Pumice beats perlite, if you can find it.
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One thing that I completely failed to fully realize is that you can’t just head to your local garden shop and buy all the stuff I am talking about. I shouldn’t take it for granted that I can do that, I guess.
As far as mixing goes, I usually only do up 10 gallons at a time, so I mix by hand (with a small hand shovel) in one of those big Rubbermaid totes.
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Do you mean ebay? I don’t think you want to do that. Bales of peat moss are HUGE and HEAVY.
If you can’t get peat moss locally, I’d suggest using my “soil” recipe but substituting coco for the peat moss.
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@Esrgood4u looks like you might be able to get Irish Moss Peat over there https://brsgardengroup.co.uk/soil-and-manure/irish-moss-peat
It’s gotta be good!
Milled peat, suitable for general purpose applications such as compost mixes for bedding plants and pot plants, soil conditioning and animal bedding.
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How much did you add per gallon of soil?
I use a very similar recipe but add 1/2 TBSP kelp meal. I can’t say enough good things about kelp.
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I honestly don’t know precisely. I had ~10 gallons of complete soiless mixed up and then I threw in 2.5 to 3 scoops with one of those little hand-shovel tools for gardening. So maybe like 2-2.5 cups into 10 gallons? That’s a lot of TBSPs.
Edit: 16 TBSP = 1 cup. So at least 32 TBSP per 10 gallons, or 3.2 TBSP per gallon. At least. Probably more.
One of the General Organics products I use (Bio Weed) is made of sea weed, so they are getting something very similar to kelp (I think?)
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Good find but I think the delivery will be more than the product. I’ll do some digging about. B&q or wilko may stock it. Cheers @cogitech. When the time comes I’ll likely bend your ear mate
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This morning’s photo, without the blurple.
A few are showing sex for sure, but I didn’t have time to be thorough this morning. Time to make some decisions and do some culling.
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Did some culling. The only one I am not 100% certain about regarding sex is the Harlequin (front left). The rest are female for sure. Erdpurt is one vigorous, fat-leafed weirdo!
The better of two male CBDream BX1 plants. On his own to spank it in the corner of another room.
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I just hit the Erdpurt and the Sweet Pure Auto CBD with Lebanese pollen. Will wait an hour and then give them a good drench with the spray bottle and stick them back in the tent.
The CBDream female and the CBDream BX1 female will get fresh pollen from the CBDream BX1 male.
Still not sure if the Harlequin is a male or female.
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Dinosaur leaves!
Got some Erdpurt x Durban Poison seeds the other day and I’m tempted to pop them to see the more Erdpurt phenos.
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If they are F1 they should be pretty consistent, but it’ll definitely show you which traits are dominant. That’s an interesting cross!
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Right?
Crosses with opposed traits really interest me. My Kauai x LUI is a prime example of this, though I still haven’t looked through it.
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OK, so the Harlequin is a male. This creates a bit of a dilemma for me, because my “male room” only has space for 1 plant. I mean, I could squeeze in the Harlequin beside the CBDream BX1 male - but I wouldn’t want their pollen mixing anyway.
On top of this, I’ve already pollinated the Erdpurt and SPA-CBD with Lebanese pollen and I am waiting for CBDream BX1 pollen for the other two females - so I don’t really need any pollen right now.
I feel lucky that this Harlequin germed and grew as well as it did, so I am very hesitant to cull it. Ideally, I can find another place for it to live until it drops pollen and then collect it and use it in a future grow. I do have another tripod and 4 x 45w CFL fixture. I only need to keep it alive for 2-3 weeks, so maybe it is doable…
Edit: Maybe I should only use the CBDream BX1 pollen on the pure CBDream female to get my BX2 seeds, and then use Harlequin pollen on the CBDream BX1 female. This might prove to be a nice cross.
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but visuals always seem to make it easier for me to understand - here’s the cross I am proposing with Harlequin. I’ve left the Harlequin BX4 side of the tree blank because there’s no way of knowing what BC Bud Depot did to make their version of Harlequin in seed form, except that they back-crossed 4 times.
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Found some cool info on Erpurt. One of its parents, Erdbeer (aka Strawberry), was crossed with an unknown indica (USA) to create Strawberry Cough. Also, “... Erdbeer is a clone-only genetic since about 1994, based in Switzerland, where it was once very common. The basic genetics are unknown. It is likely to be a sativa with Afghani genes. The strawberry clones were used for some crosses. The version of the Green Hornet is probably the best known and is the closest clone. A Swiss farmer phoned the breeder and said he had found in a field full of strawberry plants a single male cannabis plant full of pollen sacs. He dusted the "Original Swiss Strawberry" to breed. Most likely this male plant was but another unknown species.Also Herbaria has worked with the original strawberry clones, like BlueHemp. Herbaria passed a clone of BlueHemp to Alpine-Seeds, then genetics went to Denmark, then to Zenseeds.”
The other parent, Purpurea Ticinensis, "is a Swiss Rothanf variety. It is the result of eight years of selective work at 1300 meters altitude, in the Ticino mountains. Purpurea is an early-flowering red-stemmed variety, which turns completely purple in the cold. It grows everywhere and has no adjustment problems. So it is also very resistant to mold diseases. We are proud of the Purpurea Ticinensis, because it is a Swiss Ursorte and has a low, natural THC value. It is suitable as an ornamental plant or because of its incredible smell for the production of essential oils."
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I am coveting your Harlequin pollen. Any way some of that could find its way to PDX in December?
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I’ve never sent pollen anywhere but I can try, as long as it doesn’t put either of us at risk.
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I don’t believe pollen meets any of the criteria of cannabis, as a component with way less than 0.0001 THC, even in prohibition land(s).
It’s not rooted, so not a live plant.
It’s not independently able to reproduce, like a seed.
If it’s clean, it shouldn’t test for any THC or even smell like cannabis.
YMMV and this should not be taken as legal advice; just my opinion.
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