A4's Only Organic Thread

[A4]

Greetings friends and family of AFN.

It has been a while since posting anything of importance. Some have been wondering what I was doing and some already knew. I have taken about 6 months off and invested in studying and researching a living organic soil for my crops. This is strictly an all organic, sustainable soil that is being used over and over again with very little amending. I am using a no till method that reuses the soil every time as to not disturb the microbiology that is being built up in the containers. Here, you will not find any bottled nutrients organic or otherwise being used, any unnatural pesticides or fungicides at all. This is strictly soil with microbiology doing the work. My main focus in creating this thread is to help anyone that wants to move away from the hundreds of dollars a year in bottles and towards a more sustainable and healthy system of growing. It is much cheaper and easier as well by the way. All you need to do is water. No pH, no measuring, no calculating, just water.

I won't be making a ton of posts but I will keep everyone updated on the progress of the first few plants and answering any questions that anyone may have. This thread isn't as much about showing any certain breeder's genetics off as much as it is about the path to growing naturally so I won't spend much time discussing one plant over the other. My concern is the soil and the biological diversity in it.

I will be posting some pictures of everything I have going momentarily.

 

[A4]

Night Queen Day 10 12/12

Not sure which picture posting method is working better so I will post both ways. This is a Night Queen, 10 days into 12/12. She was vegged for 8 weeks, I cut the main terminal branch and allowed the two outer branches to grow until I could train them to a bamboo pole. That is a 7 gallon pot for size reference.

This plant is growing in my latest soil recipe. I will upload the soil recipe shortly.

 

[gbd]

I look forward to hearing more about your soil recipe, the queen is looking great!

 

[A4]

This is the Night Queen's little sister. She was only vegged for 4 weeks and was grown using an older soil recipe that worked fine but has been tweaked since then. This one is on day 53 of 12/12 with only about a week longer to go.

 

[A4]

Latest Soil Recipe

So posted below is the latest soil recipe. It will be sent out for testing tomorrow and will probably still need a little adjusting but shouldn't need much. I have broken everything down into costs that I paid and figured out exactly how much each gallon is costing. Most everything I purchased was locally with the exception of a few hard to find items such as Neem Meal.

If you are going to use this recipe, it is important to do three things. Make a EWC tea and use a little surfactant to wet the entire soil, cover the soil well(I used a large plastic container with a lid) and let it cook for about 4 weeks. This allows time for the microbes to break down the amendments into a usable nutrient for the plants.

One last thing, this recipe HAS NOT been tested on Autos! I am in the process of trialing 8 auto plants and will post the process here when they break ground.

Premier Peat $20 for 3 Cubic Feet/22.5 gallons
GH CocoTek $25 for 5Kg/~20 gallons
Black Kow Composted Manure $5/50lbs ~ 10 gallons
Black Velvet $5/40 lbs ~ 8 gallons
Permagreen Garden Soil $13/42 liters ~ 11 gallons
Sunshine Perlite $26/ 4 cubic feet ~ 30 gallons
Sunshine Vermiculite $24/ 4 cubic feet ~ 30 gallons
Vermaplex Earthworm Castings $50/ 40 lbs ~ 8 gallons
Calcium Bentonite $32/ 20 lbs ~ 2.5 gallons
Soil Doctor Powdered Garden Lime $4/ 40 lbs ~ 5 gallons
Soil Doctor Gypsum $10/ 40 lbs ~ 5 gallons
Oyster Shell powder $24/ 10 lbs ~ 1.25 gallons
Neptunes Harvest Crab Shell Meal $40/ 12 lbs ~ 3 gallons
Naptures Best Kelp Meal $80/ 50 lbs ~ 10 gallons
Peaceful Valley Neem Cake $113/ 50 lbs ~ 10 gallons
Fish Bone Meal $48/ 50 lbs ~ 10 gallons
Su-Pol-Mag $11/ 5 lbs ~ 1 gallon
Hi Yield Bone Meal $16/ 20 lbs ~ 5 gallons
Alfalfa Meal $38/ 50 lbs ~ 10 gallons
Azomite $20/ 10 lbs ~ 1.25 gallons
Epsoma Rock Phospate $10/ 7 lbs ~ 1 gallon




