My first organic living soil grow ever!

[Tropichigh]

Hey rollitup,

just wanted to start this grow journal as I have never grown organic cannabis . I wanted to do this to have some help and comments along the way and hopefully I can avoid mistakes if enough people see the grow and help along!
Never done this and don’t want to mess anything up as I go or add the wrong amendment at the wrong time or what not.

please comment if you want, positive comments only please, I’m here to learn and have fun with my grow. Yes I do somewhat know what I’m doing in regards togrowing cannabis. I am not afraid to admit that I have had more failed crops than successful so I have learned a ton along the last 6 years of growing. I’ve done quite a lot of researchsurrounding organic growing and want to get down and dirty , if you may, with the grow now. I’ve read enough and now need to be hands on to learn more as I’mbetter with hands on than learning at a computer or from A book/ in class.

so here we go.here is a list of what i will be using, I won’t be changing anything I’m using up as the research I’ve done has confirmed the items I’m using are good for what I want. I’m not going crazy overboard with mixing and trying to keep it super simple with top dressing and minimal teas if I can help it. I would prefer a water only grow but I know that doesn’t give it the best chance for It’s growth cycle and would like to feed the soil nutrients as it grows the entire time from seed to harvest.

here’s what I am using
Container for growing

Using 4 living soil beds by grassroots
2’x4’ beds with trellis extensions
These beds hold around 90 gallons of soil each

This is in each bed
- stepwell super soil -3cu foot bale
(Canadian sphagnum peat moss, mycorrhizae, bone meal, blood meal, perlite, kelp meal, fish bone meal, wollastonite, worm castings, basalt rock dust, gypsum dust, alfalfa meal, humic acid, dolomite lime, sulphates of potash & yucca. All ingredients are organic certified)
perlite - 1.5 cu feet
vermiculite -1.5cu feet
Worm castings - 1.5 cu feet
Canna coco - 1.5cu feet
So that makes about 70 gallons of everything mixed together and now I have 20 gallons or so of room for mulch layer
Organic steamed straw as mulch layer

Does anyone know if that’s enough room or maybe too much room to leave? I know you need a bit of room for mulch layer but maybe I should add a bit more of something? Can someone take a look and see if I can do ratios better maybe or just add more stepwell soil to fill to 80 gallons then leave 10 gallon room for mulch and top dressing?

the following is what I have bought for either foliar feeds or top dressing

20kg bag of all purpose4-4-4 Gaia Green organic
20kg bag of power bloom 2-8-4 Gaia Green organic
Soluble seaweed extract 1-1-17 Gaia Green organic
Alfalfa Meal 3-0-3 Gaia Green organic
GP fish sh*t - organic soil conditioner
Aloe Vera powdered by MiNature organic

water is filtered for Chlorine, Chloramine, and sediment,nothing else as my water is very clean where I live and low p

So that’s what I have got so far, any questions I would be happy to answer and any help or comments are greatly appreciated (unless negative lol)

grown under spider farmer SE7000 lights
1 light in veg room 5.5’ x 4.5’ (usually dialed down for half veg cycle then max output a week or so before flip)
1 light in flower room 6’ x5’ (always stays at 100% output)

I can get into temps and light hanging height and all that if someone wants to know but I have dialed those in years ago to be perfect conditions for growing so that part of this grow has been set and ready to rock!

i hope to get some help along the way from my organic friends on here, and yes I will be posting lots of pictures as I hate grows without pictures lol

The only picture I have for today are a few of the living soil beds being setup in my home.

 

[ExoticKangaroo]

Any reason you don't use one large bed?

 

[Tropichigh]

Any reason you don't use one large bed?

Yes , the door from my veg room to my flower room is 2’ wide so I can’t move the beds from room to room if they are bigger than that with my setup. I have a perpetual harvest set up and each room is set for veg and flower and too much hassle to change at this point for me plus. The flower room being the bigger room so its set that way . So every 8 weeks I harvest the flower room, move over my plants from veg room and move the clones to the veg room so there’s always plants in each room. I cut clones and root for 2 weeks, the veg for 6 and flip.

