My perpetual grow journal

[oldjarhead100]

nice rosetta nice

[RosettaStoned]

Here we are, week 9 and the girls are smelling are starting to stink! In a good way, like sweet fruit. All three should be ready in a week or two.

As for the SoG...12 are flipped as of yesterday. One of the light burned ones didn't make it, two more are barely hanging on and three have come back. Going to give these five another week at least. Moved the LEDs to the flower room, set at 15", for the 12 and have the five under a 6500K 125 watt cfl.

Not much else, still over crowded veg room. I'll update about the soil grow in a few days.

[alltatup]

That ocean of buds is beautiful.

[RosettaStoned]

Mixed my super soil this weekend.
receipe is.....
Medium- 3 cubic ft sunshine mix #4 advanced with coco coir (7 5 gallon buckets)
1 1/2+ 5 gallon buckets each of purple cow compost and coast of Maine lobster compost- I ordered the CoM compost because i read about it
1 1/2 + 5 gallon buckets each of ewc, two kinds
2 +/- 5 gallon buckets of perlite, added a little vermiculite because I had it laying around.
(Part of this came from another forum and can't take credit for it)

Amendments...
Equal parts;
Blood meal- high N for growth
Bone meal- high N and P for flower and root structure
Bat guano- high N and microbes and enzymes
Iron tone- micro and macro nutrients
Garden lime- pH control and macronutrients
Garden gypsum- pH control (helps lime move through soil and prevent compaction), root growth, micro and macro
Oyster shells (ground)- calcium, pH control
Green sand- takes forever to break down but good K source, mined from the sea (never used it before, from another forum)
Fish meal- excellent for microbial life, high N and P
Chicken manure pellets- slower release N, beneficial bacteria
Rock phosphate- for flower
Tomato tone- balanced fertilizer, high K
Garden tone- balanced fertilizer, higher K
Dr Earth garden fertilizer- same, for diversity
Doubled these;
Alfalfa meal- good K source but adds beneficial microbes that help break down nutrients to readily available
Kelp meal- apparently this one is magical and I've been missing out on it in my vegetable garden, adds aminos, carbs, vitamins, minerals, plant hormones, and much more (another one from a different forum)
Neem cake- well rounded source of macro but mainly for pests and disease
Azomite- rock dust for micronutrients and trace minerals
Mega mend natural minerals- another trace mineral source

i used 3 cups per cubic foot of the amendment mix, that equals about 16 1/2 cups. Then 3 cups of the rock dust mix for the whole pile.
I spread out a tarp in my sunporch and got to work. Took about an hour to measure all out and mix (took me longer to type this out haha). I cleaned out a garbage can and put outside my grow room. Hauled it down stairs in batches wetting it down as I go. It filled a 32 gallon can (compacted) and two, 3/4 full, 17 gallon round totes I'll use for my no-till flowering. Now it just sits for a month at least. Occasionally wetting it down if it gets too dry.

As for the semi super soil going now. Looking good other than a few leaf tips on one plant turned yellow. Happened a few days ago right after watering. Hasn't progressed any further. Maybe part of the root zone hit a hot spot. Started another little one a couple weeks ago with the left over soil I had from that batch. It also looks great.

[RosettaStoned]

Also I will be composting all of my old soil. I'll put the old soil in with some of the new composted medium and amend as needed. I figure I'll get a few grows out of it before needing to apply anything, if at all. Will also be making ewc and compost teas to further supplement the soil microbes.

[D.A.A.S.69]

Hey Stone, that's the way to do it, you got it going on now, a steady supply of your own supersoil. Supersoil is some kind of awesome stuff, an i bet your right about the burned tip hitting a hot spot.
I used to topdress with KindSoil, an every time I did ,the next day I would have a little tip burn.
Good Luck with your soil. Stoned.

[RosettaStoned]

Thanks d.a.a.s., it feels good to be getting back to organic. The whole point of making it medicine is so it's clean and beneficial. It's the whole reason I started growing organic vegetables.

[RosettaStoned]

Looks like a calcium deficiency in the SoG reservoirs, brown spots on newer lower leaves where the light is hitting them. So, I added 12 ml of calmag to each reservoir.
and....some buds pics of course 😁

[oldjarhead100]

hey Rosetta thats a good recipe just have 2 questions when you wrote 1 1/2+5 gallon bucket did you mean 7 1/2 gallons of the soil
what is ewc does that stand for earth worm castings?

[RosettaStoned]

Yes seven and a half gallons from bucket. You got it, earthworm castings!

[oldjarhead100]

cool just wanted to be sure thanks

[RosettaStoned]

Bucket and reservoir change tonight.
first the main stage. Finishing up week 10 in a couple days maybe trimming soon! Still only seeing lone amber trichs here and there. Changed the pineapple Express and friends buckets. Staying at 1.1 EC for the pineapple Express and .85 for the other two. Doubling up on the cannaboost for the last few weeks. pH'd to 5.95 and light is 18" away. Here's a shot up their skirts 😉

The SoG is doing great checked the reservoir and both are holding at 5.84 pH. EC is at .9. roots are looking nice and white and the growth is quite amazing for these 9 band LEDs. Lots of bushy side growth, probably thanks to topping them. They are a little past one week into flower and signs of buds already starting. Light is 15" from the plants. Three girls made it through my f up and hope to get them into flower by the start of week two.

in preparation of the big grow being done soon I bumped the next six in line up in nutes. Jumped from around .7 EC to .93 to .98. pHing to 5.65. Been adding an extra calmag 5-10ml to one because it has been giving me problems since it's start as a clone. But it still grows right with the others, just has been yellowish. I've been growing them pretty normal, minimal training. Just trying to keep the height down. They were topped once about six weeks ago. I want to lollipop and defoliate all six under a 600 hps or the COB setup I want, if I get it in time.