-- Recipe for this batch --


8 gallons Premier Sphagnum Peat Moss - $7.11
2 gallons Vermaplex Black Castings - $2.50
2 gallons Permagreen Garden Soil - $2.36
4 gallons Sunshine Perlite - $3.46
2 gallons Sunshine Vermiculite - $1.60
4 gallons GH CocoTek - $5.00
2 gallons Black Kow Mushroom Compost - $1.00
2 gallons Black Kow Manure Compost - $1.25
1 gallon -1 cup Calcium Bentonite - $12.00
1 cup Sodium Bentonite - $.80


For the buffer I mixed up this and added 1 1/2 cups to the entire mix:


1 1/2 cups Garden Lime - $.15
1 1/2 cups Gypsum - $.19
3 cups Powdered Oyster Shell - $3.60


Add to the mix for nutrients:


4 cups Crab Shell Meal - $3.33
8 cups Kelp Meal - $4.00
8 cups Fish Meal - $2.40
8 cups Bone Meal - $1.60
1 cup Langbeinite - $.69
4 cups Neem Seed Meal - $2.83
2 cups Alfalfa - $.48
1 cup Soft Rock Phosphate - $.63
1 cup Azomite - $1.00


Total Costs for ~ 30 Gallons of soil = $57.98


$1.93 per gallon of soil with all nutrients

 

[Waira]

:Sharing One:howdy brother A4! ...great to see you posting some goodness again - ...I hope you and the family are all well,... "Bailers Booya"...and keeping cool!
>> TLO, a Jedi art indeed,.... LOL! that top NQ is worthy of a bonsai exhibit... All low, swooping curves, lush and elegant... :foxy: ah yeah,... you're going to have a forest of colas! ...fine job on shaping her my friend- :brow: *** Lil' Sis' -forgive me brudda- is not the lovely specimen her sibling is- :roflcry:... this one looks more like a coral creature,... the buds are, of course, stellar though! For a plant a week from harvest, she's in such good condition,...Wow!- not even the lower fans are tapping out yet... I've forgotten, what's NQ's parentage? Are there African genetics in her? ****
.... Mmm-hmmm,... "Munch..munch..munch :drool:

 

[sniper]

How's the smoke from the night queen a4

Good to see ya back

 

[A4]

:Sharing One:howdy brother A4! ...great to see you posting some goodness again - ...I hope you and the family are all well,... "Bailers Booya"...and keeping cool!
>> TLO, a Jedi art indeed,.... LOL! that top NQ is worthy of a bonsai exhibit... All low, swooping curves, lush and elegant... :foxy: ah yeah,... you're going to have a forest of colas! ...fine job on shaping her my friend- :brow: *** Lil' Sis' -forgive me brudda- is not the lovely specimen her sibling is- :roflcry:... this one looks more like a coral creature,... the buds are, of course, stellar though! For a plant a week from harvest, she's in such good condition,...Wow!- not even the lower fans are tapping out yet... I've forgotten, what's NQ's parentage? Are there African genetics in her? ****
.... Mmm-hmmm,... "Munch..munch..munch :drool:

Thanks Waira, yes the lil' sis wasn't really meant to be beautiful I was just testing the soil out and she did so well I couldn't cull her. She is 100% afghan indica. Thanks for the warm welcome.

How's the smoke from the night queen a4

Good to see ya back

Thanks for the welcome sniper, the smoke tastes terrible if you want the honest truth. Very earthy, like sucking mud through a straw. If you can get past the taste though, it is one of the hardest hitting indicas I have had the pleasure of smoking. Truly narcotic to the point of extremity numbing. For pain or sleep she is one to go to. I keep a few in constant veg just so we don't run out.

 

[sniper]

Mmmmm mud lmao i like a good earthy heavy indica bud for deer season cause if I cant move very fast I can't scare away the deer

Any ideas on killing off little brown centipedes that's all that is stopping me from using some rich black degraded horse apples but don't want the bugs that are in it

 

[JM]

yep... thats about the results I was getting after going complete nutrition... :cheer: +rep!!!