Damn, y'all been busy while I was gone!!
First off, I sincerely apologize to anyone who feels I am harsh. Not my intentions. Also there as been my replies so I am just gonna generalize this post back to everybody.
Secondly, me nor any of my family are professionals, lol. Yes my uncle has successfully grown indoor for 50yrs, has some great smoke, but he is an old hippie holding on to the old, T12s, hypenex soil and miracle grow. He has helped me a lot in my first few indoor harvests.
But to me organics is where it is at. I'm coming from an outdoor background using wood dirt and shit and watering with creek water. Never had any need for chems and I don't want to use them inside now. So here I am.
My compost pile is not the latest and greatest, do it the same way grandpa did his, but it is FULL of worms and shit disappears in there almost over night it seems.
Not sure why y'all think I'm not hear to listen. I was excited to see the likes of patta, hyroot, grease monkey to grace my post.
I like to do shit on my own. If I don't know something I read. Greg Green, Jorge and JC Stitch are readily at an arms reach in my grow room.
I mostly read USDA studies, college studies, attra papers, and try to put half of what I read on here together with what I already know (which ain't much) to figure out what I need to know.
One thing that I am learning is not only do I usually only read posts from the aforementioned, I need to get my hands on Jane Ingram.
So after learning to keep things dry(which helped out tremendously for my roots) I need to keep things wet again??
My last harvest, using this same watering schedule, I had huge roots right on top of the soil, barely even covered, plants never had any stress from being dried out, and at harvest I had beer can sized tastey ass buds.
As for SS it was a starting point to go from for me. I know this recipe was hot, so as per subcools YouTube seminar, only the bottom gallon got straight hot soil, the top 2 gallons where mixed up in thirds with my compost and ewc.
Last grow I only used my pH meter once. That is when I switch to getting my water from the grocery. I pH'ed it and checked the ppm, and never touched them again. Everything ran through fine........
So I should ease up on the teas?? It works out to being like twice a month.
The thin layer of ewc and excessive teas, stems from the fact that when I was thinking the soil hadn't composted enough I was trying to jam my pots full of life to break the soil down faster.
Then the growth rates seemed to stop, one turned dark green with rough leaves and the other looks healthy but the new growth is twisting, almost looks like heat stress, but temps never hit 85.
So I went with pH, came here and started reading a library of fueds over pH and organics. Left and did some more reading about organics and pH. Finally came to the conclusion that you can make an acidic organic thriving soil, with plant/micros/soil in perfect harmony.
Which tends to tell me, if I pH a scoop of soil, and it reads 5.2, then the rhythm of my soil is out of time with my plant.
I think I might of errored in the amount of lime I used??
Thoughts and guidance??