Lovely scene, organics and precious creatures doing their job, I had problems with peat pellets and landraces, they don’t enjoy that heavy soil so I switched to this:
I love reading that!
If you are willing to get your hands dirty, you can count on all my help, because only by doing, you can come to understand.
Also, promoting self-sufficiency in crops is the most subversive task I know of at the moment and it fits perfectly with my clandestine marijuana crops.
If you want, you can take a look at a chapter-by-chapter grow journal where I talked about the basics of organic farming that I do and shared techniques and formulas. If what you see there fits you, count on me to delve deeper into the knowledge.
Yes, I have used pellets and I have plenty of them here, but I got a bit obsessed with them when I noticed that they had prevented the development of the anchoring roots, making them knot up. Now I move the seedlings to the final pot as soon as possible, to work on the expansion of the roots from there.
I am obsessed with root development, I want a very large mouth in my plants, I give them soluble food without mercy.
My crops, for the most part, are always experimental and sometimes experiments go wrong. This is the case of my first 6 seedlings this week, I did a foliar application with auxins and caused all the seedlings to wrinkle, the appearance has been horrible, I even thought I was losing all the seedlings, but it seems that they are slowly evolving, what I intended was to give a hormonal boost for the creation of roots, first I prepared a mixture of spring water and auxins (100 ppm) and watered, after a few hours I came up with the disastrous idea of applying the mixture foliarly, an illogical idea too, since the intention was to cause growth in the roots, just opposite the leaves.
I like to define my cultivation method as ruthless, because sometimes I take risks with new techniques without too much caution, but in the end the marijuana plants always prove to be very strong and I am overconfident, but the crops continue and I only hope that this hormonal overdose does not affect my beloved seedlings for the rest of their lives, I will take care of them! I can no longer turn back, because life pushes me, like an endless howl.
There is no chance for the weak in this merciless garden
Everything is complex, before it is simple. Three seedlings have not resisted the hormonal stress, the other three are struggling to survive… no problem, three new seeds are asking for a way. Whatever has to be will be!
For me, winter crops are slower than summer ones, and in both, there are always setbacks at the beginning… for the moment I have taken advantage of the delay of this incident to create new bio Fertilizers that I will use next year… all for the cause!
New seedlings to replace those that died because of me. But I finally have the 8 strains I wanted, moving forward, mainly the survivors of the hormonal odyssey: Panama Red, Thai Landrace and Queen Mother, these I will transfer to their final pots in a few days. Will I earn heaven?
Synergies and good company
Taking advantage of the heat generated by the lights in the grow tent and the heat blanket I have under the bottles containing new Bio Fertilizers for the coming season, the seedlings, germinating seeds and Bio preparations all benefit from this stable ambient heat at 26°C.
The Royal Blue Stage Begins
I start the blue light stage (450nm) with a first 33w side panel, above a 6400K CFL bulb with 130w consumption (too much, but I haven’t had time to organize myself better with the lights).
It’s curious how the largest seedlings lean towards the blue panel, despite being further away than the CFL and consuming a quarter of it. For me, the power of the blue light is very great. For this season I have blue lights to bore me… I’m looking for very compact, dense and branched plants.
Sadly that’s some serious bud-rot/mold going on. This is why I was so surprised at your dry trimming and why I don’t do it.
By wet trimming, then immediately washing (H202 → Lemon/Baking Soda → water → water) I’m sniping all those pathogens that cause this fuckery so they can’t sit around and ruin everything during the 7 day drying time before bucking and bagging.
It’s a lot more work but keeps saving my ass for outdoors so always worth it.