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Growing from seed this year instead of clones. If there is a strain I like then I will buy some from the bargain shelf. I often get a bonus bean or more. I have an unknown Airheadz cross, an unknown GDP cross, fem Blueberry cupcake and fem Notorious THC (both purchased hard to pass up 5 fems for 15 each. All sown on 4/8 except the GDP which I started about the time the others sprouted. Maybe 4-5 days. I used peat pucks that were inoculated and pretreated with dilute fulvic acid, B-1, phos and iron. Beyond that just a water misting until I got at least 2 sets of true leaves then a pinch of neem seed meal top dress. Started under a 200w 6500k LED. I find that it keeps them short with good root and leaf development. Once I had sufficient rooting they were transferred to small nursery starters filled with an organic starter soil amended with alfalfa/kelp/inoculant. I skipped the transition pots and put them right in their final home. Ended up with two mutants (a tripled and one that grows one little leaf "cup" and only on one spot. Both from purchased seeds, different strains. Only one male.
Went down from my usual 30 gal fabric pots to 25 gal this year. I made my own organic soil. Recipe is as follows:
Premixed in each pot.
30 % Forest wood fines/chips/forest humus blend
25% Mix of Pumice, horti Perlite and Perlite #4 (I just kinda mix by sight)
25% Peat moss
15% Blended compost (mint/ocean fish/poultry manure/worm castings))
2 cups Dr. Earth Compost Starter
2 cups Cracked sprouted high DP barley
1 cup Neem seed meal
1 cup Corn cob bits inoculated with BTI
1/2 cup Diatomaceous earth
1/2 cup Roots Uprising bloom
Transplants were put in partial full and indirect sun for a few days before being moved to their final home. The back patio gets about 4-5 hours of direct sun each day. Once the girls are settled in, I side dress with granular humic acid and ironite at about 4 Tsp each.
Every ingredient has a specific intent. Basic soil structure is based on a 50% pore space and 50% solids native soil model. The pore space is roughly 25% water and 25% air. I take into consideration anything that may be dual/multi purpose. For example, peat moss, bark components, compost, organic matter. Corn cob bits provid both air and water given their shape and absorbency, as well as providing an anchor and consistent carb source for roots and microbes. I include nutrients that provide slow, medium and fast release. The goal is consistent feeding throughout the season. The nitrogen could be a bit high at first based on coloration, some minor clawing on a few blades and a bit of early stretch which, with the timing of my FIMMED FIM works out great for me. It opens to lower canopy for me a bit and I can make early culling decisions. At first I just pinch new shoots on the interior growth. I want to keep the fan leaves for awhile until I start to get some good apical growth then I take those too. If it isn't giving energy, then you're losing what can go toward new growth. I usually do progressive harvesting so a few smaller more interior buds will finish up about the time I'm done dealing with what I've already cut down. I like my little B buds. They keep me out of the good stuff while it's finishing its cure. Lol
I add support poles before the roots get extended out too far. I don't really make any decisions about the location of the branch support until about the first part of July.
From there on out it's just water with a few exceptions. A 1/4 dose of fulvic acid 3 time a week. I inoculate once a week. Around mid May I give a 1/4 dose of Langbeinite and gradually increase until we are in fill flower. The girls seem ta start smelling a little terpy well before July. During flower a touch of phos and the Langbeinite now and then. About 3 weeks before harvest I switch to just langbenite and ten a week or whatever until harvest the just get water. Once I've decided when I'm going to harvest they get nothing for a day or two. Seems to cut my dry time a bit.
I didn't take any baby pics but will post a few of what I have soon.
Thanks for reading
Went down from my usual 30 gal fabric pots to 25 gal this year. I made my own organic soil. Recipe is as follows:
Premixed in each pot.
30 % Forest wood fines/chips/forest humus blend
25% Mix of Pumice, horti Perlite and Perlite #4 (I just kinda mix by sight)
25% Peat moss
15% Blended compost (mint/ocean fish/poultry manure/worm castings))
2 cups Dr. Earth Compost Starter
2 cups Cracked sprouted high DP barley
1 cup Neem seed meal
1 cup Corn cob bits inoculated with BTI
1/2 cup Diatomaceous earth
1/2 cup Roots Uprising bloom
Transplants were put in partial full and indirect sun for a few days before being moved to their final home. The back patio gets about 4-5 hours of direct sun each day. Once the girls are settled in, I side dress with granular humic acid and ironite at about 4 Tsp each.
Every ingredient has a specific intent. Basic soil structure is based on a 50% pore space and 50% solids native soil model. The pore space is roughly 25% water and 25% air. I take into consideration anything that may be dual/multi purpose. For example, peat moss, bark components, compost, organic matter. Corn cob bits provid both air and water given their shape and absorbency, as well as providing an anchor and consistent carb source for roots and microbes. I include nutrients that provide slow, medium and fast release. The goal is consistent feeding throughout the season. The nitrogen could be a bit high at first based on coloration, some minor clawing on a few blades and a bit of early stretch which, with the timing of my FIMMED FIM works out great for me. It opens to lower canopy for me a bit and I can make early culling decisions. At first I just pinch new shoots on the interior growth. I want to keep the fan leaves for awhile until I start to get some good apical growth then I take those too. If it isn't giving energy, then you're losing what can go toward new growth. I usually do progressive harvesting so a few smaller more interior buds will finish up about the time I'm done dealing with what I've already cut down. I like my little B buds. They keep me out of the good stuff while it's finishing its cure. Lol
I add support poles before the roots get extended out too far. I don't really make any decisions about the location of the branch support until about the first part of July.
From there on out it's just water with a few exceptions. A 1/4 dose of fulvic acid 3 time a week. I inoculate once a week. Around mid May I give a 1/4 dose of Langbeinite and gradually increase until we are in fill flower. The girls seem ta start smelling a little terpy well before July. During flower a touch of phos and the Langbeinite now and then. About 3 weeks before harvest I switch to just langbenite and ten a week or whatever until harvest the just get water. Once I've decided when I'm going to harvest they get nothing for a day or two. Seems to cut my dry time a bit.
I didn't take any baby pics but will post a few of what I have soon.
Thanks for reading
I think i saw a post from you before? I'm in Roseburg, got me some blueberry muffin x3 i cloned from earlier grow and 1 white widow x purple kush oh yes a couple slurricanes that are blooming there brains out. No sign of reveg just filling out. Those others are cuts i made March close to 4 months old. Boy i could really clone somemore but i'm not gonna run any till maybe Nov. i got a no tent rule during summer LOL
Keep up your posts i'd love to follow a fellow Oregon grower. Good luck
