Home-Made Mix VS Bottled Fertilizers

I'm growing on 5 pots. 1 with a homemade soil mix. 1 with bottled fertilizers in a coco/sand medium. 1 with both. Also, in small cups... 1 with the homemade mix + azomite, one without the azomite.


So I need to know what you guys think. I want to grow 5 plants in 5 pots, how do I sow seeds in 5 pots so that I get females? Do I put 2 seeds in each pot, or 3?


Anyway, here's the final mix I used for the home-made mix pots.


MEDIUM 40%
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Coco Coir 100%




COMPOST 40%
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Worm Castings 50%*
Dirts 15%
Coffee Grounds 10%
Cow Manure 15%
Composted Banana peels 5%
Kitchen Compost Tea 5% (liquid)
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MINERALS & Drainage 20%
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Powdered Eggshells 25%
Volcanic Sand 25%
River sand 37%
Wood Ash 10%
Epsom Salts 1%
Sea Sand 2%
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I then mulched with some leaves I picked around the house. I also fertilized the coco pot and the mixed pot with big bloom and buddha grow to test against my home made mix. I'm also comparing 2 mixes to test the benefits of azomite. Fertilizing with Buddha grow was hell, I shook the bottle and the shit exploded when I opened it! I'm now giving it 3 weeks to cook, I will sow some mango/raspberry landrace bagseeds on the 12th. Here's some pics of me mixing the mix.

your only real option for females is to get feminized seeds or to re-pot them in your containers once they show sex.

karousing said:

your only real option for females is to get feminized seeds or to re-pot them in your containers once they show sex.

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I just realized sowing 1 seed on each pot won't only delay the comparisons if a male pops up, but the nutrients wont be the same... I think I could sow 2 seeds on each pot to have probably at least 1 fem on each pot, what do you say?

So I sowed the seeds but I found some earthworms and I decided to chuck them in just for an extra bit of luck. It's now up to the seeds to do their magic.

So I've been seeing these tiny insects flapping around on the surface when I uncover the plastic. I've seen them all the time everytime I put plastic over a pot, they obviously like humidity. They are about 2mm long. What are they? and are they a pest to worry about?











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Next to a tiny ant.

So I'm sad to say those were indeed fungus gnats whose larvae ate half of the seeds, the other half was replanted into a recovery pot. I waited almost a week for the germinations to find out.


Anyway, I will try again, fortunately I still had seeds from the same batch altought they we not the best seeds Before planting them I used the hidrogen peroxide technicque to kill the larvae (1:5 3%HP to water) then I used the sand over the surface to prevent any further infestation and gave it a few hours while I soaked the seeds before planting them.


I still see some fungus gnats but they do seem confused about the sand, hopefuly the HP took care of the larvae and these are just the ones that were wondering around the room.


Fingers crossed for attemp #2...

So the grow is finally up and running. I had troubles with fungus gnats and germinations but finally found a bulletproof method. The only drawback is that the plants are of different ages now, 1 is 3 weeks old in a cup, 3 are 2 weeks old including one which had some problems with the leaves, probably related to the gnat attack, that soon resolved but will take longer to veg, and one I just germinated a couple days ago into the other cup. they look green and healthy to me, and are growing quite fast I have a couple questions...


Given that I won't transplant the plants into bigger pots, as I want to keep them small and rootbound. When should I induce flowering so that the plants use the size of the pot the most efficiently, meaning they won't either be too small or too rootbound at the end of the grow?


What strain/landrace would you guys say it resembles?

Given that I won't transplant the plants into bigger pots, as I want to keep them small and rootbound, when should I induce flowering so that the plants use the size of the pot the most efficiently?


Meaning they won't either be too small or too rootbound at the end of the grow.




















Also, I have been fertilizing 2 of these but they are not getting any greener so maybe the solution is too weak and they need a stronger dose.


How long does it take to see the effects of organic liquid fertilizers?

Update... They are a few days into flowering now. One of the plants is kind of stunted and looks a lighter green than the rest, (the small one on one of the galon pots) so I'm wondering if I should give it a more concentrated dose of fertilizer or just give it time? Could it be that it's just naturally lighter even if I took it out of the same bag of buds?

So one of the small ones was kinda stressed and hermied so I planted it outdoors.


Then I got 2 females I just transplanted to bigger pots and what I think looks like a male... Im not sure tho...


Are these male flowers or just budding leaves?


Thanks!

Male.
No question. Those are balls.

he is so pretty, to bad he gonna meet the blender tomorrow...

Anywayz... THANKS A LOT!