I do it quick like that mostly cuz I’m still not good at reading the plant and feeding - new soil every now and then makes thing easy- I’m sure as my skill grows I will modify my techs - I practice in small pots all the time someday I’ll be able to do a solo grow ! LolThis is funny, because I've taken the exact opposite approach to transplanting. They'll stay in those little 3x3 pots WAY longer than most people would think of, then get rootbound and pause growth for a bit. Some stress flower or herm at this point (inducing this is part of the point), they get tossed in the garbage. Most of my plants get held like this for a while until there's room to flower.
When they do eventually get flipped, the growth is explosive. Going from one cup of soil to 2 gallons of it, the roots just kind of bolt out in all directions and they're ready to flip in a couple weeks.
Eh, life is pain, right? The weed just makes it more bearable.
I've been thinking about eliminating peat from my mix altogether. Perlite, coco, mushroom compost, ewc, lime, and amendments.
so amended coco rather than peat. Seems all the rage lately.
May I ask why?
Peat isn't a super sustainable resource, and both times I've bought it, it had bugs. I also find that it doesn't really seem to serve a purpose in the mix besides to take up space and maintain an acidic pH. It's there for that, soil structure, drainage, and possibly negligible humic/fulvic levels (which doesn't matter to me because I supplement both), right?
Peat started off being like 1/3 of my mix, now it's 1/8, the difference replaced by coco. It's also a bitch to get that giant bag and try to return it if it has bugs, then to carry another one in, just to use 2.5 gallons of it in a 20 gallon mix.
Mushroom compost is all kinds of renewable, especially if sourced locally. It's 3 dollars a bag here. One bag makes me 40 gallons of soil. It's hard for me to believe that it's that big of a switch. If I filled in the difference in volume with earthworm castings, the cost doubles- so I need a filler.
Perlite and coco cover structure and drainage wonderfully, obviously. But I want to encourage bacterial life with a lot of humus, so I add earthworm castings. Lime for pH, organic dry nutes because duh, and that's it. Give the plant what it needs and don't get in the way.
ONE DAY I'll be growing enough edible and magic mushrooms to just use the spent substrate. But I'm still too chickenshit and broke to take on that whole world right now.
i went almost 7 years with different brands of peat mix and never saw more than a few gnats from overwatering.
Peat is an aquatic plant. It is under water or drenched while growing. It does not sustain the kinds of bugs that are common to gardens.
Dirty growers and poorly managed grow stores however attract all kinds of bugs. But there is no food for bugs in a bale of peat. Unless its amended that is.
as far as a sustainable resource. They keep farming it i feel i can grab a few bags a year.
Eh, life is pain, right? The weed just makes it more bearable.
I've been thinking about eliminating peat from my mix altogether. Perlite, coco, mushroom compost, ewc, lime, and amendments.
How long do you veg, I had a veg of 30 days and my plants are way bigger than I wantedI guess after 5 years of perpetual growing and more than 35 years smoking herb and in the industries black market its time i start my own thread.
I grow a small but productive medical garden with mrs. Mmg and i allowed up to 24 plants. We both have realized health benefits from weed and have strived for top quality in the garden over yield or money.
Greed is the killer when farming in my opinion. Patience and details are key.
For now i just want to post some pics from last night when i entered the flower room at lights on.
I just love it when things are going well (of course) and had to take pics of the garden waking up.
Each plant is from a feminized seed and is a different strain/cross/pheno staggared about 10 days apart on average for a continued variety of flowers.
I did this also to remain in plant count with a higher output and space management per month while keeping to the rediculous 2.5 oz per patient rule of weed on hand allowed.
The house has appeared to be in full compliance the whole time.
With rec now legal i may monocrop in a new 4x8 tent and actually take some time off. I have gardened every day for 4 years in a row.
I have health issues from birth that prematurely ended my sales management carreer and now work more often. Lol.
Sorry. I will shut up now and post pics.
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Presently these are all CH9 seeds. I have tried many different seeds and we tend to like ch9 best. Almost 100% germination after hundreds of plants and fantastic old school effects combined with strong medical effects. And bred from some of the best genetics ever available in my opinion.
I will still mix in other genetics as I go.
Hope that was a good intro. I will try to update often and all other growers are welcome. Except for trolls. Lol.
How long do you veg, I had a veg of 30 days and my plants are way bigger than I wanted
Got any new pics ? :)
Yeah mine was 30 days from being put in 3 gal, so roughly 44 days might drop it down a week or sodepends on openings in the flower room but with hybrids usually 5-6 weeks from seed 4 from clone.
Yeah mine was 30 days from being put in 3 gal, so roughly 44 days might drop it down a week or so
Hey k , I can see this working fine also , it's not exactly up potting , in a timely fashion , but it definitely up potting , so personally I wouldn't call it " the opposite " of what we're talking about ...This is funny, because I've taken the exact opposite approach to transplanting. They'll stay in those little 3x3 pots WAY longer than most people would think of, then get rootbound and pause growth for a bit. Some stress flower or herm at this point (inducing this is part of the point), they get tossed in the garbage. Most of my plants get held like this for a while until there's room to flower.
When they do eventually get flipped, the growth is explosive. Going from one cup of soil to 2 gallons of it, the roots just kind of bolt out in all directions and they're ready to flip in a couple weeks.
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