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What I have learnt over the last 6 months is that plants like to grow together. If you are doing these outdoors I would do 4 plants in a 40l pot. Do lst training on each plant in a different direction. It does not take much for them to be happy.

SST - everything sprouted, straight into the blender strain out the juice from the pulp the red speckled beans made a cream collect the pulp, super food for th worms add about 500ml to about 10L of tap water that's been aerated to get the chlorine out, because with the SST I also add about 2 to 3g of BioCult. 5minutes after adding this to the bubbling water I'll be using most of this tonight when I get home, won't let this brew for more than 24hrs and by then I'll want to have used it all. never let it sit without aeration. I'll start by using it for what it was made for, inoculating the "cooking" soil or basically just keeping it alive. then 300 to 500ml to each of my bigger plants depending on how wet the soil already is. If the plant needs nutes I'll add half to a third dose to this. I'll add another 10L of rain water if I have, which I don't right now, so I'll use 3phase filter water to fill the brew back up, give it a few good stirs so the brew is even more diluted then I just go crazy with it all over the rest of the garden. LABS - rice wash water, day 3, started smelling sweet, looked like a very very thin layer of some sort of colony forming on top so I am assuming the thing started happening... if left too long here and it starts smelling sour, just pour it straight onto some garden soil and start over. get it while it's still sweet. this is about 500ml, pour the RWW into a glass jar big enough to fill 6 to 10x the amount of the RWW, I just had a 3L jar laying around. to this you wana the least processed milk you can find, straight from the cow tit is the best you can use store bought milk, the higher the fat the better and the more "long life" it is the more it's been processed so a rule of thumb - the quicker it goes bad from fresh the healthier and more alive it is. so do with that informarion what you will.... best I could get on a Sunday afternoon was high fat fresh milk from the shop. added 2L of the milk to the 500ml of RWW. keep at room temperature in a dark dry place with good ventilation. Day 1 -

I do notice a slight difference in size of the seedlings, but i dont transplant them. The males show really early at 3 weeks so they get pulled, leaving the females to carry on in the pot. The fems i planted alone in a pot since i know they are supposed to be fems. Not sure about the Rockwool. I plant direct. Autos send out a really dominant taproot with almost no side roots for those first 3 odd weeks

For people like you guys, knowing the plant in and out, you will go on an amazing ride with Autos... my first batch of autos left me speechless by amazement. I try now to push my clones to go same harvest results but still fail. With Autos i reach harvest results I can only dream about by using clones. As you have to start from seeds, the taste factor is where clones win, but potency Autos don't have to hide anywhere. Last time I chatted with Qure and Cannabliss.. Autos were the top spot of THC content chart, they produce highly potent plants.. you just can't pheno hunt em and need the breeder to do a perfect job. Breeder is key here.. and why I enjoy 42Fastbuds so much for autos. Auto seeds I would only get from breeders offering ONLY auto plants.. and photos from breeders only offering photos. They focus on their job and not on a huge selection. Having 10 strains stabilized in terpenes will result in better harvest material as the 'jack of all trades' resellers looking for a fast bug. Best auto genetics you get from the US boys.. would skip the Europeans on Autos.. they missed the train for years.

Ive also only just started growing autos... They respond well to LST if you start early, between day 14 and 21. They dont like as much water at all, so i let the pot really really dry out and get light before watering. They might not tolerate as much N as photos, but dont make your soil to light. I use reammended FF premium, with no need to feed the soil for the first month. Plant 2 or 3 autos in a 40l if you want to maximize yield for that volume. Mine are in 15l and they are a pretty decent size, between 60-100cm. Otherwise im still on that same learning curve right now

I wouldn't top or cut any branches off an auto. Let em be ^^

Looks like hard work this. I just buy malted barley from the beer shop. Grind it up into basically flower, put it in a teabag and brew it for an hour. Sometimes I add some molasses and feed to my plants. Sprouting my own seed is time consuming thus the malted barley.

