I got my soil test back from the lab today. Looks like the seeded autos used a whole bunch of manganese. They also used a fair amount of phosphorus, calcium, and boron. The cobalt and molybdenum are tracking in the right direction after the last additions. I’m not sure where all the potassium is coming from, but it’s getting pretty high. The sulfur keeps raising as well, but that’s probably from all the sulfates I’ve been adding.
I’m curious how you’re gonna make sure that the amendments that only require tiny amounts, like the borax, manganese et al are gonna be distributed evenly throughout your mix. One of the reasons I tossed my last batch of soil and started over was because it was also manganese-deficient and I just wasn’t sure how to evenly distribute it, simply because it was such a tiny amount relative to the amount of soil it’d be getting mixed into.
That and Logan also recommended flushing my soil with three times the amount of water (high salt levels, no idea where that came from). That would’ve been a lot of water haha, so I just dumped the old soil in my backyard planter and started over. Thinking I might have to do the same with my current soil mix, which would suuuuuuuuck…
Yes I like to top dress and water in with microbial products. I typically add some Mammoth P, Recharge, and Fish Brew. Maybe toss in some fulvic acid and quillaja to jump start the breakdown of the amendments.
You could also add the sulfates to water and distribute them in that way.
Yesterday I mixed up about four cubic feet of a water only soil recipe for these Earth Boxes. I made due with what amendments I had, but bought some mushroom compost instead of using my vermicompost. I was about four gallons short on the Sphagnum peat moss, but it does expand a bit when hydrated. I added about an extra gallon of perlite to make up for it, but it is still likely a little bit of a hot mix. I covered the planters and am letting them compost for about 30 days. The plan is for my brother to use them outside to grow some autos. I’m thinking we will put about two or three feminized autos in each planter in the first of June and all he will have to do is add water when the tube is empty.
Remember the Solo’s Stash that I couldn’t tell sex on? Well, it’s still not showing female, but also not clustering around the flower site either. I went ahead and put that one and the the runt in the QT tent under 12/12 for the next two nights. That should help encourage them to show. I also cleaned up the GG4 RIL pollen from the tent and rinsed off the GFOG moms. Right now, I think I’ll top and clone the known female and take it from there. I need a minimum of three good sized females for the beds. It also helps if they are the similar size. I do have plenty of GFOG clones, but that was my last production run and I still have plenty hash rosin from that.
Keep working that Magic bro. As usual your killing it.
Once I retire in 45677443 weeks I want a grow off competition. I know I’ll loose but I’ll lose gracefully as its the legend that is you.
So I was looking at my saturated paste test. Looks like the potassium is not in a soluble form. The manganese doesn’t look as low either. Overall, I’m happy with it.
Yea that looks like a tiny bit. Good thing it was able to cake up like that. For a small amount. I started cleaning mine yesterday. Nice Mountain. Love the trim bins. I got one the other day. You have a nice color.
