SoilGirl's Soil Multi-Strain Grow Journal 2014

[toker69]

All I can say is I've heard that also, but have never seen it.

So it may be a myth, or it may be true. lol.

But if I got a fem seed that was male I'd first suspect pollen contamination.

We get a impression of cannabis breeders wearing lab coats using germ warfare type contamination standards.

But the reality of someone running multiple breeding projects under the same roof

means the possibility of a unwanted cross pollination is high.

Giving you buds with seeds from two daddies.

Most seeds feminized, and a few seeds not, because the pollen came from elsewhere.

 

[Big Budha]

Soil Girl you got skills! just caught up on your journal and your plants look great. A little input on germination I find that storing seeds in a cool place and then soaking in 78 degree water for 24 hrs. before putting them in paper towels on a heating pad that is at 75 to 80 degrees works best for me out of 30 seeds I've only lost two (for what it worth) Keep it green

 

[SoilGirl]

OK, time for an update today
My UKH#1 is starting to look fully recovered from my slightly overly-vigorous defoliating. I think it kinda slowed her growth down for a while. But today I finally got a decent pistil pic from one of her lower branches. The upper ones, while they have more pistils, are harder to get a pic of because of the tiny leaf blades that cover them. Also, I've noticed a lot of the tips of the early pistils on UKH#1 are already red, I've seen this before but does anyone know why this happens? Below is the pistil pic and a few different angles to see UKH#1 from.

Here's a pic that shows UKH#1 and my little Euphoria and Black Bubba sprouts. They will transplanted into their first real pots today, then transplanted again into larger pots in the future (I don't have enough plant pots right now. My dad used them all for flowers.... >.< I'll have to run to home depot or walmart soon.)

And here's a couple pics of UKH#2 with the little UKH#1 and #2 clones.

So yesterday, I watered all the above plants with my newly arrived GO box nutes (thanks for the info KJC!) for the first time, and they sure look like they love it. for UKH#1 and #2 I completely stopped the FF Tiger Bloom and Jack's Classic nutes, I'm going to raise my oldest UKH#1 and #2 completely organic from this point on. I will raise another 2 UKH#1 and #2 without all organic (though there will be some organic nutes going in, just also will use some FF Tiger Bloom and Jack's classic) and compare the end results. So far, my experiment with the local soil is going very well. Every plant of mine besides little euphoria and BBK are taking well to their mixes. Today I also received some canadian sphagnum peat moss and horticultural grade perlite that I ordered to further customize my mix.

Big UKH#1 is in mostly SS#4 organic. It is probably 4/5ths SS#4. The last fifth is 50-50 the local soil mixed with home made compost. It has the least local soil and compost of my 4 plants that are in a mixed soil at this point. (BBK and EUP are only in SS#4 right now until I transplant them later, will update later as to what mix they are in.)

Big UKH#2 is in about 3/4ths SS#4 organic, with the last quarter being an equal mix of our compost and local soil.

The two clones, little UKH#1 and little UKH#2, are both in a mix that is ~3/5ths SS#4 organic, 2/5ths equal parts of compost and local soil. The heaviest local soil and compost mix yet, and they look happy.

Our compost is just made from produce scraps from our kitchen, anything that grew on a plant, we compost. Also our grass cuttings go in our compost, with a bit of wet local soil to get the process going. Our local soil is a pretty red color, that when dry feels like sand, but when wet is absolutely the consistency of clay. I'm sure it's full of nutrition, but drainage would be a problem if I put too much of the local soil in my mix, that's why I ordered extra perlite and peat moss.

That's all for now! Will update again later! Thanks for following!!!

Edit: The nutes I used for watering my big UKH#1 and #2 were: 1 gallon for each with: 1 tsp BioRoot, 1/2 tsp BioBud, 1 Tbsp Diamond Black, 2 tsp BioMarine, 2 tsp BioThrive Bloom, 1 tsp CaMg+.
For the other four: 1 gallon split between all 4 of: 1 tsp BioRoot, 2 tsp BioThrive Grow, 1 tsp CaMg+, 1/2 tsp BioWeed.
Also, my UKH#2 clones are looking happy and green, no roots yet though, but I may give up on that old dying UKH#1 clone today.

