CBD Auto EmmyStack In AziSIPs, GeoFlora, Sweet Candy, Dynomyco, Roots Organic Soil +

[SmokingWings]

First fish for growth, then seaweed for blooming?

Fish provides the Nitrogen. Nitrogen is needed as part of the photosynthesis taking place in the leaves. All green parts of the plants need nitrogen.

Seaweed is an excellent source of Potassium. Potassium is for the overall health of all parts of the plant and not just the flowers.

Look at the flowering buds on a Cannabis plant. There are some fan leaves and a lot of sugar leaves. Then all the brachts and calyx. All of those are green and growing and need nitrogen and potassium. If the plant cannot get enough of those nutrients it will start to take them from the older fan leaves. Many growers mention that the leaves on their plants are turning colors at about 2 - 3 weeks after they switched over to flowering. That is when we notice that the flower buds are starting to grow larger and forming buds.

The plant's demand for the nitrogen and potassium is so strong that sometimes the entire fan leave will turn yellow within a matter of days.

 

[cbdhemp808]

It was a 1" layer on top, to allow the solids to pass, and to lock in moisture. But it does not lock.
I am trying to grow organic in soil (as a goal).
I have to run. Back later.

Ah, OK... no biggie then. I use about a 2" coco coir mulch layer on my pots, because they are exposed to the heat of the sun.

 

[CBDMed]

I would to see if it's the same for Ca and Mg. Some epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) would help boost the magnesium in these numbers:

Ok, I wrote them to ask. I doubt they will respond tomorrow. They are too busy setting off fireworks tonight.

Happy Gregorian new year El G!

Hahaha! Happy pagan new year to you also!

 

[CBDMed]

Fish provides the Nitrogen. Nitrogen is needed as part of the photosynthesis taking place in the leaves. All green parts of the plants need nitrogen.

Seaweed is an excellent source of Potassium. Potassium is for the overall health of all parts of the plant and not just the flowers.

Look at the flowering buds on a Cannabis plant. There are some fan leaves and a lot of sugar leaves. Then all the brachts and calyx. All of those are green and growing and need nitrogen and potassium. If the plant cannot get enough of those nutrients it will start to take them from the older fan leaves. Many growers mention that the leaves on their plants are turning colors at about 2 - 3 weeks after they switched over to flowering. That is when we notice that the flower buds are starting to grow larger and forming buds.

The plant's demand for the nitrogen and potassium is so strong that sometimes the entire fan leave will turn yellow within a matter of days.

Yeah, good point. I can see why it would need continuing N.
Basically, if it has to grow any, it needs N?

There was already some N in the GF and TT), plus some in the double-seaweed, but yeah, they will probably need more N.
I mixed maybe just over half-strength urine (1:14 urine:water, and the urine was kind of dark), and added some banana peel tea, and I will monitor.
This is what they look like at the moment. The Swiss Dream Auto CBD looks great (plus one to the right you cannot see). The CBD Crack looks pretty good.
Auto Blue Ace on the left is a smaller plant, but so far they are looking pretty good!

The only issue if the Albina, and Eleven Roses Auto (which I planted only because the Auto Blue Ace did not come up).
I do not really care that she is an Albina, but she is small, and she is burning when everyone else is doing fine.

She is so small, I might just pluck her and plant something else.
Any ideas why she seems to be burning?

 

[CBDMed]

Ah, OK... no biggie then. I use about a 2" coco coir mulch layer on my pots, because they are exposed to the heat of the sun.

And 2" of coir locks in the moisture? (I wonder if yours is cut tighter than mine. Or I wonder if the pine tree bark messes it up.)

 

[CBDMed]

I have been meaning to research costs.
It turns out the original Supersoil recipe is MUCH cheaper than anything other 'nute routine I can get here.
(It is much cheaper than even the Terp Tea.)

I went online and priced stuff out. Original supersoil costs like only $22.00 USD for enough 'nutes to add to 8 bags of soil. (That is less than $3 per bag. Wow.)

