Im going to be doing things a little differently this round. I'll be building on what I've learned from my last grow https://www.autoflower.org/threads/hubbabubbasmelloscope-and-sweet-nurse-auto-cbd.69557/) and trying a few new things as well. Last grow was my first adventure into Living Soil and I have been reading a ton about that as well as Korean Natural Farming. Last grow, I was trying to build as close to a water-only soil as I could get. This worked well for the first two months, but the plants started showing issues about mid-way through flowering. I also used the papertowel method to start the seeds and transplanted the seedlings about two weeks in. I was also watering when the soil felt dry. I have learned that letting the soil dry out is really bad for microbial life, so this time around I will be doing more of a "feeding schedule". I've also added a mulch layer and cover crops, too. My routine this round is more labor intensive than last time, but I can already see a difference in the growth. Im roughly following the build-a-soil schedule (https://buildasoil.com/pages/the-complete-system). On Sunday mornings, I start a batch of compost tea with EWC, molasses, yucca extract, and aloe vera powder. I also start soaking some barley seeds. The compost tea brews for 36 hours (using a Tim Wilson microbulator I built ) and is then given to the plants on Monday night. By Weds or Thurs the barley seeds have usually grown long enough tails to be blended up with some re-hydrated kelp, yucca and aloe powder for a sprouted seed tea. Once its all blended together, I mix in some homemade LAB and then water the plants with that. So, Mondays the ladies get compost tea and weds/thurs they get sprouted seed tea. During veg I will be using barley for the SST and during flower they will be getting a popcorn SST. Planning to add in some FFJ during flower as well. I skipped the paper towel method and transplanting this time around. After soaking the seeds for 12 hours, they were planted right into their forever home. I have also upgraded my light. Its the same design as the last one I built, except this one is good for 300W. So far, the additional work seems to be paying dividends. Hopefully the trend continues.
Started soaking the seeds on 2/19
2/25- ADP#1
2/28- ADP#1
2/28- ADP#2
2/28- ADP#3
3/11- ADP#1 before topping
3/11- ADP#1 being topped
3/11- ADP#2 She's got one more week to take off, or I'm pulling the plug
and starting a Dark Devil Auto from Sweet Seeds in her place.
3/11- Cover crop coming in. Its White Clover.
3/11- ADP [HASHTAG]#3[/HASHTAG]. She'll get topped in a couple more days.
Started soaking the seeds on 2/19
2/25- ADP#1
2/28- ADP#1
2/28- ADP#2
2/28- ADP#3
3/11- ADP#1 before topping
3/11- ADP#1 being topped
3/11- ADP#2 She's got one more week to take off, or I'm pulling the plug
and starting a Dark Devil Auto from Sweet Seeds in her place.
3/11- Cover crop coming in. Its White Clover.
3/11- ADP [HASHTAG]#3[/HASHTAG]. She'll get topped in a couple more days.
Speaking of seed sprout tea, with the anticipation of flowering soon I will be transitioning off of barley seed and into corn seed sprout tea this week. They will get both barley and corn mixed together in this week's SST and then next week it will be just corn from here on out. I was originally planning to cut down the two Sweet Nurse CBDs in the back and plant clover in them until the next run (like the middle one that had HBSS), but I think Im going to take out the unused pots to give these ladies more room. I've got a 50 gallon fabric pot im going to setup in here for the next run. Pretty stoked about that!
