SoilGirl's Soil Multi-Strain Grow Journal 2014

[SoilGirl]

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I'll have what their having!

I don't even know. Lol.


But hey everyone, one of my euphoria clones already popped 3 roots! :O by far the fastest clone I've done, that was only ~8 days!! No heat pad, nothing fancy... just dip n' grow, rockwool cube, dome and CFL. I think this ones a bit of a freak of nature though, the other 2 clones in there, one a pretty much identical euphoria cutting to this one, the other a BBK reveg, I can't even pick up by the stem yet without them sliding out of the cubes.... ehh :\

But isn't that cool? I'll get a couple pics in just a sec, it even did its own little reveg; its showing pistils that I didn't see before, and for 8 days its been under 24 hr light. Cannabis is an amazing species of plant. BRB getting those pics.

 

[COorganics]

Big flower space. Cool!
Room to grow is a good thing.
Ill be hunched over in the attic working, and dreaming about a space like yours.

 

[SoilGirl]

Big flower space. Cool!
Room to grow is a good thing.
Ill be hunched over in the attic working, and dreaming about a space like yours.

Thanks COorgs! Yeah I used to grow indoors in a little walk in closet... this is so much space for me haha. Also I saw your aerocloner and was way jealous, but if I can get roots in 8 days, not to mention roots at all... I'm set! Check it out, only 8 days, and in my ghetto cloner I think I've officially left those days of DCS in my past hahaha.

OOH, 4 roots, not 3! + REVEG. Lol I'm so proud of myself I have to do a little dance.

Plus I should mention.... things are starting to happen outdoors my plants are developing trichs and terpenes finally... Big Mama smells REALLY earthy/hashy... reminds me of this hashplant full melt I had a few grams of a year or 2 back... BBK smells like BUBBA. like punch you in the face diesel fuel with some lovely bubblegum in there... Euphoria smells so good I wish everyone could smell her, she has this amazing citrusy smell somewhere between grapefruits and oranges, and oddly enough, a nice hint of ground black pepper underlying the citrus... its really cool.

Strange, Juicy Lucy, who used to be so stinky, is now only giving off a really light version of the aroma I remember from Bubba Cheese. All outdoors are finally showing their earliest trichomes. really can't wait for harvest. Those 2 young Lucy clones that I left out there, are really impressing me.... Even though they flowered really early, they're doing their best to get a little branching going on when I only expected bud-on-a-sticks from them. If they turn out with decent sized buds on them, I'll be really impressed and may have to do more of these straight-into-flower outdoor photo grows... Like they literally had no veg periods, unless you count while they were rooting.

Tomorrow I'll be doing a full outdoor plant update and flushing Big Mama, PeeJay style, to see if I can get her to perk back up. She's looked a bit depressed lately oh well.

 

[COorganics]

Roots in 8 days is great. I could get them in four if I wasn't so stubborn. That's what my friends are saying. Mine are producing roots pretty quick. I won't have PH down living under the same roof as me. Ha haa. Another guy swears by tiger bloom, lol. Cloning is funny like that, must actually be really easy since so many different methods work.

 

[guerillahaze]

Didn't try Big Mama but can imagine how great it is.My Auto Mazar also have strong earth afghan hashy smell i love it.
Thanks for reps and sey hello to Loki

 

[brightlight]

Hi SG. That's a great looking grow room that shows ingenuity & use of space....now ready for your creativity & skills.

 

[SoilGirl]

Roots in 8 days is great. I could get them in four if I wasn't so stubborn. That's what my friends are saying. Mine are producing roots pretty quick. I won't have PH down living under the same roof as me. Ha haa. Another guy swears by tiger bloom, lol. Cloning is funny like that, must actually be really easy since so many different methods work.

Hahaha, I think its awesome that you went from a miracle gro grower to the organics guru you now are! Its so cool that you can get roots in a week with just water in your aerocloner... amazing, actually.

