Sick scrog and stellar photos Meeks!
Thanks Shady, the photos have been such a pleasure to take this run ever since I started working with the Jack's Hydroponic line! My previous grows have always been focused on early morning check ups to diagnose any deficiencies right away and get them treated with a foliar spray that night after lights off or the next morning before they came on, and that seemed to keep my plants happy enough as you know from my previous logs. But ever since making the switch, I have barely had any work at all. . . I just feed when they are thirsty and they haven't shown me a single sign of deficiency (other than minor Mg) since I started!!! To me, that is so incredible!!
Its not geeky nMeeks it show's your intelligence in plant life and I for one am interested in the observations from an educated stand point , not just years of growing pot but a true under standing of what your plants are actually doing, I myself did not know until now that plants closer to the light will require more feeding , besides the obvious fact that they will dry out faster , so keep the geeky observations coming i enjoy them and am find them informative sure i'm not alone..... peace soser (and i spelled everything correct in this post - your holding me to a higher standard ) lol
Awesome Soser, keep up that enthusiasm for knowledge and you will be a master grower in no time! Thanks for the kind words bro!
nMeeks// beautiful flowers man, campus ain't bad either, whoa...surrounded by beauty!!!!
had to sneak in a shot of my zennias, they barely stayed alive all summer, the color was washed out by the heat but they made a strong comeback with the Sept. rains.
great thread bro, always enjoy your detailed posts.
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Great flowers Mogrow! We had so many Zinnia seeds sent to us when we requested stuff from seed companies, I think about half the seeds we got out of the tens of thousands were either petunia or zinnia! I love the combination of the bleached out white petals with the hot pink petals, makes it look like a giant patch of Santa Barbara Daisies. Thanks for stopping by and sharing!
Bro, the flowers you guys planted in that field are spectacular. Especially considering those are all seed grown plants.
I wanted to ask you though, how did you guys prepare the land other than digging the plots? Did you mix in compost or anything, or was the native soil all they needed?
Thanks NewBudz, I am really happy with how that project turned out also :D, but I do have to mention that about 15% of what was planted did come in as pre-rooted cuttings from a company that asked us to trial their coleus and a few other varieties. But that was cool in its own way, getting a box delivered by the regular post service, but opening it up to find over 400 rooted cuttings in multiple trays just stacked on top of one another and planted at extremely high density!
I can post a few pictures of the land as it was being prepared if you are interested (just let me know) but the main steps were as follows:
measure and mark the bed areas, use roundup to kill the grass in the marked beds, till the dead grass into the ground to add organic matter and not have to dispose of the dead sod, add roughly 3-4inches of compost on top of each bed in an even layer and then till in, add unmeasured amount of Osmocote 20-20-20 slow release fertilizer granules to the beds during irrigation drip line setup (sprinkled free hand), and then we planted into that and watered in for the first time with a 500-600ppm 20-20-20 liquid fertilizer. I am pretty sure (was on vacation part of the summer) that only water was used for irrigation after planting, but there may have been a couple days when the maintenance crew added another dose of 500-600ppm liquid fert. to the irrigation.
So the simple answer of did we amend the soil or just plant right in. . . we amended the shit out of it! And that is on top of the fact that the grass field itself was just amended and replanted a year prior, so the field possibly could have provided enough nutrients without anything extra from us.
Thanks for the interest!
