Seeds:
Dangleberry Jam & Heavenly Illuminations
Medium:
90l Eco-life supercharged potting soil and i've added Dr forests organic fermented Bio-char 5l this is going to be the base for the garden.
Growing area:
60x60x160cm Secret Jardin HS60 ( Not impressed was a new purchase as it gave extra height than other 60x60 tents, as cheap tents goes it feels cheap very thin compared to other tents i've had and the intake socks are only single thickness were as others i've had have been double socked. So far do not rate.) Going to be growing the 2 plants in a 20 gal pot and is going to be my first photo run normally grow autos.
Lighting:
Migro Array 2 Pro Red 120w LED, looks the bollocks hopefully does the job.
Extraction:
5 inch intake from outside decided to put a hole in the shed wall and drag in air from outside as i dont think dragging the air from inside the shed was helping at all. Also got a 5 inch extractor fitted to a fox carbon filter, which i'm going to mount outside the tent on this run so as to give me more room inside. Both fans are Black orchid cheap but do the job and are pretty quiet.
as you can see i've been collecting bubble wrap for some time now so i can insulated my walls and around the tent.
Nutrients:
Going to be using Ecothrive Biosys,water in every 2 weeks ,Charge, top dressing every month with the odd foliar application and lifecycle as a top dressing. Will also top dress with the fermented bio-char and do weekly foliar sprays of aloe vera powder. Have also introduced 250g of tiger worms and 100g of dendras to help look after my soil. For now they will get half an avacado and on my second run will be introuding avacado tech hopefully boosting my soil biology.
Other Equipment:
2 Heaters on thermostat plugs
humidifier on a rh plug
6 inch fan
ph meter (but not really planning on using it as after talking to ecothrive and doing a bit of digging with the water company my water should be ok) but will use neutralise to get rid of the chlorine and chloramine.
60x60 plastic floor tray
Plan for Grow:
Planning on topping both plants (maybe more than once) with some LST and going to be using a scrog for the first time. Also going to take cuttings so i can get practise and grow 2 out in the polytunnel this summer and hopefully keep 2 mother plants for inside the shed. That way i can grow the other seeds out a find a keeper from both strains if i like em. But this is if i can get another shed up to put my shed stuff in then i can have a grow shed 🤣
The eventual plan is to also grow most of my amendments and inputs sourced from local to me i.e the straw mulch, calcium from the free range eggs we get from a local farm (which we eat loads of) and this in turn should help reduce my carbon footprint at least when it comes growing cannabis.
So far i've set up everything i can and i'm just tring to get my room dialled in. I mixed up the bio-char with the soil then added the cover crop of red,white and crimson clover, alfalfa, rye and vetch. I then added the malted rye powder (to feed the micro organisms and help create a good environment) and scratch it in the surface a bit.
I then introduced my worms and covered over with alfalfa chop mulch mixed with hemp shiv mulch and covered that over with barley straw. I then watered in 10l of water with biosys and i'm now keeping an eye on the moisture and making sure my environment is pretty stable before i pop my seeds.
I also need to go and pick up some more ducting and gorilla tape as the white stuff is pissing light out of it so will be letting light in and i need to cover my switches. Should hopefully be popping my seeds in to solo cups tomorrow and adding half an avacado for the worms hopefully the will get in there get some good nutrients and fats and also start reproducing. I am also going to be making a worm composter out of 2 25l buckets which i will post on percys at a later date.
Yup definitely be following this grow! Looks fantastic and keen to see the micro light in action.
Excited for this brother! You got this 💪
Very Interesting man, look forward to see how it goes, Good luck 👍🏻
Love it m8
I have these two each in 25ltrs of recycled Sohum with almost same amendments except the bio char & malted rye, will be an interesting one for sure Pete...am about 2 weeks ahead of you
MASSIVE FAIL RIGHT HERE!!
