Mephisto Genetics White Crack and Kis Organics Soil

[Organic Sinse]

That soil is readily available and based on some research and some podcasts, I decided to go this route. There is also Sohum, and locally http://digitsoil.com/ I sent an email to digit and got no response, and didn't feel like hoofing over to a nursery to check it out.

I always assumed it would not be water-only, because of what I've read and my inability to just leave things alone...

The detroit soil is super, super light. Takes a while to hydrate. So far so good, I just wanted a base living soil to get started. My plan for the buckets is remove root ball, re-amend, re-cook, and re-use. Probably for the Jr's too.

I prefer the buckets, just for the form factor I have a 6.5' tall tent. If they get too tall I'll train or worst case scenario... supercrop. Removing that tissue paper cover on the Jr's is starting to get old when I can just plunk down my top dress on the buckets.

Now as soon as I get some of those new Meph Sativas in my mailbox -- I'll be dropping a couple more.

Since you are growing in soil, a great tip is to leave the old roots and rootball. Its loaded with the exact things your plant will need. When recycling the re amended soil, I bury the old roots down in the middle where I anticipate the new roots making contact with the old ones. The old roots should have dormant mycorrhaziel fungi (if you used it previously) as well as the right bacteria and fungi.
In my no till pots, I just chop the plant, and put a seed an inch away from the old stem/root. Built in slow release fertilizer, while being able to re-use some of the pathways already established between the soil/plant/ and microbes. Less work too.
cheers
os

 

[slowandeasy]

Since you are growing in soil, a great tip is to leave the old roots and rootball. Its loaded with the exact things your plant will need. When recycling the re amended soil, I bury the old roots down in the middle where I anticipate the new roots making contact with the old ones. The old roots should have dormant mycorrhaziel fungi (if you used it previously) as well as the right bacteria and fungi.
In my no till pots, I just chop the plant, and put a seed an inch away from the old stem/root. Built in slow release fertilizer, while being able to re-use some of the pathways already established between the soil/plant/ and microbes. Less work too.
cheers
os

Learn something new everyday

 

[slowandeasy]

Ok, been feeding Tap water only for a couple of days now. I top dressed 3 plants last night with 3 cups of Soil and 1 cup of EWC. The WC color is not perfect like before, but she is praying hard and bulking up. Its all good, I need a baseline. Really the 2 behind WC have had the same or less intervention. Now I know what to expect and when. I have my plan laid out and my future plants will have a weekly top dressing schedule starting in late veg. I am grabbing a couple things from Build a Soil tonight. I figured it will be here next week, so I can use some right away on a few plants. I am going to try to make Saturday night my Top dressing night. Top water a couple times and then resume Rez feeding Tuesdays. It is gonna work well, I can tell already what the Juniors will do with minimal intervention. I will now start to intervene in my plants. Planning ahead is crucial. I can tell it will help speed flowering up. The transition needs to speed up, and I know what to do now. I am really happy with this and it is fun to learn new skills and techniques. I need to move a few things around this week, lights are too close to the one plant. But overall I am very excited to see you how things go. They are flowering now, but I will get them going faster. I really am happy to use Tap water now, it makes like so much simpler. I can water way faster now and have a great cycle started now. I have new plants in Juniors. And I took clones from a photo plant. They will be my first time doing photos in Juniors. It is a super fast strain, so I am going to do 2 clones per Junior. Veg 2 weeks and flip. Should be interesting, I predict good things. I am hoping that the WC has 3 weeks left. However, if it takes more than that it will let me know. WC can bulk up fast the last few weeks, only time will tell. That plant is big. I am hoping the top dressing gives her a boost for the future. Won't hurt. But, now I know that should have been done weeks ago. Next week I will have some Flower Dressing and Craft Blend to use on plants going into flower. Things will be better and better. Fun times. Peacez slowandeasy

 

[MrOldBoy]

Go Figure?

I took an empty Junior and put two 3 gallon fabric pots full of soil in and it filled up the Junior - 1 cubic foot of soil is 7.5 gallons of soil and there was no way I could load another 1.5 gallons into the Junior

So I have no clue where they get cubic foot of soil unless they are talking about heaping up / over the sides?

Anyways it is what it is.

 

[MrOldBoy]

