Fun in the sun

Well I'm not a new grower, I've had a few plants here and there over the years in buddies plots, and I use to help a birdie with a large indoor op. Being in nor cal, I've always found a place to grow my medicine, but the last few years I haven't. This year while doing some work on a buddies property they walked up to me and asked if I wanted to grow a plant, I couldn't say no! Well one became two, two became three and here we are.
For soil, the base soil I started with had a lot of manure, chicken, horse and cow. There was also I pile full of worms on the property so I grabbed some of that two. I then added perlite, a soil acidifier(soil was to high), and a good helping of subculture B. This Kano super soil by far, but I filled one 100g gro-pot and a 65 and 45 gallon smart pots.

For plants, I'm running one girl scout cookies from a local club, a green candy from that same club and a blue dream from a different club. I got the gsc and Green on 4/20 and vegged them in a ghetto box. They then went outside May 25. I waited till almost June since I've had early flower issues before, but not this year. These two were very root bound in 1 gallon pots but are doing nice now. May 30, I got a small blue dream because I'm not to happy with what Ive seen about green candy.

For nutes, I'm using Floranova grow, bio-cozyme, armor SI, calimagic and diamond nectar. I want to see if there is a way to go to organic nutrients by top feeding instead of using bottles. But All I can find is how to make super soil, which I will do for next year. If you read this, and you have insite on top feeding with organic material please chime in! I feed the plants twice a week and water with plain well water once I between nutes. They get about 5 gallons per watering. Should they be getting more than that? The next post will be after work, and I will show the different stages of each plant.

The first plant is Girl Scout cookies: she was root bound but got transplanted into the 100g geo. may 24:
June 22: she's grown:
Today: she is 32" in diameter and 26" from soil to tip:
Full size bic for size.

Plant#2 green candy: may 25 in a 65g smart pot:
June 22: major improvement:
And today: 36" diameter and 30" tall soil to tips.:

Plants do look beautiful brother. Amending organic soil organically is covered completely in the stickies in the organic section
http://rollitup.org/f/organics.59/
Like this thread Organic Feeding 101
http://rollitup.org/t/organic-feeding-101.510995/

Plant 3: blue dream, doing so well started way later went outside may 30:
June 21, out off shock and growing fast:
Today she is amazing, she might pass up the rest:
And that's were I stand. I'm hoping for a good year but I'm going to have a fun time switching from floranova to top dressed organics. Let me know what you all think, any advice helps.

@MeJuana it going from chemical nutes to all organic that worries me. I'm under the idea that my chemicals have killed off anything living in the soil so the organic nutes won't be broken down.

You're right I'm glad you mentioned that precisely what you said is true. You have a whole different universe going on right now I wouldn't change it til next season

Lol. They are not chemicals . They are synthetic elements of the same organic elements the plant needs .
That soil bag is not dead . Least not yet . The "chemicals " don't kill the enzymes, the left over salts and lack of organic food for them does.
You can top feed quanos and just add some bacteria/ fungi teas.

Well last night I have a good hand full of high nitrogen bat guano on top of the soil then covered it with ew castings and mixed both into the top half inch of the soil.
There is a local organic soil company that I can get good fungal dominated compost from and I will start making teas with that to help bring back the soil life.
This year is going to be a fun experiment with switching to organics.

So yesterday I noticed something was starting to eat the leaves on green candy, so I did a foilar feed of sea kelp and neem to see if that helps.

Well its been a while, my camera broke but the plants are still alive. The sad part about this year is that both the GSC and the Green candy strated to flower on me. I was talking to my friend who owns a hytdro store and he said its happening to a lot of people in the Sonoma County area so I dont feel that bad. The GSC is finaly starting to reveg but not the Gc yet.

I am only useing teas at this point, the bottled nutes are being kept for my indoor grows. In the tea currently I'm mixing: 1 cup compost, 1 cup high N bat guanao, 1/2 cup alfalfa meal, 1 cup EWC, 1.5 tablespoons Green Gro mycorrhizae, a splash of earth juice catalyst, and a some molasses. Letting it bubble for 2 days them spreading the 4 gallons over the three plants. Does this sound okay for a veg blend? I would love to hear what you guys have to say!

As the plants stand, they have all made it to the top of the metal cages, the blue dream is by far the best because it didnt start to flower, but it is having cal mag issues and the other two are not. I feel like the growth is not as good as I want but I'm still happy about this year. I've also been approved to do 6 plants next year in 200g smart pots, I'm going to put them on pallets so I can move them with my tractor to get the best sun year round.

Camera back in action, so it's show-n-tell timeGSC:little over 3'

The sad look of flowering early

Green Candy: 3' tall and lots of tops

Blue Dream: caught up and should now be the tallest:

By far my favorite plant, though no matter what she won't darken up and has slight issues with cal mag

@TWS I saw you mention maxsea in another thread and didn't want to high jack that, do you use it? And do you use the flower too?

Yes and yes . Maxsea has alot of micros in it . More important if not as important as NPK values.

I was wondering if using maxsea would work out well, I always used the veg but never the flower. Thanks for the input @TWS
I decided to have a little seed experiment, hopefully one will be a male and one a female. The female will become a mom and I can make seeds for next year with a few lower branches outside.

Update time! gSC first she's gotten bigger, with a ton of tops. May have rot issues if it rains but I'm happy with her Then we have blue dream the smallest and slowest to flower:
Last but not least green candy: it's always fun trying to take pictures above your head. But I do what I can.

What a week. These three plants have done so much for me threw theses last few days. So the big thing is my father/property owner now has cancer. Prostate cancer but still cancer, and this crop has become the investor in next years medical bills. 6 acres is going to be a big help next year. Thankfully my county allows a good amont so all being said I will find some good strains for next year, and be able to fuel the bills that a family owned business requires. I won't ask for a handout but if you know what I'm going threw it would be nice to talk with you. friends are hard to find in this world so people with a common interest is my best outlet
Girl Scout about 2.5 weeks into flower

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