Hey AFN, I am taking the plunge into Organic growing. I am germinating all my seeds right now. Most have cracked open so I just placed them into paper towels over a heating mat. Once I start them out and I am able to clone them I will be starting to sex the Ghost Train Haze out. I have never grown regular seeds usually fem seeds. The auto's I am running are Critical Jack Herer and Northern Lights Blue, both have cracked open and will most likely be planted into 3 gallon pots tomorrow. I am running 5 Rare Dankness regular Vale Vale and 12 Ghost Train Haze #1. These will be later on because I need to clone them then sex them and pick out my keeper pheno's. I have 5 fem Humboldt Green Crack, 6 fem Reserva Privada Sour Kush ''Headband'' , 1 Delicious seeds fem. Cotton Candy and 1 Sugar Black Rose, then 1 World of Seeds Diamond line Obsession. I may use these single seeds as mothers or take a few clones before I flip them.
OK. now for the Organic part. I will be running Sunshine #4 soiless mix and amending it with Kelp, worm castings and a few others. I am feeding them with compost tea made from PooGuy's tea mixtures. This shit and when I say shit I mean shit haha stinks like hell. I an make 200 gallons of tea with 1 $35 bag. I bought a 50 gallon drum kit from them but will only make 25 at a time but it came with air pump, wands, bags and their Grow, Transition and Bloom mixes. When I brew the tea I will add non-sulfured molasses, compost starter, Kelp and I was told to go out into the woods and scrape away leaves and dig up the top few inches of soil and add that because of the natural bacteria that lays on the forest floor. I am not sure I will both to do that but we will see. I know I always preach about fabric Smart Pots but because I am running so many at once I am using plastic pots and will keep my mothers in the fabric pots.
This next grow will also include a 4 site RDWC system that I will continue running GH line in. I got everything I needed today except my water manifold for adding a top drip feed I will use for young plants without enough roots and im waiting on grommets for connecting buckets with 1 1/2'' pvc pipe. I got the biggest air pump I could find so each site will have 2 6'' Eco-stones and over 100 liter per minute of air. 4lpm is enough but you can never have too much and the way I look at it is if I expand my system I have enough air already. Because these pumps run hot I will hook a hose to the air inlet and draw cold outside air through itnto buckets in hopes water temps stay around 68'F. Tomorrow I will get my light rail up and once I receive my rail extension I will remove 1 of my 1000watt lights and cover the room with 2 1000 watt hoods. I want one of the hoods for my veg tent so I can run a 600/1000watt MH in there.
I am excited to run a couple more auto's. This Critical Jack Herer is supposed to be really good and also a good producer. IMO anything consisting of Jack Herer is great. The Jack Diesel was a favorite to most my patience and friends along with Blue Dream and MOB.
I will update you all tomorrow when I plant the seeds. Besides the auto's I am going to use Root Riot cubes for the seeds because I have 100 of them I need to use and never even opened the bags. They are soaking in ph'd water with clonex solution at 100ppm's. Now has anyone used these cubes for seedlings and if so I would love to here some feedback on them. I here they are awesome for clones but I use an aero cloner so I have not been cloning in them.
Let the show begin........wooohoooo
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OK. now for the Organic part. I will be running Sunshine #4 soiless mix and amending it with Kelp, worm castings and a few others. I am feeding them with compost tea made from PooGuy's tea mixtures. This shit and when I say shit I mean shit haha stinks like hell. I an make 200 gallons of tea with 1 $35 bag. I bought a 50 gallon drum kit from them but will only make 25 at a time but it came with air pump, wands, bags and their Grow, Transition and Bloom mixes. When I brew the tea I will add non-sulfured molasses, compost starter, Kelp and I was told to go out into the woods and scrape away leaves and dig up the top few inches of soil and add that because of the natural bacteria that lays on the forest floor. I am not sure I will both to do that but we will see. I know I always preach about fabric Smart Pots but because I am running so many at once I am using plastic pots and will keep my mothers in the fabric pots.
This next grow will also include a 4 site RDWC system that I will continue running GH line in. I got everything I needed today except my water manifold for adding a top drip feed I will use for young plants without enough roots and im waiting on grommets for connecting buckets with 1 1/2'' pvc pipe. I got the biggest air pump I could find so each site will have 2 6'' Eco-stones and over 100 liter per minute of air. 4lpm is enough but you can never have too much and the way I look at it is if I expand my system I have enough air already. Because these pumps run hot I will hook a hose to the air inlet and draw cold outside air through itnto buckets in hopes water temps stay around 68'F. Tomorrow I will get my light rail up and once I receive my rail extension I will remove 1 of my 1000watt lights and cover the room with 2 1000 watt hoods. I want one of the hoods for my veg tent so I can run a 600/1000watt MH in there.
I am excited to run a couple more auto's. This Critical Jack Herer is supposed to be really good and also a good producer. IMO anything consisting of Jack Herer is great. The Jack Diesel was a favorite to most my patience and friends along with Blue Dream and MOB.
I will update you all tomorrow when I plant the seeds. Besides the auto's I am going to use Root Riot cubes for the seeds because I have 100 of them I need to use and never even opened the bags. They are soaking in ph'd water with clonex solution at 100ppm's. Now has anyone used these cubes for seedlings and if so I would love to here some feedback on them. I here they are awesome for clones but I use an aero cloner so I have not been cloning in them.
Let the show begin........wooohoooo
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