Didn't try Big Mama but can imagine how great it is.My Auto Mazar also have strong earth afghan hashy smell i love it.
Thanks for reps and sey hello to Loki

Hahaha big mama is just my name for her, that's not a strain name my croatian friend she's an unknown beauty when it comes down to it, but a beauty nonetheless! I saw that auto mazar, a well scrogged organic high yield auto! You, are a genius dude..

Hi SG. That's a great looking grow room that shows ingenuity & use of space....now ready for your creativity & skills.

Aww thanks bright light you're making me virtually blush!
I got my yum yum mix, azomax, peruvian seabird guano, jamaican bat guano, and fresh EWC altogether today.... I'd like a high N organic additive but out of money, do you know any home recipes for something like that? should some compost be high N enough to not worry about that? sorry just wondering, and I know you're well versed in organics so I thought I'd ask. This goes to COorgs or anyone else that's stickin around and feels like chiming in, I'd really appreciate it!

 

[brightlight]

Hahaha SG. Given my age I'm seldom in a situation to make ANY woman blush. Someone, I think maybe Trichomes was recently talking about homemade fish fertilizer on maybe BAR or Mr. Teddy's journals very recently. Hope they'll see this & chime in. There is a fish fert. in powdered form that's always ~15% N. Used a couple of samples in past & they provide high N fast. I use fish fert. but liquids in 2-4-0 range. More forgiving in case of error.

The organic dry meals aren't too expensive, $5-7. High N would be bloodmeal, but I don't use it. Not a vegan but find the other N meals like feather, alfalfa, & cottonseed a better choice for me. Sometimes, not always, regular garden nurseries are less than hydro store prices.

 

[guerillahaze]

Big Mama sounds like some high yield indica strain,thanks for info.Scroged AMazar is already smoked now i'm growing it again without scrog or lst.Check my other journal and you will see difference between them.Thank you big mama

 

[SoilGirl]

Hahaha SG. Given my age I'm seldom in a situation to make ANY woman blush. Someone, I think maybe Trichomes was recently talking about homemade fish fertilizer on maybe BAR or Mr. Teddy's journals very recently. Hope they'll see this & chime in. There is a fish fert. in powdered form that's always ~15% N. Used a couple of samples in past & they provide high N fast. I use fish fert. but liquids in 2-4-0 range. More forgiving in case of error.

The organic dry meals aren't too expensive, $5-7. High N would be bloodmeal, but I don't use it. Not a vegan but find the other N meals like feather, alfalfa, & cottonseed a better choice for me. Sometimes, not always, regular garden nurseries are less than hydro store prices.

Aww, you old guys here are too sweet. Thank you for your response! You actually helped me more than you know, we're raising over 20 chickens here. Mostly for eggs, but sometimes we have one of them for dinner... which makes me sad they kinda feel like pets....
but that means we have an abundance of feathers. If feathers are High N, then I'm set: just looked up how to make feather meal. Here's what I found on wiki:

"Feather meal is a byproduct of processing poultry; it is made from poultry feathers by partially hydrolyzing them under elevated heat and pressure, and then grinding and drying. Although total nitrogen levels are fairly high (up to 12%), the bioavailability of this nitrogen may be low. Feather meal is used in formulated animal feed and in organic fertilizer.
Worldwide, more than 25 billion chickens are used for human consumption. Feather meal is made through a process called rendering. Steam pressure cookers with temperatures over 140°C are used to "cook" and sterilize the feathers. This partially hydrolyzes the proteins, which denatures them. It is then dried, cooled and ground into a powder for use as a nitrogen source for animal feed (mostly ruminants) or as an organic soil amendment.
Containing up to 12% nitrogen, it is a source of slow-release, organic, high-nitrogen fertilizer for organic gardens. It is not water soluble and does not make a good liquid fertilizer. It can be used to:
Increase green leaf growth
Activate compost decomposition
Improve soil structure
When adding it to a garden as a nitrogen source, it must be blended into the soil to start the decomposition to make the nitrogenous compounds available to the plants. As an organic garden fertilizer, it is not synthetic or petroleum-based."

