First signs of pistils on a few of the girls this week at day 26. This feels a bit earlier than normal for outdoor autos, I think the heat stress may have freaked them out a bit. I was hoping to get more veg in before this point, not sure anymore if I'll reach the >1m height I was pushing for. Still stoked that they made it this far and are recovering. I'm convinced that using the Silicon Plus just before the heat hit, helped them handle that and recover better than they would have otherwise. I'll treat plants with that from an earlier age next time.
I've noticed all kinds of mold growing on the alfala mulch. While it could be beneficial (and possibly introduced from the trichoderma), there is a variety of mold types and what is worrying is the black mold. I'm not taking a chance here, so I removed all the mulch and will consider something else for the rest of the grow.
Started mild bloom nutes this week.
Peace βοΈ
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