Starting a new grow thread with the hopes it will help me keep up with my plants.
Ran into issues with PM, russets, and my own lack of motivation which ruined all of my last 2 flower cycles and killed all my clones but a starkiller cut (which is still fighting PM). Decided after 7-8 years of using the same soil I’d clear everything out. Clean up and make a new batch of soil using my mix ratios along with all my KNF, JADAM, and dry amendment mix.
April 6th I mixed up the soil (1cu yd) on a tarp to let cook. It’s coco coir dehydrated with 1 cup IMO2, LABS, FPJ, FFJ, FAA, WCA, and a little bit of humic/fulvic acid to tie up chlorine in the tap water.
To this I added poultry grit (crushed granite), oyster shells, pumice, basalt pumice, biochar, homemade bokashi (made using LABS) and vermiculite.
Here’s the plan. Using the same old flower tents (4x4 and 3x3). 4x4 has my 640w cree led array. 3x3 has 640w double triple slate(6 boards) quantum board array. I have 8 earthbox root and veg boxes split between them. Got some filler clones from my bro to run for smoke while my project gears ups (grease monkey, skywalker, platinum glue x2). These will be going into the 4x4 to be flowered immediately. While those run I’ll be cracking and veggin some omuerta genetics. I’ll be soaking 10 out of the pack, sex testing them, and maybe keeping only one male to make more reg beans. My main goal is to find and cross the two best females and make some R1’s
Right. Gotta keep on keepin on. I tried to fix my old soil with IMO drenches and bokashi but the plants I put in freaked the fuck out. I’m pretty sure the soil issue has to do with not running labs in the res of the earthbox so it went bad anaerobic.
Sick baby so haven’t accomplished anything I’ve wanted to. Did however get in fruit trees and put them in pots until they fill then and get planted in the ground
My mix and yours is a bit similar, expect, I can only do indoor growing however.
The biggest difference, would be, I switched over to larger chunk perlite, ditched the coco coir, for coco husks.
That was the game changer for me, in my organic quest. I’m not out to grow the biggest buds on Earth, I do fine with harvest numbers, we are thrilled with taste and smells, from our buds.
I’m just now getting to use EWC’s from my indoor worm totes.
Alfalfa and kelp, release some composting microbes, as the LAB’s enriched water drenches it.
They also knock out foul smells from my kitchen scraps bucket, as we fill it during the week.
Best to you and your garden.
webe
My old mix was pretty much the Cornell mix is my personal amendment mix. I have it somewhere in my other two grow threads. I came up with this coco mix when I was talking to a local soil maker that just started one the LOS path. I figured making IMO 4 and making a potting mix were damn near thr same process so I figured since I make all the different knf and jadam inputs it would be the better route to try.
Glad to hear your getting to use your homebrew EWC. I had a worm farm 360 going for EWC but apparently I’m not as good of a worm farmer and pot lol. I usually use them castings in teas vs top dressing simply cause the tea increase the casting biology by multiples.
Forgot to post but emptied, cleaned, sterilized, and refilled 4 of 8 earthboxes with the IMO soil mix I made up. Moved some very root bound clones I got from my bro into the bins. 2x platinum glue, 1 skywalker, 1 grease monkey. I’ll take some fresh pics and post them later. This Pic is from Sunday when I transplanted them.
Here’s what they looked like today. They had a couple spots of pm showing on some of the leafs so I sprayed them with JWA/JS with my fogger. Once when I transplanted them and again today. I didn’t see and pm spots today but hit them again to be sure. I only mix 1/2tsp in so start out light and see how things progress. Also need to put on the skirts. In lew of putting on the shower cap as I like to call it, I ordered some nursery skirts for saplings. We’ll see how they work compared to when I ran rice hull mulch and leaf litter mulch.
Yeah I like them. Was pulling fire until the issues. One of the last strains I ran was one of my creation and the three females I got tested put at 25-28%.
The main advantage is less watering. They have a 2 gallon res at the bottom and wick water to keep the whole moist. But if you don’t run a mulch or cover crop the top dries too fast and it doesn’t wick right messing up nutrient cycling when you top feed dry amendments. Also, found out I need to run LABS in the res so it’s almost always good anaerobic. Plus I need to run more enzymes as well to deal with old roots faster.
, following along … 
