Growing Made Simple

Hello everyone! I am creating this journal to document and share my take on indoor ''No-till''.

After my medium is constructed, you simply set it under a light and add water. You will add non ph'd water for feed and it will buffer to the correct ph needed. The nutrients are all organic and present 24/7 for uptake so you don't have to worry about it. Once the plant is completed its cycle, you simply cut it at the base of the stalk and replant a new seed right beside it.

This medium is alive with worms and a top cover of mini clover. Mini clover will feed nitrogen to the plant through the circle of life. Once it dies, the roots break down and provides whats needed. Worms eat, poop and replenish the medium with vital nutrients.

Here is the base.

30% Peat Moss
30% Worm Castings
30% Pearlite
10% chicken manure

Basically this will get you into a great aerated mix. It's going to make sure that you will never need to worry about overwatering. We're going to be using 20 gal fabric pots for this. I've done silly things like grow 3 in one 20 gallon pot before (remind me to post pics) but one does extremely well in it with this setup. You can play around with this mix as well, but try and stick with these ingredients for the base. You can add vermiculite if you wanted.

Now for the amendments. This is going to be the main food source for your girl.

Amendments (per cubic ft)
Epsom Salt 1/2 teaspoon
Neem Seed M 1/2 cup
Fish bone meal 1/2 cup
Crab meal 1/2 cup
Kelp meal 1/2 cup
Azomite 1 1/2 cup
Powdered Dolomite Lime 1 tsp (the amount of this may change depending on your tap water ph. If it's extremely high, or extremely low, you may need to compensate. You will know by the color of your plant after she starts growing. As long as the ph of your tap water is not too wild, this amount should be sufficient for most people)

Now I could tell you what all of these do, but i'd rather you look them up and find out yourself. Instead, I'll throw in some optional amendments you can add as well that are known to be pretty good. Make sure you get Powdered Dolomite Lime. There are a lot of different types of lime out there and they don't all do the same things. Powdered dolomite lime is whats going to be buffering the ph of the water you put in it to 7 which is the perfect ph for this grow.

If your ph is out of whack, you'll want to water with 1tsp of powdered dolomite lime to 1 table spoon of molasses. Molasses acts as a binder and will in turn bind the lime into the medium. If this ever fails to work, then you'll know its because something else is having a stronger effect on ph (epsom salt in too large of a dose mixed into the medium can have that effect).

Bat Poop - Bat poop is great for a lot of things. Here's a good read. Use as directed on the package since a lot of them are different strengths.
https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-bat-guano-the-cannabis-superfood-rich-in-macro-and-micronutrients-n763

Bokashi - you can use this stuff however you like. It's like a superfood you can feed with if you absolutely just want to feed with something. No worries about burning.

Mycorrhizal FUngi - Promotes root grown and soil health as well as vitamins.

Worms - This is a must. You absolutely must put worms into your medium. They will help naturally replenish nutrients, condition the medium as well as provide aeration.

Mini clover (or micro clover) - Microclover is a legume. Legumes can convert atmospheric nitrogen into organic nitrogen forms that can be eventually be utilized by turfgrass species. The nitrogen fixation process takes place in microclover root nodules formed by Rhizobium bacteria.

C02 - I can not express how important c02 is for yields. It is cheap to make and easy to use. Youtube how to make c02 and give it a go. You wont be sorry.

After you have your medium put together, You're almost done. You just have to either plant directly into the medium or start the seed and transplant then start watering and watch her grow. The time you save from not needing to ph and measure nutrients, you can use maximizing growth by defoliating, LST'ing or other training methods.

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So there we go in a pinch. My current grow is a strain called God Bud from Bud Depot. It was a pretty old seed but is doing great so far. Here she is currently. I use some pretty extreme LST to put her on her side. She is staked out around the 2ft x 2ft fabric pot. Using the same recipe as above. Seed was started Nov 23rd.



She's sitting under a 200 true watt (50 each) 4x SMD Cobs. Par is sitting around 750 and since she's staked down, she's about 4 inches tall all around. Every node getting a good amount of light. My micro clover turned out to be normal clover which is much larger so be careful who you buy from on amazon lol. Still working though, just have to cut it every once ina while.

Last part is cooking. I see a lot of people talking about having to cook their medium or let it sit before using it. That is not the case here. You can use this as soon as you make it. It will condition as it goes. Marijuana doesnt need that much to get growing and there is more than enough to properly feed it in its first stages of life. By the time the plant is to flower, the medium will be well conditioned. Please do not worry about ''cooking''.

Well, that's it for now. Will be back with more pictures soon! If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Updated pics incoming today. Good morning everyone! Today is defoliation day. I got one bushy broad. I'm going to be stripping her pretty good and re staking her. So far, this has been a pretty good strain grow wise. She's been very tolerant to the heat from the cobs and has no signs of stress. The growth rate I would give about a 7/10.

Her tops are becoming pretty well developed. I would say there are about 10 good tops in there so far with about 10 more smaller ones which should easily bulk up after this defoliation.

Be back a little later with some before and afters.

