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Hi, again, I've been here before and technically my next "litter" will be my sixth, but I'm kind of hoping this will be the first one I don't fuck up TOO badly, heheh..

The only marginal success I've had was a single Blue Mystic this winter, but everything else I've managed to mangle by 3 weeks or so.

I (finally) identified it as a ph problem, watering with about 7 and getting runoff in the high 5's... Oops.. I suspect this might have been caused by, first and foremost, no liming agent in my soil and too little aeration because of over watering and too little amendments in the soil....... Yeah, all the usual stuff..

SO, for my next seeds (which the company managed to ship to the frakking US instead of SWEDEN, where I was to pick them up.. How the f...?) I have finally hunted down some dolomitic lime and hopefully that will take care of the ph at least.

So I now have a container out on my balcony with about 50% bagged soil (vegetable soil, NPK 6-3-12, ph 6.3), 20% perlite, 25% of something very like perlite, but made of clay, and 5% vermiculite.

To this I added 1 tablespoon of dolomitic lime pr. gallon, watered the mix, and planned to turn it occasionally and keep it moist for the next month, at least.

I should of course let it sit longer, but impatience and yada yada... I didn't even actually know about letting soil sit to "cook" until I'd already mixed it... :P

So, a couple of days later, after promising myself to sit on my hands and wait at least a month before using the soil, I figured I could throw a few tablespoons of bone meal in there too, since the bagged soil seemed to be a bit low on phosphorus.

Mixed in the bone meal, watered a bit more with a "shot" of Biobizz Grow for good measure. About two weeks before I plan on using the soil I'm thinking about adding a very small amount of blood meal too.

Now, as is probably obvious, I'm kind of making this up as I go along, I initially had no other intention than to finally use lime, but then I read about how long I needed to let it sit to work, and from there read about super soils, composting, organic this, organic that...

I don't plan on getting all into that, but I will see how far this half-assed soil will get me and use Biobizz Grow and Bloom as needed.

I've tried to keep the mix fairly light on nutes, I'm still unsure about whether I want to add the blood meal later or not.

In any case I plan on making a little "kiddie pool" of seedling soil in the middle of the pot where the seed will go.

I'm hoping for vastly improved results this time round, I'll also be doing a little trial run with this soil on a tomato and a pepper plant that are starting to grow up and will be needing new homes soon.. (strange, my tomatoes are always fine, it's just the weed I mess up, lol)

Oh, and the seeds I'm waiting for are berry ryder, cherry bomb, candy kush, bubblelicious and blue mystic, all autos, + some photo freebies.

I'm excited..! :-D
 
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Hey buddy!How ya doin..?..

Sounds to me like your just adding Lime and thats roughly it..unless your planning on making an actual batch adding bone and blood meal would be beneficial but if your using nutes they/ll be less effective. so if your planning on adding lime and watering it that in..I would recommend if you have either of these things..Liquid kelp,Molasses and/or a light cal-mag addition.

and not 100% on the ratios so you'll have to check..a teaspoon sounds right but thats a small measurement..if you took 2 bags at 3 cubic feet total or a bit over 20 gallons of loose pack soil or roughly 90-100 L of soil and add 1 full heaping cup and a half of lime and Id bet if you did that and added some liquid kelp,molasses and/or a decent cal-mag additive n let it sit for a week turning it a cpl times(moist not wet as ya know) and blending it good and plug style pot your plants and by the time your ready for the PH thing it'll be buffering and root'll be rolling into your limed soil..plug with a more sterile seedling mix and use like Liquid Karma or big bloom or something similar and that'll give you a solid start to your plants man.well imho that is anywho..LOL! Happy growing dude!!

and bout the bone n blood meal..you can add that but a better faster way is to water some heavy fish n stuff into your soil and let it dry up then treat it like I mentioned as use a light organic feed on it and that'll ad some very awesome boosters right onto the soil..soil is food..not water and never effected PH with me..so ,anywho,im high..Idda taken it round the block another time er two..LMFAO!!L8r dude!hope that help ya a little bit..?....:pass:
 
And don't forget to start a grow journal so we can watch. You appear to have neglected that over your past grows :P

I'm still a noob grower, but have 3 Berry Ryder grows under my belt and see you mentioned them. I would recommend for any new grower. I beat on the last one and she was very forgiving & provided me with very hefty buds full of motivational goodness. Good for work, playing music, socializing etc. Very easy to grow.
 
Doing fine, Eyes on Fire, thanks! Sounds like you're doing fine too, lol..

Yes, you're right, I was initially just planning on (finally) adding lime, and pretty much leave it at that, but then I started reading about organic growing, and since I had a couple of things I figured I could throw in a small helping since I already needed to wait for the lime to activate.

I'm trying to keep it simple (I can only keep 2 plants at a time, due to space and security reasons) and don't want shelves full of remedies and whatnot that will just sit there and get stale, heheh..

This is a very, very small batch of stuff, the mix total is only about 4 gallons total, since the pots I'm using are 1.8 gallons. Trying to convert from metric here, he he.. 15 liters mix, two 7 liter pots.

What I have available is BioGrow, BioBloom, blood and bone meal, and the dolomitic lime. The brand name of the lime is "Magnedol", since there is a significant amount of magnesium in it, I don't have the bag here so I don't know the exact numbers, and calcium is of course also taken care of there. (I used one TABLEspoon lime pr. gallon mix, btw)

I put a couple drops of BioGrow in with the water when I watered the mix after adding the bone meal, since it is mostly molasses and probably/hopefully some other stuff that will get some reactions going in the soil, since I don't have anything specifically to get microorganisms and that mycho-fungi-thing I never can spell going.

