Gee's First Grow - Supersoil Fully Organic LED 2017

[NaturalSpirit]

Now that is interesting. The smart pots are on my wishlist already so more wind equals shorter plants and more buds? That a interesting experiment really interesting to follow

 

[Gee64]

Thats interesting and makes sense

I hope its more than coincidence. If it shortens the nodes in bud thats never a bad thing

 

[Pennywise]

I think short internodal distance is more light and genetics, roots need oxygen and more air means healthier roots. Big roots = big plants.

 

[Gee64]

Day 19 since the flip, day 13 since hairs appeared. The sugar started today

 

[Gee64]

The l9ng legged Durban Sativa

Day 16 since hairs popped

 

[Pennywise]

Coming along nicely Gee

 

[Gee64]

The Durban Poison is getting tall. Good thing stretch is almost done. They only added 2 inches in the last 4 days. Thank the gods... raising a 65 pound light is getting hard as it gets higher lol. Cold weather is moving in too so it brings the dryer air just in time. RH of 42 to 46 is where it sits now. 2 days ago I lightly watered with some sea minerals as they need to be added by themselves. Yesterday was a full watering with fish fertilizer, cal mag, and some General Organics bloom booster. Today was a full compost tea of kelp, alphalpha, old growth compost, steer manure, worm castings, molasses, and some activated EM after the brewing was complete. Activated EM is a mix of anerobic fungals/microbes that I add every so often. It feeds the fungal eaters and is loaded with phosphorus releasing microbes. Also did a slight defoliation to ooen up some bud sights. The PS Goliath really penetrates. I have nice buds over a foot deep in the canopy and even a few at about 16" down. Im leaving the airy deep ones this grow to see how well the Goliath can ripen them.

 

[Gee64]

Thanks PW Yes they are quite happy. The next couple days are always my favorite. They are always so happy after a tea

 

[Gee64]

Unfortunately the Hemmy Black from Kingdom Organic Seeds turned out to be a male but I will add one Hemmy again next grow til I get a female

 

[Pennywise]

Did you save any pollen?

 

[Gee64]

No, as soon as they appeared I plucked the plant. When as I get a female I will try colloidal silver on it.

 

[Pennywise]

Fem seeds will keep you in stash for sure.

 

[Gee64]

Just some various shots with and without the LED filter from day 18

 

[Gee64]

The soil is all juiced up with numerous waterings of CalMag, Fish fertilizer (cold pressed not emulsion... lots of aminos in there) liquid kelp, tons of microbes and fungals both aerobic and anaerobic from my teas, to get the phosphates really moving in the soil, and just now a shot of Bluesky Organics Bud Hardener called Flower Two, as its only P & K. 0-46-32. Oh yes, also General Organics Biobud which is a really weak organic bud fert that can be used every feeding, and a dose of SeaKing sea minerals every few weeks,which is a nice dose of over 70 minerals. Then I top-dressed each pot with 1 cup of home made top dressing consisting of 1 part bulb food (3-8-8) 1 part feather meal, 1 part steamed bone meal,1 part kelp meal, 1/4 part oyster shell flower and 2 parts high nitrogen composted bat guano.

The stretch is almost over so the global flower nutes in the soil are already being used but now I must go heavier on the P & K to really get the flowers rolling, so the nutes will do that with the help of the microbes and especially the anaerobic ones to free the phosphates.

The top dressing is alot of both medium and slow release nitrogen as its still needed but in lesser amounts so its always around if they want it. Globally my soil contains a generous amount of calcium but I still add CalMag regularly.

Now that everything is rolling I will water with water only next time to let the microbes do their thing. If it all revs up as it should then I will play it by ear after that with the plants telling me what they want.

On a side note I dissected the 10 gal smart pot that the male Kush was in. When I uppotted I added 4 home made spikes of dry flower nutes somewhat similar to my top dressing but a bit more P and K. 3 weeks later I chopped the plant because it was a male. The spikes which were 1/4 of a cup each were almost completely devoured and composted by the microbes so thats both a really good sign of high microbial life and an example of how quickly nutes can be used by a plant organically. For those of you who are skeptical about organics thats 1 full cup of high end dry organic nutes almost completely devoured in 3 weeks by a male. Females in flower going full tilt are far more voracious. Organics takes a couple weeks longer in veg to get the plants metabolism going hard but once its rolling its unstoppable and proper use of humics and fulvics early on gets the brix to shoot up so pests pretty much dont exist.

Now I just have to stay 1 step ahead of them for the next 7 to 8 weeks.

Also the PerfectSun Goliath light is down to 22 inches away and the plants grow to 20.5 inches away before I raise it. They arent showing any light stress so possibly I may be at 18" away with still 5 weeks of flower. That will really feed the girls. Fingers crossed.

 

[Pharmgreen]

great update! Truly appreciate your time and effort. Amazing work.

 

[Gee64]

Thanks Pharm. Im new to cannabis but Im the son of a son of a son of a long line of farmers. It seems to help. Pot plants are awesome! You treat them right and the very next day they show their thanks. Ive never grown anything so quick to respond. Im hooked now lol

 

[Pennywise]

Your methods are producing some really happy plants Gee! .

 

[Gee64]

Thanks PW. I just add ingredients and keep the microbes happy. They do the rest. I love the way pot plants say thank you every time you do something. They respond so fast!

 

[Pennywise]

They can turn around in a few hours, pretty amazing really.

 

[Gee64]

Plus they ARE kinda cute too