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...
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
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...
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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