Subcool recommends Roots Organic Soil because it has a lot of tasty plant meals and such worked right into it (which I am sure enhances the flavor a lot).
In comparing the list of ingredients for Subcool's Original vs. the lists of ingredients they have in GeoFlora and Terp Tea, I am just imaginging that the flavors on GF and TT are going to blow the flavors for Supersoil away.

GF Grow & Bloom: Derived From: Alfalfa Meal, Bat Guano, Blood Meal, Bone Meal, Composted Turkey Litter, Crustacean Meal, Feather Meal, Fish Bone Meal, Fish Protein Hydrolysate, Kelp Meal (Macrocystis pyrifera), Magnesium Sulfate, Natural Volcanic Ash, Neem Seed Meal, Potassium Sulfate, Rock Phosphate.

TT Grow: DERIVED FROM
Bat Guano, Fish Bone Meal, Fish Meal, Langbeinite, Kieserite, Non Gmo Soybean Meal, Feather Meal, Chicken Manure, Kelp Meal, Dolomite. Also contains nonplant Food ingredients Humic Acid, Beneficial Bacteria and Beneficial Fungi.

TT Bloom: DERIVED FROM
Bat Guano, Fishbone Meal, Crab Meal, Kelp Meal, Non Gmo Soybean Meal, Seabird Guano, Feather Meal, Langbeinite, Kieserite, Phosphate Rock, Sulfate of Potash, Dolomite. Also contains nonplant food ingredients Beneficial Bacteria and Beneficial Fungi.


BASIC OPTIONS:
As I see it, I have some basic options (before getting fancy):

Option #1: SUBCOOL ONLY: cook straight Subcool's in Root's Organic soil, and convince myself to be happy.

Option #2: SUBCOOL W/TT Tea: cook straight Subcool's in Root's Organic soil, and give it a Terp Tea every week or two.

Option #3: TT Only: mix ONLY TT Veg and TT Bloom in with the soil, and cook.

Option #4: MIX: make original Subcool's, and then also add in some TT Veg and TT Bloom (in balanced quantities), for enhanced flavor (and cook).
I like this option, because it seems both economical, and like it covers all of the bases.
Would anyone care to comment?


PK BOOSTERS:
And as long as we are here, to get fancy, does anyone know how to "fake" GLN Sweet Candy, or Roots Terp Tea Bloom Booster (which I think you add for extra PK), and mixed right in with the cook?

This is GLN Sweet Candy:

This is Terp Tea Bloom Booster:
TERP TEA BLOOM BOOSTER
NPK / 0.5 - 6 - 18
DERIVED FROM: Sulfate of Potash, Phosphate Rock, Crab Meal, Fishbone Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Kelp Extract (Ascophyllum nodosum ), and Langbeinite.

Would anyone care to comment?

 

[cbdhemp808]

Hey El G., happy new year

Some questions... sorry if you already said...

How old are your plants? What kind of lighting setup do you have? How far are the lights from the plants?

And 2" of coir locks in the moisture? (I wonder if yours is cut tighter than mine. Or I wonder if the pine tree bark messes it up.)

I am using it as a solar heat protector. The soil is dark and absorbs heat. The coco layer reflects a bit more heat, and I think serves as an insulator. So... it protects the soil at the top of the pot, including the roots that tend to hang out there. Any moisture retention is a bonus. I'm sure there's some, because water will evaporate quicker if the soil gets heated up.

 

[SmokingWings]

Would anyone care to comment?

I saw your msg yesterday and thought about it. It is well researched and seems to have all the info.

What I wanted to mention was to not go overboard and make it too complicated. Or, as some have called it, "overthinking it".

Start throwing everything at a soil mix and if a problem shows up it can be hard to figure out what went wrong because so many different nutrients and fertilizer blends were used. Been there and done that.

 

[SmokingWings]

but yeah, they will probably need more N.

Don't go overboard with adding more Nitrogen. There is some already in the soil and in any of the fertilizer mixes you are thinking about using. The old saying about "too much of a good thing" comes to mind.

