Currently Day 34 since sprout.

I’ve been growing for about 4 years now, and when it comes to Gaia Green there is not a single method I have followed through here that has allowed me to grow at such a simple form. I have spent the better part of the last 2 years dialing in my recipe. A recipe that won’t overfeed. Won’t run into ph issues. And won’t have any deficiencies if you follow it to a T. I ran 2 separate cultivars 4 separate phenotypes. And not one has run into a deficiency yet and it is day 35 since sprout. Already flipping in 4-5 days.

The key to the method
1). USE AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE (up to 50-60lbs) SCALE WATERINGS UP UNTIL SCROGS INSTALLED. (THIS IS A MUST)

2). PLANT TIES ARE YOUR BEST FRIENDS UNTIL SCROG IS INSTALLED.

3). NO SMALLER THAN A 5 GALLON POT OR YOU WILL* BE WATERING MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY. 5 MINIMUM 7-13 RECCOMENDED**

4). USE WEIGHT AS A GENERAL GUIDELINE BUT ITS A MAJOR FACTOR.

5). 3-4 WEEK MAX VEG. ADD PLANTS IF NEEDED

Step 1 - First thing to do in Poseidons Method is going to be to always pre-cook your initial soil recipe at a minimum of 1.5-2 months prior to germinating seeds/planting clones. ( this has not been tested on clones which in turn it may be slightly hot initially, I would start the recipe at 75% strength if running clones). This needs to be consistently mixed couple times a week to ensure microbial activation and kept in a well ventilated but sealed tote/bucket.

Step 2- Before germinating your seeds a slurry test must be done to verify the soil is at optimal level. The ideal range I have found is going to be between a 1.2-1.4. If running at 1.4 keep and eye out for nitrogen darkening leaves but that’s the only concern. I notice at a 1.4 around week 3-4 they get pretty dark but thats not an issue and actually is our main driver of nitrogen for the stretch period.

Step 3- Start seeds in a small fabric pot roughly 1/4-1/2 of a gallon. If starting in 1/4 gallon you will be watering more frequently at the start but will be able to transplant sooner into the final pot. No middle transplants. Go straight to the final pot after this fabric pot. I also recommend final pots be fabric and not plastic for better aeration and oxygen flow throughout the media.
Fill the fabric pots with precooked medium and water to runoff the day before planting.
After this on the same day you need to make a 1% hydrogen peroxide solution and let seeds soak for 24hrs. Same amount of time overnight. When we come back the next day we will rinse the seeds for 15 seconds in plain ro water with tweezers being careful not to break the taproot if one is present.

Step 4- After filling the fabric pots with your medium *and in this method we are using promix hp. You sow your seed 3/8” into the medium. No less as u risk helmet heads and no more then a 1/2” to risk dampening off. Set light at manufactures guideline. I’m running a se4500 so I have mine at 20-30% 24” away at start. I want height to be at 24” away for my light and I found 200-250 ppfd is best at start of seedling stage.

Step 5- Weigh the fabric pot. Every single pot of every single pheno you are planting. Label them with plant labels. And record this in your notes. These are your money making notes.

Step 6- water when pot has lost 5-8% of its original weight and apply this in a ring in between your stem and your pot edge.

Step 7- repeat step 6 until you notice pots are drinking roughly 10-12% in 24 hours. Never water if pots are less then 5% and the key for the small pots is if weight has reduced by more then 15% in 24 hours it’s time to transplant. If weight is consistently being lost at a rate of 8-12% a bottom rehydration may be optimal. But only for 30sec-1min intervals until pot has reached the volume of water it lost. You always want a 5-10% dryback zone. You will have roughly 1 silica feed in the time before u transplant and that’s added no different. 5ml per gallon of water bioag super sil watered in when pots lost there 5-10% moisture capacity.

Step 8- Transplant time. Your small pots have starting guzzling and are ready for a chugging contest. This is why you want bigger pots*. You will transplant your small pots into your half gallon pots after not watering them for 24-48 hours depending on your water loss rate. U want them to be at the 5-8% loss range when u transplant. At this time we will add prilled gypsum at 1tbsp per gallon of medium into the soil we filled our initial pots with so it activates as we water consistently each day. Also add 1/3 cup of worm castings per 5gal of medium.
After this you make your hole where we will make our final resting place and at this time we will add extreme gardening mykos to encourage root expansion and lessen our transplant stress.

Step 9- weigh the final pots and log that final weight into your notes. This weight is our target baseline going into our real veg stage until scrog is installed. At this stage we are about 15-17 days from sprout. You will use this weight as ur new baseline which means if my 5gal pot weighs 7.9kg then you will want to water again when it reaches roughly 7.4-7.5kg.

Step 10- continue with silica once per week up until 5 days before flipping to flower.

Step 11- 5 days before flipping to flower top dress 2tbsp per gallon of 2-8-4 and 1/4 cup of castings per pots. Water this in with 1/8tsp of Epsom salts and 1ml of bioag cytoplus (LIQUID) we don’t want the powder as it has too much nitrogen. This is the day we add our scrog net.

Step 12- continue tucking and filling net for the next 5 days. We will stop silica feeds at this point and do not want to feed any silica at 1-1.5 weeks before flower.

Step 13- day 12-13 of flower after flipping you will want to start brewing your first and depending on plant health your only compost tea. You want to be able to water this in on day 14 of flower. And then continue with plain water in the following days

Step 14- day 28 of flower is the last top dress day. All we add this day is 1-2tbsp per 5 gallon pot of 0-11-0 seabird guano. After this it’s plain water strictly till harvest unless you need slight nutrition around day 42 and you would then run another (very light) compost tea.

Happy harvest!!!!