I'll just make some homemade feather meal soon here, and throw it in the composter =)

 

[daTenshi]

I love that feather meal idea ! For some reason I always seen my grandpa who grew 100% organic anything, throw away the bi product from animals. Never seen him use bone, blood or feathers, wonder if it was based on anything because there were spots where everybody would throw it, away from any other people or animals.

 

[SoilGirl]

I love that feather meal idea ! For some reason I always seen my grandpa who grew 100% organic anything, throw away the bi product from animals. Never seen him use bone, blood or feathers, wonder if it was based on anything because there were spots where everybody would throw it, away from any other people or animals.

must be a superstition thing lol. The area of CO I'm in has a lot of native american influence, there's several reserves and historical sites nearby including Mesa Verde, only ~20 mins away. I remember visiting before when I was only like, 10 years old. Reading all the little historical site markers with all the wildlife and historical facts on them, taking guided tours and learning all about them, going in their buildings and ceremonial pits (this was just before they stopped letting you down in those! ) etc. They were farmers too and they were famous for their waste-not-want-not lifestyles... you know, using every single piece of any animal you kill, genius uses for byproducts of farming or hunting or building, etc.
The Pueblo people were actually not nomadic.. unlike many other amerindian peoples. They actually had permanent farming and hunting settlements, Mesa Verde being one of the most impressive, and well preserved. Back to what we were talking about (this Did have some relevance ) I bet I'm only keeping up the tradition of putting to good use every part of everything you take from this earth, for me just regarding chickens and cannabis

 

[Radogast]

I love that feather meal idea ! For some reason I always seen my grandpa who grew 100% organic anything, throw away the bi product from animals. Never seen him use bone, blood or feathers, wonder if it was based on anything because there were spots where everybody would throw it, away from any other people or animals.

Before the days of antibiotics, there used to be parasites traveling between animals and fish and farmers.
In those days, it could be a healthy choice to break the parasite cycle. These choices can become farm tradition.

 

[SoilGirl]

Before the days of antibiotics, there used to be parasites traveling between animals and fish and farmers.
In those days, it could be a healthy choice to break the parasite cycle. These choices can become farm tradition.

So definitely Not a superstition thing, Lol. Great share! Makes perfect sense.

 

[PeeJay]

I got my yum yum mix, azomax, peruvian seabird guano, jamaican bat guano, and fresh EWC altogether today.... I'd like a high N organic additive but out of money, do you know any home recipes for something like that? should some compost be high N enough to not worry about that? sorry just wondering, and I know you're well versed in organics so I thought I'd ask. This goes to COorgs or anyone else that's stickin around and feels like chiming in, I'd really appreciate it!

SGirl,

Don't sweat a high N supplement. The Yum is high N at 2-1-1. In comparison General Organics bottled processed BioThrive veg (organic canned soup) is 4-3-3. Those numbers only refer to the percentage of each nutrient N P K by volume or weight in the product. Yum IS high in nitrogen when you consider that you add more volume of it to the soil. It is higher in relation to the P and K than many other products.

The castings are typically around 1-0-0. We are not as concerned with high numbers as we are ratios of the numbers. We add more things like Yum and castings to a vegetative soil because they have the ratios we want. Because we use them in higher quantities the numbers don't mean much. Things like Yum and castings also increase the CEC of the soil and improve overall soil tilth, something that bottled processed foods do not.

Both too many ingredients and too many cooks can spoil the broth.

 

[daTenshi]

Before the days of antibiotics, there used to be parasites traveling between animals and fish and farmers.
In those days, it could be a healthy choice to break the parasite cycle. These choices can become farm tradition.

Great info Makes sense!!

 

[Teddy Edwards]

Morning SoilGirl. It's wonderful the things that will compost. On a BBC gardening podcast the other week they were composting old duvets - feather ones of course with natural cotton covers. And don't forget coffee grounds. If there's a coffee shop nearby they could give you all their daily 'waste'. And yes, PeeJay posted a link in my journal on how to make fish fertiliser. (There's plenty of info online too and it's very simple. I'm still trying to get molasses over here however. But I imagine it's not so difficult in the US )

PeeJay is absolutely the expert in this area. I see that he's done his usual generous thing and posted here for you.

