Hi Monk,I can't believe I've overlooked your Harvest thread.Very nice work and excellent selections.I hope you don't mind me peeping in from time to time.
hey man couple questions. you said you loved the soil mix you used, you mind telling us what it consists of? and I feel like I may have already asked you this but that KKSCxSWT#4 what size container are they in? It looks like a gallon milk jug but it almost seems bigger than a gallon of milk
Considering next round, I can wouch for Casey Jones most definitely! I don't really have much experience with the chem family (except for 2 CDxSD females) but one CJ pheno I found is pretty special. CJ is perhaps the most active-uplifting from the three if you're looking for some zing rather than a stone!
Sour - Hi there. 4 of the plants were in 4.5 litre square pots. The other 2 were in 4 litre juice bottles with the tops cut off. All pots had no drainage holes and I like this method. It's cleaner and I like the way watering forces the gases up and out each time.
My Soil Mix:
2 parts top qualty compost (mine had plenty of comfry and ewc)
2 parts Canna Pro Plus (basically peat, coir and bark...no nutes)
1 Part EWC
1 Part Perlite
I then added the following...all measurements per litre of soil mix:
2 tsp Dolomite Lime
1 tsp Neem Seed Powder (3.5-1-1)
1 tsp Maxicrop Seaweed Meal (1-0-2)
1 tsp Maxicrop Cal-Sea-Feed (1-0-2)
2 tsp Blood, Fish and Bone (5-5-6)
1 tsp Bonemeal (3.5-5.5-0.5)
0.5 tsp Guano (2-15-1)
I then mixed it all together and added some rain water and left it for 3 weeks to 'cook' in the shed! Don't think 'cooking' is necessary by the way.
The plants were vegged until sexed in just the soil mix with a little bonemeal and seaweed thrown in.
I only gave them rainwater which is slightly acidic (about 5.5ph) and over time this will erode the lime and release the cal/mag in it. I imagine when I run any chems that some epsom salts may be needed.
It was so easy to grow this way...virtually grew themselves...just had to pinch/bend/sweet talk them!
Dysomia - Many thanks for the tips. Casey I think will be popped...along with the '91. Tempted to try the Dinafem Critical+ freebies I have.
So...for all you rabid CFLers dying for an update from me (LOL) I can report that 11 out of 12 seeds are on their 2nd to 3rd sets of leaves...looking super happy. I'm hoping that in 14 days time I should know how many females I have.
Only one seed didn't make it (C4D) but all the others did...non paper towel method works for me!
So far I have 4 females...all s1's: Chem 91 and Critical+...
One of the 91's and one of the ECSD x SFV Chem's are super vigorous...sucking it up like a champ.
Will get photos up when things get more interesting...
great thread monk read through the whole thing.. love those buds, ncie and fat.. ive recently been wondering about making my own soi mix, yours seems really balanced
huligun - Hey there! A11 is a lovely smoke for sure...I think it is available as F2's or 3's on seedbay...just have to hunt for it.
Canna Gnome - Thanks very much for the compliments. My soil mix, in truth, amazed me last round...It is possibly slightly too 'hot'...and possibly has a little too much Nitrogen...but it worked out fine. I've never seen root production this good before...I think it was the explosion in roots following final transplant that caused a little tip burn...suddenly the plant had access to all the power!
Sour - Thanks for popping in...I really like the no drainage method...it bubbles up the 'stale air' and as the plant uses up the water it puuls fresh oxygen rich air back down to the roots...keeps mess to a minimum...and it's very easy to know when to water.
This round should be fun...going to use 8 x 4 litre containers...plant to one side of each...veg for a week and then 'right angle' each plant and flip to 12/12.