 

[Azimuth]

You'll need to pick something and stick with it long enough to tweak it. Right now you're all over the map, trying multiple different things and using inputs which vary batch to batch so even if something works or doesn't you have no idea what did what.

I get that sourcing and costs are both issues for you, but throwing everything in a pot and see what happens might be a fun exercise but you'll have no better idea of what did what than when you started.

So, I say, pick something as a base that's reasonably easy to source for you and then tweak it one item at a time from there. Maybe Subcool's base is a good one for you, but then mixing and matching random inputs is a good way to get you in trouble with no really good way to determine what worked and what didn't.

 

[CBDMed]

Hey El G., happy new year

From Google:
The beginning of the year was dedicated to a very peculiar Roman god: Janus. According to the mythology, Janus was the two-faced god of doors (in fact his name Janus comes from ianua, "door" in Latin), beginnings and passages: that is why the first month of the year, January, was named after him.

Oy va voi. A city full of people who worship Roman gods by getting smash-faced drunk and sharing their music with all of their neighbors all night, in honor of the Two-Faced God... (oy va voi... I do not think it is the same God...)...
But thanks for the kind thoughts! (I wish you kind thoughts as well.)

Some questions... sorry if you already said...

Haha, yeah, I know you are busy. And stoned
I am just glad for the help!

How old are your plants?

The oldest plants are 4 weeks from planting seeds (just did the second feeding), so maybe 3+ weeks above ground (and starting to put out pistils).
If a seed does not come up in a week, I usually go digging, and if I do not find anything salvageable I usually plant another, so some of them are 3 weeks from planting seeds. (So they look pretty good for their age, really.)

What kind of lighting setup do you have?

Well, I need to keep costs down, so I got the best I could find on AliExpress ("China specials" with free shipping) but they seem to work pretty well).
I know some of you guys have killer lights, and killer grow rooms.
(My grow room looks pretty Millennium Falcon compared to most of you guys' rigs, but it seems to be getting me stoned

How far are the lights from the plants?

Good question. Long story but it depends on the light and where it is in the room.
The closest are like 33" and the farthest are like maybe 40".
You and @Krissi Carbone helped me with that Photone app to adjust the lights, where we wrapped a sheet of paper around the cell phone lens, and then checked the lighting. I forget what number we got (33?) and you said it was perfect, so I just left everything alone.

I am using it as a solar heat protector. The soil is dark and absorbs heat. The coco layer reflects a bit more heat, and I think serves as an insulator. So... it protects the soil at the top of the pot, including the roots that tend to hang out there. Any moisture retention is a bonus. I'm sure there's some, because water will evaporate quicker if the soil gets heated up.

Ahh, ok. That makes sense. You are in a hot climate.
This is a cool climate. It is actually warm for here (73F yesterday!) and rainy, and the two plants I put on the roof before Shabbat look like they grew some.
For supersoil buckets for the roof, I use the 50-50 coco-pine mostly to keep weeds down (mulch). The regular rains in this rainy warm ("monsoon"?) season help keep the spreader roots wet (and if not I will hit them with a watering can when I water the rest of the stuff).
I check and trim the roof twice a week. I was very concerned about them maybe not making it in the cold but they look really a lot better than I expected, so I am encouraged.
They have a lot of tiny flies on the leaves in the morning drinking the dew. I do not know if I should be concerned, or not.

Whoa, I need to get this third bean to pop!! Normally I have pretty good success with beans, but this one is stumping me! I will put the third bean in the soil today (and that will be 19 buckets).
I am thinking about putting a 20th bucket. The ethic here is to stop at 19 buckets, but 2 regular plants is only a 50-50 tossup for seeds, whereas 3 plants is a 75% chance, but 4 buckets gives an 87.5% chance.

I am SO glad the girls on the roof are happy! And actually, I am just now realizing that this is the warmest part of the year, so this is probably the best time of year to transition the regulars to outdoor grow.
So I think maybe I should pluck that 11 Roses albina, and reload that bucket with supersoil, to get 5 CBD regular buckets going in supersoil (with mulch). That should raise the odds of getting seeds a lot.