I might have been thinking completely ass backwards about the BioGrow helping kick off good bacteria and such, but I figured it couldn't hurt.. :)


I'll be trying this mix on my tomato and bell pepper first, kinda to see what happens, but I'm not really worried about anything, I think it is a fairly safe mix, if only a little bit on the light side, and that was my exact intention, heheh..
 
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Yeah, nomis, I kinda started one for my Blue Mystic this winter, and I kept meticulous handwritten logs for that one, but they never got done anything with after that, heheh..

Kinda fucked her up too, even though she was my best result to date ( I've still got a little nugget of her left, for one more smoke or so, lol), but didn't weigh the yield or anything. I was just stoked to finally get something to smoke...! :-D
 
Yeah Im ok,Thanks man..Stoned!! LOL!! but tired and hurt..but what else is new..just trying to groove as best I can..LOL!! Yeah a tablespoon per your 1.8 gallon or 2 gallon pots sounds just about right..1 and a half,Yup.I tend to lean on the lighter side as well.Im unsure where the toxic point is but Im sure is less than most think imo.so I tend to keep it light and have fair results.but if you can get a bone or fish bone type of pwoder similar in make up to your blodd meal..that would prolly be a little better..cuz like the ground up and powder type of stuff,they blend up and out and get watered through and eaten up by the plant in quick fashion compared to the Meals and such..dont have staying power as it were and thats fine if you supplement with some teas or some active soup style feeding to enhance it all.aslo,dont water too heavy for a few reasons..but unless ya having issues no need for all that every watering.but the meals will work if you blend it all n let it sit for 2 weeks and THEN add lime and let it sit for another week or so and then plug n plant,or tier or whatever it is ya plannin on doin dude..sounds like a winner man!!but thats just what Id do having used all these things..I mean you could in all reality make a slurry top dress outta all that.a pian..but awesome..LOL well not for seedlings..but thats another story.lol

Cant wait to check out yer grow dude n see how much more ya like it and worry free it should be for ya.and berry ryder is some excellently sweet sticky smoke too!:pass:
 
Then Berry Ryder is def. one of the seeds I will pick to start with, since I kind of have to limit what I can grow at a time, heheh.. One Berry Ryder, and maybe one I'm not so stoked about, in case it all goes to hell as usual, heheh..

I always seem to be getting trouble around 2-3 weeks.

IF my seeds get here, that is..!

They have always arrived in Sweden, where I pick them up, in about 3-4 days, so I booked a trip to go get them and everything, confident they'd turn up in the usual time.

But then I follow the tracking and UK Royal Mail informs me that the shipment is on it's way to the fucking US for delivery...! Track the shipment via USPS too, and they tell me that the shipment is sitting, not so happily in my opinion, in Chicago......... And there they still are, being processed for delivery apparently... I can't understand how that is even possible, when I requested them sent to Sweden...

Contacted customer service at the seed store before they had even left UK, to find out if it was true they were being sent to the US and possibly have it stopped before it got there, but they fobbed me off with an excuse that sometimes the shipments just got scanned wrong and still arrived where they should, and that I needed to allow up to 21 days for delivery before I contacted them about the shipment....

GRRRRRRR...... I still got back to them and asked if they could check their records, receipt, copy of shipping label or anything, to confirm where the seeds were actually sent..

Have to wait until monday for an answer though, since I didn't make office hours on friday.. Hope they don't give me any more bullshit, lol
 
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Im kind of a berry and citrus fan among others such as a traditional haze n such.And imo dutch passion auto blueberry really lends a nice balance of sweetness and another really nice berry smoke with different characteristics than the auto seeds bean..or even a lemon haze or a sweet lemon type skunk..yup excellent combo imo.really give ya a broad taste early on and lets ya know what ya wanna grow..it did me anywho once I knew what I was buying and how to grow it a little better..LOL! years later..thats what Idda done..but berry ryder is an excellent first choice no doubt.hope ya get yer beans dude..I had my first interception some weeks back of my blue dream autos..I was soo bummed out..some day soon I hope t replace them with some more tangelos and Jack herer's and BD autos..that'll be a nice run I bet..L8r dude.
 
So, here are a few pics of whats going on at my place while I wait for the new seeds...

I have two botched Northern Lights photos that are in their 8th week of flower. They are completely screwed, but around here nothing gets thrown away..!

Sensitive growers might want to look away, this is plant abuse at its worst...

NL#2. Thumb for scale.
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NL#1. Maybe I should name this one Thumbelina? Heheh..
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Then there are my two youngest, autos, a Bubblelicious and a Critical+ at 6 weeks

Bubblelicious
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Critical+
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The two girls side by side
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While I seem to be able to fuck up all the weed, my other plants are doing great..!

My cherry tomatoes
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My baby plants, another type of cherry tomato and a type of bell pepper. These will be testing out my new soil for me when I'm potting them up soon.
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And my venus flytrap is gorging herself on all the wasps around here now. One of them even tried to fight back..! That black spot on the leftmost leaf/pod/thing..
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So..... Just waiting for the new seeds, and hoping these will do better... I don't really like abusing plants, even though it might look that way, lol..
 
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I'll be subbed if you start a thread bro, I'm just about to mix my own supersoil so am interested to see how you get on.

Good luck and Karma!

Peace

Dazed..
 
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