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Kritikal-K 1st living soil experiment

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weeks 1
Defoliation
weeks 7-8, 10, 14
LST
weeks 8, 10
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40 l
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Glass Of Water
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Kannabia Seed Company - 89%
Kritikal-K - 93%
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herbalistssword herbalistssword
4 years ago
Welcome to another grow of mine. I don't enjoy this nutrient thing and constant feeding so I decided to try out a water only approach with living-soil. I was going to buy the "Indoor Organic Soil For Life" starter kit but decided to save my money and mix my own rich soil and water only with some echothrive life-cycle top dresses every few weeks. Don't see why it wouldn't work. So went to local grow shop to see what i can get there and they recommended stuff, I bought some and mixed: biobizz light mix bat guano palm ash rock phosphate white shark chicken manure pellets Mixed the lot and potted in 40L pot, watered well, sprinkled with alfalfa then covered with some hay I bought from the pet store. 2 weeks there was still not sign of any alfalfa, I moved the pot and noticed that the saucer was full of disgusting brown smelly water, smelled like sewage :( I had overwatered the soil and it stayed in the run off. Threw the water away, moved the pot outside to rinse the smell a bit and put the pot back in the tent a day later. I covered the top with more alfalfa seed as I assumed the ones I put in had rotted and covered with the mulch again. After another 2 weeks, the alfalfa was finally showing, it was ready for some cannabis plants. I wanted to try growing a photoperiod, possibly taking clones from her to have more plants, so I will probably take some clones off of this girl. I had received a Kritikal-K sample when I joined the UKCSC and decided to make use of it in this grow, seems like a good high yielding strain. Popped the seed in some water until it sunk to the bottom ~24 hours later. Then dug a small hole and planted the seed and covered with the mulch. After 4 days, there was still no sign of the seedling, so I decided that maybe it was a bad idea covering the seed with the mulch so I removed the mulch off of the spot with the seed and one day later there she was! Today is day 7 and the 2 leaves I have are getting wider but still no new leaves, looking well so far.
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Grow Questions
herbalistssword
herbalistsswordstarted grow question 4 years ago
Started seeing burning around the edges of leaves after foliar with aloe vera. have my own mixed soil with palm ash, bat guano, rock dust, chicken manure and epsom salts. I added some ecothrive life-cycle 3 weeks ago. Is it nutrient burnt? Shall I do anything? Or wait it out?
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Leaves. Edges burnt
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Roberts
Robertsanswered grow question 4 years ago
Light burn or stress is yellowing of leaves and is progressively across canopy toward center of plants. If edges are crispy it is nutrition burn. I looked at wrong numbers earlier. But light is still to close for my preference. In flowering it would be ideal. Maybe still a little close. Do you have run off each watering? If not chemicals will build up in soil causing all kinds of problems from ph to nutrient burn. Good luck. 🌲🌲🌲👊
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GreenGrows
GreenGrowsweek 0
Dude! This looks awesome. My first grow about to complete started before I knew much about living soil... Already set up my next containers in a similar fashion to what you've got going. Looking forward to seeing your progress... I attended a cannabis cultivation seminar last weekend, Kevin Jodrey shared research that sold me .... Here's a few notes I jotted down! - "Living soil destroys other growing methods in cannabanoids, terpene, flavanoid levels, and secondary metabolite production.(essentially vaster and more diverse expressions of cannabinoid profiles, not necessarily potency) " - "Outdoors in living soil, abiotic factors (wind, rain, temp, humidity) force the plant to perform. With indoor Living soil, biological activity in a contained area is the stressor that forces the plant to perform" - "higher THC USUALLY means lower terpene production Anyway, living soil just excites me, so even if one of these tips causes a spark in your brain in a positive way, then I am happy! - GreenGrows :D
herbalistssword
herbalistssword
@@GreenGrows, thanks for dropping by and your comments! Very good to know, That is music to my ears! Maybe one day it'll be legal in the UK and I won't be paranoid about attending a seminar about it! I forgot to mention, I also stole a few red earth worms from a wormery my son keeps for feeding his Newt. This pot was an experiment, I am already plotting/preparing for the next one, here is what I bought already which I think is what I am adding to used biobizz lightmix soil, aiming for 220L which I will put in 4 55L pots: Willy worms worm castings compost 30L - apparently lots of good in here Canna coco coir 30L - more aeration Pumice 30L - even more aeration Ecothrive life-cycle - seemed to be a cheaper and pre-mixed option for super soil, I am lazy 1.5L Chicken manure Bought some companion plants: Alfala, Clover (white and red) Basil Chamomile Once my current grow is finished, I'll start on mixing those things, potting and waiting for companion plants to show then I''ll add some worms in here too :) why not Thanks again for your input and looking forward to watching you grows, there is so much to learn
Smokwiri
Smokwiriweek 10
Great grow mate 👌💪👍👻
heizen
heizenweek 1
Nice grow mate, plants are looking good, keep it up, imma follow this one upclose.
DreamOn
DreamOnweek 0
Good luck with the grow mate! 🌱😎
Smokwiri
Smokwiriweek 15
Plant looks nice, i will be looking at it now and then..
herbalistssword
herbalistsswordweek 9
So those burns marks look like sulfur excess. Must have given too much epsom salt a couple of weeks ago. Watered he yesterday till run off. 3 litres