Hello ladies! (and gentlemen)
Today I'm starting a new experiment I thought some of you might be interested in - Silica supplements evaluation.
There are 3 treatments:
1. Control
2. Gen200 control used at the recommended ratio of 0.2ml per L once per week
3. FPE (Fermented Plant Extract) of Stinging Nettles (Urtica dioica) picked from my yard, blended and let to ferment for 1 week before the beginning of this experiment, used at a ratio of 5ml per L by spraying once a week.
The test will be done on 3 fairly similar, heavily root-bound, Golden Diesel 68 (Chemdog x Sour Diesel F3, cut #68) cuts currently residing in small cups.
All are currently being prepared for a transplant to their final pots (3.5L) by drenching their soil in rain water with endomycorrhizae innoculum.
Meanwhile the medium for the plants is being prepared by mixing:
5L used soil (recycled for a year, recipe could be estimated by my other journals)
5L forest floor compost from Schwarzwald
2 cups of pelleted horse poop currently rehydrating in rain water
4 teaspoons (1 tablespoon?) of chalk for calcium
Plants will go in 3.5L square pots and as quickly as possible move to flower to keep short.
Parameters that will be evaluated are:
1. Water stress susceptibility
2. Waxy appearance of leaves
3. Insect susceptibility
4. Rate of growth
5. Yield
The main problems with this test plan are:
1. No repeats for the treatments
2. Using small pots with organic growing techniques meant for much bigger pots - this will be unbiased by flowering the plants as early as possible
3. Non-identical clones - this will be unbiased by topping the plants to match the smallest plant before flowering
So, this is day 1:
Today I'm starting a new experiment I thought some of you might be interested in - Silica supplements evaluation.
There are 3 treatments:
1. Control
2. Gen200 control used at the recommended ratio of 0.2ml per L once per week
3. FPE (Fermented Plant Extract) of Stinging Nettles (Urtica dioica) picked from my yard, blended and let to ferment for 1 week before the beginning of this experiment, used at a ratio of 5ml per L by spraying once a week.
The test will be done on 3 fairly similar, heavily root-bound, Golden Diesel 68 (Chemdog x Sour Diesel F3, cut #68) cuts currently residing in small cups.
All are currently being prepared for a transplant to their final pots (3.5L) by drenching their soil in rain water with endomycorrhizae innoculum.
Meanwhile the medium for the plants is being prepared by mixing:
5L used soil (recycled for a year, recipe could be estimated by my other journals)
5L forest floor compost from Schwarzwald
2 cups of pelleted horse poop currently rehydrating in rain water
4 teaspoons (1 tablespoon?) of chalk for calcium
Plants will go in 3.5L square pots and as quickly as possible move to flower to keep short.
Parameters that will be evaluated are:
1. Water stress susceptibility
2. Waxy appearance of leaves
3. Insect susceptibility
4. Rate of growth
5. Yield
The main problems with this test plan are:
1. No repeats for the treatments
2. Using small pots with organic growing techniques meant for much bigger pots - this will be unbiased by flowering the plants as early as possible
3. Non-identical clones - this will be unbiased by topping the plants to match the smallest plant before flowering
So, this is day 1:
