Definately not easy making your own soil. Great full body workout. Trucking 5 gallons buckets of water upstairs in the winter definately gets the burn on as well. Being stoned helps out a lot during the process.
I add the ammendments right before I fill the pots. The trailer helps with the mixing process. I want these pots to be nutrient rich to start. I plan to use them for several grows through the winter. Pretty much just have to top dress a little for the stretch. Hit them again with langbeinite 1/2 way through flower. You could use potash for k. Also something sulfur rich to top dress helps with terpene profile. Langbeinite is high in k, mag and sulfur that’s why I’ve stuck with it. Just learned about agricultural sulfur. I think that was @Hoppiefrog on your thread. Haven’t looked into it yet though.
I used about 25 ml of everything I amend with for a ten gallon pot. Except for lime and gypsum. 12.5 ml for those.
Green sand adds silica which makes a big difference in the sturdiness of the plant. Stinging nettle can also be used for silica and has a high nutrient content. If made into a tea it can be a good source on nitrogen.
Seabird guano has the p covered. I’d use fishbone meal before bone meal. Has about the same npk. Fish bone meal does break down a little faster. Both would be better served for amending the soil early on. Probably should take that into account when setting up the pot and reserve the seabird guano for the stretch top dress. Now you have me thinking. I’m going to make a couple pots using fishbone meal instead to test the difference. Looks like it breaks down in about six weeks to two months. That’s a perfect time to have it available to flip my lights for flower.
Update on the grow. The four in twenty gallon pots are doing great. Top dressed this week. I did some training and trimming about 5 days ago. I did the training and it started to rain hard. A lot of cropped branches didn’t hold up well and needing to be staked. A couple stakes, a couple sticks and a few old broken fishing poles fit the bill. The end result of my boys being destructive repurposed. Use what ya got.
The big pots have aphids. I haven’t had to do much because the ladybugs found my plants and have kept them under control.
Ladybug porn! Definately a welcome site when you have aphids. I’m taking a hands off approach, letting the bugs figure it out. I turn over the fan leaves and see a few aphids here and there but none have set up shop for business. No tell tale signs of aphid honeydew. To keep the lady bugs around I need to make sure they have an aphids population to feed on. Thank you ladybugs!
So first up is AHP. I lost the top early on. Doesn’t seem to have made a difference.
Soviet Skittles in the earth box isn’t happy. It started to yellow up a lot and stopped growing. I top dressed and added cal/mag. It seems to be doing a bit better. We’ll see.
the phosphorus breaks down pretty fast the calcium takes a few months tho. didn’t notice if n sticks around that wasn’t why I was using it tho. I like it quite a bit easy to use and hard to overuse
Hi there @shindig153 and @Hoppiefrog
I found this company here in nz just wonder what you thought.
Seems like they selling all products for growing hood cannabis plants.
Came across there mix formula sounds like it’s got every thing in it we need to grow good weed.
Take a look and let me know what you think.
I’ve rung them up a young company real easy to talk to.
So hard to get good medium over here.
Hoping maybe I’m onto something here.
Cheers
looks like one hell of a good start!!! u just need some pumace or perlite some Pete moss or forest material and coco coir and some bio char and you can most definitely make a program that will work for you.
Absolutely @Hoppiefrog love that kind of thing.
Hot myself perlite and coco.
Think they sell the bio char.
Got an old bag of peat moss laying about somewhere too. We have a wood heater and a camp fire and those ashes and burnt wood coal go in the compost then either into the veggie garden or my pot plant bags mix.
Not exactly bio char though.
u can make bio char at home in a double barrel set up info is easy to google. sounds like u will have a prime living soil mix I’ll get that link for u when my buddy from the compassion club gets up. wish u lived around here there’s tones of goodies all around.
Yer right that one was the one I looked at last before posting the link to you.
I’m pretty impressed with what they got.
They even sell trimming sissors can’t help thinking they setting up for cannabis growers.
That could be my mind wandering too.
Cheers @shindig153
I’ll definitely be supporting them in time
Watched this right though just now interesting
He knows something that’s for sure. Not hot on his cover crop knowledge lol.
Creeping lavender his favorite
Now you have me thinking. I’m going to make a couple pots using fishbone meal instead to test the difference. Looks like it breaks down in about six weeks to two months. That’s a perfect time to have it available to flip my lights for flower.
