Official Gaia Green Grow Method
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myke
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As it screams. Weeeeeee!
TheTerpinator
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My bad. Please delete my comments from this thread so they don't mess with the flow.
JeffWix
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I absolutely use teas with both Gaia Green and or Dr Earth...I also use bokashi in the soil and top dressing ...just not on seedlings or fresh clones.
farmingfisherman
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Nicely done. How did they smoke? Hope you had a great cure!
Just started using GG and this is amazing. This thread has it all, I use the simple mix of pro mix, ewc, 4-4-4, lime, AZos, and some bloom. I cook the soil for 30 days. Pop the seeds and wait a week or two till transplant into 10 gal pots(final pot) . For cooking I have heavy duty bins with lids that I cut the center of the lid out. I then add garden fabric in place of the plastic I cut out. Now the lid is fully breathable. I then take it out every 4-8 days and place it in a Tumbler and water it while turning. This gets great aeration to the soil. I use this method for my compost pile for my outdoor gardens. I have a mesh system to shift out my worms, that I add back to my compost pile.
So I thought I’d post my current grow in hopes that it may help others…..actually that’s BS…..I really just wanted to show off some nasty dank frosted nuggets that are hard as a rock…you could literally break a window….maybe.
Anyway, this was first try with Gaia Green and first dive into growing in Coco. I kept it pretty simple except for trying to grow 3 different strains at the same time. That has been challenging b/c all 3 are on pace to finish weeks apart and they all require different levels of food.
To keep it simple I pre-mixed the following and let it sit for a couple weeks, although I don’t think it was necessary.
-Fox Farms 70/30 buffered coco
- roughly 20% worm castings
- Gaia Green 4-4-4….about 75% of the directed amounts per gallon.
- small amount of 10-3-1 bat guano
- small amount of kelp meal
- a couple spoonfuls of Mykos
I moved from seedlings to this mix in a 1 gal and grew for almost 3 weeks.
Then moved to 5 gal fabric pots, vegged for 2 more weeks and flipped to 12/12.
I gave water along with 150ppm cal mag and once a week gave stump tea.
After 2 weeks of 12/12 I top dressed, but b/c they were still so lush and green I only gave about a 2/3rds amount…..consisted of the same amendments, but instead of all 4-4-4 Gaia Green I went with about 80% 2-8-4…..and eliminated the bat guano.
I should have top dressed a full dose b/c about 2 weeks later, two of the plants started fading.
I quickly gave another light top dress and hoped for the best.
It has now been 68 days since the flip.
Plant 1, a Jack Herer, is borderline ready. The calyces have Plenty of amber trichs throughout but there are still a few white pistils popping. I’ll give one more week and likely harvest.
Plant 2 is an Amnesia, and she’s the heavy feeder. She faded more than the other two.
Her buds aren’t the biggest but every single one, even the lowers, are rock hard and perfectly shaped like an egg. I’m guessing she has a good 2 weeks and likely 3.
Plant 3 is a Gelato OG….the smallest and most compact, also the smelliest and stickiest by far. Super strong smell of lemon and pine.
Her first pistils didn’t show until almost 3 weeks after the light flip…so she’s gonna be the last to finish Looking like 3/4 weeks.
During the flower stage, the only “bud booster” I’ve given is a little tea that I brewed consisting of worm castings filtered through a thin nylon sock, molasses, some kelp meal and about 1tsp/gal of crushed langebeinite (sp?). You really have to crush it thoroughly again and again to get it to powder form.
That’s about it…..next run I will top dress a little heavier and/or more often. I’ve attached pics of each plant from afar and an up close view of a bud from each.
Anyway, this was first try with Gaia Green and first dive into growing in Coco. I kept it pretty simple except for trying to grow 3 different strains at the same time. That has been challenging b/c all 3 are on pace to finish weeks apart and they all require different levels of food.
To keep it simple I pre-mixed the following and let it sit for a couple weeks, although I don’t think it was necessary.
-Fox Farms 70/30 buffered coco
- roughly 20% worm castings
- Gaia Green 4-4-4….about 75% of the directed amounts per gallon.
- small amount of 10-3-1 bat guano
- small amount of kelp meal
- a couple spoonfuls of Mykos
I moved from seedlings to this mix in a 1 gal and grew for almost 3 weeks.
Then moved to 5 gal fabric pots, vegged for 2 more weeks and flipped to 12/12.
I gave water along with 150ppm cal mag and once a week gave stump tea.
After 2 weeks of 12/12 I top dressed, but b/c they were still so lush and green I only gave about a 2/3rds amount…..consisted of the same amendments, but instead of all 4-4-4 Gaia Green I went with about 80% 2-8-4…..and eliminated the bat guano.
I should have top dressed a full dose b/c about 2 weeks later, two of the plants started fading.
I quickly gave another light top dress and hoped for the best.
It has now been 68 days since the flip.
Plant 1, a Jack Herer, is borderline ready. The calyces have Plenty of amber trichs throughout but there are still a few white pistils popping. I’ll give one more week and likely harvest.
Plant 2 is an Amnesia, and she’s the heavy feeder. She faded more than the other two.
Her buds aren’t the biggest but every single one, even the lowers, are rock hard and perfectly shaped like an egg. I’m guessing she has a good 2 weeks and likely 3.
Plant 3 is a Gelato OG….the smallest and most compact, also the smelliest and stickiest by far. Super strong smell of lemon and pine.
Her first pistils didn’t show until almost 3 weeks after the light flip…so she’s gonna be the last to finish Looking like 3/4 weeks.
During the flower stage, the only “bud booster” I’ve given is a little tea that I brewed consisting of worm castings filtered through a thin nylon sock, molasses, some kelp meal and about 1tsp/gal of crushed langebeinite (sp?). You really have to crush it thoroughly again and again to get it to powder form.
That’s about it…..next run I will top dress a little heavier and/or more often. I’ve attached pics of each plant from afar and an up close view of a bud from each.
senukezero
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How much bokashi do you think should be ammended to super soil? I'm using an All-Purpose Organic Coco Coir Blended with Perlite, Aged forest humus, Dolomite, Oyster Shell, BAT Guano and Worm Casting and im not sure if i should be using less then what is recommended on the label. This is the soil im using. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B085BPLGD9
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JeffWix
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I would go with what is recommended...I pretty much go by that and then adjust how I see fit.
senukezero
Member
Cool ok thanks. I contacted the company that sold the soil and they told me the same thing and they gave me suggestions what other products i should use to go with the soil to finish the grow.
Ilikesnacks
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Is everyone using the feeding schedule posted on the initial post? I haven’t used this stuff in a while but I thought it was 2tbsp per gallon every 3 weeks, not one? Sorry for the dumb question, appreciate everyone’s input.
Ghubbard100
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I amended the soil for transplant with 3 tbs per gallon of medium. I top dressed every 27 days with 1 tbs per gallon. My current run is nanaz from Robin Hood seeds
Ilikesnacks
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Thanks, looks like it’s working.
swedsteven
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I am back for another one !
2 original afghani reg
1 super lemon haze fem
3 banana punch fem
1 white widow fem
Canuk seeds
See yaa all soon .
harris hawk
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Been seeing alot about that breeder. is this your 1st run with Robin genetics / what bank did you order from "Silver Star Seed Bank" ?
thctimmy
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I can vouch for Silver Star, ive got several packs of Sq1/RH from him.
thctimmy
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looking fire, Im not sure if we traded comments on discord but I loved the one pheno I ran of this. Gassy banana peel terps. Love the fade you got going here nice work