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End of week 5 — first journal here on Growdiaries. Growing in living organic soil with BuildASoil supplements and top-dressings. Some items frequently used:
AgSil - Silica Powder
XTherm - Yucca Extract
Horticultural Coconut Powder - BuildASoil
Recharge (Microbial Inoculant)
Organic Unsulphered Blackstrap Molasses
EWC - BuildASoil
Thrive.N - Fish Protein Hydrolysate
Epsom Salts
Kelp
NFTG - Full Sample Lineup (Few times)
Alfalfa Meal
Barley Straw
BuildAFlower Pre-Mixed Compost - BuildASoil
BuildABloom - BuildASoil
Compost Teas - Biodiverse, BuildASoil
Craft Blend - BuildASoil
Base: BuildASoil 3.0 LOS
Pots: 5 Gal Smart Pots
Lights: 4x QB288 V2 RSpec driven by two meanwell 2100 CC drivers. Also using far red supplemental lighting for about 30 min before lights off and 5-10 minutes after lights off.
End of week 5 is tomorrow.
Day 42, officially the start of week 7. Chocolate Diesel looking true to its sativa heritage with likely an another month left in flower. Peyote WiFi on the other hand is looking like it’s going to be a faster finisher than Seedsman’s anticipated 75 days, but only time will tell. Cheese in the back looks great, it just gets neglected in pictures. The front left cheese is looking alright, but maybe not the strongest pheno... not a lot of trichome coverage still.
Update 1/15: Day 46 pictures posted.
Day 51 as of 1/20/20, still cruising right along. I’m STILL debating when to chop these Peyote WiFi. The cheese and chocolate diesel still have some weeks though.
@MomnPoppaSeed, Appreciate the kind words. I’m really hoping I can stretch these to at least week 9. So far, trichs are all still cloudy, but they are maturing at a crazy rapid rate IMO.
@DocofRock, well to get the contrast I rather intensify the blacks by -25 in the lighting section, then the temperature is set at -25 and the tint -6 to get the slight violet tint off. Then you can sharpen the image by +10 if you wish, then also you can intensify the Texture by +4 or +6.
Harvest completed, 15 oz of fat, quality flower. 1-2 oz of lower branch larf made into dry ice hash, plus a further 1.75 oz of high-quality dry trim (being made into Gold Dragon tincture). Overall, very happy with the rich terpene profiles and resinous, trichome-coated buds from this living soil grow. I’m 1.5 days into germinating my next crop, all from Useful Seeds (including Grape OG x Chocolate Diesel testers). New journal coming soon.
@Mr_Weeds_Autos, Thanks dude. Yeah, it can be a headache over there. I mostly just isolate myself to the Useful thread — good people over there. God spare you if you venture over to the LED subforums though. Hahah
@Mr_Weeds_Autos, Appreciate it my dude. I definitely try to keep them happy. As a newer grower it’s great to get good feedback. I’m new here at growdiaries, but been slumming it over at Rollitup (mostly in the Useful Seeds thread) for a while. Thanks for the kind words. Cheers!
@EastCoastGreen,
Living soil + mulch + composts and top dressing, TONS of airflow, and 4x QB 288 V2 Rspec boards driven by two Meanwell 2100 cc drivers. Also use a far red supplement just before and after lights out. Other than that, a hand full of high quality amendments and supplements from build a soil.
DocofRock