Have a tip top Thursday.

 

[SoilGirl]

SGirl,

Don't sweat a high N supplement. The Yum is high N at 2-1-1. In comparison General Organics bottled processed BioThrive veg (organic canned soup) is 4-3-3. Those numbers only refer to the percentage of each nutrient N P K by volume or weight in the product. Yum IS high in nitrogen when you consider that you add more volume of it to the soil. It is higher in relation to the P and K than many other products.

The castings are typically around 1-0-0. We are not as concerned with high numbers as we are ratios of the numbers. We add more things like Yum and castings to a vegetative soil because they have the ratios we want. Because we use them in higher quantities the numbers don't mean much. Things like Yum and castings also increase the CEC of the soil and improve overall soil tilth, something that bottled processed foods do not.

Both too many ingredients and too many cooks can spoil the broth.

Oh wow aren't I lucky? Not only do I get an answer from the Soil King himself, but I don't need to worry about any N nutes. Coolio, although I was a bit excited to do the feather meal. If its not necessary its not necessary, but perhaps I'll still make a small batch of feather meal and throw it in the composter... just for posterity's sake haha.
Is there any other basic additives you might recommend PeeJay? Or do you think some home made compost, a little (really...probably not enough) EWC, yum yum mix, azomite, jamaican bat guano, and peruvian seabird guano should cut it?

Thanks so much for gracing me with your presence here PeeJay! It is beyond valued.

 

[SoilGirl]

Great info Makes sense!!

Morning SoilGirl. It's wonderful the things that will compost. On a BBC gardening podcast the other week they were composting old duvets - feather ones of course with natural cotton covers. And don't forget coffee grounds. If there's a coffee shop nearby they could give you all their daily 'waste'. And yes, PeeJay posted a link in my journal on how to make fish fertiliser. (There's plenty of info online too and it's very simple. I'm still trying to get molasses over here however. But I imagine it's not so difficult in the US )

PeeJay is absolutely the expert in this area. I see that he's done his usual generous thing and posted here for you.

Have a tip top Thursday.

They were composting old duvets? Wow. That is cool. Yeah my Dad's policy towards composting is pretty much: If in doubt, compost it. >.< Unfortunately I keep finding plastic scraps when I go through our compost. I keep telling him, "DAD, Plastic Is Not BioDegradable!" That's why we recycle it and don't compost it!! I'm going to have to start locking the bin
As of right now, it's still Wednesday here hehe But I'm sure it will be tip top and I hope yours is going great as well. Yes, PeeJay is extremely generous with his time and wisdom, he is invaluable to 420 mag.

Thanks for coming by, I recall that post but I'm going to need to go back over it
I hope your british tomatoes are happy as can be soaking up that greek sun I am exhausted and its past bed time though, so good night Teddy!!! (Wow saying "goodnight, teddy" brings me back to being 3 years old hahaha!)

 

[SoilGirl]

Hi guys, today I did a little top dressing for all 8 outdoor plants. Just eyeballed it, some EWC, Yum Yum, azomite, and 0-10-0 bat guano. A few I watered in with rainwater, but the others aren't ready for water yet. Big Mama is going to wait for her flush til tomorrow, I'm going to do a PeeJay flush on her (15 mins soaking 3/4ths the way up the pot in clean water) once the tap water has had another day to dechlorinate. My tap isn't good. 8.0 pH consistently and hard, I don't have a PPM meter, but much harder than Denver water. I'm wondering if I should adjust pH for the flush, but I'm doubting it, largely because Big Mama is in the soil with the most peat moss and least additives I'm assuming that the pH near the roots will stay low despite the high pH tap. But I'm worried because she has the least organic matter to buffer the pH, so if I mess up by not pHing the flush water it could potentially get worse... Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!