Outdoor my outdoor adventures with MANY strains from seed

[Irish Pride]

for those of you watching i could use some advise for next year

i think im doing one of the water only organic soil mixes next year to fill whats left of each hole after i take out the pot stumps and roots. ill only need a little bit of new soil to fill each hole so i highly doubt there will be enough nutes in such a small amount of soil. i don't want to carry in liquid nutrients anymore. so im looking for some sort of organic/mostly organic (im not an organic freak) nutrient that i can just sprinkle on top of each hole as needed as the season goes on. advanced nutrients heavy harvest sounds perfect if it were only organic.

the only reason im trying to go mostly organic is i don't want to wreck the herd of beneficial bacteria in the native soil. i may be wrong but i think with staying organic and not only trying to take care of what bene's are there already but also adding some the plot will get better over time. if that's crazy i might just go for the heavy harvest.

 

[KindredSpirit]

Hey bro. Check out the Espoma Organic line, specifically Plant-tone, Garden-tone, and Tomato-tone. Loaded with all types of goodies, included different species of beneficial microbes. Here's a link:

http://www.espoma.com/p_consumer/tones_overview.html

I've used a lot of Espoma organic products with great success, and they're all very reasonably priced.

Cheers :smokebuds:

 

[NewBe]

I grow outside in 40lt pots and, because Autos don’t need feeding for the first few weeks, I mix some guano in the sub soil (from 3inches below the surface to say 12inches) so by the time they want food their roots have reached this level. Could you do that in your spot?
I know you said you didn’t want to do a liquid feed but a dose of something like BioBizz Alg-A-Mic Organic Vitality Booster every 2-4 weeks would then give them a great little tonic, my plants seem to love it. It can also be used as a foliar feed, so you would only have to take a sprayer with you. It will also give a boost to the "herd of beneficial bacteria in the native soil"

 

[Purple Rain]

I used this summer first time coco on my guerilla grow. I packed 20 bricks of coco and guano and chicken manure/sea weed pellets to my back pack and headed to the bush. 20 bricks of coco expands to 200l when it rains then I just added the ferts and planted my plants. Seem to work very well just need to put some more nutes next summer. You can check out my thread if you like to see how my plants are doing.
https://www.autoflower.org/f6/purple-rains-summer-2012-a-10007.html

 

[Irish Pride]

I grow outside in 40lt pots and, because Autos don’t need feeding for the first few weeks, I mix some guano in the sub soil (from 3inches below the surface to say 12inches) so by the time they want food their roots have reached this level. Could you do that in your spot?
I know you said you didn’t want to do a liquid feed but a dose of something like BioBizz Alg-A-Mic Organic Vitality Booster every 2-4 weeks would then give them a great little tonic, my plants seem to love it. It can also be used as a foliar feed, so you would only have to take a sprayer with you. It will also give a boost to the "herd of beneficial bacteria in the native soil"

I'm already feeding liquid nutrients with a sprayer both at the roots and foliar. problem is i need about 8 gallons of soloution for a root feed and 2 gallons of soloution for a folliar feed. next year i plan to have 4x this amount of plants to tend to. even with what i have now this if time consuming and i dont like to spend much time at each plot. also it takes up alot of space in my bag and weight on my back. if i were growing from clones this wouldnt be as much of a problem but from seed i need to spend alot of time digging up and carrying out males that i want to keep, and going over each plant each visit looking for signs of hermies and checking smells. if i wouldnt have to worry about nutrients every time i went out this would be alot easier for me.

I used this summer first time coco on my guerilla grow. I packed 20 bricks of coco and guano and chicken manure/sea weed pellets to my back pack and headed to the bush. 20 bricks of coco expands to 200l when it rains then I just added the ferts and planted my plants. Seem to work very well just need to put some more nutes next summer. You can check out my thread if you like to see how my plants are doing.
https://www.autoflower.org/f6/purple-rains-summer-2012-a-10007.html

im planning on adding an organic soil but will still need to supliment later on. the native soil is crappy here. i could tell when my roots used up the preferted soil and moved on to native soil, plants yellowed rapidly. i've talked to a few local outdoor growers and they all said that their plants always start to yellow from the bottom up around this time every year.

i think if i use one of the "water only" organic mix recipee's and top dress at the beginning of august i may be able to get around the crappy native soil problems and yellowing. problem is my holes are too small to hold much good soil and i cant dig any deeper due to old roots and shale rock. i think i might plant differently next year and ditch the holes for trenches


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that way they can also grow horizontally into good soil once they hit bottom.

ill be back with pics from the other day.

 

[Irish Pride]

pics from 8-13-12

Double Purple Doja




pool of males me and a few buddy's decided to keep and share




Auto Diesel








Grape Krush


Lowrider seeded with Magic dragon pollen






Auto Asian Haze seeded with male AAH and auto afghan haze. hitting the last 2 with reversed auto asian pollen for fems.







Dojaberry male

 

[Coolbreeze]

Happy frog and espoma both are great sprinkle on and go fertilizers. Organic. That's what i use inside too. Man- this adventure your on- its rad.

 

[harvestreaper]

looking good irish a lot of work there ,, fair play to you

 

[Irish Pride]

Happy frog and espoma both are great sprinkle on and go fertilizers. Organic. That's what i use inside too. Man- this adventure your on- its rad.

no need to mix into the soil? i can just spread it right on top and let the water take it into the dirt? that epsoma stuff looks pretty good.

 

[sativalover]

no need to mix into the soil? i can just spread it right on top and let the water take it into the dirt? that epsoma stuff looks pretty good.

have you taken deeper ph levels looks like you need a soil acidifier to me from the pics i saw
if alot of shale this is more than possible
once roots reach the harder shaley levels of dirt it will start to absorb from too high alkalinity soil?
just a possibility
if ground temps are getting colder this will also effect this
great looking grow
go Irish