There is a garden between my hands and destiny
The last 5 players have entered the field of play.
Before, I have thoroughly cleaned the grow tent, oiled the fans and polished the lights.
For now, I light the garden with 7 lamps:
Side: 2xCOB (450nm), 2x led panel (450nm and 7700K) = 170w
Canopy: 3 lamps, one central at maximum power (150w) because the drive to regulate the power does not work, on the sides lighting at 50% two lamps with a good spectrum and luminosity. Watts: 250w.
For ventilation I have two adjustable extractors, and inside the grow tent 5 powerful and flat fans so that they do not take up space… let’s play!
This season, growing in brand new, old-school, very airy 7 and 11 litre pots, I have raised the base of all the pots so that the substrate does not lack oxygen… let’s play!
Geek stuff, before making the substrate
When transplanting, I’m going to bury the stem about 2-4 centimeters deep to promote rooting. I’ve carefully scraped the bark off the stem and wrapped it in cotton soaked in water with natural honey, organic seaweed fertilizer and homemade auxins. I liked the look so much that I ended up burying the stem and leaving the cotton around it… all for the cause!
There is a bedrock and a river under my seedlings.
To encourage the roots to advance towards the base, I have kept the pots with the base elevated, I have achieved this by fitting two identical pots together, and I have kept a lot of humidity in the rock base, the roots began to appear impetuous and immaculate looking for humidity and guided by gravity… let’s see what roots I see, in a while, when I take the plant out of the pot…
A pot without soil is just a suspicious lump
Wow! The earth!, sacred earth…
This afternoon, I have been preparing the substrate for the last five seedlings of the season. It is a hard task, since I have to use many components to obtain a very light and airy substrate, but at the same time, containing organic matter, microbiology and various minerals (3M).
My intention is always to promote root expansion to the maximum and at the same time create the best conditions for the absorption of soluble bionutrients and the proliferation of microbiology.
I have used as a base a light substrate, homemade bocashi and coconut fiber (inoculated with MM) in equal parts with a little worm humus; perlite, river gravel and rice husk to improve drainage, vermiculite and zeolite to promote moisture and nutrient retention and finally a mixture of more than 15 types of micronized minerals at a rate of 1 gram per liter of substrate (various types of clays, pumice, azomite, basalt, leonardite, diatomite, dolomite, phosphorite, wood ash, borax and etc.). These minerals, for me, are indispensable, since they perform essential functions in enzymatic and biological processes. The secure presence of all the minerals of the periodic table, a unique mineral wealth, guarantees a complete and complex evolution of the plants, because after all, plants are, like us, animated minerals.
Enthusiasm is everything, faith comforts
Now each little plant is sitting quietly in its pot/house, tomorrow I will water them deeply, when they are a little more thirsty, they will appreciate it better!
The show has begun! Welcome!
Grow by playing or die trying @MissinBissin