I'm currently flowering 4 plants in 8 inch plastic pots. The tallest of them is about 38 inches after the stretch ended. They're now on day 33 and generally looking pretty great. I want to keep them that way and thus thought this would be the best place to ask. I'm 100% organic at the moment, and I am really impressed with the results.
My strains are:
Trainwreck X Sour Diesel - "Sativa" pheno
Trainwreck X Sour Diesel - "Indica" pheno(still pretty Sativa)
Trainwreck X Colombian Gold
Purple Haze
Props to anyone who can spot which is which in the pictures!
My soil mix is:
3 parts Pro-Mix Ultimate Organic
3 parts Pro-Mix for containers
2 parts worm castings(1-0-0)
8 parts perlite
8 parts coco coir
a tbsp per gallon dolomite lime
2 tbsp per gallon bone meal
1 tbsp per gallon blood meal
I feed them with compost tea made from EWC, mushroom compost, Pro-Mix Ultimate Organic Mix, and sometimes comfrey, a pinch of bone meal, or some urine when they need nitrogen. I've even put a little bit of pot ashes in the tea brewer. I brew all my tea in a 64ounce convenience store cup with a couple of airstones running off one pump, and are held down at the bottom by marbles. I just put the compost materials in a knee-high nylon and then stretch the end over the mouth of the cup so it hangs with the bottom of the nylon about 3/4 of the way down the cup. So far this has really seemed to work great. I can put a lid on the container(with a hole in the middle) to contain bubbles, and then I place the whole thing in a pan just in case. I usually brew 18-26 hours. I use water mixed with about 1-3 tbsp per 1.5 liters(the size of the bottle I mix with).
How often can I use a tea like this? So far they've been nothing but happy with the results. I've had some leaves yellow and fall toward the bottom, but they're only the fans coming off the main stem, and none of the bud leaves are so much as unhappy looking. Is this normal at day 33? This grow is way different than any I've done before, and so I don't know if the leaf loss I have had in the past was normal, or a sign of the problems I was having.
How often can molasses be used? I use it nearly every watering, and they've not complained so far that I can tell, but should I lay off it a bit? I'm using Grandma's unsulphered.
Regarding the pots. I have a dilemma there. I'm using those plastic 8 inch pots that Walmart used to sell for 88 cents(but are twice that right now). I have the same brand, but 10 inches, and 4 of them just barely don't fit in my cabinet. Is it realistic to finish them the size I am without repotting them? I have never done a mid-flower transplant. In veg, I pull them out of their pots all the time, remove dirt and make the root mass more compact, then put them back in. Would this work in flowering? It doesn't bother them one bit in veg, but I want advice before I take action....
Here is a picture of them on 4/20/2009:
and one of them in the cabinet from the top-down on the 27th:
Do you see any problems? I know they're free of pests, and seem to be forming buds well. I'm just feeling really paranoid. This grow means a lot to me. These are like my babies. I think about my plants night and day, and see buds when I close my eyes. I have the grow fever! The organic approach is so great, and this forum has helped me a lot. Any advice you can offer would be wonderful, especially on feeding. I can't really afford new and fancy foods for them, but given what I have, I'd like to know how to use it best. Thanks in advance!
My strains are:
Trainwreck X Sour Diesel - "Sativa" pheno
Trainwreck X Sour Diesel - "Indica" pheno(still pretty Sativa)
Trainwreck X Colombian Gold
Purple Haze
Props to anyone who can spot which is which in the pictures!
My soil mix is:
3 parts Pro-Mix Ultimate Organic
3 parts Pro-Mix for containers
2 parts worm castings(1-0-0)
8 parts perlite
8 parts coco coir
a tbsp per gallon dolomite lime
2 tbsp per gallon bone meal
1 tbsp per gallon blood meal
I feed them with compost tea made from EWC, mushroom compost, Pro-Mix Ultimate Organic Mix, and sometimes comfrey, a pinch of bone meal, or some urine when they need nitrogen. I've even put a little bit of pot ashes in the tea brewer. I brew all my tea in a 64ounce convenience store cup with a couple of airstones running off one pump, and are held down at the bottom by marbles. I just put the compost materials in a knee-high nylon and then stretch the end over the mouth of the cup so it hangs with the bottom of the nylon about 3/4 of the way down the cup. So far this has really seemed to work great. I can put a lid on the container(with a hole in the middle) to contain bubbles, and then I place the whole thing in a pan just in case. I usually brew 18-26 hours. I use water mixed with about 1-3 tbsp per 1.5 liters(the size of the bottle I mix with).
How often can I use a tea like this? So far they've been nothing but happy with the results. I've had some leaves yellow and fall toward the bottom, but they're only the fans coming off the main stem, and none of the bud leaves are so much as unhappy looking. Is this normal at day 33? This grow is way different than any I've done before, and so I don't know if the leaf loss I have had in the past was normal, or a sign of the problems I was having.
How often can molasses be used? I use it nearly every watering, and they've not complained so far that I can tell, but should I lay off it a bit? I'm using Grandma's unsulphered.
Regarding the pots. I have a dilemma there. I'm using those plastic 8 inch pots that Walmart used to sell for 88 cents(but are twice that right now). I have the same brand, but 10 inches, and 4 of them just barely don't fit in my cabinet. Is it realistic to finish them the size I am without repotting them? I have never done a mid-flower transplant. In veg, I pull them out of their pots all the time, remove dirt and make the root mass more compact, then put them back in. Would this work in flowering? It doesn't bother them one bit in veg, but I want advice before I take action....
Here is a picture of them on 4/20/2009:
and one of them in the cabinet from the top-down on the 27th:
Do you see any problems? I know they're free of pests, and seem to be forming buds well. I'm just feeling really paranoid. This grow means a lot to me. These are like my babies. I think about my plants night and day, and see buds when I close my eyes. I have the grow fever! The organic approach is so great, and this forum has helped me a lot. Any advice you can offer would be wonderful, especially on feeding. I can't really afford new and fancy foods for them, but given what I have, I'd like to know how to use it best. Thanks in advance!
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Logging everything in a grow diary, and I feel like I have a close personal relationship with my babies. I have them labeled, but I spend so much time with them that I have no trouble figuring out which is which. I have definitely learned a few things at least so far. Purple Haze is a bit sensitive to nitrogen, Trainwreck X Sour Diesel stretches the most, Trainwreck X Colombian Gold will eat as much as you can feed her with tea, and still want more. They each definitely have their own personality, so to speak.
