling soil, plus a tiny amount of Dynomyco for a good symbiotic start.
4 days and she's germinated - yay!
6 likes
4 comments
Share
Used method
Directly In Substrate
Germination Method
1
Week 1. Vegetation
15d ago
1/5
6.5 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
57 %
Air Humidity
22 liters
Pot Size
70 cm
Lamp Distance
Aircoholic Yay! She made it! The week of Germination went great and is not turning into the 1st proper week of veg, even though she's not in veg quite yet, but that's not really the point here ;-)
She's looking fantastic so far, very healthy, a little stretched up towards the light, which I forgot to adjust for the first 2 days, but she'll be fine, I'm sure.
Update - the living soil appears to have a pretty active micro- and not so microbiome - The silverfish in the two photos was spotted on an exploration from the depths of the pot to the surface and back. I didn't expect this in the soil, to be honest, but I'm pretty happy about it as well - and he appeared to be mostly friendly.
2 likes
2 comments
Share
2
Week 2. Vegetation
8d ago
1/5
9.5 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
58 %
Air Humidity
22 liters
Pot Size
49 cm
Lamp Distance
Aircoholic She's doing okay - her stem is pretty thin and stretched, making her pretty top-heavy, causing her to fall over. I did stabilize her with some toothpicks she can lean onto, and I also raised the light intensity and shortened the distance. Hope that'll help her thicken up that stem and grow a little more sturdy.
Watering with the new soil takes some getting used to - right now I'm still trying to develop a feel for the right humidity levels.
EDIT: Replaced a few sub par photos with okay-ish versions. The new camera is rather complex...
3 likes
comments
Share
3
Week 3. Vegetation
13h ago
1/10
14 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
23 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
50 %
Air Humidity
22 liters
Pot Size
44 cm
Lamp Distance
Aircoholic She really seems to like the extra light, after lowering light distance and raising light intensity - and she seems to like the living soil that her roots have reached by now. Her weak stem, that couldn't seem to support her leafy head now is very strong and firm, and since her nodes are growing fast and healthy enough, I've topped her on day 17.
She'll get more photons after a day of recovery from this high stress training, and also some mulch, so the topsoil doesn't dry out too quickly.
@GTools, Thanks bud! What did you like about the strain? 1st time growing this cultivar - I'm less keen on the high THC levels, but more so on the therapeutic effect.
commentedweek 021d ago