There is one mayor advantage ordering from China... Warranty! I ordered a 200ah 12v battery from ecodepo.co.za ... support local. Battery gave up after 15 months and I can't claim warranty and have to declare it a loss as ecodepo got liquidated in the meantime. The factory in China producing 10'000 of those batteries a day will not so easily disappear.. South African order re-heaters most likely will be gone in 1-2 years... and with them your warranty. I bought 16 x 288 QBs in February this year, they cost me in total about 25k Rand (boards (Alibaba) and drivers (digikey, free shipping)), plus customs). 3.1K per 2 QBs or 240 watts... about half of what they charge in this country.. ordering the material from China/US.. i love to support local.. but sadly in certain cases choosing local is a clear disadvantage.

Thanks man, I definitly needed to hear that hahah this stuff is so cheap and easy I can really see myself getting carried away with it I have heard quite a bunch of people say I can over do it with the SST and just to be carefull with any of the teas and ferments. I made this batch to inoculate the cooking soil, but I know it's gona be way too much, so I'll be giving some to the whole garden. this will be the second time I ever made SST, with the first time being 2 weeks ago. I'll let a couple months go by before making it again and hope to gain more knowledge on it in this time. I put the pulp in my worm tower, so they can turn it into casting before I am gona use it. after this I'll be collecting IMO and leaf mold to make some FPJ from the new growth on the local flora. it's spring so loads of auxin hormones around. wana make some FFJ for my ladies going into flower. going down the korean natural farming rabbit hole, but some of those things can be quite complicated and if not done right can cause more harm than good, but getting to know it and understanding it better will bring a more sustainable way of gardening. so I feel it's quite a good rabbit hole to go down. I heard I guy say enzymes are like millions of different kinds of keys to millions of different kinds of locks and the locks are the trace minerals and micronutrients. it's always easy to guess the macro nutrients and say "I need N or P or K" but how do you know when and what of any of the other elements it is, or could be? So when adding enzymes, it's pointless to add a whole bunch of one specific kind of enzyme that only does one thing, you need to add the whole group of enzymes, the more diverse the better. which makes the most sense to me. Instead of adding a lot of one thing, rather add smaller amounts of a wider variety of things. This is what I'll be going for.

Either way, all this hard work is going to pay off nicely. @Naughty.Psychonaut Just be careful with all that SST. Its usually an over supply of many nutrients and enzymes in a system. I made a number of SST and every fresh application burnt the tips and they were small applications. Then I made a variety of Seed spouts and then I dried them to use as a top dress slow release source of enzyme, soil food nutrients. however, I think the variety was not the most effective. I started noticing some Gnats and other undesirable. I may have used too much. Especially when I worked it into the soil. Ended up discarding much of it in the compost pile. One of my first grow with totes bubble berry glue. I exclusively used malted barley teas. and I would put like a tsp of alfa alfa and kelp meal. Before the tea days when completely haywire. And honestly, those plants were thanking me in a big way come to think about it, all the spent malted barley also went into the top layer of the soil. That didn't turn out terribly. However, if there is too much of anything in a system, the balance of the good and bad bacteria/fungi might go out of wack. I think one of the biggest realizations in organic growing for me ever was that growing in 20l /40l or even 100l pots, planters or beds, is that all of the listed have the highest chance of running out of over all nutrients depending on the size of the plant. So in the right ratio, there's a massive need to put back what has been taken out. To think your soil in a 20l or 40l pot still has some gas and the plant is almost the same size of the pot about to get bigger, is just plain ignorant, which I was. These are all finite metrics, why wouldn't it apply to the nutrients available.

balcony was getting crazy Traded these six for xrp coins. Added mulch and bark on the balcony.

So spring has sprung, and while it was an uneventful winter for me on the growing front, i decided to start a few autos. I have very limited experience with them, and want to change that. Especially since I only have a veg area now, plus i get to squeeze in a harvest or 2 before Christmas. Thanks to @SkunkPharm and@Bay Seeds I have plenty to test out, and have been staggering planting weekly since last week of July, so they are between 1 and 6 weeks. They are outdoors on sunny days and under lights at night and in rainy weather. Ill probably be making a few seeds from 1 or 2 plants, but just to make more seeds for myself.

