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This is my fifth grow with these lights and this tent. I got a tiny bit of powdery mildew last time so I stripped the tent, peroxided everything twice, bought new charcoal filter, new AC clip fans, and chlorine gas treated the tent for two weeks between.
I had two clones growing in a small tent while I wrapped up the drying from the first MendOG grow that I did not diary on here. Oopsy.
This is MendOG from Paco at Crunch Status Confirmed in Colorado. They are supposed to be short finishers but the last round they were three weeks longer from the suggested 7 week.
I am re-using living organic soil I originally got from BAS but have ammended/refreshed with a lot of organics, added a little more perlite, then brewed a tea, innoculated, threw arugula and banana peels in as a treat for the crawlers then covered it with the EarthBox plastic mulch covers. They already had straw mulch on each that I forgot to mention.
After a week of hanging out, I dug holes and planted the two clones just now. Dimmed lights and sprayed them with some Mad Farmer Silicon.
I'm ready to try out this SCROG thing using two clones. I got too much larf last time and I am hoping to eliminate that this time by doing a SCROG.
These clones have been treated once with Dr. Zymes as part of my IPE. In the past I used Neem/Clove/Dr. Bronners Mint soap, but I think I like Dr. Zymes better with no residual or potential stomata clogging issues. Part of the soil recipe includes neem and Karanja Cake as IPE too.
One of the clones struggled, they both did not love the power of the soil in their second move from solo cup to 4" squares. Leaves crinkled on both plants one was impacted more. I thought about ditching the smaller one and doing something else from seed, but I like to run same strain so I can utilize the tent to dry in. If I had two different strains I risk staggered harvest and where do I dry half the batch while the other half finises...can't do that. Here's to a mildew free grow this time. I am not bagging on the strain at all, but I have never had that until I tried a new strain. Yes, I did let the room get away from me for a day (81% rh) so I will take the credit for promoting it. I also did not have a super clean room, I was running ok airflow, so it was a recipe for disaster that I caught and mitigated to almost ZERO. I had to check daily and sometimes that took and hour. Sometimes I would chop so much that I wondered why I had not chopped all this earlier. I ran sides touching the tent, it was a mess. I never saw any mildew on buds, but that is when it all started. I caught it on a leaf and that is the only place I ever found it, but I sprayed while budding with Dr. Zymes and that shit saved my ass!
I even DUNKED immediately after harvest just to be safe and KNOW I had no mildew and I will tell you what, you can't tell a bit, the terpenes are fantastic, and the smoke is sooooo smooth!
I have all these bags of store bought weed that I will mix in between mine and wow, the store bought is so much more harsh and it makes me cough my brains out so much that I think my neighbors are gonna call rescue on me. I don't even like smoking anyone's shit anymore, I am a freaking herb snob now I guess.
Last thing to add about what I learned in my last grow. I was not testing PH of the water I was giving them. It was off like (high) that I started seeing signs and the fix was not adding some magic nutrient, I just started bringing the high ph water down and the problems when away. I was watering plain R/O water and I've now started blending R/O with tap, it seems to help stabilize PH and it can add the Cal/mg you are missing by using pure R/O.
I am getting lazy about buying water from the filter box down the street and may start growing straight tap soon, but our shit is HIGH PPM and has chlorine. If I plan on adding stuff to my water then I will use a more pure R/O mix, if I am just doing water fill, I may use a lot more tap and see how it goes like that. Still testing PH both ways before watering/feeding. These boxes are also NOT designed to be "fed" the idea is the roots drink from the res at the bottom, and the other roots find whatever food they need in the soil buffet and eat what and when they want. I've fed some fermented peach last time, but nothing much because I also do not want to jack up the reservoirs with a bunch of food residual build-up, there's no real designed way to clean these out during a grow.
This grow I will be incorporating some new stuff and breaking some of the rules when it comes to growing in Earth Boxes. You are not supposed to water from top down. I am going to add some teas, some silicon, cannazyme, and terpinator into the cycle this time around. In my opinion, some of this stuff works better in soil and direct to roots, but they are gonna get it both ways, yeah, I'm dirty like that.
