Autos In living Soil

ThomFoolery 11/26 Starting a new run of 4 auto flowers using the SF auto watering system and Living soil. I am going with the wick fed auto water system in the hopes that it will increase yield, make my life a lot easier, and keep the plants happy and purring. I am waiting on my soil concentrate to finish curing. It's a long process that usually takes nearly 3 months, so I decided to try NLS this time. This is some rank smelling stuff man. My concentrate is a bit funcky too but not quite as profound. They make really big batches that prorbaly are a lot stronger. Mine is really good, but I'm wondering if its as good as NLS. We shall see.. I'm hoping for a mostly "just add water", a little compost tea once or twice. I saved about a pound of the NLs for this. I wanted to go 7 gal bags instead of 5 because it means a tad more soil to carry a little more food. But I packed the 5s as full as I could. I mixed in some lava rocks (1/4") and some grade#4 perlite. To battle compaction and allow me to pack on the soil. And I did.. I packed the 5gals full as f***. Might as well be 7gal because in all honesty, I put almost the same amount. But I would have ran short on the 7s. I'm hoping this round will not see me with any stunted plants. I started an extra chocolope and a blue cheese auto in case some shit goes south ... I have them in solo cups and if no one gets stunted, I'm going to see how far I can take thwm in solo cups. I'm not just going to kill them. Well, not at first anyway. 11/29 This pretty much starts week 1. They all came up on the 29th. 12/2 Well... Had to pull the Apple Strudel. It was weak and barely even standing up straight. I domed her in hopes she'd return but 10 hours later she was even worse so I pulled her and it was just a bad seed. I knew I should have started backups earlier. I do have some but haven't came up yet and they will be about a week behind, but they will fill in eventually. I just don't want to grow less than 4 different strains. I'm trying to restock and we need variety. I smoke so much that I get burned out on the same shit after a week. The backup will work be Blue Cheese Auto or another chocolope auto. I'll do another Blue Cheese run. That is some phenomenal smoke man. Makes me so happy and ready to get sit done. Surprised it still has that effect.

ThomFoolery Week 2 12/ 6 ------------- Watered: 1cup each applied in a circle about 3" from the plant. We want the roots to search for water. Next time I'll go farther out. 12/8 ----------------- Let's see.,.. Looks like they are all pretty strong. The BCA is ~8 or 9 days behind. It is what it is. Watering with pH adjusted dechlorinated tap water. Adjusting the pH is irrelevant at this point, unless it's really off. It's about 8.0 out the tap. As soon as the water meets the Rootzone it adjusts to the pH of the zone. Not the other way around so it's not realy an issue with living soil. The biology will handle the heavy lifting. 12/9 Growing very well. Especially the Godberry. Praying and everything at 2.1 sets of leaves. These could probably handle being topped, but I'm not willing to chance it. So soon I need to start bending them over. 12/13 End of the second week. They are really happy and growing well. I have not turned on the water yet. Another 2 weeks and I will. Still trying to make those roots as strong as possible they pull the water up equally. I'll have to h Keep the BCA away from the wicks till it's also ready. Should be interesting. Check out the little plant in the solo cup in the [diary](link.here).

ThomFoolery 12/15 Coldest day so far this year and these guys are chillin like it's spring. All are looking very happy and I got them while they were praying. Well, all except for the little fill in Blue cheese. This is a different looking pheno so far. The radish fell on it the other day and bent it. I am not touching it because I plan to tie these down anyway. But I hope that it wasn't too much stress for an auto flower. At least we still have 3 nice eager plants. I am raring to turn on the water works man... These bags of soil get so dry at the edges.... That reminds me, mulch!! I need to get something I can mulch the tops with. Seems like it would be beneficial. About 2" from the stem. Ok.. I found a smallish bag enough for indoor containers that is hopefully, somewhat clean of pests and Infestation. This should help the watering system as well. 12/16 Couldn't be happier with the progress these girls are making! The little straggler is even perking up. Got mid afternoon photos of them when I got up for work (their time frame) and they are all perlite and praying just basking in the sun! Now, I hope I find t just jinxyaelf but I'm impressed with this soil so far. Had one grass sprout come up. Usually a good sign. The godberry is exceptional. Very strong and I could probably top all 3 of these for but I need the yield. I'm trying to get stocked up and we need these darlings to put out. So I'll tie her over if I have to. I'm already getting a lot of growth on the sides so I may not have to. Can just super crop the cola so it lays down with the sides. We'll see. Once I get my shelves loaded I'll start to top autos. All I've had to do is water them. More to come...