Conradino23 Keeps On Keeping On Outdoor & Indoor Using LOS/High Brix Methods

I smoked 5 week testers from both yesterday and I was quite impressed. Very different from each other as I expected, but already carrying a solid punch, that should get fully developed in the next couple of days. They’ll hit 6 weeks in 2 days.
 
Cool, they are getting some frost building upon them.... And if she does something at 5+ weeks,, it's uphill from here..

4th run soil makes you have to replace all the micronutrients? Even with LOS dialed in it's a good thing to add something like damn I forgot it tho I have a sack outside.. Anyways this powder has Axamite??? Got all the minerals ground to super fine rock dust is all it is.. Shit got a list a mile long going in it. Least my take of the product... From silver to cyanide.

I as a rule do one run per crop,, but I'm going to do a partial rerun this time.. dumping soil can be a hella problem,, and I'm getting abit lazyier?

GL my friend........
 
Yeah they’re getting near the harvest window. I could probably take them now if I really wanted to, but I wanna see as much yield as they can give me. Colas have been getting heavier though and pistils are almost all orange.

After this run I’m gonna take a break indoor, cause I need the room for something else, but I’ll keep the soil for the next year. I’m gonna have to amend it though.
 
I follow the golden rule,,, if she looks ready,,, another week or so. I know I've grown alot of strains that don't really bulk up till week 8-9+. Strain-specific of course.

And ofcourse you don't want the trichomes to become raisins?? I like to go as long as I can, looking for that stuck on stupid effect.. Tho I don't need more of that, I do fine in that department......

I need to catch up abit,, but how's the outdoor shit??
 
Outdoor is looking really good actually. I planted everything in pairs or just single plants including Bushmans seeds I got from you and so far they're going strong. There's a photo update on the previous page.
 
I am planning to switch to organics after a few more harvests. I am under the impression that if the soil is properly amended between rounds and given some down time for the microbes to break down roots, organics and the elements, the soil can can be recycled many times (indefinitely?). If this is true, and because I now mix my own nutrients from salts, I believe if I accumulate enough peat moss, I can make my own Faux Mix (Pro Mix) and amend it to any of the popular soil amendment products on the market as the Guaranteed Analysis (GA) tells me all that I need to know in terms of elemental percentage and products used to achieve such percentages. That said Woody, I'd like to see a picture of that Axamite's GA product you speak of. I'm curious to know if it's more proper to use chelated metals or is complex sulfates cool to use as well, and also what elemental ratios are used successfully.
 
GL man, this will be a revolution for you for sure, but I doubt you're gonna go back. It makes some stuff easier, some more difficult, but with good environment control it should work pretty well. I wish I had a grow room with AC and good ventilation, where I could just keep my fingers on the buttons, but it is what it is... I think it's the last time I'm flowering anything indoor in the summer :)
 
Thanks. I don't look forward to the bugs that are associated with every soil grow I've ever seen, and also I expect to yield some less weight per plant than I do now in hydro, but the circumstances are such that I can give the grow it's own mini split in a 9'x9'x8' space, but I can't risk running nine 10 gallon reservoirs, so I figured a bag of soil would be lighter than 10 gallons in a tank with a 7 gallon pot on top of it.

Is it true that the soil can be reused almost indefinitely so long as it is properly recharged between rounds? This would reduce waste materials and rebuy costs. Rock wool isn't all that expensive, but it's not really reusable.
 
If you mix it well and that means everything is in the right ratio you can run it without any amendments until you see plants slowing down. That’s when you recharge your soil and keep going :)
 
There’s something off with BH #1. First I thought it was mg deficiency, but now I’m not so sure, cause there’s no chlorisis leaves stayed dark green and quite shiny, but tips are burnt not very crispy though. Do you think it’s heat stress?

Magnesium might’ve popped up as a result, but there are brown spots on the lower leaves too, which is supposed to be the sign. I took the refractometer reading and she slid down to 8-9. Terpenes seem to be burning off too. It’s weird and it’s only this plant :smokin2:
 
The only thing that comes to mind is that BubbaHash is touchy about soil moisture. I never seem to get it right. It seems to need a rather tight range of moisture. If it's too dry OR too wet, it'll look limp and get spotty leaves. :hmmmm: It always looks like Calcium def to me - poor uptake from the roots.

I rarely get dry tips on Bubba though.

:Namaste:
 
Moisture is definitely part of the equation. I said ok better to water them a bit if they look like heat stressed, but they hardly wanted to drink maybe half a gallon each... we’ll see if she shows some change tomorrow. The other one seems completely fine with 11-12 Brix.
 
No it’s more of a recent reaction, I started seeing it 4-5 days ago.
 
conradino23 said:
I think it's the last time I'm flowering anything indoor in the summer :)
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I've said that before and I'll prolly say it again next summer or maybe here in a few weeks.

Organic soil - most things easier but Its all relative. Only method I know so hard to compare.

Can run soil indefinitely with amendments. If you have a large enough container you can treat it like a vermi-compost bin. I see guys running 200 gal + bins of soil on tables with wheels.

I have raised beds outside - same soil for 20 years still growing strong. Little or no amendments.

I've been using this same soil I'm in now since 2016. I'm going to send out for a soil test and see what if anything I need to amend and what was actually used up. I tested it before I started using it so I have a baseline to compare. Not scientific but give me a good idea.
 
Don't you get undesireable salt buildup? My understanding is that regular flushing is necessary to keep soil from getting contaminated by unwanted salts. That's a natural process outside, but inside, we have to do it manually if we don't drench to runoff.
 
bobrown14 said:
I'm going to send out for a soil test and see what if anything I need to amend and what was actually used up. I tested it before I started using it so I have a baseline to compare. Not scientific but give me a good idea.
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When you get your soil tested, do you have to tell them what you'll be growing, or does their info suggest that all soils should be identical to grow all plants? I'm curious to know more about having soil tested and what kinds of information you get back from the labs.
 
Skybound said:
When you get your soil tested, do you have to tell them what you'll be growing, or does their info suggest that all soils should be identical to grow all plants? I'm curious to know more about having soil tested and what kinds of information you get back from the labs.
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Yes they ask and my reply is "flower garden". I name my tests "raised bed 1" "raised bed 2" and so on. We actually have raised beds outdoors.






Graytail said:
My understanding is that regular flushing is necessary
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No unless you are talking about watering to run off. I do that regularly. It works amazing. But then all the water disappears over night. :passitleft:
 
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