Trying things a bit different this time with the soil and soil health. Previously, I've been letting the soil carry it through until deficiencies show and then feeding, but I'm always a week behind cause organic. This also leads to the microbes having nothing to break down and then the PH of the soil getting thrown off.....looking at you other diaries. This time I've top dressed in Week 2 with a light solution of Elemental, Uprising Foundation, and Uprising Grow. At the end of the week, on their second watering, I did a compost Tea of the Terp Teas plus the Trinity ( molasses and other carbs) and the Extreme Serene ( kelp ). They have taken to this heavy feeding (comparatively to my other Auto grows) very well. I am monitoring the soil PH with my new pen to avoid the issues I'm having with the RQS and SoloCup grows.
LST'd them last night and they've recovered and oriented all ready, maybe a bit early on day 14, but I'll keep re-tying and stretching them as needed. I have also planted clovers, they took forever to come up but they are starting to spout now.
On my next grow, I am going to pre-amend the soil for 4 weeks of feeding and then do a top dress in week 3/4 that should carry the plant out to the finish. I'd like to get to the point of plain watering the entire time, maybe a tea or two here or there for some immediate deficiency relief.
@the_canna_scientist,
Growing them straight up natural will provide the best consistent yields on these autos. Training fastbuds is something weโre pretty familiar with.
@Garreweedlover, I'll probably let em go natural again on a new strain or something I haven't grown before, and then if I decide to grow it again, experiments all round!
I have been looking at the same Roots Organics trip you are using, I recently mixed up a Super Coco that is doing very well, your grow looks first class!
@MrJones, I really like the Roots Organic stuff, especially the Uprising line, you have to feed way more than what's on the schedule though with their top dress amendments. I'm doing about double to 3x what is on the bags for these guys. Previously, I was doing 1/2 to 1/4 of what was on the bags...cause autos... and was starving the plants.
@MrJones, I'll always do a lil bit of training, off the wet weights, probably will get a bit over a half lb dry. Striving to get a hp per plant, but I'll settle for a qp/plant for now on autos.
Thanks so much for running a diary of our genetics ๐
Best of luck with the rest of the grow ๐ฑ Let us know if you need any assistance, weโre more than happy to help.