Skybound's Journal

Looking solid here Sky! You wrote that you liked it when the leaves got shiny. I find them healthy when they are that way too. Any idea what we're doing that they do that?
 
stoneotter said:
Looking solid here Sky! You wrote that you liked it when the leaves got shiny. I find them healthy when they are that way too. Any idea what we're doing that they do that?
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Screening through the many wives tales or whimsical ideas, I suspect adding a lot of iron sulfate, or perhaps the zinc sulfate and/or copper sulfate too upped the sheen some? IDK enough about soil to pinpoint that other than to note that I didn't see the shine on leaves before I had the idea to add in the metallic sulfates. when I was chasing the high brix hydro fantasy, someone suggested that uppin my Fe to almost twice that current level would add 1 or 2 points to my brix, so I took that into account and add 30 grams of iron sulfate to my original amendment for roughly 45-50 gallons of soil.
 
I'm dialing in the Faux Brix Mix steadily. The drenches or spray I can tweak on the fly as needed, and the amendment obviously I have to use up about 50 gallons of soil and observe growth before determining if I want to tweak anything. That said, I want to draw attention to the 3 metallics italicized in the Amendment. I am only intending to add those once, then when re-amending used soil, I don't plan to add in more metallics. Having said that, my current revision uses 30 grams of Iron Sulfate. Well in my veg plants, I notice there's a bronziness color in the leaves sheen, so I dialed it back to 20 grams. I bet 20 grams won't challenge the toxic threshold the first time, yet be adequate enough to last 2-3 remixes. I clearly still have a lot to learn before this mix can be dialed in better but as is now, I'm seeing pretty good results.

As soon as I get this last hydro plant dropped in about a week, I will be able to dial in my room to such an extent where each position on the floor will represent any of 9 weeks of growth which will mean that I will shift all plants over a position with the passage of each week, so the 3rd square will always have a 3 week in bloom plant, and the 4th square the 4th week of bloom etc which will make tasks like pruning after 3 weeks or Cat drench at week 4 much easier to keep track of. I also printed some marker stakes to I can keep track of which drench was used on a given plant previously. Thus far, I haven't been giving too many water only drenches and have mostly been sticking to alternating between them unless I feel I can get away with using the Growth drench twice in a row, but I watch for P or K def expressions to know if I want to double up on the Growths. So far, I'm having fun.

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The Bill of Materials not including shipping, Peat Moss, Perlite or EWC.

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Love your musings about nutrients, and soil growing. Fun journal. Also love your updates in your grow room. Cheers
 
Bode said:
Love your musings about nutrients, and soil growing. Fun journal. Also love your updates in your grow room. Cheers
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Thanks Bode, I definitely like to learn and share and it seems this particular topic is fairly mysterious so it'll likely be many tweaks to come before I dial it in real good. I'm definitely happy where I'm at now with it. Right now, I have 3 bales of Peat in rotation and each bale represents about 50 gallon of soil, so that's roughly 150 gallons and my only recurring cost for about a year will be the worm castings to recook the soil. I'll have 90 gallons in bloom at all times, and maybe another 20 gallons in Veg so I could always have a bale cooked and ready to go while collecting 10 gallons a week from the previous harvest. Maybe I should split one more bale 3 ways to fluff it up a bit more?
 
I snapped this pic last night and was gonna delete it, but decided to post it anyways because it's nice and frosty. But the plant that it's on is SOOOOO small, I bet it yields about 1 ounce, lol. It's one of the plants I have elevated on totes to get it closer to the light that is 4' off the floor. I got 2 of these dinky plants and that huge hydro plant that'll come down roughly the same time or within days of each other, so looking forward to smooth sailing very soon. This is Herbies Gorilla Glue. The soil brought out her frost, and hopefully the later blends of soil (pictured above) brings out better yields.

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ilikemsticky said:
she might be small but she sure is purdy I have a feeling were going to be seeing a lot more of this! :goodjob:
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I tossed some frass into the first couple pots of soil at about mid bloom, and I've not been adding any to the next bunch of pots so maybe I'll find that it was a contributor to the sparkles.
 
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