I went a lot lighter on the defoliation than I thought I would. The branch spacing is good enough at the moment. I did however start bending some mid branches out of the way to encourage some new growth from that area. Another week or so and whatever hasnt put on a little weight in the top will be pulled. I am estimating about 3 weeks or so before I start flowering.

All the fan leaves I pluck are burried in the lower left corner. This will provide nutrients and extra nitrogen. You can't tell by looking but the corners of this 2x2 fabric pot each have a little cut off section. Once the matter breaks down, I can use that area as a saturation point meaning that when I would like an extra boost of nitrogen, I can simply saturate the isolated area with water and that water will leak the nutrients out. There are also worms in the pocket as well.

If you'd like to check the pot out and do something similar, here's a link to the pot below. Warning though. I wouldn't use this as a full on compost bin as filling that entire pocket with compost could be too much and could cause problems. I only put the current plants fan leaves in there and If i dont want more nitrogen, I just dont water near that area. I will usually water from the top left pocket because it has celosia in it.

When I water, I feed about 3 litres a day. I can spread this out to every other day and get away with it, buf I've found that 3 litres a day keeps the entire environment as healthy as possible. You can tell if you've overwatered by the humidity close to the ground. If you water and the next day, you put your hand on the ground cover and its wet, then you dont need to water yet. Damp or dry = water.








And of course the link to the fabric pot. It fits a 2x2 area perfectly. See you soon!

Update time and oooo its been a week or so and I've been defoliating the hell out of her just about every day. I've been looking up this strain and they say that it can be pretty finicky with training and such, but I tell you she's doing amazing. I've also added a co2 bag so that could be why it hasnt become stunted temporarily from the defoliation.

Anyway! Without further adoooooooo here you go!



Yeah the light is on but I had to throw it on since the flash was acting wonky and not giving a very good view. Look at her go. Count the colas! You cant tell the difference between the actual top and any other cola. They're getting beefy as they say. I'm gonna let her go for another week or two before I start the flower at which point Im going to strip most of the fan leaves.

The average weight for this plant is 3 oz outside and 4 oz indoors as per websites description. I can tell you right now that its going to be more than that. As for my next grow, I think I'm going to be getting a slightly taller tent so I can go all out.

Quick update for myself mostly. Flowering schedule started today. Had to start it now before it gets any taller. I also switched in a 6 cobb 345 actual watts when I got the co2 bag put in. It's a bit much light for a 2x2x4 so I cut out a hole in the top and put it in there where it gets just enough room. Now it has a ton of light just in time for flower and about 2x the expected growth.

I'll be getting a slightly larger tent next time.

Update day 4 of flower. Here's some better pics so you can see a better idea of size. It's about a solid 1 1/2 ft tall and goes side to side. I have some serious defoliation to do soon. I'm going to be trying to move it soon so I'm letting it dry out as much as possible with minimal watering until my 24x48x72 tent gets here. I needed something just slightly bigger and a bit taller so I can use my larger lights without worry.

Next week, once I move it, I'll be giving her a big watering straight from my worm bin runoff and defoliating the loving hell out of her. Should get some really good growth and bud plump forming shortly after. I'm pretty upset with this tent because its water proof lining was not water proof.

I'm also amending my recipe as follows

per 7 gallons

Epsom Salt 1/2 tablespoon
Kelp Meal 1/3rd cup
Fish bone meal 1/2 cup
Crab meal 1/2 cup
Kelp meal 1/2 cup
Azomite 1 1/2 cup
Green Sand 1/2 cup
80% Humic 20% Fulvic granular 1/4th cup
Blood meal granular 1/4th cup
Powdered Dolomite Lime 1 heaping tablespoon

This will be the mix of my next grow. Watering will be done from a worm bin runoff collection. I will be using a 2x2 ft fabric pot still the same as this which is about 21 gallons not counting the pockets on each corner. Mini clover will be the top cover.



Now back to this grow! More coming soon!

Okay I got her moved and now im just training her out to the sides. Next week comes the schwazz. She went from a 2x2 tent to a 2x4 tent with a much higher ceiling. Looks like a mess right now, but she'll get back to normal after a few days.

Wizard of Nozs said:

All the fan leaves I pluck are burried in the lower left corner. This will provide nutrients and extra nitrogen.

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It is unwise to let foliage break down in the soil directly; it'll attract a number of destructive pests. Best to use a compost bin far away from your grow area.

The area which they're buried is its own chamber. The only time it has the ability to leach into the soil directly is when I water that area. Otherwise, it is almost completely dry. It's also only 10% compost and the rest a stored compartment of amendments and ph buffering solution made by myself and a full supply of worms which only take about a week to breakdown what I put in. I have had no issues at all doing it this way.

Using it as a full composted system, yes this would cause issues. The way I do it will not. Sometime, I will post the pics of my other grows to better illustrate. 90% of material I get off the plant goes into an outside compost bin. As you can see in this picture a little to the right, is the newly defoliated product bound for the outside compost.