Stay tuned.
I had two clones growing in a small tent while I wrapped up the drying from the first MendOG grow that I did not diary on here. Oopsy.
This is MendOG from Paco at Crunch Status Confirmed in Colorado. They are supposed to be short finishers but the last round they were three weeks longer from the suggested 7 week.
I am re-using living organic soil I originally got from BAS but have ammended/refreshed with a lot of organics, added a little more perlite, then brewed a tea, innoculated, threw arugula and banana peels in as a treat for the crawlers then covered it with the EarthBox plastic mulch covers. They already had straw mulch on each that I forgot to mention.
After a week of hanging out, I dug holes and planted the two clones just now. Dimmed lights and sprayed them with some Mad Farmer Silicon.
I'm ready to try out this SCROG thing using two clones. I got too much larf last time and I am hoping to eliminate that this time by doing a SCROG.
These clones have been treated once with Dr. Zymes as part of my IPE. In the past I used Neem/Clove/Dr. Bronners Mint soap, but I think I like Dr. Zymes better with no residual or potential stomata clogging issues. Part of the soil recipe includes neem and Karanja Cake as IPE too.
One of the clones struggled, they both did not love the power of the soil in their second move from solo cup to 4" squares. Leaves crinkled on both plants one was impacted more. I thought about ditching the smaller one and doing something else from seed, but I like to run same strain so I can utilize the tent to dry in. If I had two different strains I risk staggered harvest and where do I dry half the batch while the other half finises...can't do that. Here's to a mildew free grow this time. I am not bagging on the strain at all, but I have never had that until I tried a new strain. Yes, I did let the room get away from me for a day (81% rh) so I will take the credit for promoting it. I also did not have a super clean room, I was running ok airflow, so it was a recipe for disaster that I caught and mitigated to almost ZERO. I had to check daily and sometimes that took and hour. Sometimes I would chop so much that I wondered why I had not chopped all this earlier. I ran sides touching the tent, it was a mess. I never saw any mildew on buds, but that is when it all started. I caught it on a leaf and that is the only place I ever found it, but I sprayed while budding with Dr. Zymes and that shit saved my ass!
I even DUNKED immediately after harvest just to be safe and KNOW I had no mildew and I will tell you what, you can't tell a bit, the terpenes are fantastic, and the smoke is sooooo smooth!
I have all these bags of store bought weed that I will mix in between mine and wow, the store bought is so much more harsh and it makes me cough my brains out so much that I think my neighbors are gonna call rescue on me. I don't even like smoking anyone's shit anymore, I am a freaking herb snob now I guess.
Last thing to add about what I learned in my last grow. I was not testing PH of the water I was giving them. It was off like (high) that I started seeing signs and the fix was not adding some magic nutrient, I just started bringing the high ph water down and the problems when away. I was watering plain R/O water and I've now started blending R/O with tap, it seems to help stabilize PH and it can add the Cal/mg you are missing by using pure R/O.
I am getting lazy about buying water from the filter box down the street and may start growing straight tap soon, but our shit is HIGH PPM and has chlorine. If I plan on adding stuff to my water then I will use a more pure R/O mix, if I am just doing water fill, I may use a lot more tap and see how it goes like that. Still testing PH both ways before watering/feeding. These boxes are also NOT designed to be "fed" the idea is the roots drink from the res at the bottom, and the other roots find whatever food they need in the soil buffet and eat what and when they want. I've fed some fermented peach last time, but nothing much because I also do not want to jack up the reservoirs with a bunch of food residual build-up, there's no real designed way to clean these out during a grow.
This grow I will be incorporating some new stuff and breaking some of the rules when it comes to growing in Earth Boxes. You are not supposed to water from top down. I am going to add some teas, some silicon, cannazyme, and terpinator into the cycle this time around. In my opinion, some of this stuff works better in soil and direct to roots, but they are gonna get it both ways, yeah, I'm dirty like that.
Stay tuned.
