Indoor Vegasbear's Grow and Puppers Thread

[Desert_Dave]

That poor little girl in the back. Will be interesting to see how she grows.

 

[Vegasbear87]

That poor little girl in the back. Will be interesting to see how she grows.

For sure. She's TINY and super stubborn so far, but I figure she deserves a chance for now.

 

[derek420colorado]

Looking good!

 

[Vegasbear87]

Day 25

The little girl is still struggle-busin' but I am not giving up on her!

Watering schedule modified, feed is as follows:

Floraflex Veg Foliar (1x e7d)
2.5g Floraflex Veg V1 & V2
5ml/gal Cal Mag
HTH
Drip Clean

All plants had some burned leaves early on, and I think that some or part of that is from foliar spraying too close to lights-on, but I am not really sure. All of the new growth seems to be nice and green and seems to be doing fine.

I won't top the two plants that have been struggling.

 

[Vegasbear87]

Day 6

I still can't believe how fast these suckers sprouted. They are looking healthy!

I introduced some worms into the soil bed, you can see the dryer-looking substrate they came in laying on top of the soil.

I was worried that the soil bed may not wick upwards from the grow tray full of perlite, but I had to add 5gal to it today to bring the water level back up to 1" below the bed. I really wish my groundcover crop seeds and barley straw would ship from Build a Soil though, as they are looking to be necessary to keeping the top of the soil bed a little more moist.

 

[Vegasbear87]

Day 30

Cooking right along, and the little troubled girl is making a comeback.

 

[Vegasbear87]

Day 11

Yesterday I added some sprouted barley which I pulverized with the coffee grinder, then some Kashi Blend from Build a Soil. Followed that up with a layer of castings and Build a Soil cover crop blend, and finally some barley straw. This will hopefully keep the top of the soil bed moister, as the majority of this bed's watering is through wicking from the perlite filled res it sits on top of.

When I first got the bed, I reached out to Grassroots Fabrics and they told me they weren't sure it would work for SIP/Wicking - challenge accepted! The res has about 10gal of water in it and used 5gal in the first week. Now that the soil is fairly well moistened, this has slowed but still shows a steady usage. I have only top watered once, but will likely do so whenever I add something to the topsoil.

The worms loved the barley, for sure, and seem to be thriving. Once I run out of bottled nutrients (I have five gallons each of AN Connoisseur A&B left, I will be transitioning the other two tents to the same system.

I have also become deeply interested in the idea of growing culinary fungi in between the plants, something like King Oysters, or using a fourth smaller tent to do culinary mushroom logs stood up in a living soil bed, and rotating that soil into the other beds as necessary.

Anyone ever do anything similar?

 

[Vegasbear87]

Mister Beans and Rosie say hello!

 

[fauxnacho]

Day 11

Yesterday I added some sprouted barley which I pulverized with the coffee grinder, then some Kashi Blend from Build a Soil. Followed that up with a layer of castings and Build a Soil cover crop blend, and finally some barley straw. This will hopefully keep the top of the soil bed moister, as the majority of this bed's watering is through wicking from the perlite filled res it sits on top of.

When I first got the bed, I reached out to Grassroots Fabrics and they told me they weren't sure it would work for SIP/Wicking - challenge accepted! The res has about 10gal of water in it and used 5gal in the first week. Now that the soil is fairly well moistened, this has slowed but still shows a steady usage. I have only top watered once, but will likely do so whenever I add something to the topsoil.

The worms loved the barley, for sure, and seem to be thriving. Once I run out of bottled nutrients (I have five gallons each of AN Connoisseur A&B left, I will be transitioning the other two tents to the same system.

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I have also become deeply interested in the idea of growing culinary fungi in between the plants, something like King Oysters, or using a fourth smaller tent to do culinary mushroom logs stood up in a living soil bed, and rotating that soil into the other beds as necessary.

Anyone ever do anything similar?

Oyster mushrooms didn't take indoors for us because of low humidity. I think in one tent you'd need to either swamp the dope to keep the mushrooms alive, or dry out the shrooms for sake of the dope. But if you've got a spare grow tent then have at it bud

 

[Vegasbear87]

Oyster mushrooms didn't take indoors for us because of low humidity. I think in one tent you'd need to either swamp the dope to keep the mushrooms alive, or dry out the shrooms for sake of the dope. But if you've got a spare grow tent then have at it bud

I think it would be an interesting experiment as a standalone where the soil bed can then be utilized to amend the other grow beds and whatnot. I like to tinker.