I am praying for a bean to pop here! (I hope it is not like a watched pot!...)

 

[CBDMed]

I saw your msg yesterday and thought about it. It is well researched and seems to have all the info.

Thanks, gro.

What I wanted to mention was to not go overboard and make it too complicated. Or, as some have called it, "overthinking it".

Oh, man, I am SO BUSTED!! LOL!!

I am autistic, man, what do you want me to do?? (Overthinking is what we do! That is why pot helps us so much, is so we can shut the brain off sometimes!)

Start throwing everything at a soil mix and if a problem shows up it can be hard to figure out what went wrong because so many different nutrients and fertilizer blends were used. Been there and done that.

Yes, that is a very good idea. Take things a little slower, and only take one change-step at a time, so you can track what works and what does not. Thanks for that.

Yes, maybe for right now I should just make my cheap $22 Supersoil, and then maybe I can give half of any hypothetical females on the roof some Terp Teas during the grow, just to see how they respond?
And if that goes well (which I am sure it will), maybe in the future, "when my ship comes in" and they have the Terp Tea Veg back in stock, maybe I can get some TTV, and then make two small test batches of soil:
1. One small test batch (of like maybe 2-3 SIP buckets) with just Terp Tea Veg and Bloom; and
2. A second small test batch of supersoil (2-3 buckets) where I ALSO pre-load like maybe a 1/3 or 1/2 dose of Terp Tea Veg and Bloom, and see if they cook well together?
Then I can compare?

Good tip, gro.

 

[CBDMed]

Don't go overboard with adding more Nitrogen. There is some already in the soil and in any of the fertilizer mixes you are thinking about using. The old saying about "too much of a good thing" comes to mind.

Good caution, SW. I will try to remember to take things slowly, and cautiously, and deliberately.
Gracias.

 

[CBDMed]

You'll need to pick something and stick with it long enough to tweak it. Right now you're all over the map, trying multiple different things and using inputs which vary batch to batch so even if something works or doesn't you have no idea what did what.

Yeah, I am learning a lot about plants. I thought that if there was plenty of good stuff in the soil, the plant could pick out what it wants, and leave the rest. But it seems like it is not that way. It seems like you want to provide the plant very near to exactly what it wants, so that it gets a nearly ideal meal anywhere it looks. So I am learning

I get that sourcing and costs are both issues for you, but throwing everything in a pot and see what happens might be a fun exercise but you'll have no better idea of what did what than when you started.

Yeah, I totally get it. Another comedy of errors.
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans", right?
But you are selling me short. There is method to my madness.

I realize this is a long story, but you are basically saying I have no plan? Sorry if it is not obvious from outside, but from here I think we are doing a reasonable job of responding.

First I could not find organic soil, and you tried to help me make soil. That was nice. (I could do a lot better today.)
Then we allegedly found that "All Mix" grow shop salted soil that ruined two grows (one with the Veganics, and one with supersoil).
About the "All Mix" base soil, my theory is that it was NOT the rice hulls, but that they used table salt instead of Epsom Salt. To test that theory I am running one Crack CBD with rice hulls, and she is not the biggest bucket, but she is fine. I count five colas.

So, the supersoil did not work because of the All Mix, and we had to try everything to save that grow. And thanks to your and Emmie's and Shed's and Otter's and CBD's and Bill284's and everyone's help, I got some funky looking brown bud that hits good and gets my feet back on the ground, and helps the gyros run right. Next time we will have green bud!

