PNW 38
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I thought this was interesting and maybe worth sharing.
I've been growing indoors using recycled mix for flowering for about a year. This is the Soil Savvy test result from the initial mix when starting first flower cycle
And this is the test I just got back
During the past year using this mix I flowered 13 females for 70-84 days, and 9 males which I cut at ~21 days each, plus 4 days between final transplant and starting 12/12 for all plants. The only additives I used were
- a little greensand and glacial rock dust after the first plants came down, to try and bump up what looked like low micros.
- I topdressed two 'hungrier' looking plants this year with 1:1 soil mix/EWC plus 1Tbs of biolive or alfalfa during week 3ish of flower.
- Two of my storage totes got 5tbs each fishbone meal and feather meal maybe 6 months ago. That's the mix I just had tested and am currently using
- I veg in 1g FFHF + a small amount of EWC, maybe 1/4 cup or so added there
Otherwise my grows are water only start to finish, and then I add some EWC to the broken up rootballs while they rest. I've got 4 little totes maybe half full each that I rotate through.
I don't push my plants. Short veg, I don't train them or blast them with light, etc to try and maximize yield. So I get why they might not eat that much. But really it seems like even the little I did feed/add over the last year was maybe too much, in that the numbers are creeping up.
Right now I have two at ~30ish days 12/12, in the same mix I just had tested.
Katsu's Dracary
Katsu's Bubba's Sis
Most do just fine and I'm happy with how this is working so far.
I've been growing indoors using recycled mix for flowering for about a year. This is the Soil Savvy test result from the initial mix when starting first flower cycle
And this is the test I just got back
During the past year using this mix I flowered 13 females for 70-84 days, and 9 males which I cut at ~21 days each, plus 4 days between final transplant and starting 12/12 for all plants. The only additives I used were
- a little greensand and glacial rock dust after the first plants came down, to try and bump up what looked like low micros.
- I topdressed two 'hungrier' looking plants this year with 1:1 soil mix/EWC plus 1Tbs of biolive or alfalfa during week 3ish of flower.
- Two of my storage totes got 5tbs each fishbone meal and feather meal maybe 6 months ago. That's the mix I just had tested and am currently using
- I veg in 1g FFHF + a small amount of EWC, maybe 1/4 cup or so added there
Otherwise my grows are water only start to finish, and then I add some EWC to the broken up rootballs while they rest. I've got 4 little totes maybe half full each that I rotate through.
I don't push my plants. Short veg, I don't train them or blast them with light, etc to try and maximize yield. So I get why they might not eat that much. But really it seems like even the little I did feed/add over the last year was maybe too much, in that the numbers are creeping up.
Right now I have two at ~30ish days 12/12, in the same mix I just had tested.
Katsu's Dracary
Katsu's Bubba's Sis
Most do just fine and I'm happy with how this is working so far.
