Grow Diaries 2x4 Living Soil Auto Test Run

Sept. 16th - First Updated

After gathering all the supplies:

Mixing them and letting it cook for about 2 weeks:

I sowed the seeds into coco plugs and when they were big enough they went into their final home:

8 Days later they look something like this:

Everything in my grow is new. New bigger tent, bigger light with more oomph and also i upgraded the blumat drip system to bluesoak system. I am still waiting for my AC Infinity exhaust system. That will take another 5 weeks. I hope they wont start smelling until then.

Thanks for stopping by.

Looks really good, I'm digging the setup! I particularly like that watering system you have there

Sept. 23rd - Day 15 since sprout

Everything is growing as it should, i think. The middle one is a tad shorter but it also sprouted 1-2 days later. I finally made it to the pet shop to get some hay and straw for mulching. The Bluesoak seems to work properly. The leafs have a nice dark green color and the one to the left has some darker edges... i don't know if that comes from the soil being to hot or if its just a pheno thing. I am hoping for a big spurt of growth in the upcoming week.

The only thing that worries me a bit is that i have humidity spikes when the lights go out. In veg it should be fine but for flowering not so much. I was thinking about lowering the temp in the room so the difference between day and night is not so big. Right now its 27C (80-81F) during the day with 60-65% humidity and at night the tent reads 22-23C (71-72F) with 70-80% humidity. I did not yet install my exhaust system because its not needed yet but maybe that is going to help with those numbers as well. Investing into a dehumidifier is not what i had in mind this year. 

Do you guys have any tips?

October 2nd - Day 24

The ladies are growing, the one on the right is growing much to my liking. The middle one is a tad to small but i hope she will catch up soon. The lady on the left has this weird way of growing where she reminds me more of a cabbage because she is not really stretching. The leafs edges on the left and middle one are still darker and today they started this weird clawing. Maybe overwatering i hope they will perk up tomorrow. 

It could also be Nitrogen toxicity from the soil being not optimal.... Thats why i put in some Autos Freebies upfront.

October 7th - Day 29

A little bit less then a week since my last update but i wanted to document and show how different these ladies can be.

It's a little bit weird, because they are all in the same soil. I think the shorter ones are just a bit more sensitive to Nitrogen. The middle one is still drooping the tips. I plugged some big ass leafs from the left one that covered the budsites. I hope they will still stretch a bit. I top dressed a little bit of a flower mix (2-8,4,-4) and fed the worms that I added a few days ago with a mix of 80% malted barley(powder), 10% insect frass and 10% kelp meal. I watered everything is with a few KNF inputs including Kefir-LAB. Lets how the respond to it.