A little update for you all and I’m after a little advice. So just over a week ago I put 1 of each of the seeds in 9cm pots. In a mixture of the eco thrive soil,some seedling compost, perlite and a little malted barley soaked the pots in some biosys and popped my seeds in. Today after keeping it moist all week I went digging coz something didn’t feel right I found little tap roots but no case and I was very careful. I did find the seed cases along With a few of my worms. I also found some little white worms and some white flea jumpy type things 1st question are they springtails? Or something I don’t want in my soil? Also are the white worms good? I think I’ve seen somewhere they are but unsure. I’ve managed to get a picture of the worm but not the flea type thing. Also anyone suggest what’s happened to my seedlings? Soil too moist or worm/bug damage?
I really hope everything isn’t fucked up before I’ve started going to go and plant 2 more seeds directly into the bed and hope for better luck this time🤞 And to top things off my intake fan (new) stopped working in the night, so I’ve sent it back and a new one should be here by 7. God bless Amazon! I thought I was having a bad week but this has just capped it off! Cheers in advance for any advice would really appreciate it 👊✌️💛
The soil will be wya too string for seedlings mate. Try using a couple of hand fuklls of coco in the middle, and plant the seed in that. This will give the root some time to grow and itll be able to take the strong soil better. It happens when youre in living soil man, young plants will take a while to adjust to it
And there off! Plants are amazing things, popped the seeds directly in the bed last Friday and last night when I went to fill up the humidifier they where both sat lookin at me. I checked on em yesterday before lights went out and no sign, 9 hrs later bam I had these two beauties. I’m always amazed when that happens going from nothing to an inch or two in hours.
The taller one is the heavenly illuminations and the smaller the jam. I pretty happy that the both sprouted at the same time hopefully they will work well together and I have what they want in the soil or to hand. I’ve got my hands on some really nice worm castings so when they are a bit bigger I’ll put some around the base. I have tho seen a few little creatures at soil level of different varieties which I have no idea where they have come from, maybe the straw or the mulch or maybe eggs in the soil who knows. But I wanted a little eco system in effect so hopefully it will balance itself out when I get settled in. And will keep an eye out for pest problems nothing in the sticky traps yet other than arm hair and straw so🤞
Just a few short days on and it’s clear I’ve got a little invasion going on already!🤦♂️
It could be from a number of things, soil,straw, door being open when I’m in there,my soil being slightly wet due to me overwatering last week. only added 2 litres and ended up with run off but I’ve learned from this and I’m waiting till the underside of my bed is a lot dryer before I add anymore. If my seedlings tell me otherwise then I will water cautiously! Unfortunately because of this I’m unable to add the nematodes I have for this pesky problem. At the min I don’t have loads or any flying about so hopefully they’re being caught on the yellow paper and not getting chance to mate. I’ve sat looking at the soil bed this morning and only saw 2 alive so they are no more and have been squished between my fingers. Other than that the seedlings look pretty happy
In the last photo does anybody know if the two things sticking up are fungi? If they are I’m pretty happy means the soil is alive 🙌 Not up on my mushrooms so don’t know what they are. Also anybody using a migro give me any ideas on light hight at this stage, I have it at 10% and at 18 inches but it looks to low for me.✌️
Well I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.... If it wasn’t for bad luck I’d have none!! Went into the tent this morning and the heavenly illuminations was bent right over with a nice crease possible split in it. I’ve tried supporting it we’ll have to see how she fairs🤦♂️
Ive now lowered my light down to 12inch and at 50%power, also put some new sticky as fuck traps around the pot which was harder work than it should have been.
And a quick mushroom update, yes they were mushrooms
And the jam looks very happy along side them
Now off to plant some spuds have a good day Percy fam👊✌️
Day 16 I think in veg and they’re looking pretty good. I’m wondering if I have my light a bit low as they don’t seem to be putting on any height and at the minute the nodes are pretty densely spaced. The HL is coming on pretty well but the DJ has some markings on a leaf, I’ve check underneath for bugs and can’t see any. Also my rye grass is going white on the tops I’m suspecting either a nute problem or again possibly the light anyone any guesses?
A few days on and the difference in look is amazing well pleased.
Gave them a foliar spray of aloe Vera tonight half a teaspoon to a litre of water, went in half hour before lights went on to spray and move the light right up and turn it right down, let’s hope they like it ✌️
They look so happy in their home.
looking good Pete
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