CrossBones
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Documenting a tester grow of Afropips Durban Poison Repro Seeds from DC's Garden
Mine will get started around the new year. I got antsy and started the Ancestral Skunk#1.Can't sit back and just watch, Get your own thread going![]()
I'm in! I'll get my thread up this winter!
Mine will get started around the new year. I got antsy and started the Ancestral Skunk#1.![]()
Awww yeah babby! I can't wait to see these plants in action everyone. Good times ahead for you Crossbones. Ill sub and follow along and offer any advice I can to help keep your babies happy and healthy.
Please post up what your medium and nutes are when you get a chance. Im real interested in your methods for growing them![]()
Thanks Dave, now for the hardest part of this grow.. the mix. Gotta dump in a bit of this and that, and ends up usually with whatever's on hand, right? Well since this is a test, I'm trying a few new admendments. View Image
Pro Mix BX Mycorrhizae
Admendents not neccessarily in order -
Optisorb
Earthworm Castings
BioChar
Organic Nitrogen Fertilzer
Seed Starting Potting Mix
Osmocote
Hydroguard
then every once in a while during the grow a dash of Dyna-Gro or Bloom when in season, or re-upping the hydroguard count.
Other than that and normal watering, I'm pretty much hands off, I like to let the plant do most of the work and let the pics do the talking. I uploaded them to my Afropips album with descriptions of how I'm using them. and also to try keep this from being a way too many not needed images heavy thread.
Link to album - https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=74696
But I do need to show 2, so here ya go, After a 28 hour soak, three sunk, and fingers crossed, "miss floaty" was put in the peat pot below to get a little extra water.
-- [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Seeds in holes, clear pots are from the Walmart deli counter, evidently I need to stop by and get a another pound of buffalo wings sometime, Only had three.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Broke out the wicking tray, had one peat pot left. might as well use it up.[/FONT]
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This time I recycled the small fine roots and previous 5/6 month old mix from a 1 gallon pot that had a Durban Male in it, for a little more organic material and I guess any left over Microorganisms and/or nutes.. Then added a 1 gallon pot full of fresh Pro Mix and filled each of the smaller clear containers into the tub.. I then took one of the smaller clear containers and filled it approx 50/50 Optisorb and Biochar.. Added a cup or so of Castings 1.25-0-0 for bio activity since I'm low on them and there out of stock locally, so this time I added approx half a clear containers worth of organic slow release N. fertilzer 4-3-0 that claims their Organic nitrogen formula breaks down nutrients only when plants need them, making one application last for months at a time and 19/20 grams total of Osmocote Plus. Mixed 2 ml of Hydroguard in some water and mixed it all together.. Used maybe a half a handful of Seed starter mix in the center tops of each pot to cradle the seed. Funny, I always seem to have way more mix left over after all is done, but it gets used up in the next transplant..
Osmocote is 15-9-12 the pink bottle.
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Using recycled soil huh? Now Im even more tuned in. Ive got loads of leftover media that either needs to be disposed of or recycled. Recyling it at least once would save me money. Looking forward to seeing how they do in your mix.
Looks like you've got about 10grams of osmocote per gallon of media
Wow...I grew out some DP back early 2000,,Wasnt for me..Long flower time,but monster plants!! As to the recycled mix?. I do it often.I flush good with water.after pots dry I put it in black garbage bags and set in sun for a month or 2..then back to bins and add a lil good organic material {works for me}...That osmocote ,time release chemical and I tend to stay away from that, but sure makes for nice plants!!..Good luck and I'm gonna tag along for the ride..Peace!! <ws>
Looking good so far Bones! I expect you'll have near 100% germ if things go well. Shooters had 100%, and I had 95%.
I look forward to seeing the double net scrog. Ive tried single net scrog, but I feel double net has to be better, or maybe Im just a bad scrogger..hehe. These ladies shouldn't stretch too badly out of control once they enter flower.