Welcome to my Fast Buds sponsored shootout and living organic soil v coco side by side. I also plan to use this grow to my full advantage regarding a few age old nagging questions about methods.
I have had a keen interest in L.O.S ( supersoil) since reading a few threads a while back on how amazing and productive it can be. After too much research and procrastinating I had to give it a go. I have been a decades coco/nft grower and recently threw my hat in the rdwc ring too. I have avoided soil due to the overwatering worry ( heavy handed chimp brain !) and the best potting soil/feeds. Catching up on the advances in indoor soil gardening and organics led me too subcools supersoil recipes to name a few but being a town dweller with farms everywhere around me still drew blanks on a lot of the ingredients needed and where the hell I could even begin to get them from. Thankfully , commercial savvy has now made buying it in ready to use and with a full range of beneficial bacteria ect available in amendments from a grow shop here in the uk. ecothrive have realised the potential for us to dive into this medium with all the mixing , measuring and resourcing. I bit the bullet and ยฃ150 later I now have 4 x37Litre pots that will be used for as long as I want to feed the soil for without EVER needing nutrients again potentially. The coco has also had charge mixed in to encourage the bennies to colonize there too. I will be using the shogun nutes that I know do the business with coco to compare with for yield , growth and taste.
I have 3 seeds each of 4 Fast Buds Strains to use as a control for the grow and am journaling each strain in their own diaries. This statement will be used to start each one as the information is identical at this point but following this I will do them individually.
I am now starting their second week since opening the seed packets , straight into soaked and shook root riot cubes and into the heated propagator. They had all showed their heads by end of day 3 and a couple needed helmet surgery to open up without being hindered . I have has them in the prop for a few days but they needed to get settled as they were popping roots out all over the cubes. They have now been in their final pots for 2 days complete and starting their 3rd today at day 8 since planting in cubes. I am impressed with the speed and success of these girls already (12 of 13 germinated) . Well done fast buds.
So here we go folks , any comments , ideas ,questions , advice are always welcome and I hope we can have some fun experimenting with defol v non defol , topping v fimming v bending and any other curiosities along the way. I plan on using a quadline for them all to keep a control for the comparisons too.
Be green folks
Welcome aboard and a huge thank you to Fast Buds for the opportunity to try autos.
@PrairieFrostGrow,Thanks bud. I am impressed with them so far. Wish I could have sussed what was happening with the poorly girl. been the same throughout the grow ?. thankfully still kicking buds out.
Cracking video there @Ganjagrandaddy (on insulation week 8)
Those growers in California and Australia just don't get what we have to put up with!
However I guess one good thing about winter - no bugs
Tried growing Basil in the garden once and it was eaten alive by mites
@LordAzrael,Lol agree there mate. we had a hot summer here and all us uk growers lost our minds and learnt a lot about bud rot too.!!. This stuff is good for keeping heat OUT too. I got by in some serious ( for uk) temps with no airflow rhrought the loft at all. It got hot but never more than 30ยฐc which was a bonus compared to outside silly temps. I prefer a winter grow for sure now out summers have heated up but these Fast buds in their own fabric pots , will make a brilliant guerilla grow outdoors for us next year. A nice sealed box idea using this outside your tent like a thermal blanket , will allow you a lot of control for very little cost before starting the expensive environmental additions and their running costs. All good mate. keep green
Merry Xmas