I can be such the bonehead sometimes and hoping my plan to mitigate my mistake to the best extent possible will yield me a good grow. Ok so here’s the layout. I was looking to start another grow. I don’t plant perpetually. I grow maybe once a year or so and smoke what I have till it’s getting close to the end and still enough time to get my new grow cured. Rummaging thru the few seed packs I have I found 5 Bruce Banner autoflower seeds. I really only wanted four but since it was 5 I went for it. I got all 5 seeds to germinate. I had 4 -7 gallon pots with soil from last grow. I had a 5 gallon pot that I had washed and put away from another grow. I took the soil which was originally one of the fox farms branded soil. Probably the ocean forest or whatever it’s called. I sifted the soil from each pot thru a wire mesh and put a handful of organic fertilizer into each pot of soil mixing it really well and then soaked them all down with a good water bath. For the 5 gal pot I did the same with some compost that’s been sitting in a big pile for a couple of years. Sifted it/a handful of organic fertilizer and a good soaking. After doing this it was time to get the seeds into the soil. Pics are below to show progress. Now that the seeds are in the dirt and they are growing I decided I want to keep this as organic as possible and no liquid or chemical fertilizers. So to that end I have several products that will be here today to hopefully mitigate my stupidness. If that’s a word. Well, it is for today anyway. So my plan is to use Great White mycorrhizal fungi which is supposed to be able to mix with water and pour straight into the soil around the root base. Next part of the plan is to top dress with worm castings. Then topping it off with Fish Sh!t and a Humic blend (Fulvic Acid, Sea Kelp & Soluble Potash Blend, 5% Leonardite Humic Acid). I intend to use the same organic fertilizer, Espoma garden tone that I mixed into the soil to start with.
Here’s where I’m at so far and these are 6 days today from breaking soil.
You are about to have an amazing grow. Anytime you start mixing all natural stuff in and get rid of all the chemicals it gets real. I would just say on the earthworm casings be careful because they will pack to mud if they get too wet. As we know those little bitty Roots don’t go through that mud real well and as always keep the watering light and around the edges but that’s all I know definitively. I’m not going to be like an AI and send you down the wrong road. By the way they will
Thanks and I hope you’re right about the grow. Didn’t know that about the worm castings so I’ll try to watch out for that one. Was planning on trying to scratch it into the top 1 or 2 inches if I can. Plants are pretty small right now so that should be doable.
You can avoid issues with worm castings by brewing a tea. Numerous ways to do it but you can diy a brewer that will work pretty well. If you plan to use organics indefinitely it probably makes sense to buy or build one.
Ok, so I will keep a little journal here for those interested in this process of converting to organic. These pics today mark these plants at 7 days since breaking ground and serves as a beginning of this transition.
What I did on this 7th morning of their life was to add Great White mycorrhizal fungi, worm castings scratched into the top couple of inches of soil, fish sh!t and humic+ concentrate from Farm Made organics.
I’m with @Caligurl! I would love to hang out and watch you knock this out the park! We got your back. And welcome to the best place you can be for Growin the best weed you ever had!
I am planning on a diy tea brewer as suggested by dbrn32. So, to that end I need to know about tea recipes and what other products I need to get. I am totally hyped about this grow and it being organic. I’ve read a lot of good things about organic grows. I am also looking forward to not chasing my ass around with a ph meter and ppm meter in hand to make sure I’m not over feeding or underfeeding with synthetics. I used Jacks on my first grow and man did I think that was crazy trying to keep up with it all. My second grow was certainly easier using the self watering pots but still a pain trying to keep the ph right in the reservoir. I’m thinking this organic style of growing is gonna be the easiest and best method of producing the best flower.
Let’s get @Budbrother to look at this he is the Organic Go to Guy! And what he tells you you can take it to the bank! No bro science just facts. I tagged him so he should be hittin you up later. I haven’t done a lot of teas. I grow with salt based nutrients. But if anyone can get you on the right path BudBrother is the man!
For organics and Living soil, you can’t have better people in your corner. @Caligurl , @GreenJewels are amazing… and they learned from the Bud Whisperer: @Budbrother .
For packing them with frost, @Dman1969 is your guy to follow.
Thanks a ton dman and kaptain! I know there is a large gathering of the minds here and all willing to help out. Knowing who to tag is another thing. But just posting a question or concern certainly draws the experts out and that’s a great thing!
Yep, I think everybody around here will keep me on the straight and narrow. Thanks for the support! I took those pics yesterday as soon as I finished putting everything in the soil. Maybe just my imagination but I swear they look like the plant got bigger overnight as though they really liked what I did to them yesterday.
I was looking around the net for ideas on a diy brewer and think I found a really simple/easy peasy method that just involved a couple of grommets and hose. Drill a hole a small ways from the bottom of the bucket on opposite sides. Install grommets, push hose in from each side in such a fashion as to make it spin the water around in a vortex sort of fashion. Looked really simple and it sure agitated the water and had it spinning the whole mix up. Unless someone here suspects this method would not work, that’s what I’m gonna do.
Ditto on the Budbrother and Greenjewels, add to that mix @Twelve1 and @Hopalong. I’m just here sitting in the back of the class trying to stay out of trouble LOL.
