canadiankushman
Well-Known Member
Good day folks, just thought I would put up my first actual grow thread showing what I'm up to. This is my first grow in this setup, but my 4th indoor flowering to date. The bulk if my experience has been using hempy buckets and running a vertical 1k. This time around I will be growing in a 100 gallon livestock watering trough, using my 1k horizontally. From here on out, this thread is a no douche zone..
Anyhow, my mix is kind of a custom one, and I'm sure it will evolve but here is what's in it as I type this:
1gallon coco
1 gallon perlite
1gallon sea soil
1/2gallon ewc
1/4gallon leaf mold
1/8 gallon sheep manure
The bottom 10 inches of my tub are straight perlite. I was worried what would happen had I overwatered and thought that the perlite might give me a little buffer..
My soil is amended with:
Subculture B
Kelp meal
Alfalfa meal (crushed organic rabbit feed pellets)
Crushed oyster shell
Dolomite lime
Gypsum
Blood meal
Bone meal
Fish meal
Bentonite clay (size of crushed oyster shell)
Organic Fish food pellets (huge list of ingredients)
Dust from local gravel quarry
I let this all compost for just over 2 months after watering with 10 gallons of ACT, the inside got HOT! I watered it with about 5 gallons of water periodically throughout those 2 months. Eventually, some weeds naturally sprouted.
I then planted about 200 earthworms in the soil, they thrive to this day.
I plan to put everything back into this soil and recycle it as a no-till. I simply leave any pruned material or leaves on top the soil like a mulch and they decompose in about 1- 1 1/2 weeks. I deposit lady bugs and they have taken care of a little outbreak of fungus gnats I had before I transplanted.
Plants:
The 6 on the right of the pic are a strain I have been working on for a few years. It's nameless so far.
On the right I have one Trainwreck, one SSSDH, one Super Silver, one northern Lights.
I started my no name strain 2 weeks sooner and had to cull 3 out of the bed so i transplanted the others to fill the bed. They have had about 3 weeks less veg time. I planned to mono-crop this first run but shit happens. I plan to update this a few times but will just be watering with rainwater and letting them grow. I give some teas to them, probably unorthodox but its working.. I don't have time tonight to explain the tea I gave them two days ago, or the foliar I gave them today but perhaps tomorrow I will depending on if there is interest in my thread or not..
Check out the pics!
P.s.- sorry for the shitty orange hps pics but, the only lightbulb in my closet right now is 1000watts.. I will get a nice white light for future pics..
Ck
Anyhow, my mix is kind of a custom one, and I'm sure it will evolve but here is what's in it as I type this:
1gallon coco
1 gallon perlite
1gallon sea soil
1/2gallon ewc
1/4gallon leaf mold
1/8 gallon sheep manure
The bottom 10 inches of my tub are straight perlite. I was worried what would happen had I overwatered and thought that the perlite might give me a little buffer..
My soil is amended with:
Subculture B
Kelp meal
Alfalfa meal (crushed organic rabbit feed pellets)
Crushed oyster shell
Dolomite lime
Gypsum
Blood meal
Bone meal
Fish meal
Bentonite clay (size of crushed oyster shell)
Organic Fish food pellets (huge list of ingredients)
Dust from local gravel quarry
I let this all compost for just over 2 months after watering with 10 gallons of ACT, the inside got HOT! I watered it with about 5 gallons of water periodically throughout those 2 months. Eventually, some weeds naturally sprouted.
I then planted about 200 earthworms in the soil, they thrive to this day.
I plan to put everything back into this soil and recycle it as a no-till. I simply leave any pruned material or leaves on top the soil like a mulch and they decompose in about 1- 1 1/2 weeks. I deposit lady bugs and they have taken care of a little outbreak of fungus gnats I had before I transplanted.
Plants:
The 6 on the right of the pic are a strain I have been working on for a few years. It's nameless so far.
On the right I have one Trainwreck, one SSSDH, one Super Silver, one northern Lights.
I started my no name strain 2 weeks sooner and had to cull 3 out of the bed so i transplanted the others to fill the bed. They have had about 3 weeks less veg time. I planned to mono-crop this first run but shit happens. I plan to update this a few times but will just be watering with rainwater and letting them grow. I give some teas to them, probably unorthodox but its working.. I don't have time tonight to explain the tea I gave them two days ago, or the foliar I gave them today but perhaps tomorrow I will depending on if there is interest in my thread or not..
Check out the pics!
P.s.- sorry for the shitty orange hps pics but, the only lightbulb in my closet right now is 1000watts.. I will get a nice white light for future pics..
Ck