Very excited to be trying out Royal Queen Seeds genetics for the first time! Thanks to James at Royal Queen Seeds for organizing these seeds for me - I hope I can do these Amnesia Haze Automatics justice... π
I'm keen for more sativa dominant strains this season, so these really fit in to my theme this run - an old school classic I've never had the pleasure of trying before, so I can't wait πΈ
I soaked 2 seeds for 24 hours in dechlorinated water, then transferred to paper towel method and in 24 -36 hours I had tap roots.
After soaking jiffy pellets in water, I squeezed them out and mixed up some trichoderma (beneficial fungus) with some water and soaked the pellets in that before placing the seeds inside. The trichoderma should innoculate the soil and roots against pathogens and hopefully assist in building disease tolerance. This should also help prevent damping off issues with seedlings.
Soil I'll be using is re-used Freedom Farms Organic Classic living soil. I used this soil last year but have nurtured it since then. This week I added some rock phosphate and some Biodyne Environoc 401 Microbes. Before starting the grow, I also added worm castings to the soil.
Spring is here, but there's still some cold snaps now and then that could easily stunt autos, so I'm keeping them inside for now under 24 hour CFL lighting and will harden them off slowly.
Day 1 was 10/10/2020
Catch you next week :)
Thanks for writing so much and I love this style; doing some autos in organic pots myself trying to make them no till. Have you had any success or attempted to cut down cover crop then cover with hay to get a surge of N in the soil?
@Complicate, hey :) I wouldn't really be able to call this no till because I remove the medium after each grow, remove major root mass and mix all the soil together before amending for the next grow. At that point (between seasons) I've tried planting clover, hairy vetch and alfalfa which I let grow, then let decompose into the soil. I like having a diverse plant based source of nutrients slowly breaking down in the soil over time, even though I will feed with much more readily available nutes during the grow. It's the same reason I add some rock phosphate between grows - like a backup insurance policy. I think true no till would need 100L or more of soil to be truly left undisturbed and also accommodate good worm colonies. As far as I've read up, this is difficult to achieve in smaller grow bags. My reasoning for the hay in this grow is purely just a cheap way to prevent the soil from drying up too quickly on our insanely hot days (while adding some organic matter back into the soil slowly over time)
@Shooey, thanks bro - I've since harvested and dried and the one plant came out okay but the one is a leafy larfy mess which will probably be turned into hash or crumble since there's nice trichomes amongst all that leaf. But yes, I think I have conquered powdery mildew to some extent this grow, but the rot was another beast all together...
Beautiful plant, beautiful Bush snake.. Being from London i would have emptied my bowles and ran screaming like a small child if that crawled out of my plant ππ
Good luck for the rest of the grow..
@Theia, haha thanks π. I've grown up with these snakes being common visitors and used to keep them as pets when I was young. My wife on the other hand still screams as if we're under siege ππππ