As a result of the All Mix, you and Emmie talked me into trying GF. I thought, OK, let's try it!
I ordered an 8Lb of Veg and some Bloom to try, and then I realized I would need a lot more Veg and Bloom to run a whole grow, but then I needed N, and you guys said human urine is "an almost ideal fertilizer", so once I realized you cannot smell it (and the house will not smell like a latrine), I went all in on it.
You guys all said it, and Emmie said it would work, so I figured, save money, nu?
Only, I did not see that video before, so I did not know that human urine is not even good enough for lettuce, and DEFINITELY not enough for peppers, so really it is more of a stopgap or a supplement source than anything. But I did not know that, so I did not buy more GF Veg.
I got 40 Lbs of Bloom, and only 8 Lbs of Veg because I thought urine would work. Then I JUST saw this video this grow, and it is too late to get more nutes, so I have got to do something, you know what I mean?

I realized I needed more Veg, but they will not ship GF here, so even if I bought it on the Amazon River and paid for reshipping it would take two months to get here, unless I paid FedEx (which is like 2 or 3 times what the USPS costs!! So it would be like $50 a pound by the time we were all done. No way.)

I am trying to keep calm and research what options I have systematically, to feed the girls organically.
I scoured the Amazon River and found Dr. Earth 4-6-5 "granular pellets", and Amazon would ship express. They say you CAN make tea. The ingredients list looks good, it will just need some nitrogen.

Sadly, it did not get here in time. Probably they will get here this week. So, I will use those for the NEXT feeding in 2 weeks (with a little urine. Or it occurs to me that I also have a lot of that KNF Fish and that JADAM fish you helped me to make before, but what exactly the dosing is on it, I do not know. And frankly, that would seem like a much bigger variable than human urine at this point.

Dr. Earth says you can make tea, so I got my bubbler out, and I will probably make a big brew, add molasses and Recharge and Banana Peel Tea, and then distribute. And then top with add water (like this last feeding).

It was a mess because this last grow I had to use one of the bags of GF Bloom which I was saving for the Bloom phase, (cuz the girls gotta eat something). Then I realized that I could try Terp Tea, so I tried Terp Tea on 5 buckets.
Since I am now short one 4 Lb bag of GF Bloom, I will have to use Terp Tea again on the same 5 buckets during bloom--but I think that is cool, because we will get to see how Terp Tea does. And so far those girls look great!
Two of the SDAC are a little small, but these two are 2 of the 4 biggest in the grow room.

Anyway, I have to run. I have to finish this later.
But I think this time I am going to make a tea, and drench the trench, because I think that will feed a whole lot faster.
So it looks like the SDAC are going to get Terp Tea instead of GF Bloom, but right now those girls look great!

So, I say, pick something as a base that's reasonably easy to source for you and then tweak it one item at a time from there. Maybe Subcool's base is a good one for you, but then mixing and matching random inputs is a good way to get you in trouble with no really good way to determine what worked and what didn't.

Yeah, now with this Roots Organic soil I can add Sbcool's for $22 and then test with the Terp Teas. Got to run. Thanks for all of your help! Things keep getting better. got to run

 

[Azimuth]

No, I totally get it. You're trying to work with what you can get at a reasonable cost. I'm just saying trying random things in unknown concentrations doesn't lead to repeatable results.

At your rental place, do you have room for a compost pile? I'm having quite good results using a base mix of compost, castings, old soil, and some sort of aeration along with a few select Jadam extracts and some meals. I make it all (mostly) myself in my backyard for no money.

 

[CBDMed]

No, I totally get it. You're trying to work with what you can get at a reasonable cost.

Whew!! Glad you get that!! I appreciate your and everyone's help a lot.

I'm just saying trying random things in unknown concentrations doesn't lead to repeatable results.

Yeah, I totally get that. I am trying to arrive at the most affordable top-quality formula. Smoking's advice to take one step at a time is well received.

I am starting to get the idea that probably a base of Subcool's is best ($22), but then when reconditioning the soil, try to recondition it by pre-loading Terp Tea Veg and Bloom (which are less than $5 a pound here in the 40 Lb sacks).
Then maybe I can try an experiment to see how much Terp Tea and Bloom to use when reconditioning the soil?

