First Kind Soil Grow Journal

[Thumbless Bastard]

First, I want to give respects to anyone that does a grow journal. I am finding it really takes some time and dedication to do so. I realize we often do it to show off a bit, but it should be understood that there are thousands out there lurking and learning from our experience. I know. I was one (and still am).

Ok. Enough with being serious. Lets look at this grow I have and let us see what becomes of it. I am super excited as I have jumped wholeheartedly into organic growing. So much so that I have started my own version of Subcool's Super Soil.

With this grow, I purchased 10 pounds of Kind Soil. I know we have some experts here on this and I am hoping to get some input when things go awry. Basically, I followed the instructions as follows: I used 2.5 lbs per 3 gal. fabric pot. My plants stay small so I figure I should be ok being a little short of recommended 3 lbs. I put about 2 lbs. in the bottom of pot, mixed about 1/2 lb. Kind Soil with some Fox Farm soil and placed this on top of the Kind Soil. I then filled the remaining with straight Fox Farm soil. I have purchased an under counter charcoal filter for my water needs so that I can keep most of the minerals but lose the bad stuff. I have been diligent about PHing the water with Earth Juice to 6.5 as my source stays around 8.2.

I must admit, so far, this is the easiest grow I have experienced. I have four plants and will bring them all along in this journal.
1 x Super Lemon Haze
1 x Jack Herer
1 x Incredible Bulk
1 x Afghan Haze (my own cross between an Afghan male and a feminised Amnezia VIP)

This first plant is Super Lemon Haze from Green House Seeds. This is the second seed I have grown from a 3 pack I purchased from Herbie's. The first one turned out to be one of my favorite strains. I am mad that I didn't clone it. Let's hope this one lives up to it's sister. I have already cloned this one (fool me once...).
Germinated 11/7
Fimed 11/21
Placed in flower 12/01

Grow conditions:
Vegetated under 6-13watt LED grow spot lights. This has proven to be sufficient for decent growth.
Flowering under a 150 watt Advanced Platinum LED with 4-13watt LED grow spot lights.
Lots of air movement with temps ranging from 73 deg. at night to 82 deg. with lights on. Humidity stays around 50%.
See my profile for pics of my grow closet.

Last picture was taken today.

 

[Green75]

Very time consuming indeed....labor of love I guess..

It all sounds great...good luck with it!!!
Excited to see them grow out....

 

[Thumbless Bastard]

Thanks! Me too!

 

[Thumbless Bastard]

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Here is the Jack Herer. I got this as a free seed and I am always leery of that but I wanted to see what would happen.

Germinated 11/7
Topped 11/23
Placed in flower 12/10

This plant has shown some signs of stress. Not sure if it doesn't like the soil or if I got a bad pheno. My current plan is to continue to water with PH'd water and make sure it doesn't get too dry between waterings. I have noticed that they have recently increased uptake of water which is good. I think it will outgrow it but we shall see. Any advice is appreciated, but I hope to see how this soil works across 4 strains.

Last photo taken today

 

[Thumbless Bastard]

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This is the Incrdible Bulk from Dr. Krippling. I have grown this before and was really surprised at how easy it grew and what nice smoke it was, so I thought it was a great choice for this test.

Germinated 11/20
Topped 12/6

Currently in the vegetation section waiting for a bit more growth from the topping.

Photos taken today.

 

[Thumbless Bastard]

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Finally, here is one that I am probably most excited to see grow out. This is a seed that I got from crossing a regular Afghan male with the most awesome feminized Amnezia VIP plant. I am calling it Afghan Haze. If I remember my Biology classes in college my chance of female is 75%. Correct me if I am wrong. This will be my first grow of my own crossing since the 80's. Damn, I love this.

Germinated 11/22
Topped 12/6

Currently in vegetation waiting for more growth from topping.

Photos taken today.

 

[Green75]

Nice......

 

[Canuck147]

Really nice looking plants, very vibrant color.

 

[Thumbless Bastard]

Thank you Canuck! The soil is doing all the work so far.

 

[Thumbless Bastard]

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Nothing like staying home on your day off and enjoying some home cultivated cannabis and abusing one of your girls. I think I am about 2/3 done with stretch. I just need to keep it under control as best that I can.

Super Lemon Haze after before and after LST

 

[Royal Nugs]

Awesome TB!

It it looks like your plants are enjoying the soil!

My girls get weird spots on them from time to time like your jack herer. I grow in kindsoil too with coco loco. I wouldn't be too concerned. Just keep that PH in check, my tap water is 8.3 so I too use EJC.

I got my 2nd batch of plants cooking as we speak. I overwatered my first grow and they ran out of juice around week 2-3 in flower. I now use a slurry (love ya Greenie) of ph adjusted water and 1/3 pound of kind soil (strained) and it seems to be working. I've done 5 consecutive slurries for their every other day watering with nothing but improvement. If you run out of nutrition at some point, I highly recommend it!

 

[Thumbless Bastard]

Thank you Royal Nugs! I am happy to have you come by and keep an eye on this one (if you don't mind).

My plan is like you said to not to be too concerned. I will just keep that water at 6.5 and not over water them. What happens will happen. Bet it will be awesome though.

The slurry idea makes so much sense. I was thinking that I would make a tea with bat guano, but using the soil you get everything you need. Simple idea (thanks Greenie). I will not use it on this grow unless I see them outlasting the soil and you advise it.

Excitted to have you along!

 

[morgan55]

I will keep the slurry in mind should I need it. Great idea!

 

[Green75]

Excited to watch this one...

 

[Charlie]

this is going to be a great grow, I'm subscribing.

 

[rockman]

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Great to see your results so far! My first Kind soil grow is underway, and I love the results and ease of just watering at this point. Thanks (Greenie as well) for the slurry mention, cause that sounds like a great solution if deficiencies show up!

 

[Thumbless Bastard]

Excited to have you along. I think a weekly update is sufficient don't you?

 

[Thumbless Bastard]

Thanks for joining in! Should be interesting.

 

[Thumbless Bastard]

Wow, that's sweet. The slurry seems to have worked well in Nugs grow so it will be an option if needed.

 

[Green75]

Dude you go ahead and update whenever you want...but yes once a week will be just fine

I feel you will update more often...when they take off it will be exciting and you will want to share..lol