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[Atulip]

I'm behind on everything. Top of the small tent is now converted to a makeshift drying shelf. With cardboard. :smoking:

Walters round 1 harvested 8/5, round 2 on 8/12. Under 70% for the round 1 Walters, should have weights soon. Round 2 almost crispy, to the jars tonight or tomorrow.

Peek in the tent.

Last 3 Walters along the side

SODK the stretchy green ones, and more along the back wall.

13 x 24Carats, need to check the trichs on the first round, probably ready soon.

Sour blues and chem bubbly. Seedlings are sour bubbly. Maybe a couple rounds of sour crack next.

 

[Bman420]

Hey atulip I'm finally all caught up on ur journal. I must say it's impressive and gives me some incentive to upgrade my 4x4. My question to u is about your bed of perlite. Do u add extra water on the perlite for the plants to wick up or is it just there to drain the excess water from watering the plants.

 

[Sensi Jay]

Hi Atulip, much love and respect for sharing your grow, it's an inspiration.:smoking:

Just waiting on some photos to finish then I've got some sour bubblies planned next, so keen to see what yours turn out like.

@Bham420, on reading the journal impression I got is water is applied directly to the perlite bed which is then wicked up by the fabric pots. But guess this could also work in reverse at soaking an overrun.

I'm keen to understand this further as was considering running autopots and biotabs on next run, and now thinking you could run a perlite bed as a cheaper, easier alternative with a super soil.

Does this work best with a little and often watering or does this allow for a few days between drenchings?

 

[Atulip]

The perlite bed is mostly maintained by the dehumidifier(especially now with the hot humid summer) drain hose going directly to it, but once every week or 2 I fill it up and may top water in a little Calmag or Epsom salts on all the plants.

I don't water to runoff if I do, mainly a bottom fed wick system, same how autopots work. I do like the coco in the soil for extra aeration, but the regular old 1/3 peat, 1/3 perlite, 1/3 castings has done well on the wick system also. No planned wet/dry stages but the seedlings get root pruned pretty well and no issues with poor root growth here. It could work as constantly moist or wet and dry stages, I prefer to keep them moist and just have a well aerated soil.

It's super cheap and if not for my seedlings I could leave it for a couple weeks at a time. I'm thinking I'm gonna stick to just organic soils, since I can't recycle the supersoil effectively. And I'm not seeing much difference so far, all the dirt is growing good weed, except my own super soil mix looks like half dead plants (last 3 Walters pictured above) lol.


Still behind but I've got Walter White weights. Round 1 Walters, 23 BAS, 31 BAS, 36 coots, 42 coots, round 2 on the super soil bottom half, 29 BAS, 22 BAS, 23 coots, 33 coots. Around 6-7oz dry trim/lower buds, for a nice big batch of tincture. Finally depleted the last batch. 3rd round with only 3 Walters harvested yesterday, 8/23, and first 5 24 carats harvested 8/19(weights soon). Sour crack planted last week, and sour crack again this week. Round 2 24 carats to be harvested soon.