doubledankdoug
currently only 1.5x dank
TLDR; are there growlogs or a recommended formula out there for autos in low volume containers (1 gallon or less) with organic dry amendments?
Hi AFN, first post here - just finishing up my first tiny tiny grow and trying to do some research before I start in on number 2.
My primary motivation is to grow variety of strains, yield is a secondary goal I expect to work up to.
I'm working with a super tiny space (about 2.5sqft floor space split between two boxes, ~36 in height), running an HLG100 3000k on one side, and an HLG65 4000k on the other, both at between 45% and 60% strength at various points during the grow.
First grow, I went with 5 different strains in 1 gallon fabric pots. I used sohum living soil as my base soil, with 1tbsp/gallon Dr Earth Homegrown (4-6-3) as an amendment. First 10 days they were in 3oz cups with plain soil, then transplanted into 1 gallon fabric pots with the lightly amended soil. After that I started top dressing at every watering with approx 1tbsp of Dr Earth Homegrown until about week 4, when I added 1tbsp Dr Earth Flower Girl per watering (so total, 2tbsp / watering). Watering was approx once every 5-7 days with PHd charcoal filtered water, as it was taking a long time for soil to dry out.
3 out of the 5 plants made it to harvest, two of them, which seemed healthy, died for unknown reasons during flowering. All of the plants experienced mild to extreme deficiency or other stress at some point during the grow - for the ones that survived, it was mostly just yellowing and crisping / die off of fan leaves, which I see is fairly normal with these really small containers.
My plan for the next grow is to use 1/2 gallon to 1 gallon containers, with much more heavily amended soil - anywhere from 3 to 18 tbsp of amendment total, as some on other forums have suggested it's pretty difficult to burn plants with organic dry amendments. Based on the growlogs I've read in the micro sub of small container grows (from archie, spanglish, hairyman, etc), I don't really see anyone using dry amendments, and this is what the guys at my local shop suggested - it'll be much easier to push liquid nutrients into the soil with each watering, for a more hydro-style feed/grow. I've also seen some people just using Dr Earth to make a nutrient tea for every feeding as well. Can anyone point me in the right direction on this? Is there an accepted way of doing, or at least an example of anyone having success with the combination of autos + small containers + organic dry amendments? Thanks!
Hi AFN, first post here - just finishing up my first tiny tiny grow and trying to do some research before I start in on number 2.
My primary motivation is to grow variety of strains, yield is a secondary goal I expect to work up to.
I'm working with a super tiny space (about 2.5sqft floor space split between two boxes, ~36 in height), running an HLG100 3000k on one side, and an HLG65 4000k on the other, both at between 45% and 60% strength at various points during the grow.
First grow, I went with 5 different strains in 1 gallon fabric pots. I used sohum living soil as my base soil, with 1tbsp/gallon Dr Earth Homegrown (4-6-3) as an amendment. First 10 days they were in 3oz cups with plain soil, then transplanted into 1 gallon fabric pots with the lightly amended soil. After that I started top dressing at every watering with approx 1tbsp of Dr Earth Homegrown until about week 4, when I added 1tbsp Dr Earth Flower Girl per watering (so total, 2tbsp / watering). Watering was approx once every 5-7 days with PHd charcoal filtered water, as it was taking a long time for soil to dry out.
3 out of the 5 plants made it to harvest, two of them, which seemed healthy, died for unknown reasons during flowering. All of the plants experienced mild to extreme deficiency or other stress at some point during the grow - for the ones that survived, it was mostly just yellowing and crisping / die off of fan leaves, which I see is fairly normal with these really small containers.
My plan for the next grow is to use 1/2 gallon to 1 gallon containers, with much more heavily amended soil - anywhere from 3 to 18 tbsp of amendment total, as some on other forums have suggested it's pretty difficult to burn plants with organic dry amendments. Based on the growlogs I've read in the micro sub of small container grows (from archie, spanglish, hairyman, etc), I don't really see anyone using dry amendments, and this is what the guys at my local shop suggested - it'll be much easier to push liquid nutrients into the soil with each watering, for a more hydro-style feed/grow. I've also seen some people just using Dr Earth to make a nutrient tea for every feeding as well. Can anyone point me in the right direction on this? Is there an accepted way of doing, or at least an example of anyone having success with the combination of autos + small containers + organic dry amendments? Thanks!
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