Roots soil costs $30 here for a 10 Gallon bag. It has a very nice texture, and Vermitculite, and all that good stuff--but now I am thinking, Terp Tea is less than $5 a pound. So, how many pounds of Terp Tea do you suppose it takes to pre-load into 10 Gallons of soil, to "re-flavor" the soil on a budget?

With GF you use 7 pounds per grow, for a 4-5 Gallon SIP.
So, would a good guess be 7 pounds of Terp Tea in a 2:1 Veg:Bloom mix, as a reasonable testing place for Terp Tea Supersoil?

Leaving supersoil aside, I think it would only take a couple of pounds of Terp Tea in a 2:1 Veg:Bloom mix to put back some real flavor into the used soil.
I think I could try a test back with adding 1 pound, and then adding 1.5 pounds, and then adding 2 pounds of Terp Tea into spent soil (along with the rest of the Supersoil routine). You would probably have to tweak it, but that would be reusable premium soil, plus supersoil ingredients, plus pre-mixed flavorings, to give the grow flavor.

At your rental place, do you have room for a compost pile?

I wish!!
(I could drive to the property, but it is an hour each way, and they use all the compost.)

I'm having quite good results using a base mix of compost, castings, old soil, and some sort of aeration along with a few select Jadam extracts and some meals. I make it all (mostly) myself in my backyard for no money.

Yeah, when we get money again to build on the property, I want my own compost pile. And we should have our own compost pits, and all sorts of manures. And I am sure I can make my own compost.
They grow lots of beans here. I guess they put nitrogen in the soil. And we can probably grow and compost our own alfalfa, and clover. But that will be a whole separate project.

In the end it would be great to grow in ground, or even make our own composted soil for SIP buckets. I am sure I will need to learn a lot along the way. Agriculture is not my main focus, but it is good to know about it. (Doesn't it seem like they should teach at least one semester of organic gardening in school??)

Compost, Jadam, and KNF are definitely on the horizon. But right now we have to recover from the double-whammy we just got, so we can get some money to build again.

Thanks again for all the help.

 

[cbdhemp808]

nice!

 

[cbdhemp808]

From Google:
The beginning of the year was dedicated to a very peculiar Roman god: Janus. According to the mythology, Janus was the two-faced god of doors (in fact his name Janus comes from ianua, "door" in Latin), beginnings and passages: that is why the first month of the year, January, was named after him.

Believe me, I'm not a Roman Catholic calendar worshiper! But I like the metaphor of a doorway to something new... following the return of the sun. Ianua sounds like a Hawaiian word, similar to Imua which means "to move forward or to move ahead toward a goal". Also Sanskrit यान (yāna, “path”).

Oy va voi. A city full of people who worship Roman gods by getting smash-faced drunk and sharing their music with all of their neighbors all night, in honor of the Two-Faced God... (oy va voi... I do not think it is the same God...)...
But thanks for the kind thoughts! (I wish you kind thoughts as well.)

I was conked out on the couch in the evening, after eating dinner, and after "sharing music" before sunset, and yes... while high on some White Widow mixed with Grape Ape... plus maybe a bit of CBD in there as well. By midnight I was still lying there on the couch, listening to a lot of explosions.

The oldest plants are 4 weeks from planting seeds (just did the second feeding), so maybe 3+ weeks above ground (and starting to put out pistils).

I'm not familiar with growing autos, let alone indoor autos, but that sounds about right... seems they are doing well!

Well, I need to keep costs down, so I got the best I could find on AliExpress ("China specials" with free shipping) but they seem to work pretty well).

How many watts per panel?

I know some of you guys have killer lights, and killer grow rooms.
(My grow room looks pretty Millennium Falcon compared to most of you guys' rigs, but it seems to be getting me stoned

Good question. Long story but it depends on the light and where it is in the room.
The closest are like 33" and the farthest are like maybe 40".