 

[daTenshi]

Looking awesome!! Purple nails ftw!!

 

[SoilGirl]

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Thanks Toker!!

Soil Girl you got skills! just caught up on your journal and your plants look great. A little input on germination I find that storing seeds in a cool place and then soaking in 78 degree water for 24 hrs. before putting them in paper towels on a heating pad that is at 75 to 80 degrees works best for me out of 30 seeds I've only lost two (for what it worth) Keep it green

Big Budha! Will definitely remember that! It seems that germinating is my weakest part of growing lol.

 

[Lester Freeman]

OK, time for an update today
My UKH#1 is starting to look fully recovered from my slightly overly-vigorous defoliating. I think it kinda slowed her growth down for a while. But today I finally got a decent pistil pic from one of her lower branches. The upper ones, while they have more pistils, are harder to get a pic of because of the tiny leaf blades that cover them. Also, I've noticed a lot of the tips of the early pistils on UKH#1 are already red, I've seen this before but does anyone know why this happens? Below is the pistil pic and a few different angles to see UKH#1 from.

Here's a pic that shows UKH#1 and my little Euphoria and Black Bubba sprouts. They will transplanted into their first real pots today, then transplanted again into larger pots in the future (I don't have enough plant pots right now. My dad used them all for flowers.... >.< I'll have to run to home depot or walmart soon.)

And here's a couple pics of UKH#2 with the little UKH#1 and #2 clones.

So yesterday, I watered all the above plants with my newly arrived GO box nutes (thanks for the info KJC!) for the first time, and they sure look like they love it. for UKH#1 and #2 I completely stopped the FF Tiger Bloom and Jack's Classic nutes, I'm going to raise my oldest UKH#1 and #2 completely organic from this point on. I will raise another 2 UKH#1 and #2 without all organic (though there will be some organic nutes going in, just also will use some FF Tiger Bloom and Jack's classic) and compare the end results. So far, my experiment with the local soil is going very well. Every plant of mine besides little euphoria and BBK are taking well to their mixes. Today I also received some canadian sphagnum peat moss and horticultural grade perlite that I ordered to further customize my mix.

Big UKH#1 is in mostly SS#4 organic. It is probably 4/5ths SS#4. The last fifth is 50-50 the local soil mixed with home made compost. It has the least local soil and compost of my 4 plants that are in a mixed soil at this point. (BBK and EUP are only in SS#4 right now until I transplant them later, will update later as to what mix they are in.)

Big UKH#2 is in about 3/4ths SS#4 organic, with the last quarter being an equal mix of our compost and local soil.

The two clones, little UKH#1 and little UKH#2, are both in a mix that is ~3/5ths SS#4 organic, 2/5ths equal parts of compost and local soil. The heaviest local soil and compost mix yet, and they look happy.

Our compost is just made from produce scraps from our kitchen, anything that grew on a plant, we compost. Also our grass cuttings go in our compost, with a bit of wet local soil to get the process going. Our local soil is a pretty red color, that when dry feels like sand, but when wet is absolutely the consistency of clay. I'm sure it's full of nutrition, but drainage would be a problem if I put too much of the local soil in my mix, that's why I ordered extra perlite and peat moss.

That's all for now! Will update again later! Thanks for following!!!

Edit: The nutes I used for watering my big UKH#1 and #2 were: 1 gallon for each with: 1 tsp BioRoot, 1/2 tsp BioBud, 1 Tbsp Diamond Black, 2 tsp BioMarine, 2 tsp BioThrive Bloom, 1 tsp CaMg+.
For the other four: 1 gallon split between all 4 of: 1 tsp BioRoot, 2 tsp BioThrive Grow, 1 tsp CaMg+, 1/2 tsp BioWeed.
Also, my UKH#2 clones are looking happy and green, no roots yet though, but I may give up on that old dying UKH#1 clone today.

Looking fantastic!