The two outside rows are next. Second pic is trying to show the yellow

[alltatup]

Looks like Paradise...

[Campesino]

Beautiful roots! I really like that picture

[RosettaStoned]

I thank the the rhizotonic for the roots

[Californiakid]

Very niiice !

[RosettaStoned]

Pineapple Express started it's flush Saturday. Pretty much right on schedule with the breeders times. They say 8-9 weeks. I'm at 10 tomorrow night. These buds are the most dense so far! Probably the unaltered genetics from a decent breeder doing that.

The other two I want to start tomorrow night but I am on the fence about one. It still has pistils sticking out, they're amber and curling but out.
First two in the slide are the not too sure ones. Second two pictures look ready but said I wanted to wait an extra week. And that was 9 1/2 last harvest, so I have to go at least 10 1/2 weeks.....and 10 is tomorrow. Not seeing much amber though. Feed them another week is what I'm going with.....maybe some extra boost too.

[alltatup]

Sounds like a good plan; have you looked at the trichomes?

[RosettaStoned]

Pineapple Express is more than ready. The other two have stray ambers. One more than the other

[oldjarhead100]

good times ahead Rosetta

[RosettaStoned]

Well....my hand is broke thanks to a fellow employee dropping a piece of plywood on my hand. That should make things interesting the next month 😅 I harvested the pineapple Express last week and it's in jars on the cure.

The other two are ready and have been in he dark since Wednesday morning. I think I could let one of them go longer still but.....gonna cut her down anyway. She has enough amber for me. Won't be able to trim tomorrow night, just watch and guide.

My SoG is not doing well at the moment. I think I have WPM. If it's not then it's residue from the foliar regiment I'm using for the first six weeks. It's not fuzzy or powdery, yet...I have cleaned up some leaves and removed others. There's always a fan blowing on them so that hasn't changed. Started spraying them with a sm-90 solution but it still seems to be sticking around. Also layed off the foliar.

[Campesino]

I agree. After looking closer at the pics - really doesn't look like WPM

[alltatup]

Sorry about the bone breakage; you didn't break the whole hand, did you? The buds look lush and yummy!

[RosettaStoned]

Multiple metacarpal fractures 😒

[Californiakid]

Sorry to hear about your hand. Hope its not your dominant hand. I've broken a few bones, its never fun.
That pineapple express looks tasty.

Do you have a loop or scope to check trichomes? If you do, I would look at your suspect white fuzz to see if it looks fuzzy or hopefully crystallized. Residue from foliar feeding might looks like salt or other crystalline remains.

[RosettaStoned]

That's a fun month! I should say it's just hard to grind it up. If the wife does enough for me, I'm good.

[oldjarhead100]

Hey Rosetta that does and doesn't look like WPM in first 2 pics yes it looks like Wpm but in last 2 it doesn't a folier spray could do that ,I posted a thread on wpm with pictures under a scope if you need a reference . I use a cheap coffee bean grinder its great for a one hand op

[RosettaStoned]

I'll take a look, thanks

[RosettaStoned]

Here's a picture of the white spots. Looks like it's peeling up, like a scale deposit or a film.

[oldjarhead100]

still hard to tell they sell a pm wash thats not neem oil and works pretty good it called PM wash lol hard title, I would spray it just to make sure

[MadMike]

I'd say it's PM. Those look like spore capsules forming. I've never seen magnification of PM before but my understanding of leaf fungal pathogens leads me to suspect PM. Stopping the foliar feeding and keeping the room on the dry side might clear it up all on it's own. But if it seems like it's spreading in 4-5 days I might consider a spray.

[RosettaStoned]

I stopped the foliar spray, just used sm-90 a few times. The spots didn't grow or shrink.

[RosettaStoned]

Just catching up with things....
Harvested all of second grow, the last will go in jars tonight. Everything came out great so far. Definitely some improvement from the first! Moved six veg plants into the flower room, but letting them veg for a week before the flip. They got pretty beat up coaxing them into the net. I trimmed the hell out these but think I can still do more. Also, testing the terpinator additive on three of the six. Jumped them to 1.35 EC and ph'd to 5.8. Hanging bc pinewarp x bubblegummer jars is pineapple Express x Black Diesel.

The SoG buds are coming along and the white spots haven't progressed. The liquid light/saturator made them explode with bushy growth. I had to thin it out pretty good and cut 14 monster cropped clones, for the next SoG, in the process. They are still holding at about 1.15 EC an rarely moves far outside of 5.8-6.0 pH range. I covered the area they are in to keep light schedule because of the new six in there. The girls in the soil are still rocking and look healthy, really filling out.

[Locrian99]

I thought I had WPM and figured out it was just pooling of my foliage spray drying. Have you tried the wet paper towel method nebula talks out in the article on wpm?

[RosettaStoned]

Yeah, it doesn't wipe off easy. Doesn't fly away when touched and no fuzz. It's not like a squash plant that gets wpm. I'm thinking the same thing, possibly calcium from the added calmag. If it changed for the worse or made the plants look unhealthy then, maybe wpm.

[Locrian99]

Hmm mine wiped off super easy but I didn’t have any cal mag in it. Anyways yea, I put a second fan in (which I should’ve had anyways) just to make sure I wasn’t giving the stuff good breeding conditions if it was (though my humidity was probably too low rather than too high). Good of reason as any to dial that stuff in as best you can.

[DingusKhan]

Congratulations on achieving another harvest!

[RosettaStoned]

Thank you