Indoor Organic-experimental-tobacco&more-lowWatt-0maintenance(?)-12/12-breeding-outdoor-etc.

[Peacefulgarden]

Here is my auto flower seed collection

My own auto crosses bottom right, cut off a bit and more on the way. Going through them reminded me I need to get a couple cbd’s going asap.

 

[Peacefulgarden]

Update with everything including the plants I messed up 2 were for testing purposes (seeing how much alfalfa pellets I should when potting up from solo cup), and the other was in hydro soil that the ph was to low and transplanted into organic. Bad I know but for the 2, I just needed to see how much feed I can add, none, my soil is food to go. The biggest 3 have also been on the verge of underwatered for nearly a month now while I am trying to set up my watering system.

Pretty sure going forward it’s just going to be minor adjustments to get things really nice. Fingers crossed. My ph pen went out on me a little over a couple months ago, everything got messed up, that is when I made full switch over to organic and since growing food also, only want to grow organic food, same for weed really.

look at some new sprouts and whatever else is in there. The weed plant with label hidden is a French macaroon (cookies x gelato). Nothing in here really got light yesterday since I was working in the tent.

Haven’t had a weed seed not sprout since using the dome with temp controlled heat mat, highly suggest if you sprout many seeds and don’t have one.

little worried about the new wicking setup , the cotton rope doesn’t wick very great. Not the biggest deal, if it doesn’t work I have a few other options.

Since I did not pre soak the rope it may take a few days to get going, even my smaller, really well wicking cord took that long but once it was going, it did pretty well. May have to top water once today or tomorrow, until it is working.

set moisture meter right where the rope enters the pot so I will know as soon as the water gets there, I think it got hooked up around 5am today. I know, this plant looks awful, it was transplanted from ~4.0 ph hydro medium, into organic soil about a month ago, sorry if you looked at it.

 

[Peacefulgarden]

Few things going on today. Was gonna share my photo periods also, but didn’t have the energy to do that after everything else.

Was playing with my ph pens today to experiment with more with using a liquids pen for soil and other mediums.

Here just sitting in my soil mix, testing for ease of use. Different readings, seems okay. soil pen was easier to get a reading from here

both pens same reading in my tap water. HM pen faster to settle on reading.

Different batch of same soil mix today. Soil pen easier to get reading from here

In some peat, both pens same ease of use. 4.9 on the bluelab, still going down, taking to long to see final reading. HM pen much easier reading in straight peat, much softer than soil mix.

In coco. Same for ease of use for HM pen in coco, easy reading. Bluelab also easy to get reading here also.

Here are both pens in a quick'n'lazy slurry test I did, using 7.2ph tap water. 6.9ph on the HM in case hard to read.

here are both pens in 7.0ph solution less than 24 hours from last calibration and less than 10 uses.

On the left is a different design of liquid ph tester. The design on the left worked better for soil and mediums in general (imo), than my current pen (HM, on the right), both worked the same in liquids. The yellow pen got left in the rain and wasn't working, I took the battery out so everything can dry and can't find the battery yet. Will do testing with it again if I can find the battery. You may be able to tell, the pen on the left has less in the way of the probe, which is why I believe it works better in a soil mix. I want to modify my HM pen (remove some of the plastic around the probe), and see if it will work as well in soil.

testing ec of my coco for upcoming organic coco grow attempt, using alfalfa and weed tea

 

[Peacefulgarden]

Some more stuff I was working on today and ~ update.

Started to ph my res. to 6.5ish from 7.2, just in case it may be an issue, using vitamin c powder for ph down, about half a teaspoon need per 4 gallons.

Pic of ~everything, felt like I had to top water yesterday, plants looking to messed up and watering string may not be fully in effect for a couple more days, if ever. Good look at northern lights (back right), that is sitting on a pile of alfalfa pellets and way excess N plus other stuff I'd guess, still growing though and almost seems like it's coming out of it, very slowly though. Back left, same situation, just not so much excess alfalfa pellets. Middle back, little excess alfalfa pellets, way under watered though, main reason I felt the need to water.

pink string loops with blue tape are marking different pollination sites, fair chance for cross pollination, low chance I care very much.

Royal purple x bloody skunk cross of mine, in same soil as everything else. It has never been underwatered but also much smaller than the others. I'm hoping it's just the not being underwaterd that is the reason it looks so much better and not the bigger plants using up this or that from the medium.

The box. Started bringing the peppers (back left), outside again, starting to flower and really small, not sure but I don't think that is great and reason I am bringing outside again. Celery in the middle fell over, sprayed the top soil with water and put bag back on top and it was standing back up just a few hours later.

Banana dance and Mozarrela broke the surface today. They will be in small solo cup sized pots, with short string into own res. for entire grow. Left room on top to add soil after they stretch. They will also be 12/12 for entire grow, both are photo periods.

Got some more pots ready to start some more seeds. Might do that tomorrow. One pot is for my coco organic attempt, 2nd try. Put 5 alfalfa pellets in there and just slightly wet so the microorganisms can get going.

Started making a tea to feed my organic coco soil. The tea is 500ml from the res (6.5 tap, ph'ed down with vitiman c powder), and 50ml dried weed leaf. Just two small 1/16" holes drilled in lid. Just winging it, never made a tea before, gonna let it sit a day or two, then find a seed to grow.

