So it's been about a week since the transplant. They all experienced some level of transplant shock, which was too be expected, since transplant went poorly. I should have wet the soil better or used smaller cups. 🤷â€â™‚ï¸ Live and learn. They have all bounced back as you see. I think the Mac suffered the most. Leaves are small and has some red stems but still growing. At least the only auto, the tangie, seems to be doing well. The other 3 are photos so I'm not worried about them. They'll bounce back and be stronger than ever. I watered them for the first time since the transplant. I gave them a half dose of recharge and I'm starting a weekly foliar spray of cal mag. It's only day 15 since they sprouted so they've got a ways to go. Let's see what they look like in 15 days.
The GSC is just days away from chop. Literally like 3 more days or so. I just want to see those clear ones get cloudy....... But already got a decent amount of amber. Not sure if I should just harvest her already....I don't want too much amber....GSC is already couch locky enough without the help of amber trichomes. She looks nice. She smells AMAZING!! Really nice and sticky with all these minty terps. Think of peppermint with rosemary and citrus with some floral hints to give it sweetness and you got it. It's going to be a pleasure to smoke her! Out of 5 GSC seeds from ILGM, this seems to be the only winner.
The Tangie and Pineapple Express are doing great! Right behind them is the blue dream with the Mac just a tad behind. The cover crop is coming in nicely on the 2 pots that I planted it in. I think I may have won the battle with the gnats. Rather than do full dose I just do half dose of BTI mosquito bits in some water every 2 weeks and it seems to be doing the trick. I still have neem oil and natural oil spray to knock back adults but so far the traps are pretty clean.
The worm bin is doing great. Starting to really see what looks like final product. It's not just cardboard and Coco there's actually lots of casings in there too. Not only that but there probably billions of predator mites..... So many crawling around which means there's nematodes and protozoa ...... I'm going to have some amazing castings in the end! I'm trying to keep things more calcium and nitrogen rich. Not too many bananas. Lots of leaves and old bud from past failed grows that I didn't know what to do with. I crushed it dried it out completely and I've been giving it to them as carbon.
To keep myself busy and since I'm trying to be a bit more health conscious, I decided to brew my own kombucha. Paying $5 at the store per bottle, adds up really quick. For a small investment of $20 plus all the stuff I had around the house already, I got to brewing! So far it's coming along nicely! It's getting foamy! Really been a trip this past year learning about microbes. From books like Teaming With Microbes to Teaming with Fungi and podcasts like Mr. Grow it and Build a Soil, it's been fascinating to revisit a subject, I didn't care much about in college, with new eyes. Then I started growing mushrooms and it helped with my depression so I got even more interested in all sorts of fungi and bacteria, microbes, yeast (I even harvested wild yeast and baked my own sourdough bread), ethanol producing bacteria and let's not forget all the life that makes nutrients available for plants to thrive. That's all thanks to the living soil technique that I've come to really enjoy.
Just funky watching the kombucha and thinking yeah I'm gonna be drinking this at some point 😨. .... But I have..... Many times from the store and this is the process that they do to make it..... Just kinda gross to see it up close and personal and smell the funk as it happens. But really cool none the least and fermented stuff is super healthy for your gut. Healthy gut, healthy life!
Keep on growing my friends 🪴🪱ðŸµ
