First Organic Grow... No Till Style!

Strains:
Og Raskal =White Fire Alien
HSO = Blue Dream
CSG = Rainbow Jones
710 Seeds = Cheese
RP = Skywalker Kush
G13 = Raw Diesel (Mother plant and surprise keeper) The Raw Diesel is the only strain I have experience with out of the bunch. The others are all new additions.

Soil:
I ordered 4 gallons of the already made Coots soil along with the Coots kit from BAS. Finding good vermicompost/compost locally has been a bit of a challenge for me. But I think I have located some good compost. After I switched my Mother plant soil to the Coots mix I added the leftover soil to My mix to give it more diversity.

Grow Room:
I have a 5x5 grow tent set aside for this run. The will be flowered under a 1000w light. For veg I'm using a 400w MH. I have other tents ready just in case more room is needed.

Growing History:
I started out as a hydro grower from the start. After years of doing that I went to Coco coir and been doing that since then.

Containers:
I have few 5 gallon fabric pots on hand already. I don't veg for longer than a month being that I run other perpetual set ups. But I can with this grow if need be.

Questions and Concerns:
1. I have seen many people water there soil mix with different teas. Is one type of tea preferred over the other?
2. I have a ton of bottles (synthetic) nutes left over. I also have a ton of organic nutes that have not been used yet. (I got them for free) . Guess it will be used in my new outdoor veggie garden.
3. Is it OK to connect automatic drippers to the pots? I have them left over from previous grows along with a Blumat set up.

All the plants were in coco previously and got switched to the Coots mix. The seedlings are a bit yellow due to a lack of food but have responded well to the new mix. I almost lost the mother plant and she was living in a 1 gallon pot for the longest. But she pulled through. I provided a close shot of the coots mix. The Rainbow Jones and The Skywalker Kush are growing faster than the other plants so far. The White Fire Aliens are regular seeds. Everything else are fems.

how did ur mother plant like the coots soil?

FamMan said:

how did ur mother plant like the coots soil?

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She is loving it now. I'm about to pull some clones off her in a few days. All the plants are actually.

She is loving it so far along with the other plants.
Here is my own version of the coots soil.
Base:
1 part sphagnum peat moss
1 part compost/vermicompost (It was sources from multiple places locally because I wanted as much diversity as possible. Plus I only can go off the description given on this site of how to identify good compost)
1 part Grow Stones for aeration. Multiple sizes. Nutrients: (Use at 1.5 Cups Per cubic foot of soil or about 1 Tablespoon per gallon of soil)

1. Crustacean Meal - Crab and Shrimp

2. Kelp Meal - Acadian Seaplants Brand

3. Neem Cake - Premium Organic Neem Cake Imported from India.
Minerals: (Use at 4 Cups Per Cubic foot of soil or about 1/2 Cup per gallon of soil)

1. Brix Blend Basalt - Our Favorite Rock Dust for traceminerals. Highly paramagnetic.

2. Gypsum Dust - Calcium and Sulfur

3. Oyster Shell Flour - Calcium Carbonate - Adds available calcium and limes the Peat moss.

subbed, im gonna put in a microdripper system for my pots - u genius!

A little late but... Have my tea going. Look at what a couple days in good soil does..They had some damaged roots from the transplant but they are responding well.
From upper left going in a clockwise rotation. Rainbow Jones, Skywalker Kush, Blue Dream, Cheese, and the other 2 being White Fire Alien (hope I get a female). The Skywalker and Rainbow Jones are ahead of the pack but everything is growing well.

Tea Recipe:
2 cups compost/vermicompost
1/2 cup of BSM (Black Strap Molasses)
5 gallons of tap water bubbled for a few hours with a bit of BSM to get rid of chlorine.( Thanks to microbeorganics.com for that trick)
This is my simple ACT.

The plants are going strong in this CC mix. I'm loving every moment. The Cheese plant has been throwing single leaves but I think it corrected the problem.

I popped in 9 clones or so in the cloner. The plants are doing really well. I'm going to transplant them in their final containers soon. I might have to top the Skywalker Kush. Used the trimmings for a mulch. Hope I did it the correct way.

In 5 gallons you don't need that much molasses you only need like 2 tables spoons. The molasses feeds microbes which in turn makes them multiply and then once they get into soil you want them to eat the ammendments which in turns feeds the plant and not just the sugars

Yea you may be a little heavy on the molasses...but not by much. Microbeman recommends .5% bsm by volume so that would be almost 6.5 tablespoons, half a cup is roughly 8 tbls so you should be fine as long as you have a good pump.

DonPetro said:

Yea you may be a little heavy on the molasses...but not by much. Microbeman recommends .5% bsm by volume so that would be almost 6.5 tablespoons, half a cup is roughly 8 tbls so you should be fine as long as you have a good pump.

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That's where I actually got the recipe from. It was not a full half cup. It was a tad under. I felt it was a bit heavy on the BSM myself. Being new to organics I didn't want to deviate to much from the recipe. I have a big industrial air pump from my active hydro days.

Pic 1: The plants as of today. I had to top the Skywalker Kush. It was climbing in height.
Pic 2: Is the Og Raskal Wi-Fi Alien that pretty much started growing two dominate tops on its own.
Pic 3: Is the 710 Seeds Cheese that pretty much did the same as the WFA.
Pic 4: The plants are not as Green as I would like them to be. I have a feeling they might be a bit hungry. I'm not sure. They are in #1 pots. I will be them in 10 gallon pots soon. Or they might be too close to the 400w MH?

I have some Fox Farms Wholly Mackerel, Roots Organic Surge, and some liquid kelp from Kelp4less.Is it ok to feed them any of these things to supplement them until the final pots get in? The mother plant is doing great in the bigger pot.

They look pretty healthy from the pics. I wouldn't go messing around giving them any of those you mentioned. Your tea combined with your soil mix should be plenty enough nutrition for those plants. Being in the smaller pots its more likely you could fry the hell out them if you start pumping them with bottled stuff, even if its "organic".

DonPetro said:

They look pretty healthy from the pics. I wouldn't go messing around giving them any of those you mentioned. Your tea combined with your soil mix should be plenty enough nutrition for those plants. Being in the smaller pots its more likely you could fry the hell out them if you start pumping them with bottled stuff, even if its "organic".

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OK. Thank you for the info. Still learning with this style of growing. Do I have to PH the water?

Pic 1: Here are some nice looking white roots from the CGS Rainbow Jones.
Pic 2: I had to mix up more LOS. I learned a lesson here. Always mix more than what's needed. That white stuff is not perlite. They are Grow Stones.
Pic 3: I finally got my 10 gallon pots and planted the ladies in them. The White Fire aliens are in the 5 gallon smart pots. I topped the rainbow Jones and used it as a clone.

drekoushranada said:

OK. Thank you for the info. Still learning with this style of growing. Do I have to PH the water?

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No need to ph water. The up and down are not good for microbial health.

The plants are doing really well. They seem to be taking to the transfer to the larger pots really well. I think I'm going to take more clones this weekend and use the organic method with rapids rooters and aloe Vera. I think it will be a lot less worrying. The pictures are from different angles. I just finished watering them.

Forgot the pics.