That’s correct. I just shortened it to transition top dress.
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Still having some pistil issues. I hit them with some molasses(micros?) with yesterday’s watering. Hopefully GMV is going to be delivered today and I’ll be able to fill in the last feed. Better late than never? looks like the big choco is gunna give us a show. She has some very purple colas and is starting to get a hint of bubblegum, although not frosting up quite like the others. Looks like these guys are gunna be more cantaloupe than chocolate. Last time I grew it I got chocolate coffee bud 
RP43 is starting to look like she may be worth all the frustration after all. She’s getting gassy and frosty.
Also stuck the peppers greens and herbs outside. The aphids were starting to get outta control. I gave them another treatment when I took them outside and I’ve only seen 1 live one since. Looks like today is gunna be transplant day for the a lot of the veggie seedlings.
I busted out the rosin press to sample some of the last hash plant round. It was okay, but unremarkable. I went low heat/pressure on the first presses and got about 8% second high pressure press gave me another 10%.
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Choco are 5 wk from flip tomorrow. That’s about wk3 of flower. I am starting to see some chlorotic leaves with some necrotic spots. Mostly on the Choco B, but there are a few on the A as well. @Budbrother, should I give them the SAG a week early? If so should I still add tsp K2SO4 with it? Other than that girls have been trucking right along. The little Choco (B) is starting to get hint of color. Think she might make for some great photos soon if I can keep it all together.
Veggies coming along too. I’ve been prepping the garden too. Hopefully spring veggies will get started tomorrow. I already started some wild flowers in the fallow side plus the vetch, grasses, radishes, and clover that made it through the winter.
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Those lowers look like natural N consumption
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Thanks for setting my mind at ease, I guess I’m starting to get paranoid. This is the furthest I’ve made it without a meltdown since I switched back to soil. I kept looking at it the other day and decided it was better to just ask and be sure. Thanks for your time. So Mn would be more speckled with necrotic spots, chlorosis from the petiole outward and appear on newer growth? That’s at least the questions I had in my head.
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Cool Cool, I was going off old info from the first grow which I’m starting to suspect got mislabeled when I had the journal backup issue and had to match all the random pics back to journal entries.
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I hit wk 4 tomorrow, SAG-C time for me. Gonna mix my lang gyp fbm today. My Oly compost just arrived this morning, in the nick of time
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I think that’s sunday for me.
Holy 
that stuff has gotten expensive. It’s doubled since I made my first batch of dirt.
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It’s gotten to the price of Bu’s biodynamic.
I was just sipping my coffee and realized that top dressing goes wk5, so tonight is just SAG-C watering. Still gonna mix it up to be begin decomp for next week.
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I got one of each, bu’s is a couple bucks more than it was at $40. For some reason olly went from $30 to $60. I’ve been savoring every last bit of that last bag while I work out other options.
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You can mix the Oly with mushroom compost and some N and rock dust, let cook. Doubles the product and still chocked full of life. N & Minerals needed to cook and keep life developing
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What’s a good economical N source. I’ve also been working on some hugelkultur for erosion control, but I don’t get enough grass and ground cover to use for N source.
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Alfalfa delivers quick N and has good all around numbers.
Soy meal - (~7-1-2) quick release adds PK also
Cotton seed meal - (~6-2-1) moderate release but good to add for sustained release
Blood meal in a pinch is great for cooking but I avoid blood.
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Gotcha so some mushroom compost and a combo of the three heavy on the cotton seed meal should get me there?
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I’m not sure if I understand you here.
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I’m doing a thinning project on my property. I’m planning hugelkulture rows with all the dead, overcrowded trees, yucca, gambles oak, etc. If I understand correctly most of the natural stuff I have on the property is slow to decompose so I need to add some source of N along with a compost layer and or IMO from the forest floor to get decomposition started over the first few months. I was trying to figure out an economical way to do this. Just an unrelated intrusive thought I had when you mentioned this.
Apologies, the squirrel is working overtime today.
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Understood.
That’s gonna require them all. Blood is gonna burn fast and hard. It’s needed, for this, to keep price in check. Next Alfalfa horse pellets. Soak 12-18 hrs and use water, and then toss the dregs into the compost. This combo should heat that up quickly. Then adding soy meal will increase the fungal load to help speed digestion. I don’t see a need for the CSM in this unless you are able to find animal feed bags priced within reason.
Adding some Azos (Azospirillum Brasilense) nitrofiers will help further a rapid decomp. To stretch your IMO, make a potato JLM with some IMO and salt. Add the Azos into this.
Of course some LABs (aka the police) is an essential here, but you can make Bokashi for regular inputs economically. The wheat bran here provides additional fungal boost as well a N source. Combined with the soy input, you have a fungal rich food source. I’d even toss down some blended up shroom water to encourage diversity to fungal network. That’s what is gonna digest the wood cellulose.
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Ok so if I heat it up quickly and get them fungi working I shouldn’t need the slower release from the csm?
couldn’t I sub in oats for bokashi? I always have oats on hand, but I can always go get some wheat bran. I just strained a fresh batch of lab last night was planning on making a big batch of bokashi. Appreciate ya brother.
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Yes Bokashi can be made with oats.
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