Ok, been feeding Tap water only for a couple of days now. I top dressed 3 plants last night with 3 cups of Soil and 1 cup of EWC. The WC color is not perfect like before, but she is praying hard and bulking up. Its all good, I need a baseline. Really the 2 behind WC have had the same or less intervention. Now I know what to expect and when. I have my plan laid out and my future plants will have a weekly top dressing schedule starting in late veg. I am grabbing a couple things from Build a Soil tonight. I figured it will be here next week, so I can use some right away on a few plants. I am going to try to make Saturday night my Top dressing night. Top water a couple times and then resume Rez feeding Tuesdays. It is gonna work well, I can tell already what the Juniors will do with minimal intervention. I will now start to intervene in my plants. Planning ahead is crucial. I can tell it will help speed flowering up. The transition needs to speed up, and I know what to do now. I am really happy with this and it is fun to learn new skills and techniques. I need to move a few things around this week, lights are too close to the one plant. But overall I am very excited to see you how things go. They are flowering now, but I will get them going faster. I really am happy to use Tap water now, it makes like so much simpler. I can water way faster now and have a great cycle started now. I have new plants in Juniors. And I took clones from a photo plant. They will be my first time doing photos in Juniors. It is a super fast strain, so I am going to do 2 clones per Junior. Veg 2 weeks and flip. Should be interesting, I predict good things. I am hoping that the WC has 3 weeks left. However, if it takes more than that it will let me know. WC can bulk up fast the last few weeks, only time will tell. That plant is big. I am hoping the top dressing gives her a boost for the future. Won't hurt. But, now I know that should have been done weeks ago. Next week I will have some Flower Dressing and Craft Blend to use on plants going into flower. Things will be better and better. Fun times. Peacez slowandeasy

Sounds like a plan - next few weeks will be exciting.

 

[MMMi]

Are you going to top dress with one of their premixes or individual amendments?

I'm still flipping between using:
- Dr Earth 2-2-2 top dressed monthly
- Following that article and using only alfalfa/kelp top dressed monthly
- Steeping the Dr Earth in tea bi-weekly

Also, apparently the 2-2-2 are granules -- which I'm not sure are good or bad for this application.

My juniors still look great. Settling on a similar schedule, plain water on weekdays. Weekends is MBP and alternating AACT/recharge top watered.

My bucket lady has was appears to be a little mag def. My current light schedule isn't ideal for weekday foliars, but I'm gonna hit her tonight anyhow. Tent runs cool and it's probably 3' away from the LEDS.

 

[slowandeasy]

Go Figure?

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I took an empty Junior and put two 3 gallon fabric pots full of soil in and it filled up the Junior - 1 cubic foot of soil is 7.5 gallons of soil and there was no way I could load another 1.5 gallons into the Junior

So I have no clue where they get cubic foot of soil unless they are talking about heaping up / over the sides?

Anyways it is what it is.

Yes I said that about 20 times, but you refused to believe me at first. I believe that the decreased amount of Soil is reason enough to be aggressive with the Top dressings. I am gonna start in late veg on my new plants. Build a Soil said to use 1/4 cup of Craft Blend every 4 weeks. I will actually opt for 1/8 Cup every 2 weeks. The week in between I will use Malted Barley and Flower Top dressing mix. I think less, more often would be best for these pots.

 

[slowandeasy]

Are you going to top dress with one of their premixes or individual amendments?

I'm still flipping between using:
- Dr Earth 2-2-2 top dressed monthly
- Following that article and using only alfalfa/kelp top dressed monthly
- Steeping the Dr Earth in tea bi-weekly

Also, apparently the 2-2-2 are granules -- which I'm not sure are good or bad for this application.

My juniors still look great. Settling on a similar schedule, plain water on weekdays. Weekends is MBP and alternating AACT/recharge top watered.

My bucket lady has was appears to be a little mag def. My current light schedule isn't ideal for weekday foliars, but I'm gonna hit her tonight anyhow. Tent runs cool and it's probably 3' away from the LEDS.

I thought mine was Mag def too. I was wrong. Don't use Calmag. I am gonna Top Dress with Flower Top Dress and Craft Blend from now on. Plan to start in late veg. You need to plan a week ahead. So to avoid problems, if the plant looks perfect today...she will be hungry in a week if I don't lay something down. Really easy actually. You just have to be ahead of the game, never behind. I am learning quickly.

 

[BCBudlady]

I thought mine was Mag def too. I was wrong. Don't use Calmag. I am gonna Top Dress with Flower Top Dress and Craft Blend from now on. Plan to start in late veg. You need to plan a week ahead. So to avoid problems, if the plant looks perfect today...she will be hungry in a week if I don't lay something down. Really easy actually. You just have to be ahead of the game, never behind. I am learning quickly.

So enjoying your journey @slowandeasy ! You are so right about anticipating your plant’s needs before she needs it. Chasing a deficiency in organics doesn’t work. Can’t wait for you to sample the finished product!

 

[grower789]

I thought mine was Mag def too. I was wrong. Don't use Calmag. I am gonna Top Dress with Flower Top Dress and Craft Blend from now on. Plan to start in late veg. You need to plan a week ahead. So to avoid problems, if the plant looks perfect today...she will be hungry in a week if I don't lay something down. Really easy actually. You just have to be ahead of the game, never behind. I am learning quickly.

easy for you to say. LOL just hold on brother. What I mean is that is not all that easy to do that anticipation/prevent- prediction stuff if you are a newer grower. A guy with 20 plus years? Sure. I admire people that start growing and dive right in to organics and get it right. But most of the noobie organic grows I've seen look like it would have been better to do the simple coco/nutes method to start with.

Got any higher res pics? do you have a decent digital camera that works better than that POS phone cam u have?