I grow organically so the majority of the inputs I use are top amendments and are used at the following rates:
Gaia Green All Purpose 4-4-4 (VEG): 45mL/gallon every 3 weeks.
Gaia Green Power Bloom 2-8-4 (FLOWER): 30mL/gallon every 3 weeks.
Kootenay Bio Soils Mycos: 4TBSP-5TBSP when mixing soil. Sprinkle as needed before transplanting.
Worm Castings: 45mL/gallon every 3 weeks.
Compost Tea: given once per week in veg and flower(stop teas after week 5 of flower). I use a nut milk bag to brew the tea in. Take 2 cups of worm castings and place them in the bag (you could add kelp meal, alphalpha meal, bat guano, and a wide range of other organic inputs if you like but I prefer to keep it simple). Place the bag in a 5 gallon pale with clean water at 21 or so degrees celcius. Add 2 TBSP of organic sea weed extract to the water. Add 2 TBSP of organic unsulphured blackstrap molasses to the water. The tea needs to be aerated to activate the beneficial microbes so you need to place an airstone in the pale. Bubble the tea for 24 HRS, PH adjust the tea to 6.5-7.0, then feed.
This week went great. The environment was stable all week. The plants responded very well to transplanting(3 gallon to 7 gallon), pruning, lollipopping, and tons of LST(added the first of two layers of trellis netting).
I'll be flipping these ladies to flower in the next 8-10 days once the majority of the trellis is full.
In House Genetics:
Platinum Kush Breath
@CRiSPrGrow, no I'm not measuring VPD. For seedlings and clones I run 24 hrs on for the lights at 60%-65% and 28 celcius. Veg I run 18/6 at 50%-55% and 28-29 celcius for lights on/26-27 celcius for lights off. First week of flower I run 25-26 lights on at 50%-55%. After first week of flower I try to stay in the 45%-50%. Last two weeks of flower I bring my hum down as close to 40% as possible. I dont bring down temps for late flower.
@Horticulturehobbyists,add the flowering week numbers to the veg week so instead of "flowering week 1" say "week 12 (flowering) " that should fix it, there's an edit button for the week where it should be easy to do... anyway wasnt dropping by about that lol , loving the sprouts tea... by the way are you measuring VPD too ?
Love the details. I’ll ask the question in this week, but I’m really thinking in the end of the vegetative state, for a light mix of various amendment and soil how long does a plant take to use up the nutrients? The rate at which a plant can access amendment compared to liquid plant food is clear, but I’m still not clear on how long it would take a plant to use up the mixed in food in a large final pot. Lets say I’m generally mixing 3 parts soil to 1 part various amendment in a final pot, am I looking at approx. 1-2 weeks of food, or a month’s worth of food? Any insights are appreciated.
Thanks Horticulturehobbyists, I’m learning alot in a short time with this journal.
@@BeanswithPork, it's hard to say exactly but from the time you top ammend the pots until the time the ecosystem you've built in the pot makes that food available to the plants is in that 7-10 day range. You feed the pot and the pot feeds the plant.
The red striping is something we've seen and we do a lot of Kush. Have generally gone with a touch of CalMag and time... but hard to say 'cause they always turn out :) This is a seriously crazy grow you've got.