Reset And Restart Living Soil Grow

[cloudyhelads]

First girl in the pool. Chocolate chunk.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Things are getting greener. Added a second plant to the big bag. Blumats are dialed in. Clover is coming up. Soil is alive with tiny fast moving bugs. Hope they are keeping the mites away.

 

[Mr.jiujitsu]

I’m was having trouble with the climate in the 4x4. I live in New England and the humidity is awful in the summer. I hope the 4x8 will give me a 4x4 grow and I’ll have room for a dehumidifier ac etc inside the tent.
For flower I was running a 4 cob light, an all red ufo, and an old blurple which has had almost every diode swapped out after burnouts. The cob is in the 4x8 but I am thinking about some different lighting options to round things out. Definitely an led guy. It was actually the led development that got me into growing.

You should add some quantum board leds to your setup and replace the old burple! Looks great can’t wait to see what you produce

 

[Mr.jiujitsu]

I’m
Also interested to
How your big bag and multiplant grow works out! I would think they would start to fight each other but excited to see how they grow and yield

 

[cloudyhelads]

Thanks for your interest Mr. Jujitsu. I’m very excited about the new method. I was first intrigued by the growtube videos of Minneapolis Nice and Josh Steensland, which you might like. I’m psyched to be trying it on this scale.
I hope the plants “fight” just enough to make them strong haha. I’m hoping to create and maintain a strong soil web and let nature work out the details with less of my influence. There are a bunch of no till grows out there I have seen on the inter webs. What may be unique about what I’m trying to do is to encorporate the “perpetual grow” chaos into the mix. I will start with three plants when I switch the lights: what I believe to be an 8 week indica, a 10 week hybrid and a 12 week hybrid. I’ll let them get going and then add plants so that I am harvesting and replanting every couple of weeks. Maybe 6 in the bag total if there is room. We shall see how it goes. Thanks for reading!

 

[cloudyhelads]

I’d be interested to hear your reccomendations and experience on lighting for this project. I do not know much about the quantum boards and definitely need to replace the blurple soon.

 

[cloudyhelads]

So 3 plants in the bag. Chocolate Chunk THSeeds is supposed to be a 8 week indica, Chem Og Ethos is supposed to be 10 and white widow which is 11-12. The widow is very stunted by its mite treatments but has been clean under the microscope. I hope it takes off now that the roots are in the big bag. Started to up pot my others for veg out as they are already using too much water to keep in solo cups. Going to give the big bag another week or so and flip to 12/12 or maybe even 11/12. I’ve never tried 11/12. Would definitely help the electric bill.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Today I placed satchels containing 10,000 cucumeris in the garden. I haven’t seen a broad mite in months and even the most devestated of the plants that I saved have pretty straight new growth. But, can’t be too careful. Good hunting!
All my stock is in one room now. continuing to clean...furiously...everything.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Some top shots. Getting a few expressions of the Chem-Og. Mystery seeds from exotic are all similar and very sativa looking.

 

[cloudyhelads]

The Chocolate Chunk has exploded with healthy growth. Chem Og and White Widdow are catching up. I haven’t topped any of them. I May grow the two new strains without topping but I know that the WW needs a pinch before flipping to Flower. I think I will stick with the tried and true 12/12 light schedule simply because I don’t want to change too many variables in my grow at one time. After I start harvesting I will try 11/13.
I have finally seen some of the Cucumeris I released. At least I know they are there and emerging occasionally from the sachets. Hopefully they will keep the Broad Mites away. Sprinkling the spice jar full of bugs that I bought from Arbico was certainly more satisfying. I could see the good bugs immediately and I was even able to see one kill a broad mite under the microscope. Hopefully the slow release sathets are the right choise for cleaning up any pests that might be hiding or dormant.
I also think that I will keep the same light array for the sake of apples to apples comparisons with my previous grow. With the 4 cobs, the blurple, and the red ufo I was pulling around 2 oz/ plant with 8 or so plants in the tent. Plenty for my purposes. I’m curious to see if that changes at all with the new big bag. Anyway thanks for the interest.

 

[TerpyTyrone]

I have been growing using a continuously recycled soil that I built and amended, had tested, and amended again. I keep the dirt in a 200 gal fabric pot with worms and I use it to fill 15 gal pots for my veged up plants to go into flower.
This has worked well for me for a couple of years until I was wiped out by broad mites this fall. The awful buggers never made it to my flower room, but I had to chuck my veg stock, flower out what was left in the tent, clean everything release beneficial insects and now I’m ready to reset/restart. I’m trying to turn this rather humbling and vexing occurrence into an opportunity to set myself up with a new system, try some new genetics, and hopefully improve the quality of my yeilds

Duuuuuude! I literally just startes thinking this for us northeast growers. We had bettwr get cooking our soil if we want it ready in 3 months

 

[cloudyhelads]

You got me thinking maybe I’ll move the 200 gal outside this spring.

Duuuuuude! I literally just startes thinking this for us northeast growers. We had bettwr get cooking our soil if we want it ready in 3 months

 

[cloudyhelads]

Flip to 12/12 at big bag. Setting up veg in 4x4.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Week 1 and I slipped in an unknown from exotic genetics. Thseeds chocolate chunk is growing strong and looking very lady like. Ethos chem og has put out huge fan leaves. Note that I did not too this one to see what she’s grow out to be. Also a fem seed so only looking for herm characteristics not male plant. White widow is a clone and therefore fem. Also a little Girl Scout cookies to smoke on.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Whoops

 

[cloudyhelads]

Backstage at big bag. Suspended bucket feeds Blumat watering cones. You can watch the plants and soil drink from the 5 gal. Watering consists of turning on the valve for a minute and filling the bucket. Enough attention required but not too much if you know what I mean. The air pump blasts some air through an airstone in the bucket for 30 min every 12 hrs. Keep it fresh baby.
The wiring is not neat and complete because I ordered a quantum board to replace the blurple. I said I wanted to be scientific and keep the light constant to see if the bed outperformed the pots, but I’m also looking to continuously improve. I’ve grown some very dank herb with the blurple. I don’t hate them. My first grow started with a led ufo. I didn’t get much but I never saw the dopeman again. (Not really, we still hang).

 

[cloudyhelads]

Also back stage is my homemade air scrubber. The exhaust fan blows into the bottom of the bucket which is half full of lava rock a layer of insect screen and filled to the top with activated charcoal. Works pretty well and is definitely simple fast and dirty.
The Meanwell driver powers the 4 cob light. I’ll have to make room for the web driver which I hope will arrive soon.
Of the two chocolate chunk seeds I popped, the lady in the bag is bushy and lanky. Though I never topped it it has forked and spread itself. The one still in veg has grown straight with little branching and is much more compact. Neither of them has had an easy early life as they were both germinated right before I discovered my broad mite problem and were subjected to some stressful conditions to keep them clean. The plant in the bag sure looks female. I hope the other turns out as well so I can observe to phenos, but maybe the second is so different because it’s a male. Time will tell.
I have given all of the veg plants fish hydrolosate for food. I am trying to keep the pot size small so that transplant to the bag is easy and minimally disruptive to the life in the bag.
Peace out for now Farmers.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Week 2 complete. Some defoliating and clover mulching. Added some bean seeds to diversify the party.

 

[cloudyhelads]

5th plant in. week 3 complete buds starting to form. Surprisingly the Chem Og is developing faster than the chocolate chunk despite that THSeeds claims the chunk finishes in 8 weeks and Ethos claims 10 for the Chem Og. Did some fairly major pruning to make room and let the light and air through.

 

[cloudyhelads]

1st pic is Chem Og. 2ond is choc chunk