 

[SoilGirl]

Thanks so much guys! Ok just did the transplants. Moved BBK and EUP into bigger pots, oh idk, let's say about a gallon. I'm happy with the mix I used, about half SS#4 organic and half a 50-50 mix of home-made compost + local soil. I added ~a cup of fresh canadian sphagnum peat moss and ~a cup of horticultural grade coarse perlite to each. Watered in with 1 gal rainwater (I only water with rainwater unless we run out, but we haven't for a while, still have at least 50 gallons caught) split between the two with 1 tsp BioMarine, 1.5 tsp Black Diamond, 2 tsp BioThrive Grow, 1 tsp BioRoot, 1/2 tsp BioWeed and 1 tsp CaMg+. BBK is front right, EUP front left. Welcome to your new homes for now!

 

[SoilGirl]

Oh, by the way topped/fimmed both potted clones tonight just before the sun went down, I'll have pics of that in my next update, and hopefully we'll be able to see how they do. I'm still trying to figure out the difference between topping and fimming lol.

Edit: figured it out, I fimmed. I thought that was what topping was lol....

 

[Gfcollective]

there realy is none. other then i can see someone arguing Fim could be the first topping and any topping from there on out is called topping, but ive gotten use to seing every grow term having 3-4 names itself.

i always do my cuttings when my ladys are just waking up. my mind set on this is that they have 16hrs to use energy to heal themselves instead of going to sleep being weak and vulnerable to whatever lurks at night

but i have heard controversial storys about roots still awake and taking in nutes during night hours, so if thats true then maybe at night is best to cut so your plant heals when the photosynthesis isnt in effect so your not wasting sunlight for future growth.

and this is why i love growing

I&i

 

[SoilGirl]

there realy is none. other then i can see someone arguing Fim could be the first topping and any topping from there on out is called topping, but ive gotten use to seing every grow term having 3-4 names itself.

i always do my cuttings when my ladys are just waking up. my mind set on this is that they have 16hrs to use energy to heal themselves instead of going to sleep being weak and vulnerable to whatever lurks at night

but i have heard controversial storys about roots still awake and taking in nutes during night hours, so if thats true then maybe at night is best to cut so your plant heals when the photosynthesis isnt in effect so your not wasting sunlight for future growth.

and this is why i love growing

I&i

Oh well, what I do when I "fim" is instead of cutting off the whole top down to the node, I cut off about 3/4ths of it. Its hard to explain but here's a link to a thread about it: FIMming vs Topping
I thought it was interesting, because apparently I never "topped" by those standards, and I always called it topping.

 

[Gfcollective]

this was like a cross between the two then.. you can see in a close up of this plant where i clipped just below the top growth and it just kind of pushed the branch off to the side like i super cropped it (with a knot) but with no knot, just grew off to the side. adding 4 main branches that are about equal with each other. its in my shop now right behind me, just last 30 min i dont have time to close up take a pic and upload it.

thanks for that thread, i will read it more monday. being bookmarked now.

I&i

Edit : Scanned a lil further down the thread, and seems i took to much of the top off when i thought i fim that pgsc. that pic is a month or so old and the 4 branches i speak of are those 4 you see about a half inch long in that pic.

 

[CO Finest]

Fim is cutting 3/4 of new growth and if done right you can get 2-4 nodes. Topping is cutting all the new growth at its steam and you will get 2 nodes. Fiming done wrong you will stump growth for a week.

 

[SoilGirl]

Fim is cutting 3/4 of new growth and if done right you can get 2-4 nodes. Topping is cutting all the new growth at its steam and you will get 2 nodes. Fiming done wrong you will stump growth for a week.

Yep! Sounds like exactly what I do, sometimes I get three tops like with UKH#2 below:

sometimes I get 4 like with UKH#1 here:

^ I also fimmed each of those 4 main branches once, and got 4 more tops out of 3 of them, and only 2 from one that I F*cking missed Lol. slowed that branch down for a couple weeks but it's lower shoots grew a lot more vigorously than the other main branches' ones which almost made up for that. So on the 4 main branches I have there, I ended up with 14 main tops for future colas, along with a handful of lower shoots that also did good! I'm excited for my future buds already, ugh... patience... not my strong suit.
Thanks for chiming in CO's Finest!

Edit: No problem GFC! I'm glad I could help!

 

[KingJohnC]

I am also able to grow multiple tops when Topping my plants. You may see my AK48 #3's and Hindu Kush #3 in my KingJohnC's Lush Lighting LED Dominator 2x Soil Indoor Grow Journal and Review.

