Poor Bud Bokashi and the bokashi soil blues.
Bud, did you catch what I said about homogeneous soil mixing? You’d mentioned other seedling burns recently after some normal growth.
So, I mentioned the obvious stuff about mixing amended and especially heavily composted soils. You just have to atomize everything into its tiniest fragments then mix till your arms fall off so there are no high fertility chunks lying in wait for your poor unsuspecting seedlings tender roots.
Dead obvious stuff, I realize, so may not be terribly useful, but I want to help. I would be very frustrated in your position. Congrats on how you handle it.
PS, hey all, I hadda check back into city’s most expensive hotel again, had made it out almost 10 days I think . Nurses have me pointed uphill again already, and I’m very grateful to them. Can’t afford backward steps while in Cancer therapy, but chemo etc. is def a high price to pay, and you will spending the entire time feeling as though you’ve just been Wham Bam Van Damned right in the nut-sack. I can’t feel my feet, I can’t see properly, constant nausea, nerve pain everywhere, The recall function in my brain is on strike.
Please do all you can to avoid cancer, and there is much you can do. You need to catch it before it spreads. You must. So go call your doctor to begin a convo about how to approach this broad and scary topic. Figure out your family traits and cancer victims, knowing your culture/ethnicity is good too. Go check out which cancers are most common for you where you live, and tell your doc you want to start screening for cancers and “how can you get started?”
This is life and death stuff peeps, there are very, very few plausible reasons not to do this but I commiserate with those whose financial scenario may make this an impossibility, or at least much more difficult. I think you can find the help you need if you look hard and commit. You have responsibility to loved ones to look after yourself too. Ok, speech over. I just don’t want you guys having what I got. It is not pleasant and while the perspective is unique and beautiful, it can be rather a lonely perch. Go, embrace life you dope smoking, clued-in growers! Celebrate responsibly, but do it every goddamned day.
Here’s a pic of my almost ready to harvest Barbara Bud x Kryptonite, in week 6 since flip, it was grown in custom worm castings as the sole form of fertility. No fertilizers, just equal parts of my specially fed worms’s manure, peat moss, and perlite. I’ll profile soon and explain better, including what I feed my worms and why.
This plant was assumed to be getting destroyed early in flower when my cancer diagnosis hit. I had decided to shut everything down until I felt better, basically springtime.
But, then suddenly I changed my mind. I was inspired by
@Jon and his condition as a parapalegic, a man growing gorgeous flower indoors who cannot use his legs and must move about in a wheelchair. You see, courage is contagious, that’s it’s best trait.
I thought SIPs really offered an ideal self watering scenario and dropping labour by over 50% compared to the simplest hydro system that could hope to copy the biomass provided (way, way less than half the work of DWC hydro but ‘same’ results.). Even traditional dirt pots cannot beat SIPs for simplicity of use and SIPs will outgrow every other passive container system ever made, and a bunch of non-passive ones.
I actually only ammended this pot once during grow and I over did it because I had been in hospital leading up to amending and knew I’d be going back there, and my plants looked starved when I got home from first hosp stint, and so I packed a couple inches of solid worm poo on top and watered in. Turns out my special castings are just ripping with nitrogen because every leaf still alive turned dark green immediately. Was really surprised by that. Def going to send out some lab samples when I can afford it to find out just how special my special castings really are.