First Harvest GSCE living soil

@@GreenGrows, yeah, look forward to the review😁

@DreamIT, Thank you my friend. Tomorrow morning scissors gettin sticky 👌

@HAPPY91, thanks for the encouragement my friend. Happy Growing :D

@GDub51, it has since been a while since you initially helped me out! Currently, my one lady is very close to harvest... I am in 100% living soil with 0 added salt fertilizers. At first I did think I ran into an issue of "overfeeding" when in reality, it was way too dry and hot in my tent, and the plants couldn't transpire through their leaves, so they make up for it by sucking up all moisture they can from the soil (and nutrients). I would get a TDS meter if it were more applicable to Living Soil cultivation in specific. Keep on the 100% organic! I am in the same boat. I attended a cannabis cultivation convention this past weekend, where it was all about Living Soil, and you will go CRAZY learning once you realize in a balanced living soil, the plant sends signals to surrounding organisms (fungi, bacteria, protazoa, earthworms, beetles) to bring it that exact nutrient in exchange the plant releases carbon for those organisms thru its roots! This is why in an INORGANIC setup, it is IMPERATIVE for the pH to be in a proper range, since there is no microbiology that can convert it to plant usable form if its even a little off. With more diverse soil life, it gives a much greater range of nutrient availability in the soil. Also, I see you with that climate controlled dry room! I just set up my closest so thru ventilation and a humidifier, it retains 60-63 degrees F and 56-59% humidity. Basically, for 3 minutes the RH is slowly increasing, then the next 3 minutes RH slowly decreasing... Do you think this environment is fluctuating too much? I just re read your post... I would be careful trying to combine organic with synthetic. The agricultural industry has tried this for decades and has depleted much of our earths soil so terribly.. If I could convince you to watch any videos from Jeff Lowenfels, or Dr. Elaine Ingham on soil food web, it will make sense how there is a better alternative to any addition of synthetic additives. Again, it is difficult to commit full 100%, but research has been done on greater diversity in terpene and flavonoid expression in cannabis grown in a biologically living medium. I am totally obsessed with the subject of living soil, and am definitely a little high right now so if it looks like I'm trying to be smarter than I am, I'm not. Also (if ur still reading this) the grow on my diary is definitely not the epitomy of indoor living soil. I have only started cultivating indoors this year, and realized most cannabis advice is built upon the years of undercover grow operations which relied on stealth and efficiency leading to incredible progression in hydroponic indoor growing techniques that growers even try applying outdoors without success. Anyway, I would totally send u some to dry if I had a larger harvest 😂 I will leave u with this... Who fertilizes the giant 100 foot tall Redwood Trees in California???? Certainly no human is replicating a fertilizer regiment like that :D keep up the positive vibes my friend.

You've got to get the TDS meter before you can make that decision. Use whichever is lower (likely the tap) and buy an ionic filter if necessary to lower the TDS. (to make room for some fertilizer) Some of those solids are useful (Calcium, magnesium, etc) but too much of anything, like everything, is no good. The plants can only eat so much at a particular time of their life. Charts are easy to find on the web. If you don't follow the charts and keep your feedwater within limits you'll "lockout" your plants. This means they get clogged up with the extra food and it blocks new food from being absorbed. Follow the charts diligently, check your PH with each load of feedwater. Don't worry about it being exactly 6.2PH, let it drift a little each way for a more natural effect. Also, if you go organic, the TDS meter will not help you judge how much to use since the TDS meters only work on synthetic nutrients. Then one must follow a chart/feed schedule somebody else figured out or guess using your experience. It's hard to "lockout" plants with organics so one can be liberal but you can still use too much and waste it. I'm a new convert to organic. I found it seemed to have prevented previously experienced yearly problems with caterpillars and diseases! While producing the tallest plants I've grown. (GSC's to 8' in 12-gallon tall pots) Whether the quality is better is still to be shown. Flowers look better, but the wind and heatwave damage prevented a better study. Having lost the bugs and diseases though is enough to switch me permanently to PRIMARILY ORGANIC. I say "primarily" because I have been told by an associate who is the Professor of Soil Sciences, Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences at a major university, that one can mix organic and chemical fertilizers as long as they are not used simultaneously. (separate feedings) My trichomes were more numerous than ever, but the heat waves and wind storms took a bite out of the quantity and quality making the majority of this years grow headed for the dry ice hash processing pile. Though, not all have been tested yet. I dry and cure very slowly in my wine cellar at 64'F and 55%RH so the October harvest is not really ready till at least Christmas and improves through the spring. (Have room in my cellar if anyone wants to try drying/curing there. ((a small sample fee required!) HAH!

@@GreenGrows, Yes, everything I"ve read for INDOOR is in the 55 to 60ph range, I'm familiar with the outdoor levels which are from 60 to 65 while shooting for 6.2, I've become so accustomed to our water that I know how many ML's to the gallon, yet I still check each time to make sure I'm correct. It's that important. Drift out of range and the plant will not absorb the food it could. When it comes to cannabis think Japanese Sumo wrestler or a Goose destined for Pate; stuff it till it starts to hurt. One must be very careful pushing the feed to near limits as it will burn the plant if something is too much or at the wrong time, so you have some studying to do. The first sign of "nutrient burn" or overfeeding, are brown tips appearing on fan leaves. Expert growers know just how hard to push that line and with which ingredients depending on the plants stage of growth and health. It's pretty simple to grow good pot, but it's ever evasive to try to produce something to rival store bought. And the process itself becomes consuming, at least as a hobby and some levels of obsession. I'm one of the obsessed, doomed to never reach that 33% THC bomb without the greenhouse or the expensive electric bill. Yes the sun is superior to ANY type of artificial light, except it cannot be controlled and one can get too much when it gets too hot like this year in SoCal. Then there's the diseases and bugs to master. I got two out of three this season, but the heat waves were the trouble this year. Bugs and disease were apparently fended off by the change to organic but the heat also begat moves into the garage to escape it. Those moves (imagine an 8' tall plant in a 2' tall wagon trying to negotiate the narrow side passage, rubbing against the sides here and there) left damage that burnt the flowers when back in the sun when the heat subsided. Looks like bud rot but it isn't. These browned flowers are still covered with tricomes as shown under the scope, so they were not trimmed away and in fact vape very nicely already. Yet a large harvest means some great dry ice hash if nothing else. Hot tip; if your first growths are not up to your standard, learn to process them with dry ice to separate the tricomes from the rest of the plant material giving you something you can sprinkle on your homegrown to turbo charge it's effectiveness. Have fun!

@@GreenGrows, Good luck Bro 🤞 Keep up the good work 💪

@Ts1Ko, They are lining up perfectly with the holiday season! Can't wait to do the official testing in a few weeks!

@Ts1Ko, I appreciate the encouragement my man, I got u bro... 🙌 I think Christmas Day will be the taste test 👽 Happy Green Growin! 🙏

@Buddha2, Thx Buddha "THE MIDDLE WAY" 😤🙌

@StayWeeded, tomorrow morning my friend :D

@NanoGrow, thank you much appreciated :)

@Ferenc, Thank you!