KingJohnC's Lush Lighting LED Dominator 2x Soil Indoor Grow Journal & Review

 

[COorganics]

I like to shoot the top of the plant off with birdshot. Gives explosive growth and many tops a couple weeks later.


JK, I'm stoned and I found that funny enuf in my head to post it here.

 

[SoilGirl]

I am also able to grow multiple tops when Topping my plants. You may see my AK48 #3's and Hindu Kush #3 in my KingJohnC's Lush Lighting LED Dominator 2x Soil Indoor Grow Journal and Review.

KingJohnC's Lush Lighting LED Dominator 2x Soil Indoor Grow Journal & Review

God KJC, some of those colas look longer than my arm! Was just looking at Hindu and AK48, the pics at the bottom of page 66 of your journal. Looks like you definitely got 4 tops from each fim!

I like to shoot the top of the plant off with birdshot. Gives explosive growth and many tops a couple weeks later.


JK, I'm stoned and I found that funny enuf in my head to post it here.

LOL, I'll take your word on it COorganics bird shot here is for the pigeons that poop all over our patio!

 

[SoilGirl]

Ok I wasn't going to update until tomorrow, but I'm noticing what I think is an early calcium/phos (I think.. ) deficiency/possible nute burn on UKH#1 on some of the lower leaves of each shoot. I'm hoping to fix this fast so any help/advice is greatly appreciated. It kinda came out of nowhere, didn't notice this yesterday and I do an inspection of the leaves everyday, will update on the progress tomorrow. I'm considering flushing it tomorrow since I did just switch to the General Organics line of nutes. any opinions? pics below.

So far what I'm seeing most are lines between veins, but on some of the larger leaves I'm seeing some real dark brown spots on every tip of the leaves' serrations. Thanks in advance for any advice!

 

[KingJohnC]

Your leaf damage appears to be both nutrient burn and a phosphorous deficiency.

You want pH 5.8 for hydroponic and soiless (peat moss and coco coir) and pH 6.5 for soil.

Here is a nutrient availability chart

Here is a cannabis leaf deficiency chart

here is the Cannabis Plant and Pest Problem Solver and the Plant Abuse Chart

Cannabis Plant and Pest Problem Solver: Pictorial

Plant Abuse Chart

 

[Radogast]

Light Addict's Fluxing Central - Featuring The Original Flux Journal


Hi SoilGirl ! !

Subbed and caught up

I can't grow outdoors for legal reasons, so I'll just hang out here and grow vicariously.
With you doing all the work and having the skills, my vicarious grow should be magnificent

Looking at how you defoliated and are training that big girl, I passed on a Light Addict thread at the top.
He loves to talk about how to get 20+ main colas, massage and defoliate.
No need to read all 260 pages (I've only read about 150 of them)

 

[SoilGirl]

Your leaf damage appears to be both nutrient burn and a phosphorous deficiency.

You want pH 5.8 for hydroponic and soiless (peat moss and coco coir) and pH 6.5 for soil.

Here is a nutrient availability chart

Here is a cannabis leaf deficiency chart

here is the Cannabis Plant and Pest Problem Solver and the Plant Abuse Chart

Cannabis Plant and Pest Problem Solver: Pictorial

Plant Abuse Chart

Thank you very much! You're the King! I will halve the feeding dose for now and update from there.

Light Addict's Fluxing Central - Featuring The Original Flux Journal


Hi SoilGirl ! !

Subbed and caught up

I can't grow outdoors for legal reasons, so I'll just hang out here and grow vicariously.
With you doing all the work and having the skills, my vicarious grow should be magnificent

Looking at how you defoliated and are training that big girl, I passed on a Light Addict thread at the top.
He loves to talk about how to get 20+ main colas, massage and defoliate.
No need to read all 260 pages (I've only read about 150 of them)

Hey Radogast! I'm so glad to have you here every time I see your profile pic I smile from ear to ear.
I've actually recently been going over LA's Tutankharmon grow! He really knows how to get the most of his plants, I'll definitely follow his newer threads too.
And hahaha, I sure hope your vicarious grow goes well!!