Mikedin’s grow journal 2, let’s go!

[ritoMox]

You're rock'N it, brother In case you haven't seen it, here's Jeremy's latest video explaining the EarthBox and feeder roots. Age restricted so you have to sign in. I linked to the timestamp in the video
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[Mikedin]

Figured I’d throw another update, I’d love to update every day, may just we’ll start doing it

They are all just over a month old 2 are staring preflower but they all seem to love this FC-E8000 so far, they are still getting around 650-700ppfd at about 22” and 70-75% power I think I’m gunna leave it right there for awhile they seem to like it right where it’s at, tons of new tops popping up everywhere

Gotta give them a top feed today or tomorrow, just watered them 2 days ago they probably still have another day or 2 before they’ll be ready for watering

 

[JerzeyMike]

Looking great Mike! Ive been watching your grow for a while. I have four plants going now, all organic. I am only using roots terp teas, recharge(new to me), and epsom salts. How are you liking that cover crop? I am waiting on my mix of seed now.

 

[Mikedin]

Looking great Mike! Ive been watching your grow for a while. I have four plants going now, all organic. I am only using roots terp teas, recharge(new to me), and epsom salts. How are you liking that cover crop? I am waiting on my mix of seed now.

So far loving the cover crop, I’ll be tilling it into the soil when I top dress tomorrow.

I’m using everything organic as well, trying a new soil recipe for the next grow.

 

[Mikedin]

Figured since I’m gunna water when I top dress, why not make up some tea to water it in with, it’s been about 2 weeks since their last tea

4 tbs happy frog fruit and flower
2 tbs happy frog jump start
3 tbs coast of Maine kelp /lobster/oyster blend
6 tbs earthworm castings (coast of Maine)
1/2 tbs great white shark myco


I’ll let that aerate till tomorrow and then do some top dressing, pots are starting to feel light, but still have a bit of moisture in there so they’ll make it to tomorrow

Also the Barney’s farm cookies kush is doing well, roots coming out the slots I cut in the bottom of the solo cup, still only about 2.5” tall but starting to get moving!

When she’s ready she (probably at least 3-4 days before leaves reach the edges of the cup) will up pot to a 1 gallon pot with my strawberry fields blend

 

[JerzeyMike]

Nice I’ll be starting a tea tomorrow. I’ll take a couple pics of the girls and post too

 

[Mikedin]

Nice I’ll be starting a tea tomorrow. I’ll take a couple pics of the girls and post too

hell yeah share the grow! i cant tell you how many times i looked back at my first journal for either dates for starting neuts, training etc, kinda switching it up on the cookies kush shell be in strawberry fields instead of the coast of maine these autos are in. the clones are in that new soil already, they had some roots in the solos that i could see, being from a flowering mother, i know theyll take a long time to reveg, if they dont die. well see lol, either way the cookies kush will be a mother plant and then probably use one of the clones as a new mother and then flower out the original. if i realy like the the strain ill keep a mother and find another new strain to add to the collection lol.

 

[Mikedin]

Figured it’d take awhile to work the cover crop in. I was right haha, but that’s ok I did 3 of them so far took about 30 minutes, I have the plants tied down pretty low so I had to work my hands in carefully so I didn’t break any branches. Some of These girls are putting out a ton of tops, just making sure I get everything pulled in the right direction. It’s a shitty day out so perfect day for this. Opened up the tent while I was workin in it and got a few full tent pics, it’s a work in progress still haha, gotta give the floor a good wipe down when I’m done today I’ll tell ya the 2nd smaller plant is putting out some HUGE leaves for such a small plant.

Had the inspector stop by too

Both bottom side flaps are open and the exhaust fan is in the middle of the tent so it pulls in from both sides past all the plants. Temps have been steady 74 at night with 65%RH and 79-81 lights on at 50%RH.

 

[JerzeyMike]

Does the inspector like fan leaves like mine does? I just got my tea going, and its a lot less precise then yours. Which I am not advocating, I just am lazy!!! - 3 cups homemade compost, -1 cup ewc, 1/2cup molasses unsulphured, 1 cup terp tea grow, and 1/3 cup terp tea bloom. I mix the terp tea powders in small bit of water first with a paddle and mixer. Mix altogether with 15-20 gallons of half ro half filtered water and brew for 24-48 depending on how thirsty they are. This time 24, I shoulda done this yesterday. Heres the girls its going on. These are all new strains to me, but looks good so far. Yours look great! Good work!

 

[JerzeyMike]

And a better shot of my partner rollin in her catnip!

