Thats good! Yes, they get to work quickly when you have all the right stuff there for them
that's looking so good 
makes me wana get a couple tents 
Thanks for the quick get back Amy ! I'm now 20 days into the cook. And the lids on these plastic bins, naturally leak a little around the edges, so I'm just leaving them sealed. On day 14, I completely mixed it. And my concern now is if I added to much fish bone meal (ie 4 lb. bag.) And 4 lb. bag of Stonington blend organic 5-2-4 fertilizer. 20 lbs. of worm castings. Just hope it's not to hot ? Speaking of hot, I expected more heat production, but sides of containers cooled down ? Thanks for your help Amy. I'm doing a lot of reading from doc buds journal, but dam, I don't think i'll ever catch up to current. Think, I'm on page 67, of like 1096 page journal.Half off is prob’ly too much slowpuffer. Only needs to be able to exchange a little air... so mostly closed, but not fully sealed is what one wants for cooking soil.
Em - I hope that Cationic Drench doesn’t cause issues for your babies. In a full DBHBB kit grow, it would be way too early for that Drench now, plus the other drenches prepare the soil for the Cat to some extent. I just know that things can react badly to it if given at the wrong time. So I am compelled to say so
My son in law was supposed to order the kit, but I haven't seen it yet. I'm gonna try it on the current grow, but it's not docs soil, so I'm not sure if it will work or not. But the amendment from the kit will be used for making docs soil. and the drenches and foliars will be used on this grow. So as you said, we will find out if the kit works on other mixtures. When the soil is ready, I have 4 ( inzane in the membrane) clones, in two gal pots, probably 7 weeks old by now. They were originally hydro roots, in coco, but was transplanted from root bound 1 gal bags, into COM platinum, about 2 weeks ago, and was watered once at 10 days. Don't think I'll have the time to let them get as root bound as I'd like, in the two's. We just smoked the last joint of this delicious organic weed, and now we're harvesting a coco grow, (ie 10 days into flushing now) And I just know it wont be the same !! I only wish that organic buds developed as fast and large as hydro !!
I am not sure this is an accurate statement for someone doing organic correctly... if everything needed is there, there is no logical reason that hydro should be superior... it certainly doesnt taste the same.
And for me, taste is what it's all about !!
There are lots of ways to grow decent weed... but only one way that I know of to let the plants reach their full potential... True Living Organic
Hi puffer!
I’m not sure I said that exactly.
The DBHBB ‘kit’ is optimised and carefully formulated to work with a soil amended and cooked as per the kit instructions. Whether it ‘works’ or not with other soils will likely be a matter of degrees. WIll the products ‘work’ the way they are designed to work? No they won’t, not even close. Moreover, a lot of what you have in the soil mix you mentioned, are elements that are also in the DBHBB drenches (fish hydrolysates etc.) so you may very well be overloading your soil if you use those drenches in it. I’m not suggesting you do or don’t do anything in particular, that’s just my response to what you posted.
What a gorgeous site to see!!Here we are at day 15 of flower and I can hardly believe what I am seeing. All looks good, great actually...
There has been massive bud growth in just the last two days after the AACT. It is always clear upon adding all that new microlife [and bananas and dandelions] that the plants get a boost... maybe a boost and a half.
The next watering is coming up tomorrow or the next day. This will be a very slow all day watering, featuring Doc's High Brix Soil Preparation tea. The watering after that will be at the 21 day point... and we will go with the High Brix Cationic Drench.
I have also stopped questioning the effectiveness of these Vander 3000 lights.
Thanks Amy! I so much appreciate your holding me back a bit before I made that mistake. It was pure laziness on my part, not wanting to dig through the 1000+ page journal to find what I needed. With your hints however, I was able to figure out what I needed to do and confirm that my LOS was compatable with High Brix. Due to what I have learned in this area over the last several weeks, I realized why it was important to have a strongly amended and cooked soil before trying High Brix, and I knew to not only prepare the soil using the special soil preparation tea, but I also realized the importance of making sure that my microlife population was as high as it could be before flipping that ionic switch. (the 4 pillars of High Brix) Even with my carefully prepared living soil, it has taken 3 weeks to get to the point where it would be appropriate to do the cationic drench and I expect to see a remarkable shift when I do it.Hi puffer!
IMHHO it would be a waste of the kit products to use them on a grow in soil other than the kit like you suggest (so a waste of your $$$). High Brix methods do not have more than 10-15% organic matter in the soils, so with that soil mix I’d say there’s too much for the soil biota to be any kind of happy - from a high brix standpoint.
That’s my take on it and i’ll probably leave it at that. I only piped up about the Cationic Drench because it’s powerful and I didnt want Emmie to have an ‘incident’ right at the beginning of flower.
Hiya Emmie - your flowering beauties back there are looking pretty darn good!
