Mikedin’s Living Soil Adventure and Living Soil discussion topic

amneziaHaze · Wednesday at 11:04 PM

Natep said:
It’s a lot easy when growing living organic. The BAS way is pretty solid

Yea but thats tge first run your doing the recepie.second run and later is harder because now you have to give bavk stuff you think its missing

Mikedin · Thursday at 3:31 AM

amneziaHaze said:
Yea but thats tge first run your doing the recepie.second run and later is harder because now you have to give bavk stuff you think its missing

On hand from BAS to re amend (as they have been getting) pushin P given again and should be done now till chop

While the plants are hanginin when they seem to be ready to put into totes I’ll drop the new round of cover crop

Re amend plan will be

Craft blend
gnarly Barley
Kashi blend
Big 6

Have EWC on hand but worms are kickin ass

After next run I may do a soil test

calvingreen · Thursday at 7:22 AM

Sounds like a killer setup, you’re leveling up big time with that living soil and bigger pots.

Mikedin · Thursday at 8:42 AM

calvingreen said:
Sounds like a killer setup, you’re leveling up big time with that living soil and bigger pots.

Thanks man it’s much appreciated, a lot of time spent trying various methods feed ratios runstyles synthetics, organics, SYN/ORG combo runs, various pot sizes. 3 brands of lights at various powers in various sized pots

I’m impressed with what I’m seeing and I know it’s only a baseline and can be improved

amneziaHaze said:
Yea but thats tge first run your doing the recepie.second run and later is harder because now you have to give bavk stuff you think its missing

here’s a better breakdown of what I got goin on atm lol

I do aim too improve my feed selection to be more N-P-K independent so I can adjust but the craft bled and dominion blend so far have been crazy, the top dress for the 30’s will be around 4 cups of craft blend alone per pot then the rest, cover crop after amending with landrino white clover again, in those tents I prefer no peas climbing up the plants like I have in the 3x3 haha

Mikedin · Thursday at 8:48 AM

Natep said:
You have to do a earthbox run. Next level of easy. I’m in Southern California in an area that gets days that are at 15% rh. With the earthboxes I have to fill my humidifiers like two times a grow. My 15 gallons it’s every couple days.

I literally had one in my cart when I bought the 30’s I was gunna stick one between the 2x in the 4x8 I still may I’d have to veg shorter for sure haha but it may still happen there only like what $60?

Mikedin · Thursday at 10:00 AM

It’s actually top dress day for Frostette!

Halloweed · Thursday at 2:48 PM

I opened up a bag of BaS flower top dress and damn that is rank stuff lol.

How does the Kashi blend do? I'm thinking of getting some when I do my next run. Build a bloom too.

Mikedin · Thursday at 6:47 PM

Halloweed said:
I opened up a bag of BaS flower top dress and damn that is rank stuff lol.

How does the Kashi blend do? I'm thinking of getting some when I do my next run. Build a bloom too.

Just using it the first time I did a 1/2 cup per pot at flip with their top dress,

The #3 is looking nice as hell

Yeah the build a flower has some kick to her but they love it

Natep · Thursday at 9:22 PM

Mikedin said:
Just using it the first time I did a 1/2 cup per pot at flip with their top dress,

The #3 is looking nice as hell

Yeah the build a flower has some kick to her but they love it

Looking solid. Week6? No sign of fade. These are going swell up nicely.

RGWD0202 · Friday at 6:55 AM

Mikedin said:
On hand from BAS to re amend (as they have been getting) pushin P given again and should be done now till chop

While the plants are hanginin when they seem to be ready to put into totes I’ll drop the new round of cover crop

Re amend plan will be

Craft blend
gnarly Barley
Kashi blend
Big 6

Have EWC on hand but worms are kickin ass

After next run I may do a soil test

I’ve never used big 6 for top dress I’ve only given it during my weekly feeding. What rate are you top dressing it at? Mine are all currently waiting to be transplanted into the big bed. I’m about week or so behind because of a light issue.

Mikedin · Friday at 7:16 AM

Natep said:
Looking solid. Week6? No sign of fade. These are going swell up nicely.

Week 7 but I’m guessing they’ll go 9.5-10 weeks but we’ll see how the trichs mature, but I’m liking that I’m seeing purple in the #2 I haven’t seen that yet, the kahuna 3 is a nice even dark purple in all upper fans and is slowly going purple lower as well

Mikedin · Friday at 9:11 AM

RGWD0202 said:
I’ve never used big 6 for top dress I’ve only given it during my weekly feeding. What rate are you top dressing it at? Mine are all currently waiting to be transplanted into the big bed. I’m about week or so behind because of a light issue.

I just give em about 1 tsp every 3-4 weeks has been what I’ve been doing

JIMKSI64 · Friday at 12:09 PM

Hey @Mikedin there is a guy using living soil high ph with 1 out of 3 presenting a trainwreck but the other 2 look like real high nitrogen with the color. Could you look at his post and see if you agree with my ramblings?
greenthumb13
https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/ph-in-soil-is-to-high-need-help.170009/

Mikedin · Friday at 1:45 PM

JIMKSI64 said:
Hey @Mikedin there is a guy using living soil high ph with 1 out of 3 presenting a trainwreck but the other 2 look like real high nitrogen with the color. Could you look at his post and see if you agree with my ramblings?
greenthumb13
https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/ph-in-soil-is-to-high-need-help.170009/

To be precise… my PH is reading 7.1 on my mechanical meter

Natep · Friday at 9:16 PM

Mikedin said:
Week 7 but I’m guessing they’ll go 9.5-10 weeks but we’ll see how the trichs mature, but I’m liking that I’m seeing purple in the #2 I haven’t seen that yet, the kahuna 3 is a nice even dark purple in all upper fans and is slowly going purple lower as well

I think the living soil will bring out differnt colors and terps. It will be interesting to know

Mikedin · Friday at 9:34 PM

Natep said:
I think the living soil will bring out differnt colors and terps. It will be interesting to know

That’s kinda what I was thinking, the purple on #3 is so clean looking up close, can’t wait to see em in another week, hoping #2 shows out we’ll see, I also have her mother in the 3x3 so we’ll see how she does in 12 gallons again as well, same build a soil this is all light recipe but I self mixed 1/3 light recipe, 1/3 castings 1/3 peat, then did what would be a full amending like the soil was ran in already, she’s got the whole kitchen sink thrown at her she got it all haha, we’ll see how she’s does bat she’s doing great already haha coming to the end of week 3

Pics from the other day

Natep · Saturday at 7:43 AM

Mikedin said:
That’s kinda what I was thinking, the purple on #3 is so clean looking up close, can’t wait to see em in another week, hoping #2 shows out we’ll see, I also have her mother in the 3x3 so we’ll see how she does in 12 gallons again as well, same build a soil this is all light recipe but I self mixed 1/3 light recipe, 1/3 castings 1/3 peat, then did what would be a full amending like the soil was ran in already, she’s got the whole kitchen sink thrown at her she got it all haha, we’ll see how she’s does bat she’s doing great already haha coming to the end of week 3

Pics from the other day

Looking fantastic. Did you add any basalt?