PeeJay's Neophyte Breeding Adventure

PeeJay said:
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SG, will you be attending the Bong-a-Thon? That is in your neighborhood, isn't it?

I've been checking out your current journal. That OG re-veg is looking killer! You are having tons of fun and have a happy go lucky attitude that is infectious.

I suppose that I'm a little stodgy and slow to change compared to some folks. There is no doubt that there is room to improve with what I do. Yum-yum is a convenience product that is already mixed. I just use it because I like the name and the packaging.

I'm rethinking the three stage system right now. I'm not sure that I need the veg soil. It may make more sense to bump up the phosphate in flower with occasional drenches of 2-3-1 fishy ferts and 0-5-5 kelp juice. A friend and I mixed up almost a yard of PJ dirt v 2.01 two days ago. He kept enough to pot up 4 x 5 gallon plants in veg soil into 20s for his outside run. I kept 120 gallons for my future use.

That is one of those big snow moving coal shovels in the picture... It's a big pile of dirt!

This batch actually has no guano in it and there was never very much in the old one anyway. Some time this weekend I'll get around to posting whats in this one.
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:laughtwo: I probably would try to go actually, yeah, but I may be going to a party in Breckenridge at the end of the month, with all sorts of free weed. Gotta love CO's little holidays. I was at the frozen dead guy days in Nederland a few months ago. Now that's a fun trip to make. :Love: Thanks for the kind words, she's a big one huh? :)

:rofl: the packaging and name.. Doesn't it just shout 'buy me'? Well we definitely like you around, stodgy or hodge-podgy or whatever :)

Sounds like a great revised mix! I kinda wondered before if that wouldn't make life simpler. cutting a stage out of your growth plan also fits in more with the LOS approach most of us following Coot use, I hope you'll try re-using some of your soil in the future, if only for a plant, just to show everyone not to be scared to recycle it. I bet it would do really well.. But I bet those plants around your yard that usually get the used cannabis soil would be jealous. :Love: I think your new recipe will be more versatile, with those occasional drenches to up P in flower. I may even use a little of my Bio Marine I have laying around gathering dust at some point. General Organics and I didn't get along in the past. Maybe I should give it another chance, with PJ-like restraint. I'll be exercising more restraint in general, have a feeling I was pushing the limits, really really is good I caught up here. thanks PJ! :volcano-smiley:
 
SG, somebody needs to do the ugly job of pulling back on the reins now and then. My intentions are every bit as good as the person who tells someone to dump more teas, sugars, and other "secret miracle" growth enhancers on their plants at rates where input into the soil greatly exceeds what the plant is actually taking out of it.

A healthy soil food web does not require high concentration microbiological or organic matter inputs. When you look at a plant remember that most of the mass you see is carbohydrates made from the light, water, and CO2.

Think the of soil situation like it is a game of SIM City. A heavy hand will kill you in that game, and it will kill you growing in containers too.

It is way more fun to think that giving more to the container is going to improve things than it is to think "I should give it less." I encourage people to think along those lines but it is way less attractive to folks than "discovering" and gushing on about some wonder process or additive. That's just human nature. We all want to help. This is just the place where folks are more liable to hear "chill out" than "ramp it up another notch." Someone has to do it...

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Been a week since we looked into the indoor tent. I had to raise the light over the Darkstar before I left last week because it was stretching much more aggressively than the Cheese. I returned home to find that Darkstar had used that vertical space and more in just three days... So I gave her a hardcore super cropping. The Cheese has been very well behaved in the stretch department in comparison and I haven't raised the light at all. I realize now that I don't have a whole canopy picture to post but here are a couple of bud formation at week 1 of flower.

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The seedlings are all doing well. There is one sort of wonky Panama but, yep, they are all looking darn viable. I can't see much in the way of different growth rates @ 5-6 days between the SWICK and the regular watering program. I still have not had to water the unSWICKed containers since last week. Soon though. The SWICK pots are suprisingly hefty. They feel like bricks. I'm impressed by the capillary action of the soil.

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The outdoor plants also got a pretty stern super cropping over the weekend. Their canopy is filling in and spreading nicely. The climatic conditions for them will continue to improve....

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Did my best to grab an overhead shot of the tent this morning before lights went on. Hadn't had coffee yet... It's crazy in there.

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It's hard not to take a few pictures in the greenhouse during morning inspection. Such a happy healthy place.

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Envy PeeJay. :battingeyelashes: Envy and expectation. You give me hope for the future. The SWICK is amazing, isn't it? Such a stress reliever. Now, if we can just figure out if it benefits the plant from the beginning or at particular points in development. I think you're making a good point for the former.
 
So far I can't see any advantage or disadvantage to SWICK for seedlings. On the other hand, I still haven't watered the unSWICKed babies yet. Everyone got water from the top (just a little) 6 days ago. There hasn't been much in the way of labor savings from the SWICK at this point. I did add water to the SWICKs this morning to bring the level up to 1" below the pot bottoms.

In another week I can start popping the soil/root mass out of the containers for a look at the root systems.
 
PeeJay said:
So far I can't see any advantage or disadvantage to SWICK for seedlings. On the other hand, I still haven't watered the unSWICKed babies yet. Everyone got water from the top (just a little) 6 days ago. There hasn't been much in the way of labor savings from the SWICK at this point. I did add water to the SWICKs this morning to bring the level up to 1" below the pot bottoms.

In another week I can start popping the soil/root mass out of the containers for a look at the root systems.
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And I will be watching closely.
 
Be careful planting them sideways like that, they could fall out of the pots.......

Just funnin' on the pic of the seedlings. :)

Everything looks awesome. You've got quite a garden growing.

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PeeJay, I wanted to share: the first seed up is in the modified LOS, with another in the same roaring right behind. Thank you.
 
This pic is a testimony of one of PJ's Customized Soil Mix from what we had on hand. She's a "Light Addict Style" fluxed plant at day 154. Never has been feed anything and has only been hand-watered twice! It's rained enough that there's been no need to. She been outside on the fire escape since she was a mature seedling and completed her training, left to go vert 2wks ago.


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This is my 3rd summer with plants out there. Here's what we do when they get big...

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That is sweet BAR,, very creative... reps my friend..
 
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