Blueberry Muffin

MrLahey Today is day 14 after germination. I just finished pulling out some clover and transplanting the plant from the solo cup into the 20g fabric pot. I was fascinated and ecstatic with how much life is in this soil. It’s more like a terrarium almost than a garden or just a plant. When I pulled back some leaves to expose the top of the root ball there was a healthy population of different insects consisting of little itsy bitsy mites and more red wiggler worms than I was expecting. And there’s clearly a good fungal/mycelial network in the soil as evidenced by the coprinus (ink cap) mushroom. I thought it was a dead clover at first so I touched it and then felt the gel like ink transfer to my hand. So fascinating! 😀😀😀 This is my fourth grow cycle with this soil and I’m super excited for this grow with it because every successive grow has produced terpier and terpier results. I’m gonna let her grow for another week, probably top her then and then onto the scrog.

MrLahey One more week down! Topped her a few nights ago. Will let her grow a few inches taller and then start scrogging. 😀

MrLahey Still moving in the right direction but I appear about to be taught a hard earned lesson to have my soil tested more often if I’m gonna keep growing with the same soil for each grow. It looks like I may have possibly a cal/mag deficiency? I use RO/DI water in my reservoir as unfiltered the water out of my tap is around 9.6 ph. I know people say living soil doesn’t need ph’d water but I feel like a ph of almost 10 is probably pushing it lol. So I filter itbut because of that it has no calcium or magnesium. I bet I didn’t supplement the soil thoroughly/balanced enough and it was on the low end and now has used it up. I bought some buildaveg from buildasoil and will apply it via foliage spray and see how the new growth looks. I haven’t had any calmag issues in the past few grows with this soil so it’s quite possible I just didn’t amend the soil balanced enough before I started this grow. The buildasoil cover crop is wild! It’s really putting out some unexpected but very welcome colors! The red is beautiful. I should bring out my macro lens and real camera and get a shot or two while the colors are peak red. The cover crop grows fast! If I don’t trim it every two days I fear it may take over the world it is growing so fast. Worms in the soil are active as heck at night. Very healthy population of red wigglers. I shot a 6 night timelapse video and at night the ir camera shows how active they really are. Super wild to watch the rarely seen world of worms doing their thing. Hoping my attempt to fix whatever deficiency I have is a solution and then I’ll scrog her and then send her to flower. We shall see!