Two male plants, sitting outside in the shade and near freezing temps at night, look fine but grow really slow. I was just currious how they would handel the cold, not trying to get any pollen from them, which is good, I haven't seen any pollen coming from them though the sacs are opeing. One on the left came from bad medium, reason for brown leaf tips.

 

[Don Manzoni]

Nice work here bro! The rope irrigation concept is really interesting, does it work also with fertilized water? Did you get some documentations about this?

 

[Peacefulgarden]

Nice work here bro! The rope irrigation concept is really interesting, does it work also with fertilized water? Did you get some documentations about this?

Hi and thank you.

As long as the nutes are water soluble, it will work is what I’ve heard and it seems to be true but I haven’t tried it much.

It is hard (for me at least), to find anything great on the specificities of wick irrigation. That’s why so much trial and error for myself. If res water higher or just a short wick (few inches), to plant above, then I’ve had no problems. I believe also if I used synthetic rope (since upping to 3/4”), it may be easier but I really want to use natural rope. Again, also 3/4” braided rope would have been better than the 3/4 twisted rope in terms of wicking capabilities, but the cost turned me off to it.

This is the best video on the topic I have found, found a bunch, most not very great.

 

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Here is just a picture of some of the stuff I used in my current soil mix and the alfalfa pellets that I use. My guess is that I made around 40 gallons of soil, using ~20 pounds of alfalfa pellets, 1+ a little bag of recipe 420 soil, 1 bag combined between the 'citrus and palm' and a 'succulent and cactus' mix, maybe ~5 gallons regular organic potting mix, ~5 gallons peat moss (to dial in ph), 1 gallon coco, 2-3 gallons steer or chicken manure (steer manure here, I really thought it was chicken though but cant find the bag now), then a hand full of dolomite lime, gypsum, rock dust, maybe other stuff but I don't recall.

This is for another experiment, gonna try a plant in 'backyard dirt'. Dug a little up from under a nice sized pomegranate bush. Very heavy, little drainage. Going to test ph and make sure in range, if not, I will try and find stuff in the yard to bring it into range, if nothing, I will have to use some stuff that has been purchased to get ph into range, which goes against this experiment.

Roots coming out of the topsoil on one of the bigger plants. Seems another advantage of covering the soil, is that the whole pot stays more evenly moist, even the top soil a bit. Also having the bottoms ~sealed, it's (the top, around edges of plastic cover), the only way for the moisture to escape.

Pic below reminds me, the fungus nats have really slowed down, think I'm going to cover the bottoms of all my pots from now on, saw one come out of there in one of my pots in the cardboard box, and that's about all they have left at this point. Also, covering the bottoms seems ~good and I want to test it out.

Lights on temp and humidity.

Lights off temp and humidity. humidity coming down a lot covering/~sealing the pots.

Low on buds currently, means there may be some early pickings. Actually kinda surprised how well this turned out, super gassy smelling, little piney and fruity also. This is from the terrible looking under dawg kush, took a couple lower buds.

My photo period collection, actually motivated to get a picture today by a 'share your seed collection' thread, on here.

 

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Here is settin up a pot for wick irrigation. This was a couple days ago. Starting to lose faith in the rope working, done a couple ~experiments with it and nothing to promising. Gonna give it another few days though to figure out which route I want to take next. 5-6 strands of my smaller wicking cord will probably be what I do though

testing dirt from the backyard, seems like it should be fine in terms of ph. Think I’m going to start ph’ing my water to 6.0 from now on

the lucky candidate. I have a little of my starter mix on top, doesn’t break the rules of the experiment

Other experiment, organic coco getting started as well. Less faith in this one, so I used a banana dance seed that I have more than I need of. Also a look at my weed tea, was just starting to get a film on top, didn’t smell gross, just like grassy/weedy. Used 50-75 ml, since the coco was already a tad moist

non weed seeds started

all bottoms of all my pots are now covered, big and small. For a few reasons, mostly nats and the bottom of the pot drying is starting to make less sense to me

Non weed seed collection

 

[Peacefulgarden]

Here is a past grow of mine, using normal watering methods and dyna gro foliage pro @ 700 ppm on everything, dirt (I think OF) for some and coco for some. Only 1 bottle, start to finish, 700ppm

trying to get the 4x4 looking the same, only more plants and organic

mostly if not all photo periods on 12/12 from seed under 3 hlg 100v2s. All different strains. They were in what is now my germination cabinet. 3’ x 2’ about

 

[Peacefulgarden]

Wanted to save this for myself for reference later if needed.

Cannabis pH Chart & Guide - Autoflower Seed Shop

Because pH imbalance makes it difficult for the plant to absorb nutrients with its roots. pH levels need to be maintained to optimal levels.

autoflowerseedshop.com

https://www.autoflower.org/threads/improved-runoff-method-for-testing-soil-ph.42037/

It appears the ph of my current soil mix is slowly rising and that mixing it at 6.3 may have been to high to ph able to water with 7.0 or slightly higher tap water. Sooo.... I am going to remix all my soil today, and do some testing with my tap water to get it to sit at 6.0 once watered.

It was a distaster when i made the original mix, in the dark, in the rain and my bluelab soil pen was giving me bad readings. I have a bunch of extra lower ph soil that I can use to lower the ph of my current mix due to that fiasco, so, maybe not all bad.

I think I will ph new mix to 5.4 or 5.5, then test ph when watered with with my tap. 6.0 once watered is target ph I.m thinking. I am also going to test the ph of my male plants, sitting outside, that appear healthy. Been meaning to do it for a while now.