Growing and going full tilt No Till

[Paracelsus]

 

[alltatup]

Joni sang it better, in my opinion... I never was too crazy about CSNY...

 

[Paracelsus]

Things haven’t been going well here at the farm. After I added Dr. Earth Root Zone and drenching them the plants began an immediate curling and yellowing of the leaves. A bright deep yellow on the first true leaves. I stuck with the Doctor Earth for 48 hours and then regretted it. Maybe the NPK from the Dr Earth in combination with the richness of the LOS from Build a Soil was too hot. So 48 hours afterwards I decided I had made a mistake and went ahead with 4 full spring water flushs over a 48 hour period. While the plants have grown incrementally past the third node the bottom leaves remain yellow and curling as overall seem stunted. All I am doing now is watering judiciously keeping them humid and cutting back on the water so as not to overwater them. Which may be too late. They say the first grow is a learning experience and it sure is. Hopefully they will recover after all only three weeks since I germinated these seeds.

 

[Paracelsus]

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[Californiakid]

I was just doing some grain to grain transfers the other day. Well assisting really. Learning the technique from a friend that really excells at the subject of mycology. Fun stuff.

 

[Californiakid]

Keeping fingers crossed that she pulls through.
How much did you give them?

I keep having to go back through the pages so many great subjects in your thread.

I'm realizing the necessity for a worm bin. Buying worm castings is silly expensive, but so valuable. So I'm off tripping around reading on building and buying. I gotta back up a page or so and find the one that mentioned building...

 

[Tika]

Ouch....my heart dropped. You are vigilant and I yearn for them to rally.

 

[DingusKhan]

The lower, damaged leaves will probably not recover, even after you fix the problem. However, it does look like the newer, baby leaves are not as badly affected, so your problem might actually be solved already. When the new leaves get big enough to open fully, I would cut off those old, curled up leaves, so you don't have to keep looking at them and feeling the urge to react.

 

[Deadhead91]

Praying for those babies

 

[Paracelsus]

That’s pretty much what I was hoping for myself and yes the new top are a nicer green but they seem to be dwarfed not reaching out almost miniature. We’ll see maybe I’ll get a growth spurt. But you’re right the bottom is Gone. the top is curly and small it’s just past the third node barely an inch off the ground.

 

[alltatup]

I bet that they recover, Paracelsus. That's nice vigorous baby-growth up on top, and it sounds to me like you put the mistake in reverse and backed it up. You should be seeing more and more vigorous growth over the next few weeks; they will pick up their steam!!

 

[Paracelsus]

Plants seem stable. I have them under the light. With sunlight coming through the noon window facing east. Windows are wide open with a stiff breeze. The fan is on rotation next to the windows so the humidity should shift a little lower.

Sips of water and a wee mist on top. What I might do is fill a 15 pound smart pot bag with LOS and more Malibu or Humis and trains plant all five including the cover crop Blood Orange and Red Clover I nto a larger NTG pot together. I think the straight LOS may be to compact, rocky, without enough organic humis earth quality. I’ll wait a week to make sure they’re stable before I disturb them further

 

[Paracelsus]

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[Paracelsus]

It isn’t easy being green

 

[Paracelsus]

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[Paracelsus]

Another Green World after haircuts all around and a little bit of scaffolding.

 

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[oldjarhead100]

Paraceisus whats the plastic looking thing between the dirt and pot , If that is a home made pot does it have a bunch of holes for air if not that might be why those bottom leaves turned yellow just a thought

 

[Paracelsus]

The pots are DIY wonton soup containers, lots of room to breath under those cotton socks. The soil was too compacted was one of the problems.
But the major problem was a direct reaction to the doctor earth route zone product being too hot. It should only be used as a direct amendment to the soil when potting or transplanting. Things are looking very good now that I have trimmed the leaves from the bottom I may lose another pair of leaves from the bottom of one of the plants but as the 4th node emerges from four out of four planets everything is ultra green and healthy looking on top.

 

[Paracelsus]

All is good, here comes the Sun.