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added to this, if you top dress and then add in top drench, you might find the residue and input get a bit tied, I find a bottom feed or injection works well, esp with N and P.
Since you have a mix, can you share it this way we can view the CN and NPK relative to biology ?
Sweet, thanks for the reply. First I'll address my mix.
Equal parts peat moss, pumice and humus. For this run, I used a 50/50 ratio of Agrowin EWC and Bu's blend biodynamic compost for the humus third of the mix. To that I added (per cubic foot) a half cup each of Acadian kelp meal, crustacean meal, a quarter cup each of neem meal and karanja, two cups basalt, one cup gypsum and one cup oyster flour. That mix actually sat for about four months (thought I was gonna need it a lot sooner than I did), but I did, of course, keep it moist the whole time and added a few ACT's while it was sitting there, just to, you know, keep the micro life thriving or whatever. And I turned it every now and then, too, of course.
So that's the mix. Eager to hear what you think of that, but it seems to be the standard "organic soil mix." Worked well for me last time, although last time I skipped the karanja and just used a half cup of neem and I also only used the Agrowin EWC for the humus. But I've read shitloads of good things about the Bu's and they have it at the landscaping place where I get my EWC, so I figured I'd pick up a bag of that when I went to get my EWC.
Questions: one, what's BSM?
Two, the ToL's are definitely big girls and obviously leaning very Sativa. It's my understanding that most Sativa-heavy plants actually tend to like fewer inputs rather than more. Are you mentioning the higher ppms because you've grown this strain? Or are you just judging from the pics I posted? Just curious. I'm DYING for somebody who has any experience with that particular strain to chime in, just because there's fucking ZERO information about it online. It does seem like a finicky plant.
Three, what do you mean by "an injection"? Bottom feeding I get and I may try that soon. But I don't know what an injection is. Also gotta say that, since I'm getting ready to flower, I'm a little reluctant to add any nitrogen to the plants, although probably all of these strains are gonna take ten weeks or more (maybe the SSDD's won't take that long) so maybe I should. What source of nitrogen would you use? Also gotta mention that I was considering topdressing with a very small amount of fish bone meal and gypsum once I bloom, possibly another EWC top dress as well, along with the aforementioned ACT drench. Wadda ya think?
Totally agree with you about not really "growing" the plant until the second or third run. My last grow (Apollo 11, Goldstar and Prayer Tower) which I did not take clones from turned out pretty good, but the yields weren't what I was hoping for. I'm certain I could've gotten more out of them. Smoke was great, but there were definitely things I would've done differently if I was running them again. Really, really glad I decided to clone these current plants.
Anyway, yeah, thanks so much for chaiming in!