Alafornia's 1st Time Multistrain Medical Grow

[Emilya Green]

I definitely see it in those last pictures, and it only reinforces my above about it being an iron deficiency and your explanation confirmed the diagnosis. Pickling lime from the grocery store makes a very powerful pH up... just add it to warm water and shake the heck out of it until it dissolves. Don't store it in a plastic container... glass is necessary to hold it. PH down is just as easy... get a $6 container of battery acid from your local parts store, and replace one cup of distilled water out of a gallon with 1 cup of the acid. The dilution you end up with 1:15 is just about the same strength as the popular pH down product you can buy, at 1/100th the price.

 

[Alafornia]

I definitely see it in those last pictures, and it only reinforces my above about it being an iron deficiency and your explanation confirmed the diagnosis. Pickling lime from the grocery store makes a very powerful pH up... just add it to warm water and shake the heck out of it until it dissolves. Don't store it in a plastic container... glass is necessary to hold it. PH down is just as easy... get a $6 container of battery acid from your local parts store, and replace one cup of distilled water out of a gallon with 1 cup of the acid. The dilution you end up with 1:15 is just about the same strength as the popular pH down product you can buy, at 1/100th the price.

Just read this. Already picked up the ph down for about $7.

 

[Alafornia]

Good evening.

Checked the soil pH on OGK CBD and it's down to 6.7 and she looks a bit better to me. She's gotten a lot of water in the past week so just letting her (and the pH) settle for now. If I do a top water or at the next water I'll come in about 6.5. I found the vinegar I had bought and forgot about so will likely just use that instead.

The tent is beginning to really look too small. The last I checked the tent should be here Monday. The 3rd CMH light (2 for flower, 1 for veg) is here. The filters are here. Pretty much ready to go with it. Definitely need the room!

Temps and humidities haven't changed much. Still pushing 90 +/- and closing in on 10% in the afternoons.

Looks like school went well again. We have to schedule our annual IEP (individualized education plan) meeting for this year. As of this moment this is the best, most supportive team we've ever experienced. Forgive the "as of right now", but although I use my eyes to see what's there now past experience has left me jaded so I find myself hoping it doesn't change. I could write a thesis on the subject. I've got about 26 kid-years of experience with it. My oldest needed a couple years of speech. The middle child was there the whole way and so it is with the youngest. I have stories about these things ranging from the enraging to the mundane to tears of sadness, frustration, or joy. When you see the parents at school who go through these meetings give them one small word of encouragement now and then. It will mean the world to them. Trust me, it will.

We're gonna get to the pics in just a minute, but the story behind why we grow cannabis is why we are here to begin with. The grow itself isn't too difficult: makes soil; give water, light, a good environment; dispense with pests; check them daily for issues and ask for and get wonderful advice on how to deal with those. The rest of it is the hard part. It wears on you. Finding something that makes it better helps.

Hell, enough rambling. It's picture time.

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Group

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Group

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Westley (White Russian)

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Nikita (White Russian)

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• Aug 22, 2019

MH1

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Orange Sherbet

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Northern Lights

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• Aug 22, 2019

Blueberry

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• Aug 22, 2019

OG Kush CBD

 

[Sierra Cowboy]

Wow nice Ali, I have plant envy, your indoor plants are so clean.

 

[Alafornia]

Wow nice Ali, I have plant envy, your indoor plants are so clean.

They did get two baths with neem/safer soap and one with BT this week so they should be.

Thanks, SC. Hope all is well in your world.

 

[FishEyedFool]

Now that's a sea of green! Yeah, you need more room, Al. Here's the problem with cannabis growers, as I see it. We're like goldfish. We'll grow to the size of our container. It doesn't matter how large, or how small, we are always going to want more room. Someone with 800 sq. ft. of grow space is going to wish that they had 1200 sq. ft. Ahhh, there's nothing better than first world problems, am I right? Loving this grow journal, brother.

 

[Alafornia]

Now that's a sea of green! Yeah, you need more room, Al. Here's the problem with cannabis growers, as I see it. We're like goldfish. We'll grow to the size of our container. It doesn't matter how large, or how small, we are always going to want more room. Someone with 800 sq. ft. of grow space is going to wish that they had 1200 sq. ft. Ahhh, there's nothing better than first world problems, am I right? Loving this grow journal, brother.

So we're really just cannabis souls swimming in a fish bowl?

The new tent will triple my grow space from 25 sq ft to 75 sq ft.

Thanks, FEF. It's so good to have you along.

