calliandra
soils apprentice
Hey folks!
So since I've been peeking into growspaces the past few weeks here, getting to know the new strains as they're grown out, I might as well document the Cosmic Queens I've got going in mine.
No idea what kind of ride this is going to be, as I'm very prone to user error these days as my mind stretches to truly understand building and maintaining living soils and gets lost in the vast rabbits burrow of organics. But, it could definitely make for some entertainment, so here goes :smoking:
The growspace
It's going to shift around a lot in the course of this grow.
A 75x150cm space at full room height, that is going to get a flowering space partitioned off for the Northern Lights#5xHaze growing on the lower right in the pic.
This was a good week ago, on Dec. 3rd.
Air exchange running 24/7, tending toward the very dry (hence the humidifier), with 200W of 3500°k CXB3590's (in use on the pic) to be supplemented with 150W of HIDs.
A 56L fabric pot of former no-till soil that had sat fallow for a year, reamended and left to "cook" (it did, at temps of 30°C) for a good 2 weeks before planting. Feeding will comprise a mix of topdressings (fresh green as well as meals and possibly vermicompost), along with plant juices (kelp and fresh green/flowers/fruit).
Sprouting
Seeds were soaked in water overnight and dropped directly in the soil with some myco spores on Dec. 1. By the morning of the 5th, both had sprouted.
First user error was to knee-jerkedly drop two seeds for a "best of two"-sprouting.
Don't do that with Mephisto seeds!!
Especially when they're freshly dropped, and if you have problems killing perfectly lovely plants
It was a rough call deciding which to cull, day 7 from sprout:
The left one, which had sprouted first, was slower developing the next tier of leaves, but first beginnings of secondaries were already showing at the base of the first real leaves, plus she had the sturdier stem.
The one on the right, which sprouted second, had a much lankier stem and kept leaning over, whilst growing in a delightfully joyous love-of-life way that seriously made me consider culling the more stable plant haha
So I scooped a big handful of soil out of the pot from under where [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] was standing, and rescued her into a small 1L pot where she'll have to stay for another week or so, waiting for a bigger pot to be vacated. She got a sprinkling of myco powder, and both plants a topdressing of freshly sprouted and ground barley,
watered in with kelp juice.
And after I finished, I saw that actually, this one is sprouting a "peace out" from the base of the cotyledons?!
I present to you Ms. Woozy, look at that hip swing ha
lmao
jokes on me, I love this one and am going to make space where there is none to grow her out anyway
And the girl that got to stay, Ms. GoodieTwoShoes lol
This was yesterday, day 8, right after transplant.
Hoping I can make their lives a good one for them!
Cheers!
So since I've been peeking into growspaces the past few weeks here, getting to know the new strains as they're grown out, I might as well document the Cosmic Queens I've got going in mine.
No idea what kind of ride this is going to be, as I'm very prone to user error these days as my mind stretches to truly understand building and maintaining living soils and gets lost in the vast rabbits burrow of organics. But, it could definitely make for some entertainment, so here goes :smoking:
The growspace
It's going to shift around a lot in the course of this grow.
A 75x150cm space at full room height, that is going to get a flowering space partitioned off for the Northern Lights#5xHaze growing on the lower right in the pic.
This was a good week ago, on Dec. 3rd.
Air exchange running 24/7, tending toward the very dry (hence the humidifier), with 200W of 3500°k CXB3590's (in use on the pic) to be supplemented with 150W of HIDs.
A 56L fabric pot of former no-till soil that had sat fallow for a year, reamended and left to "cook" (it did, at temps of 30°C) for a good 2 weeks before planting. Feeding will comprise a mix of topdressings (fresh green as well as meals and possibly vermicompost), along with plant juices (kelp and fresh green/flowers/fruit).
Sprouting
Seeds were soaked in water overnight and dropped directly in the soil with some myco spores on Dec. 1. By the morning of the 5th, both had sprouted.
First user error was to knee-jerkedly drop two seeds for a "best of two"-sprouting.
Don't do that with Mephisto seeds!!
Especially when they're freshly dropped, and if you have problems killing perfectly lovely plants
It was a rough call deciding which to cull, day 7 from sprout:
The left one, which had sprouted first, was slower developing the next tier of leaves, but first beginnings of secondaries were already showing at the base of the first real leaves, plus she had the sturdier stem.
The one on the right, which sprouted second, had a much lankier stem and kept leaning over, whilst growing in a delightfully joyous love-of-life way that seriously made me consider culling the more stable plant haha
So I scooped a big handful of soil out of the pot from under where [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] was standing, and rescued her into a small 1L pot where she'll have to stay for another week or so, waiting for a bigger pot to be vacated. She got a sprinkling of myco powder, and both plants a topdressing of freshly sprouted and ground barley,
watered in with kelp juice.
And after I finished, I saw that actually, this one is sprouting a "peace out" from the base of the cotyledons?!
I present to you Ms. Woozy, look at that hip swing ha
lmao
jokes on me, I love this one and am going to make space where there is none to grow her out anyway
And the girl that got to stay, Ms. GoodieTwoShoes lol
This was yesterday, day 8, right after transplant.
Hoping I can make their lives a good one for them!
Cheers!
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I'll sit in on this one. Cosmic Queen will be my next grow starting in Feb sometime. I remember your Sour Stomper grow-I believe it was anyhow-I had one going at the same time.
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