 

[Mikedin]

Does the inspector like fan leaves like mine does? I just got my tea going, and its a lot less precise then yours. Which I am not advocating, I just am lazy!!! - 3 cups homemade compost, -1 cup ewc, 1/2cup molasses unsulphured, 1 cup terp tea grow, and 1/3 cup terp tea bloom. I mix the terp tea powders in small bit of water first with a paddle and mixer. Mix altogether with 15-20 gallons of half ro half filtered water and brew for 24-48 depending on how thirsty they are. This time 24, I shoulda done this yesterday. Heres the girls its going on. These are all new strains to me, but looks good so far. Yours look great! Good work!

Hell yeah yours are looking great as well! I seem to have a ton of gnats lately, I have some captain jacks neem oil just hate to use anything at all on them lol.

 

[Madmax]

Looking good mike..

 

[steamroller]

Hell yeah yours are looking great as well! I seem to have a ton of gnats lately, I have some captain jacks neem oil just hate to use anything at all on them lol.

More yellow stickies and keeping fresh ones would be my first go too.
Mosquito bits would be next course.
The two always knock the little fuckers that come with soil out.

 

[Mikedin]

More yellow stickies and keeping fresh ones would be my first go too.
Mosquito bits would be next course.
The two always knock the little fuckers that come with soil out.

yep new sticky traps out, wiped down the floor after I top dressed them

They got 1tbs of the coast of Maine stonington blend organic plant food the lobster kelp and *worm castings* I think yesterday I said it has ouster, it does not, regardless it is a (5-2-4) then added 1tbs happy frog fruit and flower dry amendment (4-9-4), followed by 2 heaping tablespoons of the coast of Maine earthworm castings (made sure to get at least 2 live worms into each pot lol, and then about 1/2 tsp of myco in each one

Watered it in with about 1/2 gallon of 1/3 diluted neut tea per pot… hopefully nothing but water for the next 2 weeks till the next tea and then another 2 weeks for the last top dressing

 

[Mikedin]

Looking good mike..

Thanks man! This site is doing wonders for me already, no mixing neuts lol, I’ll make a few plants to use the neuts in the next run, don’t wanna waste them all lol

Also picked up the lights another 2” but left the power the same they are all perking up for it,

 

[Mikedin]

Does the inspector like fan leaves like mine does? I just got my tea going, and its a lot less precise then yours. Which I am not advocating, I just am lazy!!! - 3 cups homemade compost, -1 cup ewc, 1/2cup molasses unsulphured, 1 cup terp tea grow, and 1/3 cup terp tea bloom. I mix the terp tea powders in small bit of water first with a paddle and mixer. Mix altogether with 15-20 gallons of half ro half filtered water and brew for 24-48 depending on how thirsty they are. This time 24, I shoulda done this yesterday. Heres the girls its going on. These are all new strains to me, but looks good so far. Yours look great! Good work!

That middle pic I count 16 tops that’s awesome, what methods did you use for training? Are they autos? Photos? What strains are you trying?

 

[JerzeyMike]

Yea i fimmed, or topped. All four are different. Epoxy Og, peanutbutter skunk mints, goblin god, and purple sour diesel. The purp was a bag seed, the others were testers passed on to me. The purple i had drying in my rack when the man showed up back in august and took everything. These are within my legal five plant rule, so i put them in 40 gal pots and am going to try indoor monsters. These are almost six weeks now. Im real happy with them, and i got some fungas knats too. Im in a 112 yr ild dungeon of a basment! The knats arent lonely

 

[Mikedin]

Yea i fimmed, or topped. All four are different. Epoxy Og, peanutbutter skunk mints, goblin god, and purple sour diesel. The purp was a bag seed, the others were testers passed on to me. The purple i had drying in my rack when the man showed up back in august and took everything. These are within my legal five plant rule, so i put them in 40 gal pots and am going to try indoor monsters. These are almost six weeks now. Im real happy with them, and i got some fungas knats too. Im in a 112 yr ild dungeon of a basment! The knats arent lonely

Nice! My plan is photos in the next run once these autos are done probably another 60 days we’ll see what I have going by then

 

[Mikedin]

Well today’s daily update is additional LST only, and moved the cookies kush seedling into a 1/2 gallon pot with strawberry fields some perlite, worm castings, happy frog jump start, fruit and flower, myco and for now is in the tent with the autos once she’s a bit bigger I’ll move her over to the other tent to veg out till I can clone her

But besides that some of these plants are putting out tons of tops, one I counted 27 I think lol some much lower count but looking decent so far

 

[JerzeyMike]

Looking sweet man! Awesome how clean everything is! I know thats a challenge with teas and top dressings. Good work!! I am really digging how simple organic growing can be. And reading post after post about nute issues is confirming this is how i want to do things. But then again I am a rookie still, always open to learning more about this process