The Cinderella 99 Story Organic Grow

— Day 15 (10/25/2020): It’s now the beginning of week 3 and these girls are starting to get bigger day by day. Soon they will out grow their starting pots and will need to be transplanted soon! I decided to start transplanting them into 1 gal fabric pots instead of the 1L pots, as I think they will out grow these fast. So I started hydrating and buffering my Canna Coco. I know it is probably unnecessary since Canna Coco did this already but I also wanted to filter out all the coco fines, which canna coco bricks have at least 10-15% of its weight in it, I will also buffer by soaking my coco in a solution on GH CalMagic at a ration of 10ml per gal of water coco mix. So here are the steps I used to wash and buffer my coco. Step 1: Fully hydrate your coco. Step 2: Start straining your coco using a medium to fine mesh food strainer. Flush the coco with dechlorinated tap water. Keep flushing until majority of the fines are out. Step 3: Put washed coco in a 5 gallon bucket and fill it until it becomes a nice slurry that can be easily stirred. Add the corresponding amount of CalMagic depending on how full your bucket is (10ml/gal). Let soak for 24hrs Step 4: Strain and rinse your coco once more to clear out solution. Put washed and buffered coco in fabric bags to drain excess water. Your coco is now ready for use! You’ll be amazed on how much fine coco dust is in your bricks. Buffering also prevents Calcium and Magnesium lockouts which is notorious when using coco as a medium. I’m still waiting for my coco to be be buffered so I will update the photos as time goes by! — Day 16 (10/26/2020): Today I water each cell about 20ml of dechlorinated water. I still have the all plants in the dome as a way to control my humidity. So far growth is consistent. Today I strained out my coco from the slurry of dechlorinated tap water and CalMagic. I then rinsed the coco for a second time through a food strainer. I then put the rinsed and buffered coco in a fabric bag to drain to dry it out a bit. Today I will be starting my Compost Tea so when I transplant my plants tomorrow they will have a fresh start of Microbial Life to start breaking my pre-amended Medium. Below is my tea recipe I used: Compost Tea — 1/4 cup ea of Boggie tea — 2 tbsp of boogie Brix — 2 tbsp of Insect Frass — 2 tbsp of Kelp Meal — 2 tbsp of Alfalfa Meal — 2 tbsp of Neem Seed Meal — 1/4 cup of Compost — 1/4 cup of Worm Castings Brew in a burlap sack for 24hrs with Air stones to oxygenate and mix the solution. By tomorrow my tea should be done and I’ll use it on my Veg Soil Medium Mix which consists: Organic Coco medium: + 5 parts Coco + 1 part Dr Earths Compost + 1 part Worm Gold Plus Worm Castings + 3 part Perlite + Pre-Amended with 1.333 Tbsp of each Dr Earths All-Purpose, Starter, and Tomato and Vegetable Organic fertilizers. Per gallon of medium. + Other Amendments used was 2 tbsp of each Dolomites Lime, Oyster shells, Neem Seed Meal, Insect Frass 2-2-2, Kelp Meal, Alfalfa meal. 2 Tbsp of Azomite from Down to earth. Per gallon of medium. + Medium will be inoculated with the Compost Tea every week or two. — Day 17 (10/27/2020): It was a very eventful and busy day today as I started mixing up a small batch of Veg Medium Mix with my amendments. I love organic growing cause of all the colors, smells, and feel of the materials used to make these plants thrive. It’s only Natural! It definitely beats making a boring batch of Nutes every couple days. Anyways I posted as much photos I can of all the amendments used. After I made my batch of all organic amended medium I put the medium in 1 gallon fabric pots. I then transplanted all the baby girls in the medium and probably buried an inch of stem into the medium. I also generously applied some of my finish 24hrs brewed compost tea diluted to 1:2 using dechlorinated tap water til runoff. The medium mix drains very well and should not have a problem with overwatering. I kept the ppfd around 350-400umol as they get situated with there new homes. I’m going to continuously spritz water on the tent and the plants to keep the humidity higher. I can’t wait to see how these organic girls compare with their salt based nute sisters on my other diary. Only time will tell!