OK, I see that now in another photo you posted. I'm not an indoor grower, so this is not my lane, and you have a lot of experienced eyes looking at this... but, to me it looks like you could go brighter. And the logical/inexpensive way to accomplish that would be to lower the panels, and make them adjustable. I'm guessing they don't put off much heat. You could arrange the plants in rows, maybe 2 side-by-side, and then have the panels in rows directly above the rows of plants, allowing you to walk the rows even when the panels are down low. I guess autoflowers can range in height from 1 to 4 feet. If they aren't getting enough light, then they'll be more on the short side.

You and @Krissi Carbone helped me with that Photone app to adjust the lights, where we wrapped a sheet of paper around the cell phone lens, and then checked the lighting. I forget what number we got (33?) and you said it was perfect, so I just left everything alone.

wasn't me bro.

 

[CBDMed]

It feels great to have identified Subcool's original formula as a cheap starting point I can use ($22 USD for eight bags' worth). He uses a lot of hard chemical nutes, and I think maybe he relied on the Roots Organic to add all of the floral essences, etc.

I did not want to mix all eight bags at once, in case I ran out of garbage cans and storage. However, in this case I mixed all eight bags' worth of nutes together, and then measure them out proportionately by the bag.
Long story short, I had 12 (wet) liters' worth of dry nutes mixed in my bucket. I divided by 8 and ended up with 1.5 Liters of nutes per bag of mix.
So I used 1 bag of mix, and the appropriate amount of nutes, and for full disclosure I added 6 cups of kelp meal again (like I did in this last batch of supersoil, because everything seems to be green and good looking on the roof).
Then I added a liter of rice hulls (for silica over time), since they do not seem to be hurting anything.

Long story short, what I am using on the roof right now is original Subcool's plus 6 cups of kelp for an 8-bag batch (full batch). The stuff on the roof seems to be doing better than I expected (which may be because this is effectively the warm part of the year, but go with it!).
I have 1-1/2 big garbage cans of the same "original Subcool + 6 cups of kelp meal (because I can get it at half price here, and I told myself if I ever ran supersoil again, I wanted to add the kelp directly into it, rather than pour it on top).

I made six bags' more of "original Subcool's + 6 cups kelp", which I can use for my main run.
Then I can do two experiments:
1. One experiment will be to pour a Terp Tea Bloom on the Subcool's, starting basically she starts to grow her first pistils.
2. The other experiment is that I had 1-1/3 bags' worth of the 'nute mix left over, but 1-1/2 bags worth of Roots, and I just wanted to use it all up. (It was about the same, just a little shy.) So, I put 5 cups of Terp Tea powder 'nutes into it, for flavor, just as a "wild hair" data point. But I figured, we want her to have something after she starts to show her first pistils. But autos are different. The girls are already throwing off pistils, and according to the GeoFlora schedule I am still supposed to give one more Veg feeding
I thought, GeoFlora is 7 cups per auto. But that is 1 cup of Veg pre-loaded, and then one cup at two weeks, and then another cup at four weeks (coming up), and then one more after that???
So, girlie has to be like in to heavy flower (late pregnancy) before she gets any Bloom???? Sorry, me not understand, but I guess this is the routine I am signed up for, at least nominally??
For full disclosure, I thought about taking it easy, but then I thought, no, I did not think 5 cups was really out of line, especially considering how early autos start to throw pistils.
Subcool's uses a lot of less expensive chemical nutes, which reminds me of those finishing formulas (like Sweet Candy, etc.), so I thought there should be plenty of room for bloom tea mix mixed straight into the cook. I hope it will not burn anything, so I thought maybe we could try one bucket, and if that is too hot, we can cut it 50-50 with regular original (to cut it down). But just looking from those SDAC, and how strong they are growing, I thought we should try the 5 cups. I am optimistic.

 

[CBDMed]

Believe me, I'm not a Roman Catholic calendar worshiper! But I like the metaphor of a doorway to something new... following the return of the sun. Ianua sounds like a Hawaiian word, similar to Imua which means "to move forward or to move ahead toward a goal". Also Sanskrit यान (yāna, “path”).

Um....
Is she perhaps related to this Inanna, maybe?

