And so it begins.
Started a new grow, my old pots had 9 grows on them and was just time to retire them mostly due to my mismanagement.
I let cover crop just go way wild and had roots the size of carrots, it seemed as though the soil was slightly out of balance even though my last grow did fine it just wasn't quite up to snuff for how a really balanced LOS grow should be.
So, I wanted everything new and fresh.
Pots and soil.
I assume because of covid fabric pots seem a bit scarce, Geopots are out of stock everywhere.
BuildASoil was about my only choice for quality pots, sadly Grassroots does not make a 25 gal, sadder still that a 30 gal won't fit my space so was forced to go down to 20 gallon.
So I got two 20 gal and two 7 gal.
Got 9 bags of BuildASoil V3 LOS and 1 bag Buildasoil Light soil for planting seedlings, along with a 30# bale of barley straw and a 50# bag of rice hulls and a 5# bag of Buildabloom and a bag of Colorado Worm Company castings for the microbes and mites and was hoping for Rove Beetles but didn't get lucky.
Got everything all cleaned up and layered in my soil about 1 to 2" layers and moistened each layer to field capacity moisture using fresh dechlorinated water with Yucca Extract mixed in to fully hydrate soil top to bottom.
Once I got all 3 pots full to within about 2" of the top firmly packed and hydrated, I divided my worm castings to give each pot a good 1 to 2" layer on top.
Then spread just a wee bit of cover crop seeds in the two large pots spread a thin layer of rice hulls and chopped up some barley straw to add a thick mulch layer.
Sprayed everything down, turned on the lights 24/0.
Transferred my worms from old pots into new pots.
Tossed two seeds in some aloe vera water with a little mycorrhazae powder and set on top of my HTPC to get it around 80 degrees.
1 Cream & Cheese CBD and 1 Super Critical Bud CBD.
The Super Critical Bud popped within 12 hours, soon as I saw it pop and could just see the tap root sticking out I planted it into a Solo Cup filled to the brim with Buildasoil Light soil.
Watered in using the same warm aloe vera mycorrhazae water it was born in.
Waited on Cream & Cheese CBD to crack another 12 hours and no sign, so I popped another Cream & Cheese into the water and put the first one into a moist paper towel and into plastic bag and onto the warm area.
Next day naturally both seeds crack.
Thats why the 3rd pot, had just barely enough room to squeeze in a 7 gallon fabric pot so why not, wasn't going to waste a seed.
All 3 seeds planted in solo cups, this was on January 24th late at night so really was 25th the seeds were planted. Actually the Super Critical bud was already planted and was about to pop above ground when the other two were planted.
Seeds born