No3odiesShad0w
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I was looking at the time lapses and just look how much the tangie faded in the last 10 days. Today is day 84. She's gonna be ready any day now! The trichomes are so close yet still so far. It's about 50/50 Milky and clear. This is always the most anxiety inducing time. When will she be ready? Just have to watch and wait. She looks great. She's going to be the inaugural bud in the Cannatrol. I'm wondering if I'm going to be able to even fit this harvest in that thing🤔🤔. I'm probably gonna hit my 1lb goal or choose to it if the blue dream doesn't do something.
I was also messing with my worm bin 🪱 and to my surprise, the drip trays that were full of just cardboard have turned into straight castings. I dumped all of them into a bucket and put fresh cardboard back into all three trays.
I just divided it between my 2 resting tubs; castings, worms, cocoons and all. I needed to turn my soil today but got a big surprise when I opened the tub.
First off, it's WAY too wet in there. All the worms were trying to make a run for it. When I started turning the soil, I noticed how wet it actually was. It was also starting to go anaerobic. It's not there yet but it's on the way to badness. I decided to leave it open off to the side of the fan so that it can get some fresh oxygen in there but also to dry it back. It's going to be open for a few days at least. I just amended them so there's lots of life in there plus it's been warm so it's super thriving.
Now for the good surprises. First is all the BABY WORMS!!!! Omgl there's HUNDREDS of them. It must have been from the castings I put in there with all the cocoons. With so many workers in that soil, this next Earth Box grow is going to be 🔥🔥 Technically, now I have 3 worm bins. That soil is going to be reused, tested and reused for many more grows.
The second surprise was unintentional. Because I'm trying to dry the soil back, I have the lid open and it's off gassing. I noticed my CO2 levels in that room have been holding at a steady 1000ppm all night long. A nice little CO2 battery I got going there! The other tub isn't as wet so it's not as crazy but I do notice when I mix both tubs the CO2 in the room shoots away up and I don't think it's all from my breathing from all the mixing. It's been steady and that's not a sealed room because of the window ac. That's why I don't bother with CO2 during the summer time It's usually too hard to maintain, but if the testing soil can do it alone then I'm going to have CO2.
​​​​​​It's very interesting how I can use my resting soil as a CO2 battery. This organic growing thing just gets better and better!! It really is a whole circular system. It maintains pH, it generates CO2, it's practically a water only system(if using large enough containers), the worms and micro biology (ie springtails, predator mites) do the worm of breaking down the nutrients and aerating the soil for you while leaving plant soluble food. The more I learn the better I get at this and the flower gets better and the grows go smoother.
I'm really disappointed with the blue dream. She's so sluggish. It takes 10 days for her to drink a gallon of water. The buds are nice and dense. She smells absolutely amazing 🤤. Super terpy but there just not much there. The MAC1 is like double almost triple the size and she was the runt of the bunch. The pineapple is MASSIVE. Even the tangie for an auto, might have more yield. Not looking the Gaia Green amendments. They keep the plant green for the most part but she's looking like she might be wanting potassium or something. She's got about a month left, maybe she'll thicken up and surprise me yet. It seems the soil i built is performing so much better than peat/casting/perlite and Gaia green amendments. Could just be the genetics
Speaking of genetics. That MAC1. From runt to front-runner. The Rocky Balboa Story 🤣🤣🤣. She came in SWINGING. My lord I was not expecting this kind of bud growth 🤯🤯. The structure, the terps everything about it is 🔥🔥. I will def be growing her in the near future. The buds are already 5x bigger than even the "Reserve MAC1" at the dispensary. These flowers are HUGE!!!
I was also messing with my worm bin 🪱 and to my surprise, the drip trays that were full of just cardboard have turned into straight castings. I dumped all of them into a bucket and put fresh cardboard back into all three trays.
I just divided it between my 2 resting tubs; castings, worms, cocoons and all. I needed to turn my soil today but got a big surprise when I opened the tub.
First off, it's WAY too wet in there. All the worms were trying to make a run for it. When I started turning the soil, I noticed how wet it actually was. It was also starting to go anaerobic. It's not there yet but it's on the way to badness. I decided to leave it open off to the side of the fan so that it can get some fresh oxygen in there but also to dry it back. It's going to be open for a few days at least. I just amended them so there's lots of life in there plus it's been warm so it's super thriving.
Now for the good surprises. First is all the BABY WORMS!!!! Omgl there's HUNDREDS of them. It must have been from the castings I put in there with all the cocoons. With so many workers in that soil, this next Earth Box grow is going to be 🔥🔥 Technically, now I have 3 worm bins. That soil is going to be reused, tested and reused for many more grows.
The second surprise was unintentional. Because I'm trying to dry the soil back, I have the lid open and it's off gassing. I noticed my CO2 levels in that room have been holding at a steady 1000ppm all night long. A nice little CO2 battery I got going there! The other tub isn't as wet so it's not as crazy but I do notice when I mix both tubs the CO2 in the room shoots away up and I don't think it's all from my breathing from all the mixing. It's been steady and that's not a sealed room because of the window ac. That's why I don't bother with CO2 during the summer time It's usually too hard to maintain, but if the testing soil can do it alone then I'm going to have CO2.
​​​​​​It's very interesting how I can use my resting soil as a CO2 battery. This organic growing thing just gets better and better!! It really is a whole circular system. It maintains pH, it generates CO2, it's practically a water only system(if using large enough containers), the worms and micro biology (ie springtails, predator mites) do the worm of breaking down the nutrients and aerating the soil for you while leaving plant soluble food. The more I learn the better I get at this and the flower gets better and the grows go smoother.
I'm really disappointed with the blue dream. She's so sluggish. It takes 10 days for her to drink a gallon of water. The buds are nice and dense. She smells absolutely amazing 🤤. Super terpy but there just not much there. The MAC1 is like double almost triple the size and she was the runt of the bunch. The pineapple is MASSIVE. Even the tangie for an auto, might have more yield. Not looking the Gaia Green amendments. They keep the plant green for the most part but she's looking like she might be wanting potassium or something. She's got about a month left, maybe she'll thicken up and surprise me yet. It seems the soil i built is performing so much better than peat/casting/perlite and Gaia green amendments. Could just be the genetics
Speaking of genetics. That MAC1. From runt to front-runner. The Rocky Balboa Story 🤣🤣🤣. She came in SWINGING. My lord I was not expecting this kind of bud growth 🤯🤯. The structure, the terps everything about it is 🔥🔥. I will def be growing her in the near future. The buds are already 5x bigger than even the "Reserve MAC1" at the dispensary. These flowers are HUGE!!!
