The Spice Twenty20 Mars-GD

Mars8_8 Flipping to flower on Saturday. Top dressed with a few different things. 1/8 tsp insect frass(pest control), 2tsp seabird, 3tbs 4-4-4, 1/4 cup craft blend BAS, 2 tsp langbeinite.

Mars8_8 Flower: Switched the lights to 12/12 yesterday. I plan on moving them into my new 4x4 tent as soon as my AI controller arrives. Unfortunately, the AC tents have 22mm thick poles and my PVC scrog net won't work until my Etsy parts come. But these girls hardly needed any training. I pinched the tops maybe 4 times during veg. (right below top node and pop the stem like a pimple but do not break any tissue on the outside) and also used the 90degree elbows to bend then tops twice. Other than that great plant structure from Twenty20 genetics. Top Dress: I made a pretty strong super soil and didn't top dress all veg in my 3G pots. I did make 2 bat guano teas. I did just top dress with some Build a soil craft blend and made a bloom tea. Also sprinkled on some Kashi and added the coco soil covering and already seeing that white fuzz growth. Veg issues: The close right plant got transplant stressed causing it to bush up and the internodal spacing to be very short. when transplanting it lost structure and fell over so I had to compact the dirt to get it to stand back up. But overall, it bounced back. The back left has been dealing with either light issues, pH issues, or dry pockets in the soil. I think its light/heat. But after learning peatmoss can be hydrophobic when over dried out and cause dry spot and fox farms uses peat moss this could be a possibility and why I'll be pre wetting my soil when I mix next run. I moved my heater around and fans and nothing seemed to work other than lowing the lights to 2/10. Could be a K issue as well and I just fed them a bunch so maybe that fixes it. Light issue: I think being in a 2.7x2.7x5ft tent caused the EVO4 light PAR to bounce back into the plants and be way more efficient than what I expected causing me to constantly have light issues my last few runs. I finally folded and set them 2/10 for the remainder of veg and saw some promising signs. I think in a bigger tent it will allow for the light to travel to the sides and be less potent in the center allowing me to raise it up to 6/10 with better coverage, when using the TSW2000 in my 2.7x2.7 it seemed more spread out and less intense so ill be going back to that for next veg.

Mars8_8 Starting to show sighs of flowering. Installed the net and did one last defoliation on the bottoms. Gave them a really heavy water only feed. I think I was under watering the back two and trying to compensate to let the front two catch up and dry out and caused some dry spots in the soil as I was only giving them a litter here and there till the other were dry. When peat moss(ocean forest) drys out to much it becomes hydrophobic and doesn’t absorb water as efficiently and causes dry spots. Which then leads to deficiency, stress, and overheating because they can’t transpire and cool off. Used about 4 gallons and got them all to run off 🤙🏻 added these coconut husk soil cover things and it’s been a game changer. Starting to see roots come all the way to the top and using kashi from build a soil is helping the nutrients break down even faster.

Mars8_8 Week 3 into flower and it’s time to top dress and seabird tea. Using 3 gallon pots, top dress with 1/3 cup craft, 1/4 cup worm castings, 1/2 ocean forest, and small amount of kashi. Seabird tea: 4tbs seabird guano, recharge, and worm castings, Humic acid, and alfalfa meal in the tea bag. pH to around 6.6-6.8. Should give me around a 2.5-12.5-2.5 feed. As I used equal parts alfalfa to seabird. Probably a little more nitrogen bwith the worm castings. Brewed for 24 hours and fed straight, no water down. Just bought the mammoth lighting 6 bar LED, I got suckered into the green spectrum and the ability to penetrate the canopy using green light. Science backs it but science also backed Covid vaccines soooo I guess I’ll have to test it out myself. 😂 But so far enjoying my first grow back after a year off. Took a while to remember everything and dial everything back in. Only took me going to the dispensary for a year to remember it’s just way better to grow and press my own rosin instead of paying 50 for brown boo-boo or flower i can’t even smell before buying it. As a young lad I was in charge of a 30 light/ 600 plant grow house. This famous rap producer had a pool house in his back yard he turned into a grow house. I ended up being very successful there using their recipe and styles, Rockwell cubes 20-25 plants a light of some SFV og and synthetic nutients and eagle 20 for daysss. Was at about 2lbs a light. Eventually I moved on and this guys house was raided as he was sending drugs back east to gangs and money laundering. Major wake up call, as California finally started cracking down on all the growers stealing electricity. Never thought I’d be growing weed but when your best friends brother has a grow house and it’s trim season, all hands on deck so I got introduced to it then and because my attention to detail and passion to science they gave me a shot opporating a 600 plant facility. Also showed me the dark side of the business with pesticides and mold… and all the “growers” that have no sanitation techniques and wonder why they have to use eagle 20 and avid all run… if you have trust issues don’t go into the underground cannabis grows of the early 2010s. People be trying to sell powder mildew as frosty nugs. But fast forward a bunch of years I move to Washington and the cannibus industry is all sealed jars with labels. No smell test, no scales, no free dabs… it felt like gambling every time I gave them money for weed. Looks fire taste like dirt or looks fire taste fire cost 60 an eighth…. Not substainable for a daily stoner, so I got my first 2.7x2.7 grow tent and some soil and 100s of hours of YouTube videos to figure out how to grow roots and not plants. Growing in rockwool cubes is all about recipes and pH. Growing in soil is all about microorganisms, oxygen, and relationship building.