that's right everyone!
i'm comin outta the closet and into the light!
i love my little 400w cab above my closet, but i know nothing beats that glorious burning ball of flamey goodness in the sky.
so it all started on march 21 when i got ready to switch to flower in my cab, and i had an extra 4week vegged widow clone.
my friend had been mentioning he would be interested having a plant on his balcony, so i brought over the weakest one and put it into a 5gallon.
he's not much of a gardener, but we were roomies last year, and since i moved out he says he wants to start his own garden. actually i built him two really sweet raised beds a few weeks ago behind his house.
anyway i told him to just give it water. it was in a nice soil mix of gardener & bloome blue ribbon mix which i amended with neem seed meal, char and DE soaked in seaweed, and 20% of my homemade EWC.
it was ready to transplant to a 15 gal in a couple weeks most of the extra soil in this transplant was straight ffof
after some explosive growth, i started realizing it wasn't going to start flowering till august, and i should put it in as much soil as i could!
so i got a 45 gallon nursery pot, dumped 3 of my old 15 gal vegetable containers with old soil (they were like 3/4 full and had been sitting outside untended for almost a year). i amended them with eb stone tomato amendment and a cu/ft of really nice locally produced EWC, plus some neem seed meal.
i'm glad i rushed this transplant because it was already crazy heavy! i managed to get it out of the 15 gal, put some mycorrhizae and kelp meal on the exposed roots, and potted it in.
after transplant, i top dressed with a 1 - 2 " layer of EWC, and then collected decayed leaf debris from under his chemical free native landscaping shrubs, mixed it with some fresh green weeds i pulled from around his yard, and mulched the pot well with about 3" of it, leaving a small open space around the stem of the plant with a diameter of about 6".
i gave it an ACT application a few days later. i also gave my friend some lavender fpe with instructions to dilute 1:200 (and what i gave him was already diluted 1 to 1 with h2o) and foliar once in a while after i saw a bit of stippling on a couple leaves.
it grew
stay tuned for updates, plus my new batch of seedlings headed for a real rural late season OD run!
i'm comin outta the closet and into the light!
i love my little 400w cab above my closet, but i know nothing beats that glorious burning ball of flamey goodness in the sky.
so it all started on march 21 when i got ready to switch to flower in my cab, and i had an extra 4week vegged widow clone.
my friend had been mentioning he would be interested having a plant on his balcony, so i brought over the weakest one and put it into a 5gallon.
he's not much of a gardener, but we were roomies last year, and since i moved out he says he wants to start his own garden. actually i built him two really sweet raised beds a few weeks ago behind his house.
anyway i told him to just give it water. it was in a nice soil mix of gardener & bloome blue ribbon mix which i amended with neem seed meal, char and DE soaked in seaweed, and 20% of my homemade EWC.
it was ready to transplant to a 15 gal in a couple weeks
most of the extra soil in this transplant was straight ffofafter some explosive growth, i started realizing it wasn't going to start flowering till august, and i should put it in as much soil as i could!
so i got a 45 gallon nursery pot, dumped 3 of my old 15 gal vegetable containers with old soil (they were like 3/4 full and had been sitting outside untended for almost a year). i amended them with eb stone tomato amendment and a cu/ft of really nice locally produced EWC, plus some neem seed meal.
i'm glad i rushed this transplant because it was already crazy heavy! i managed to get it out of the 15 gal, put some mycorrhizae and kelp meal on the exposed roots, and potted it in.
after transplant, i top dressed with a 1 - 2 " layer of EWC, and then collected decayed leaf debris from under his chemical free native landscaping shrubs, mixed it with some fresh green weeds i pulled from around his yard, and mulched the pot well with about 3" of it, leaving a small open space around the stem of the plant with a diameter of about 6".
i gave it an ACT application a few days later. i also gave my friend some lavender fpe with instructions to dilute 1:200 (and what i gave him was already diluted 1 to 1 with h2o) and foliar once in a while after i saw a bit of stippling on a couple leaves.
it grew
stay tuned for updates, plus my new batch of seedlings headed for a real rural late season OD run!
