Althegardener2
Well-Known Member
Tajikistani Hash
Veg stage seedlings
Indoor
Soil - 1 bag greenhouse sterilized potting soil, five pounds earthworm castings, 1/8 cup bloodmeal, a little less than that of bonemeal, and about a third of the entire volume of perlite mixed in.
Five gallon fabric pots
Full spectrum cheap-o LED
Temp of room between 69 and 75 degrees
RH of room fluctuating around 40
Watering every two days currently.
Fertilizers I plan to use - Max Sea, Neptune's Harvest, and Dr. Earth's Fruit tree
Amendments on hand - Cal-Mag
Got these little imports from overseas, hoping like crazy I get one female because this is all I have (third seedling eaten by chipmunk, don't ask...)
Learned a lesson from my first auto grow (Amnesia), and that was that I needed much more well-drained soil, so I mixed up what made sense for a typical herbaceous annual from a rocky, well-drained environment, in this case Tajikistan near the Afghan region.
I really want to keep one as a mother plant and take clones, and if I've got two ladies here I'd like to make the other a perpetual 'house plant' and harvest selectively. We can dream.
Looking at the conditions of its native region we have hot days and cool nights, high elevations, stony well-drained soil (very akin to growing requirements for poppies, who will grow on gravel before they sprout in soil). Example "winters are quite cold, though not freezing, with an average in January of 3 °C (37.5 °F), while summers are hot and sunny: highs in July and August are around 35 °C (95 °F), but with peaks of 40 °C (104 °F). In winter, the temperature often drops below freezing (0 °C or 32 °F) at night, but it remains quite mild during the day. However, here too, cold waves may occur, with lows usually around -10 °C (14 °F)".
Currently it is 100 degrees and only 27 RH in the capitol. It is also extremely dry, and the forecast gives no indication of rain anytime in the near future. These guys must dig their roots deep, especially the wild ones, seeking water. I plan to keep these two fairly dry as well.
I'm going to assume if anything affects them it will be too high humidity, and that temperature swings aren't going to be much of an issue. Here in Michigan we are looking at a very muggy high-humidity summer about to blast in after unnaturally long rains this year, so I made the decision to keep them in the house to avoid powdery mildew, which runs rampant here in high-humidity late summers.
Veg stage seedlings
Indoor
Soil - 1 bag greenhouse sterilized potting soil, five pounds earthworm castings, 1/8 cup bloodmeal, a little less than that of bonemeal, and about a third of the entire volume of perlite mixed in.
Five gallon fabric pots
Full spectrum cheap-o LED
Temp of room between 69 and 75 degrees
RH of room fluctuating around 40
Watering every two days currently.
Fertilizers I plan to use - Max Sea, Neptune's Harvest, and Dr. Earth's Fruit tree
Amendments on hand - Cal-Mag
Got these little imports from overseas, hoping like crazy I get one female because this is all I have (third seedling eaten by chipmunk, don't ask...)
Learned a lesson from my first auto grow (Amnesia), and that was that I needed much more well-drained soil, so I mixed up what made sense for a typical herbaceous annual from a rocky, well-drained environment, in this case Tajikistan near the Afghan region.
I really want to keep one as a mother plant and take clones, and if I've got two ladies here I'd like to make the other a perpetual 'house plant' and harvest selectively. We can dream.
Looking at the conditions of its native region we have hot days and cool nights, high elevations, stony well-drained soil (very akin to growing requirements for poppies, who will grow on gravel before they sprout in soil). Example "winters are quite cold, though not freezing, with an average in January of 3 °C (37.5 °F), while summers are hot and sunny: highs in July and August are around 35 °C (95 °F), but with peaks of 40 °C (104 °F). In winter, the temperature often drops below freezing (0 °C or 32 °F) at night, but it remains quite mild during the day. However, here too, cold waves may occur, with lows usually around -10 °C (14 °F)".
Currently it is 100 degrees and only 27 RH in the capitol. It is also extremely dry, and the forecast gives no indication of rain anytime in the near future. These guys must dig their roots deep, especially the wild ones, seeking water. I plan to keep these two fairly dry as well.
I'm going to assume if anything affects them it will be too high humidity, and that temperature swings aren't going to be much of an issue. Here in Michigan we are looking at a very muggy high-humidity summer about to blast in after unnaturally long rains this year, so I made the decision to keep them in the house to avoid powdery mildew, which runs rampant here in high-humidity late summers.