I was conked out on the couch in the evening, after eating dinner, and after "sharing music" before sunset, and yes... while high on some White Widow mixed with Grape Ape... plus maybe a bit of CBD in there as well. By midnight I was still lying there on the couch, listening to a lot of explosions.

Explosions??

I'm not familiar with growing autos, let alone indoor autos, but that sounds about right... seems they are doing well!

I am very happy. I expected issues with this funky feeding schedule, but so far, every one seems really happy. There are a few small ones, and ordinarily I might pluck them and start over, but I think just to let this run, and we will see if they catch up.
Sometimes I think snipping them on the nose helps to jump start them. Most of them get big enough before they start throwing serious pistils, but a few you just have to either pluck, or else bend them over and hope they catch up. There are three that I just bent over, and we will pray and see. Everyone else is doing very well.

How many watts per panel?

It is a mix of 1200 and 1500 nominal. (Mostly, whatever seemed like the best deal after no more than an hour's search.) One burned out, and I dropped another, but I was able to afford them. They seem to dissipate heat real well. This is the only time of year that the heat is not desired during the day.

OK, I see that now in another photo you posted. I'm not an indoor grower, so this is not my lane, and you have a lot of experienced eyes looking at this... but, to me it looks like you could go brighter. And the logical/inexpensive way to accomplish that would be to lower the panels, and make them adjustable. I'm guessing they don't put off much heat. You could arrange the plants in rows, maybe 2 side-by-side, and then have the panels in rows directly above the rows of plants, allowing you to walk the rows even when the panels are down low. I guess autoflowers can range in height from 1 to 4 feet. If they aren't getting enough light, then they'll be more on the short side.

I get it. But the last crop grew just fine. And the short ones are surrounded on both sides by girls that got tall.
I realize you do mostly clones, but when you do grow from seed, do you ever get small ones? (I thought this was a large number of small ones. But some are very good sized.
Should I complain?? (I would be hard pressed to tell even which sponsor I bought them from anymore.)
I thought I would just buy what there was that will work for me here indors under LED, and then when we get to the property we want to transition to just an overhead fly when flowering (and just in the sun and the rain the rest of the time).
I appreciate @NickHardy or whoever recommended Kush. I have some Kush auto seeds, but I want try these Mr. Tao Blueberry Crystal seeds first, because they are big 4-month autos, supposed to get to 1.5-2 meters under ideal conditions, and I think you get a lot more product when you let them get big like that.
It would be nice to start adapting them to the natural weather, for when we get to build houses that catch the sun, and hold the heat during the cold parts of the year.

wasn't me bro.

Oh, ok, no worries.
The last batch grew great except for that soil, so I think it is adjusted right. At least it seems nice and bright in there, and I am not minded to mess with it. Plus, since it is only two or three small plants out of 15 healthy girls, I think the lights in general are adjusted just fine.
I am not sure why we have mostly healthy looking girls, and 2-3 not-so-great looking girls in the same batch.
I am not sure why some seeds came right up, while others took a long time to come up (like 8-9 days).
I am not sure why three plants were not vigorous enough to snip before they started to throw serious pistils, while their sisters are vigorous. It seems like too much variability in the crop, but right now I am just growing what is out there. You and Azi suggested planting all-CBD, so I thought I should try it.
Two of the SDAC are big, and two are small. One did not come up. I do not know why.
There is one small CBD crack.
One Auto Blue Ace did not come up, and I replaced with an 11 Roses Auto, which is very small. I do not know why. I cannot decide whether to pull her, or leave her.
I think @bluter talked about "general auto weirdness" (or something like that). It seems like every other grow is "interesting" somehow. Not sure why.

On the positive side, it was really great to finally have a plan to get the best stone for the least money, and then get it started cooking. It has to cook three months before it is stone cold, so I thought I should get it started ASAP.
In a week I will try to turn the cook, to make sure they got watered all the way down. And then other than that, I will leave them alone for three months.

I still need to do the next batch of BioChar, but that is (hopefully) tomorrow.