Blueberry soil grow

[TalkingMonkey]

Greetings and welcome to my first real attempt at a medical mj grow. I tried a
practice run with bagseed to get a little experience. Also to get all the noob mistakes out of the way. I overwatered, overfed, harvested at the end of lights ON, didn't flush and let temps get to 90+ but all 4 bag seed plants went all the way through flowering. I gave all the buds away cuz even I wouldn't smoke that shite. even though it was green and seedless.


Here is a little info about my grow. Starting seeds in the moist paper towel in a ziploc method. Then seedlings under T-5 flouros 24/7 in plastic beer cups. When they get rootbound they go into 2 gal and a couple of 3 gal plastic pots under a 400 watt hps @ 12/12. Pics are coming soon (once I figure out how many posts I need to do so.)

 

[TalkingMonkey]

I am trying to stay as close to organic as i can. I will be using Black Gold soil with some added perlite, Bone meal, blood meal,
Pure Blend Pro fer soil, Fox Farm big bloom, and if i need them i have cal-mag plus, superthrive, and hygrozyme. OH yea i also have some blackstrap mollasses for the final 10 days or so. If I make it that far.

 

[TalkingMonkey]

OK I am gonna try to upload some pics now..

 

[TalkingMonkey]

More pics.....

 

[TalkingMonkey]

The seeds are Dutch Passion Blueberry 5pk (feminized) I germinated only 2 seeds to see if they would sprout as they were 2 yrs old
They started sprouting in the first 24 hrs while still soaking in water. I then put them between a moist paper towel in a Ziploc. So I then Germed the other 3.

 

[TalkingMonkey]

I put the first 2 sprouts in beer cups with straight Black Gold right outta the bag and the remaining 3 are now in the Ziploc fer anudder day or so

 

[TalkingMonkey]

When they get rootbound in these cups they will be repotted and go to 12/12 under a 400 watt hps in my soil mix....

2 bags of Black Gold which is 3 cu. ft. or 15 gal.
2 cups of Blood Meal
4 cups of Bone Meal
added perlite

I will be feeding with Pure Blend Pro for soil early to mid flowering then switch to Fox Farm Big Bloom mid to late. I may throw in a small dose of Superthrive in early flowering a la BOG. Did I mention I was using tap water? I considered adding sweet lime to the mix but the guy at the nursurey said it wasn't necessary.....he also didn't know I was growin cannabis.


Any educated recommendations on soil mix or feeding would be appreciated

 

[BC420h]

hi what kinda setup you runnin they probly wont get to big in those little cups before they get root bound

 

[TalkingMonkey]

Hi, I only let em get about 6" tall in the cups then i repot and flower em in a closet so I cant let em get very big. Thats why there is little to no veg time. Last time I did this method I wound up with 3ft plants. Thanks fer stoppin in.

 

[TalkingMonkey]

Here is a pic of the veg cab and the flowering area....




those plants in the closet were only 6" tall when they went into flower now the tallest is easily 3 ft. Maybe I will veg these blueberry a little longer since they are mostly indica (I think) ;}

 

[maryj315]

you gave away all your buds from your first harvest. how could you! keep posting ill be watching.

 

[TalkingMonkey]

Hey Maryj. Yeah those buds were crispy and tasted like GH Bloom. lol

 

[Hovz]

Can't wait to see that blueberry, i also use tapwater. Lookin good talkingmonkey

 

[TalkingMonkey]

Here is a small update. Not much growth though, maybe cuz we had a temp drop outside. Down ta like 47-50 deg. I also germed a few of my freebies I got from GNSB. They are Sam the Skunkmans Durban Poison x Skunk #1. Oh and I also added another flouro for a total of 4 2ft T-5 bulbs

 

[THC123]

I am growing a blueberry cutting and i am deeply dissapointed.

It has such small buds compared to the rest.

but i am sure that this has everything to do with the quality of the cutting itself , .

Maybe in the future i will try her from seed

 

[TalkingMonkey]

They are gettin bigger. Just gave em a little water.

 

[TalkingMonkey]

I just repotted the 2 largest plants. All 5 BB are growing at different rates and leaves are doin what BB is famous for, mutating. lol
After getting some valuable advise in the Organics forum I am now changing my mix to....

3 bags Black Gold 4.5 cu. ft.
4 cups blood meal (a little more than I wanted) my mistake
4.5 cups bone meal
2 cups kelp meal
2 cups Jersey greensand
4.5 cups powdered dolomite lime
1 small bag of Black Gold EWC

Feeding Liquid Karma and molasses with every other watering or maybe LK and Hygrozyme instead of molasses

I have PBP soil formula and Cal-Mag on standby

 

[Mr Celsius]

Looking very excellent.

I liked blueberry and I think its great for the first couple time grows. Down the road there are so many other strains with such exotic flavors and highs.... ahh I envy you for being able to do all that... alast I already did.

 

[TalkingMonkey]

dev I said I wanted to stay as CLOSE to organic as i can...and theres no flouride in the tap water up here. And everybody knows the PBP I was planning on using isn't 100% organic either.

edit-tap here is only 170 ppm and a ph of 7.4

 

[lapa]

looking good. i think thats organic if you say so its your grow.