PavementPunk First time trying living soil. Slightly under in the nutrients but it should be good. I saved a bit of minerals and nutes for top dressing later. Added biochar and worm castings compost/ manure live worms from the backyard pumice. I feel pretty good about it. Also used a heating mat for the first time. It worked so well my seedlings got a little stretchy. Dialing in the light height and intensity has been tricky too. Had it at like 36 inches at 55% hitting 300 ppfd. Lowered it to 16 inches at 44% hopefully my instincts kick back in i feel a little lost. The internet gives such conflicting info. Happy growing ✌️
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Peat Pellet
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Week 1. Vegetation
14d ago
1/5
1.27 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.4
pH
75 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
21 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 liters
Pot Size
40.64 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
Nutrient Pack
5.21 mll
PavementPunk Pretty sure the fly issue is negatively affecting 2 of my 3 seedlings. Wondering if living soil was a mistake. I put down some pumice around the base of these babies in a small circle as like mulch to hopefully protect their roots. Watered them only where my rocks are. I planted cover crops for the living soil watered everything in and covered it with some dry peat pumice mix i had. I hit that with a decent layer of diatomaceous earth too and another sticky trap or 2. Hoping this helps get it under control. I got a flying insect plug in trap on the way too. The BPP RF3 is looking pretty good and doing well at least there is that lol happy growing yall ✌️
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Week 2. Vegetation
8d ago
1/4
5.08 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.4
pH
75 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
21 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 liters
Pot Size
0.38 liters
Watering Volume
40.64 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
Nutrient Pack
5.21 mll
PavementPunk Been a rough week. Only real notes i have are they got myco and fish and kelp. Bugs continue to be an issue. Living soil may have been a mistake
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Week 3. Vegetation
21h ago
1/4
10.16 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
68 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
21 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 liters
Pot Size
0.38 liters
Watering Volume
40.64 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
Nutrient Pack
5.21 mll
PavementPunk fish & kelp w myco + 1/4 strength hopefully helps. bugs suck hopefully thursday this WDG 3000 bti will tko them. The bpp rf3 was doing better than the other 2 for the first few weeks, now nycd and grape ape seem to have bounced back some and purple punch is suffering now. Im a hack. What is this grow!? Lol fml man. Few more days. I wanna start my photo seedlings soon. Im hopeful this living soil will be good once i get the flies dealt with. Still figuring out this light too. Got it about 16 inches from canopy @ 65% easing it up to 80% over a week or 2. Wish me luck friends happy growing ✌️
@PavementPunk, A simple fix for stretchy seedlings is to bury them deep when you put em in the dirt. All those tiny hairs on the stem will turn into roots
