Hey So here it is, my first attempt at supersoil. As most of you know ive been a hydro grower for 10 years or so, due too continuous issues with my system I decided its time to go organic!! Man am I ever happy I decided to go this route, the girls have been vegging in Supersoil for a month now and they look awesome! I really love how much easier soil is compared to hydro, I just got done spreading the plants out with some lst training and it is so much easier when I dont have to crawl around under the plants because in the system I couldn't move them, now I just sit on the floor with a plant between my legs and spin it as needed, not to mention NO MORE PH OR PPM METERS, just straight water from beggining to end.After 2 years of testing strain after strain Ive found my main strains...finallyall 3 of these strains are heavy hitting heavy yielding and easy to grow, each strain has a unique and powerful smell with large dense nugs so lots of bag appeal which was part of my selection process.
The strains are..
CH9 Jack.
Jack Herrer x Ed Rosenthal Superbud x Hashplant x Ch9 Male
This strain has large dense and frosty spear shaped nugs, it turns redish purple around the 3rd week of flower. Im really bad a describing complex flavors and this one is complex bigtime lol..so im not even going to try, lets just say it taste like dank awesomeness. This strain can be harvested as early as 7 weeks but I like to let it go 9 weeks to get some amber trychs.Heres a pic that I won a nug of the month with
Barneys Farms 8 Ball Kush
This is a Hindu Kush and is now easily my favorite daytime smoke and probably will be for a longtime. If your looking for a strain to get your creative juices flowing this is it! WARNING...DO NOT SMOKE THIS BEFORE BEDTIME!
It is not racey like some strains but it definetly gives you energy and clear headed thinking, I smoked a joint last night around 10pm and couldnt fall asleep until 1 am so it is a long lasting powerful buzz. I grew my keeper pheno out last round in a 6 gallon air pot with synthetic nutes and wet weight was 3.7 pds so I guessing dry weight will be just over a pd, I dont know about you guys but 1 pd from a 6 gallon pot impressed the shit right out of me. The flavor is old school spicy kush, not like all these hybrids they re calling kush these days, this is pure hindu kush, with a couple rounds of topping this plant grows into a huge bush that produces ALOT of nice sized dense stinky nugs.If stealth is important to you then this is not the strain for you, it flat out WREAKS!Heres a pic of the plant I grew out last round.
Oh ya, did I mention that its shoots out hash tips under led lights!
Sensei Seeds Black Domina
This strain is a pure indica. Northern Lights x Hashplant x Ortega x Afghani sa
Smell and flavor is pure berry, cant really say what type of berry, maybe blackberry x rasberry.
This strain produces some of the largest densest baseball sized nugs ive ever had the pleasure of growing and it is really easy to grow and even better its really easy to trim.Heres a pic from my last grow in the same 6 gallon air pot, I dont have final weights yet but this plant easily yielded 12 oz dried and cured
Ok so those are my strains now onto Supersoil.
I am using Subcool's supersoil recipe pretty much to the T, the only differences are I used a different organic base soil and I used regular bone meal instead of steamed fish bonemeal because I couldn't find any around here.Here's Subcool's recipe.
8 large bags of a high-quality organic potting soil with coco fiber and mycorrhizae (i.e., your base soil)
25 to 50 lbs of organic worm castings
5 lbs steamed bone meal
5 lbs Bloom bat guano
5 lbs blood meal
3 lbs rock phosphate
¾ cup Epson salts
½ cup sweet lime (dolomite)
½ cup azomite (trace elements)
2 tbsp powdered humic acid
I used 60 pds of worm castings and sixteen 15 pd bags of base soil, this recipe calls for 30 pd bags.
I am using 10 gallon nursery pots. 5 gallons of supersoil then a thin layer of base soil and base soil around the sides. The roots grow down into the supersoil as needed. Honestly...these are the healthiest plants ive ever grown and all I do is give them plain water when they're thirsty, it doesnt get any easier than that.
Lighting
I am now running three 1000w HPS and 4 600w Area 51 led panels. There was a spot that wasn't getting enough light so I added a third 1000w hps, theres no dark spots anymore lol...so total watts are now 7400.
TopLed was kind enough to give me a 200w COB led panel to test out for them, it will be in its own space and I will flower one Timewreck under it, this should give us a good idea of what these lights can do
Air conditioning.
24 000 btu Mini split,Daytime temps 75 degrees Nightime temps 68 degrees.