I actually developed this method myself about 10 years ago to correct possible deficiencies. There about 60 gallons of total mixed soil and the corner area is its own pocket which is about 5 gallons of which 10% is compost. Normal methods with compost like this will certainly cause problems, but stick around and check it out. I promise you wont be dissapointed. As you can see, I'm in the flowering stages currently without no issues.

Here we are at day number 11 of flower. Everything is growing great. Buds are coming in nicely. 10 days left until major defoliation. She's really filling out the tent nicely. I'm thinking she's going to end up giving out a little more than the 4oz per plant average if she keeps the rate of growth up.

I threw in some ladybugs just because I'm lazy and though I haven't seen any harmful pest, I also haven't messed with her for more than 10 minutes at a time. If there is anything for them to eat, they'll eat it and if there isn't, they'll leave. I see one in the house every once in a while but they dissipate rather quickly and don't eat fabric. I've been watering about 2-3 liters per day while skipping a day here and there.

I been using a polarized lense to take the pics while the lights are on. Doesn't do it full justice but she's lookin pretty sexy.

Day..... 13 defoliation

I shall start watering with water soluble
Monoammonium Phosphate 12% nitrogen and 61% phosphorus


This is the ingredient used in a lot of bloom enhancers on the market. I skip the name brand and go straight for the cheap stuff. 2lbs is 14 bucks and will last a good while. It should give them a nice boost to bud production and help fatten things up. Especially useful after defoliation. Rate of feed will be 1 tablespoon per 1.5 litres once per week.

Monoammonium Phosphate is known to lower PH. If the ph is changed during one feeding, it can be remedied in the next by feeding with 1 table spoon of powdered dolomite lime with 1 tablespoon of molasses. This should correct the swing by buffering the ph back to 7. With the dolomite lime already present in the medium as well, this shouldn't be too much of an issue.


On to the defoliation. I took a schwaz approach but I left the lower canopy intact. The lights are pretty intense so I didn't want it to dry out my medium surface area as well as let the lower stuff soak up all the extra light since its available. Another defoliation should occur in 3 weeks.

Everything still doing great. She's in day 19 of flower and the buds are starting to swell pretty nicely. She's getting nice and dark green which this strain is known for. Mostly posting to keep track and someone asked me if I cook my material. The answer is no. I do not in any way, cook my medium before I use it. I will mix my amendments and immediately plant. By the time the plant is a few weeks old, the nutrients will already be ready for uptake. Once my plant is done and chopped, I can immediately plant another seed in its place right beside the old stalk. in a 20 gallon fabric pot, a mix has lasted about 3-4 grows before needing any reamending at all and minimal was needed.

Cooking is not needed for seedlings. By the time they are out of the seedling stage, that process will have already taken place.

I used a polarized filter to get rid of the glare but now it made it look purple lol. Oh well. Still looks nice lol.

Day 28 of flower for my records. Will start harvesting around day 55.

Pretty simple update. It is now day 34 of flower. I'm expecting some weight to be put on pretty soon.

Day 41!

New pics are coming. Girl is getting very frosty. Has not put on as much weight as I'm used to, but still a good amount.

Here we go. I put the filter on for the wide shot. They have about 2 weeks left or so. We'll see how much weight they put on, but I don't expect that much. I'm going to try and predict the future and say there's right at about 3.5 - 4 as per the average for this strain. Next time I grow this strain, I will be limiting the amount of colas I take into flower with much more aggressive pruning. I did cut the veg a little short so that does play a part as well.

Overall, average isnt too bad. I had her stuffed into a tiny 2x2x4 for a long time. She's getting some super frost and also some purple is coming in. It's gonna be a strong one.

That's it for now. I hope everyone is staying safe.

Checked trichs today and it just now starting to get some red. Funny thing, I started getting some light burn under my larger cobs which most likely means that my co2 bag I bought because I'm lazy has lost its efficiency rather quickly causing the light threshold to lower as the co2 dissipated which in effect caused the burn. Luckily it wasnt too much and caught early. I will be turning off 4 cobs and using the remaining 6. This will bring me down to 300 true watts.

I will probably wait until winter to start using co2 again so that I can have a sealed environment. In the summer it just gets too hot to not ventilate. Yellowing is starting to occur which is normal. I will most likely be extending the flower time by two weeks or so when there is about 30% amber trichs.

Picture of the celosia i've been growing in the same bin and below. Goes to show how much light was getting through the canopy. No filter this time but had to keep a light on. That's the actual color of the celosia. It's edible too. The coke class is the same size as a can and those are the buds in the middle with it. The other ones are side buds and the ones by the celosia are pretty much popcorn but they all look great. Lost of trichs and lots of purple coming through on most of them.

I have about 20% clear trichs left and about 1% red right now. 79% milky trichs so may start partial harvest soon.

Well we are underway in the harvest. I started by harvesting a few top buds first and gave them a good dry and trim. They're in the jar now. Second harvest is drying as we speak. The estimates are still looking around the average of 4oz for this strain still. It's a pretty hard hitter in the Volcano. Pretty heady at times with a lot of body after which did seem to help with sleep.

Pictures will be here soon after she's harvested fully and I'll start looking at the next strain.