 

[ExoticKangaroo]

Yes , the door from my veg room to my flower room is 2’ wide so I can’t move the beds from room to room if they are bigger than that with my setup. I have a perpetual harvest set up and each room is set for veg and flower and too much hassle to change at this point for me plus. The flower room being the bigger room so its set that way . So every 8 weeks I harvest the flower room, move over my plants from veg room and move the clones to the veg room so there’s always plants in each room. I cut clones and root for 2 weeks, the veg for 6 and flip.

Seems like a hassle lol.
I keep all the veg plants mobile in 3 - 5 gal containers and move into the final flower bed and then let them get accustomed and switch to flower.

 

[Tropichigh]

Seems like a hassle lol.
I keep all the veg plants mobile in 3 - 5 gal containers and move into the final flower bed and then let them get accustomed and switch to flower.

Lol yeah it is easy to move them around when I do my 5 gallon ,but I agree, the hassle doesn’t sound worth it when written down and read back to myself hahah, this is why I wanted to post on here for help and ideas so thank you for getting me thinking. I do have enough room to fit 4 beds in my flower room , and I have a bunch of 5 gallon living soil containers, I just thought trying to transplant from 5 gallon into my beds wouldn’t work with no till ? The 5 gallons are nice but I wanted to let me girls legs stretch a bit more with the deeper soil beds is why I wanted to try them. I also didn’t go with a large bed as I have limited space and I’m pretty picky about my defoliation methods so I prefer to be able to slide the bed out a bit from the room and work on the plants 360degrees if ya get me

 

[ExoticKangaroo]

Lol yeah it is easy to move them around when I do my 5 gallon ,but I agree, the hassle doesn’t sound worth it when written down and read back to myself hahah, this is why I wanted to post on here for help and ideas so thank you for getting me thinking. I do have enough room to fit 4 beds in my flower room , and I have a bunch of 5 gallon living soil containers, I just thought trying to transplant from 5 gallon into my beds wouldn’t work with no till ? The 5 gallons are nice but I wanted to let me girls legs stretch a bit more with the deeper soil beds is why I wanted to try them. I also didn’t go with a large bed as I have limited space and I’m pretty picky about my defoliation methods so I prefer to be able to slide the bed out a bit from the room and work on the plants 360degrees if ya get me

I know what you're saying. I use plastic containers to transplant and they work really nice up to five gallon. But I use 24in beds as well. I was just checking.

 

[Tropichigh]

I know what you're saying. I use plastic containers to transplant and they work really nice up to five gallon. But I use 24in beds as well. I was just checking.

Ok so I have a question. When you do no till, and have to transplant from 5 gallon, is it bad to dig that much soil up inside your bed to transplant? Seems like it would go against the no till, living soil rules sorta ?

 

[myke]

So you plan on putting these beds on dollies and moving them back and forth?

 

[ExoticKangaroo]

Ok so I have a question. When you do no till, and have to transplant from 5 gallon, is it bad to dig that much soil up inside your bed to transplant? Seems like it would go against the no till, living soil rules sorta ?

I mean I'm using like 600 gallons of soil. I dont necessarily call what I do no till either. Furthermore, I've been just going from solo cups right to the beds lately. But ultimately I dont believe that little bit of disruption does any harm. Besides I dig around often checking and feeding worms and such.

 

[Tropichigh]

So you plan on putting these beds on dollies and moving them back and forth?

Yeah I plan on having dollies underneath to move them easily

I mean I'm using like 600 gallons of soil. I dont necessarily call what I do no till either. Furthermore, I've been just going from solo cups right to the beds lately. But ultimately I dont believe that little bit of disruption does any harm. Besides I dig around often checking and feeding worms and such.

Yeah I was thinking of doing clones 2 week rooting then straight into the beds for the 6 week veg

 

[Tropichigh]

update
Just purchased some inoculating bacterial
endo and ecto mycorrhizal
Also got some 1lb (~1000)red wrigglers on the way and plan to put 250 in each bed

 

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Happy Grow!!!