 

[Alafornia]

Today marks 2 months for this journal that I started a few hours after plopping 6 seeds into six jars of water on a seedling warmer. 2 months since placing those seeds in soil. 61 days. 4 days later seeds began popping out. That makes most 57 days old. OGK CBD is 54 days and Nikita is 51 days, if memory and math don't fail me.

Thanks to everyone who has joined in. We should be moving some or all of the plants to flower next week. It's been a helluva ride but the fun is just getting started.

I hope you all have a fulfilling and prosperous day.

 

[Alafornia]

Morning pics.

Westley has shot up like a rocket. OGK CBD’s pH is better and she looks better.

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• Aug 23, 2019

Westley is catching up!

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• Aug 23, 2019

Group with Westley catching up

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• Aug 23, 2019

OG K CBD Improving

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• Aug 23, 2019

OGK CBD pH

 

[Emilya Green]

Don't let that soil pH meter freak you out...it is not at all accurate. Did you know that depending on where you measure in the container, and the amount of moisture held in that part of the soil, the pH will range everywhere from the base pH of the soil, to the pH of the fluids you watered with? Just make sure your incoming pH is correct, and the soil will do what the soil does. Throw that soil pH meter away... that is not how you measure soil pH anyway... it takes a slurry test in a vacuum to get an accurate reading.

 

[Backlipslide]

Looks great Al! I’m glad I’ve followed along your 60 day journey, and I look forward to seeing your plants transition into flower

 

[Newfun]

Hey Mr. A, that is a beautiful tent of love there. Westley, I am so happy for you, grow, grow, grow baby. She is my favorite. That being said, all of your plants are lovely. This has been a great 2 months.
Thank you and Ms. T for inviting me/us along in your journey.
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[Alafornia]

@Newfun

From this:

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• Aug 23, 2019

To this:

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• Aug 23, 2019

Westley is catching up!

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Westley (White Russian)

I can see why you love her so. Revitalization and redemption. Thank God for both.

 

[Newfun]

Auntie Newfun thanks you so much for the pictures. They grow up so fast. I feel so old. Lol

 

[Alafornia]

Just a few of the group and Westley.

 

[Emilya Green]

noticing an improvement in new growth color?

 

[Alafornia]

noticing an improvement in new growth color?

I think so. I'll grab some more pics tomorrow.

 

[Alafornia]

Saturday morning picture fest. Soundtrack includes Alabama, Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and the Allman Brothers.

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Westley

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Westley

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Nikita

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Nikita

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MH1

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MH1

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Orange Sherbet

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• Aug 24, 2019

Orange Sherbet

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Northern Lights

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• Aug 24, 2019

Northern Lights

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• Aug 24, 2019

Blueberry

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• Aug 24, 2019

Blueberry

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• Aug 24, 2019

OG Kush CBD Close

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• Aug 24, 2019

OG Kush CBD Close

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• Aug 24, 2019

OG Kush CBD Close

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• Aug 24, 2019

OG Kush CBD Close

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• Aug 24, 2019

OGK CBD 2.0 is dead

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• Aug 24, 2019

Orange Sherbet 2.0 isn’t far behind

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• Aug 24, 2019

But guess who is doing great. Hint: Nikita 2.0

Up next: mixing another batch of super soil before it gets too hot.

 

[Alafornia]

Mixing super soil

And done with that. Short rest break then moving boxes to the shed out back and getting the garage ready for the new 5x10 foot tent.

This is the recipe for a half batch of super soil. If will do if your grow never gets bigger than mine is now. Since I am expanding to a perpetual grow I needed a second half batch for a grand total of a full batch.

This half batch fills two 32 gal garbage cans almost to the top so about 60 gallons +/- for each half or 120 gal for a full batch. Count on it being slightly less than that but I filled 3x 10 gal, 4x 5 gal plus 4x 1 gal and a few solo cups half full for the clones and had a few gallons left over so maybe even closer to 58 gal half or 116 gal full.

If it’s hot find a shady spot to do it and if you’re old taken a couple of breaks.

 

[Alafornia]

Ok. Well here’s the recipe for a half batch:

1/2 Recipe
4 large bags of a high-quality organic potting soil with coco fiber and mycorrhizae (i.e., your base soil)
12.5 to 25 lbs of organic worm castings
2.5lbs steamed bone meal
2.5lbs bloom bat guano
2.5lbs blood meal
1.5lbs rock phosphate
3/8 cup or 6 tablespoons Epsom Salts
1/4 cup or 4 tablespoon sweet lime (dolomite)
1/4 cup or 4 tablespoons azomite (trace elements)
1 tablespoon powdered humic acid