**UPDATE TIME**
WEEK 8 DAY 51
Hello and welcome to this week's update. I know its been some time since the last update but since there was not much to report except growth, I figured I would wait and save my limited monthly satellite data until something worthwhile to report. The rejuvenation of 2 GC females failed since I didn't leave enough growth at harvest time to sustain the root system, my bad. To refresh those that came in late or are seeing this for the first time, a little backstory is in order. First off I've got 2 WW's and 2 WC's going. Second, and here's the biggie, I'm experimenting with the soil formula. Using OS' idea of re-cycling used soil, I'm using his formula of 2 used gallons of soil to 1 gallon of fresh with a couple of embellishments of my own that should prove interesting and save money at the same time. I've added ashes and crushed up finely powdered leaves from my GC prunings of the last harvest. I've used ashes on outside plants for decades so it seems like it should work here.
The biggest advantage to using ashes is readily available nitrogen AND the added benefit of no salts left behind. So here's the soil formula:
3 gal. of HF
1 gallon of coco
1 gallon of perlite
2 cups of worm castings
2/3 cups of lime and my embellishments of
2 TBSP of polymers
1 cup of finely crushed dried fan leaves
1 cup of ashes from an old Hackberry tree BUT any ashes will do. Especially great for those of you with wood burning stoves
After transplanting into the bigger pots with this formula, I lightly coated the top of the soil with worm castings and some more ashes, other than that, no veg nutes were added and only water from my well that comes in with a PH of 6.5. The plants are doing quite well and will be turned over to 12/12 with another coating of ashes at the end of this month. I don't plan to use any flowering nutes until the 2nd week of 12/12, by then they should have all the nitrogen needed. Here's the pics starting with White Cookie #1
WC#2
White Widow#1
and WW#2
So that's it folks. The girls seem to be doing just fine and are growing like, uh, weeds.
So stay tooned for further episodes of "How Green Is My Garden"
The wonderful things we can do with plants!
Thank you G2HM, appreciate the thought. Try this soil mix on your plants, its OS' sure fire plan with my embellishments as tune up.
You guys have a start and at least you can expand on laws provided you don't end up with a dip shit who wants to turn back the clock.
back to this week's update. Today I gave the plants a coating of worm castings and ashes for preperation of flipping them on the 1st. Before I did that,I loosened up the soil[aeration] by plunging a large flat head screw driver into the soil so the worm casting and ashes could penetrate deep into the soil. After that I thoroughly watered the plants and washed most of the nutrients under the top of the soil. Now all is set for the flip and the plants got they'e last taste of nitrogen. They will be watered with straight well water over the course of the next 2 weeks, when they will be started on flowering nutes.
