Indoor Autos in Organic Soil with Tap Water

[Mozzy]

Day 89 PG - Getting closer...:

 

[Mozzy]

Day 97 PG - So close, but the amber still seems to be only on the sugars...

 

[Corum59]

I think the person who first said "Patience is a virtue" was a grower.

 

[Mozzy]

Chopped the 99 day PG, wet-trimmed on branches, and into dryer it goes…with low-mid 40s% RH, and mid 70s F in the lung-room it’ll likely only take 3-5 days before debranching and sweating in paper bags before jars/gbs:

 

[paulg]

Mozzy: My last harvest in GroBuckets was not as great as I hoped for. The roots didn’t make it to the reservoir and the soil was very saturated. So, for my latest grow I’ve been top watering then letting the soil dry out a bit. I still do some bottom watering to keep the reservoir/soil interface moistened. Once the plants are established, I plan to up the bottom watering schedule.
How do you approach watering? Any thoughts or suggestions? Thx, I’d be quite happy with your results, outstanding!

 

[Mozzy]

Mozzy: My last harvest in GroBuckets was not as great as I hoped for. The roots didn’t make it to the reservoir and the soil was very saturated. So, for my latest grow I’ve been top watering then letting the soil dry out a bit. I still do some bottom watering to keep the reservoir/soil interface moistened. Once the plants are established, I plan to up the bottom watering schedule.
How do you approach watering? Any thoughts or suggestions? Thx, I’d be quite happy with your results, outstanding!

Thanks, P . Sorry you had some challenges. I'll give you my current high-level start plans and you can ask questions about things you did different, or anything else you want...

Not necessarily in order of operations:
-Seeds in dark warm wet paper towel 24-72 hours until they crack.
-Put clean GB together, and fish the air tube down the fill tube with a new air stone attached.
-Fill with good organic soil.
-Top-water the soil with a sprayer until reservoir is about half-full…usually takes about a half hour and ~1.5 gallons per bucket for day 1.
-Using tap water (that doesn't appear to have chromium, based on local water quality reports), but aired-out ~24-48hrs for chlorine reasons, and roughly PH’d to the mid 6s based on the periodic testing color/using GH drops.
-Get buckets into the clean tent and connect air tubes to the pump and turn that on 24/7 for the length of the grow.
-Plant cracked seeds ~½ inch down, spray with water and cover with dome (if environment dictates) until sprout.

I’m working on getting four sprouts up in the next week or so with this method again too.
I’m sure I’m forgetting something so feel free to ask whatever…

edit:
-Once the buckets settle for a few hours at least, I usually top the reservoirs off day 1 too, and once the plants start really drinking 2-3 weeks in I then top-off the reservoirs as needed (usually daily at that point).
-I think I only top watered 1-2 times this last grow in the first several weeks, and 1 of those was probably molasses water (not positive it helps much in my situation) and when I added a little top soil for trunks.
-Even when daily watering in full veg/flowering, it only takes 2-3 minutes per day usually.

 

[Mozzy]

Thanks for the reps @R Wayne

 

[Mozzy]

Been dealing with debilitating pain from a pinched nerve but wanted to note, emptied the dryer and sweat in brown bag (dried a little too low into the 50s% this time but I can’t tell vaping it after a week, and I’m hopeful to squish some soon), so we’re left with almost 5oz of the 99 day Dessert Seeds Purps ‘N Glue Auto (PG) :

 

[Mozzy]

Started round 3 for this thread with a few more of my oldest seeds, though some are showing their age…also been dealing with some health handicaps along with environment/germination issues; but here we are on 18/6, with a 300w SP3000 starting ~30” away at 50% on the dimmer this time and the extraction set to go out at 75%RH and temps are high 70s-low/mids 80s now:

(GC) Dessert Seeds’ Gelato ‘N Chill autoflower - Day 12
(LC) Equilibrium Genetics’ Lion’s Claw F3 (regular, non-feminized) autoflower - Day X/X (started two of these this time since I rolled a 7 on not getting a dude last time)
(LZ) Dessert Seeds’ Lemonz autoflower - Day 1

GC day 1 above ground:

GC day 9:

GC day 12:

The LCs and the LZ did not come up so I started new seeds after 6 days in the ground from cracking and no action; and after ~36hrs in the paper towel and 2 days in the solo with a dome, we have a LZ 1 day above soil:

...decided to use solos and try transplanting for the first time, just in case the first set of LC and LZ seeds decided to pop up in the SIPs while the new ones start:

The second set of two LC seeds still couldn't get their tails out after ~6 days this time so I started two more in a shot glass with some peroxide...

If all 4 wind up making it, I’m planning to top, remove bottom nodes, and start schwazzing ~4 weeks in for environment reasons

 

[Mozzy]

Chopping day for the SH @109 above ground; wet-trimmed and into the dryer:
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