Any soil will work... the soil is basically just holding up the plants in a grow like this and the Geoflora is so complete that you can even use it in COCO. The feeding chart is divided into planter sizes, so they give you the 2 week dosage needed for any size container.
All I needed to know. Thanks very much!! Em, this may be the shortest question and answer for me and you ever. Kinda refreshing.
Hi @HashGirl !
At 25 days into flower you are only 3 days ahead of me. Don't go by the total number of weeks of your grow because remember that the chart is assuming a 4 week veg and an 8 week bloom... we both vegged a bit longer than that, so we should have stayed on the veg half of the chart an extra 4 weeks. The way I understand it, they call for not feeding in the last 2 weeks of bloom. For our 12-16 week plants, that means that our feeding at the end of the 8 week bloom period will be the last one. The long running varieties like 12 week bloom sativas, are going to get fed a couple of more times than the chart shows on the bloom side and of course when you veg for longer than 4 weeks, there are also extra applications of the VEG product. In my case here, I am just into the 3rd week of bloom and I just fed the second time. So at the 5th week point, there is still plenty of time left in the grow and I will feed BLOOM for the 3rd time. If these were 6 week bloom plants, I would not feed again next time. My next scheduled feeding falls on the 1st day of the 7th week of bloom, but we are anticipating them to finish within that last two weeks, so they will not be fed then and we will go water only until harvest, anticipating about a week of water only. This sounds scary but I assure myself that with this feeding system there still has to be some mineral content left over and the microbes are not going to just all die off at the end of two weeks, so its not like we are cutting them off cold turkey at the end... we are just not wasting another round of expensive nutes when it is time to help them clean up a little and when they would not be able to take advantage of the 2 week feeding. I know, I know... I have always preached against starving our plants at the end, but this isn't quite the same as that, and I find that these days I am a middle aged dog trying to learn new tricks. My last grow finished out very nicely without getting that last hit of nutes and based on that result I am going to try it again.
I want to try to show you what it is that I look for to know that I am in the last two weeks. Take a look at this picture:
Good infoI want to try to show you what it is that I look for to know that I am in the last two weeks. Take a look at this picture:
this bud has just now met my benchmark indicating that we are in the last two weeks. The top pistils, instead of some of them sticking straight out as if they were electrified, have all now bent in some way, some are crinkled and bent over at the top... and none of them are sticking straight out anymore. This usually happens just as you enter the final bud swell.
Jeez I can make my buds look that green too with a green light filter.Bloom - 3 weeks, 4 days
Geoflora Feed - Day 3
Wet/Dry Cycle - Day 3
Number of fast waterings - 0
16 Days since last SNS Foliar, SNS 209 given on each watering
Length of Grow - 3 months, 5 days
I messed up twice this evening, so I ask you all to please forgive me. First, I now know not to color balance on the bumper sticker that I pointed to again tonight... it just doesn't work. Please excuse the green filter. The second mistake is that this could'a should'a been a watering day, but I totally spaced it out in this extreme Missouri humidity. I will water them tomorrow, early in their day to make up for it since I am working from home tomorrow, and all should be good.
Embarrassed again, but too late now to do a re-do, I give you in a study of green serenity... my beautiful buds. I know this might make you laugh, but hey... please respect the art.
Maybe it's just me, but damn those buds are big for four weeks into flower.Bloom - 3 weeks, 5 days
Geoflora Feed - Day 4
Wet/Dry Cycle - Day 0
Number of fast waterings - 0
17 Days since last SNS Foliar, SNS 209 given on each watering
Length of Grow - 3 months, 6 days
Today was watering day and they were definitely thirsty after 2 back to back 4 day waterings. No problems have been noted and all the plants were rotated in place or actually moved to new locations under the light. The buds keep building, trying to look their best for their pictures in a couple of days at the 4 week point.
While I was watering I marveled again at the fact that there were no fungus gnats flying off of the soil as I watered. They are gone! It really is a good feeling to see that there are no bugs bothering this grow. Thank you SNS for giving us a natural way to deal with this constant problem!
Here, with a bit better job at balancing the color, are my bud shots of the day!
Just wait till they go another month!
I'll be watching. So it's not just me. Those things in another month are gonna be gargantuan. Your yield will be spectacular, you can already see that. I'd say nice job, but duh.....
But Emilya, the girls always told me not to worry, that size didn't matter!Bloom - 3 weeks, 6 days
Geoflora Feed - Day 5
Wet/Dry Cycle - Day1
Number of fast waterings - 0
18 Days since last SNS Foliar, SNS 209 given on each watering
Length of Grow - 3 months, 1 week, 0 days
Wow... the smell hits you as soon as you get in the airflow! The buds are amazing and at this point in the grow there is not much to say other than just let the pictures say those thousand words for you. So I will get to that in just a second, but first, I did make one minor adjustment to the room and it has got to help. I moved the wall fan to a better wall, so that during every moment of its swing, it is hitting plants in the back of the room. This was where the fan should have gone at first, so as to cover the entire room and not rely on reflected wind.
That being corrected, it is time to look at some amazing buds. The one bud up near the light... that silly thing is going to be one huge bud complex the length of my arm and near the size of a 2 liter soda bottle. It is one of the most massive buds I have ever grown.
Is that the bud you said you'd drive down and drop off to me or was it one of the "smaller" ones? (For those who don't realize it, this is a joke!)
