Mephisto Genetics Tyrone Special K.I.S.S grow journal

[HubbaBubba]

Keep It Super Simple... a low maintenance grow, with tomato plant food.

STRAIN: Tyrone Special
SOIL: Peat moss + 10% vermiculite + old roots
CONTAINER: 15 liter Superoots Air Pot
LIGHTS: Grownorthern HS1 LED... 24 hours
NUTES: Texas Tomato Food, $14.95 per quart on Amazon. NPK is 3.8 - 3.1 - 7.0 based on "percentage of weight"

One bottle of nutes from start to finish, nothing else, not even Silicon or Cal/Mag. With just one bottle I have a decent chance of fertilizing correctly. The goal is to fertilize lightly at every watering so there are always nutrients near those millions of little root hairs. This tomato food has earned a good reputation on the tomato forums.
Lets try it on weed.

 

[HubbaBubba]

In the spirit of KISS, and extreme laziness... I put two seeds directly in the soil. The soil still has Sour Crack growing. Plastic bottles over the seeds to keep them moist:

 

[HubbaBubba]

Day 01 both seeds germinated after 3 days, despite being shoved into compacted soil. One was planted too shallow, its roots couldn't get traction to dig into the compacted soil. It was flopping around on the surface. I piled some soil on its roots and it is recovering.

 

[Iamlegend2121]

How are you going to get them out of there?

 

[HubbaBubba]

How are you going to get them out of there?

That is their home until harvest, no transplant.

The Sour Crack plant in the middle will be chopped off at the soil in a few days. I will leave the stump and roots in the soil. Maybe good for the Tyrone seedlings, maybe bad.... lets find out.

If the seedlings do well they will be rewarded with Topping, Fimming, or supercropping.

 

[Rick James]

I don't like that idea but I will watch and see what happens! :smoking:

 

[F.N.]

This a wicked approach to gardening. It reminds of 1990's when all I had was 20-20-20 to an extent. But reusing the soil for another grow is very cool it should work well the old roots will breakdown providing more aeration for the incoming root ball. Maybe feed it some thing to help break down the existing rootball and turning it into nutrients.

 

[minime]

Leaving them in there with a dead plant sounds like a bad bad idea as the the old plant will rot and decompose i hope i'm wrong but that sounds like its gonna cause problems in your simple grow. Plus also is there even room in the pot for 2 extra lot of roots?

 

[HubbaBubba]

I don't like that idea but I will watch and see what happens! :smoking:

Hey Rick James! long time no see. Thanks for stopping in.

I am not sure I like this idea, but it seems like something fun to try.
Just about the time the seedlings pop up... they get light because the mature plant gets cut down for harvest.

 

[F.N.]

maybe try some supplements from AN roots tribe just a thought