Humidity
two 70 pint dehumidifiers
CO2
Im running a simple tank system for now, 1000ppm's during veg and 1500ppm's during flower. I control the ppm's with a simple mecanical timer, 15 on 15 off keeps the ppm's within 200ppm's of where I want it.
Ok, I think thats about it for the intro, feel free to post pics and ask questions on my thread, we are all here to learn.
Good weed everyone lets get this show on the road
The strains are..
CH9 Jack.
Jack Herrer x Ed Rosenthal Superbud x Hashplant x Ch9 Male
This strain has large dense and frosty spear shaped nugs, it turns redish purple around the 3rd week of flower. Im really bad a describing complex flavors and this one is complex bigtime lol..so im not even going to try, lets just say it taste like dank awesomeness. This strain can be harvested as early as 7 weeks but I like to let it go 9 weeks to get some amber trychs.Heres a pic that I won a nug of the month with
Barneys Farms 8 Ball Kush
This is a Hindu Kush and is now easily my favorite daytime smoke and probably will be for a longtime. If your looking for a strain to get your creative juices flowing this is it! WARNING...DO NOT SMOKE THIS BEFORE BEDTIME!
It is not racey like some strains but it definetly gives you energy and clear headed thinking, I smoked a joint last night around 10pm and couldnt fall asleep until 1 am so it is a long lasting powerful buzz. I grew my keeper pheno out last round in a 6 gallon air pot with synthetic nutes and wet weight was 3.7 pds so I guessing dry weight will be just over a pd, I dont know about you guys but 1 pd from a 6 gallon pot impressed the shit right out of me. The flavor is old school spicy kush, not like all these hybrids they re calling kush these days, this is pure hindu kush, with a couple rounds of topping this plant grows into a huge bush that produces ALOT of nice sized dense stinky nugs.If stealth is important to you then this is not the strain for you, it flat out WREAKS!Heres a pic of the plant I grew out last round.
Oh ya, did I mention that its shoots out hash tips under led lights!
Sensei Seeds Black Domina
This strain is a pure indica. Northern Lights x Hashplant x Ortega x Afghani sa
Smell and flavor is pure berry, cant really say what type of berry, maybe blackberry x rasberry.
This strain produces some of the largest densest baseball sized nugs ive ever had the pleasure of growing and it is really easy to grow and even better its really easy to trim.Heres a pic from my last grow in the same 6 gallon air pot, I dont have final weights yet but this plant easily yielded 12 oz dried and cured
Ok so those are my strains now onto Supersoil.
I am using Subcool's supersoil recipe pretty much to the T, the only differences are I used a different organic base soil and I used regular bone meal instead of steamed fish bonemeal because I couldn't find any around here.Here's Subcool's recipe.
8 large bags of a high-quality organic potting soil with coco fiber and mycorrhizae (i.e., your base soil)
25 to 50 lbs of organic worm castings
5 lbs steamed bone meal
5 lbs Bloom bat guano
5 lbs blood meal
3 lbs rock phosphate
¾ cup Epson salts
½ cup sweet lime (dolomite)
½ cup azomite (trace elements)
2 tbsp powdered humic acid
I used 60 pds of worm castings and sixteen 15 pd bags of base soil, this recipe calls for 30 pd bags.
I am using 10 gallon nursery pots. 5 gallons of supersoil then a thin layer of base soil and base soil around the sides. The roots grow down into the supersoil as needed. Honestly...these are the healthiest plants ive ever grown and all I do is give them plain water when they're thirsty, it doesnt get any easier than that.
Lighting
I am now running three 1000w HPS and 4 600w Area 51 led panels. There was a spot that wasn't getting enough light so I added a third 1000w hps, theres no dark spots anymore lol...so total watts are now 7400.
TopLed was kind enough to give me a 200w COB led panel to test out for them, it will be in its own space and I will flower one Timewreck under it, this should give us a good idea of what these lights can do
Air conditioning.
24 000 btu Mini split,Daytime temps 75 degrees Nightime temps 68 degrees.
Humidity
two 70 pint dehumidifiers
CO2
Im running a simple tank system for now, 1000ppm's during veg and 1500ppm's during flower. I control the ppm's with a simple mecanical timer, 15 on 15 off keeps the ppm's within 200ppm's of where I want it.
Ok, I think thats about it for the intro, feel free to post pics and ask questions on my thread, we are all here to learn.
Good weed everyone lets get this show on the road