It was time to get better soil for my ladies, gathered a few ingredients, made a 180L batch that's "cooking" for my next batch. Thinking of going no till as I am basically creating a living garden bed here and I don't like worms in small pots. they need space. I don't really wana take from these pots after this, but I'll have to empty them out into smaller pots for my indoor grows and I don't wana disturb what I have created now. got a bunch of red wrigglers, started a worm tower to collect some castings for teas and top dressing in future. added 150g of worms to the tower and devided another 150g up between a 100L pot and a 80L pot. roughly went for a ratio of 30% spent soil (ff premium classic) 30% medical grade peat moss and 30% leca hydrorocks. the last 10% as amendments. garden math, I love it. the peat - also using this 50/50 with perlite for clones, works nice. Here is a photo of the soil underneath the layer of mulch - I used hay as I have a ton for the mushroom stuff, but it's only for the time being. I have 12 different cover crop sown, will discuss that, but I'll thin out the mulch after a couple days for cover crop to come through. in future I'll be using alfalfa as mulch. I moved the hay a little for the pgohoto and the very first spot I open you can see a worm bro working the soil. added a bag of elemental blend to each pot along with kelp flakes, insect frass and diatomaceous earth. the first batch of SST and LABS I made was way too much, whole garden got treated as I didn't wana keep the stuff so both these pots got soaked with it. The way I made the treatment was 18L tap water, aerated for 12hrs to get rid of the chlorine just so it doesn't hurt the microbes (I know cannabis plants need minute amount if chlorine, but just cause I am adding microbes to this batch, I want the worst of it out), I added about 5grams of biocult - which is almost overkill, it's surely more than enough - I add about 1L of the SST juice and 300ml LABS. as soon as I add the stuff to the aerating water it foams up over the top of the bucket. just walked around the garden soaking everything with it. made about 6 batches of it, which came out to be about 120L already busy with the next batch. who's making these? SST day 1 - soak. I use dechlorinated water all the way when working with microbes, and I know I am after enzymes here, but just keep reading.... I used red speckled beans, corn, pearl barley and malted barley Day 2 - pour off water, let it stand in the jars. (I start the barley a day later, because they usually sprout quicker) Day 3 - Sprouts on the beans and corn, barley will have sprouts by tomorrow then they get blended up with 50/50 sprouts/dechlorinated tap water. - don't want sprouts to get too long, I am after the enzymes which are at their most prolific right when the seed pops and first sign of root shows. will update process LABS - I don't know if my first batch came out right, but since it's cheap as shit I'm gona keep trying so I can better understand it all. If anyone knows how to make the mozarella from the curd, let's talk? I had tastic, so I used tastic, rice wash for 15min with dechlorinated tap water. Pour the water off, feed the rice to the worms. Let the rice wash water stand untill it smells sweet... this is where I am at right now. will update process 12 cover crops, come to think of it, it's 14 now. as we all know when it comes to cover crops, diversity is key. here is my list (everything the grow shop had) Sweet Basil, Chamomile, Coriander, Dill, Sunflower, Marigold, White Clover, Red Clover, Nasturtium, Chrysanthemum, Borage, Lucerne then I also added a little bit of Barley and some Sorghum I had laying around. Worm tower - bedding - spent soil + hay. top bin got grass clippings, green grass and wild foliage from our local area. topped with dried bush twigs and leaves and more hay. the dried leaves have quite a bit of IMO on it, other than that, kitchen scraps, dried garden clippings, green garden clippings. I also feed mycelium grain cultures than I don't used and I have dumped a few liquid cultures in there aswell that I was unsure of mycelium landscape liquid cultures mycelium clouds mycelium metabolics here is an interesting one, I was told that there is some contamination present and the mycelium is trying to get away from it by reproducing. so what I have here is a tiny mushroom fruiting inside of a agar "petri dish", and yes, that's a cubensis hahah. last photo shows outer edge of the mycelial growth on the agar turning blue, not trichoderma, that is blue from bruising. mycelium from most psilocybin species, just like the mushroom fruit body itself, turn blue when stressed or bruised. so I think maybe some kinda environmental issue as I obviously haven't touched these. a day or two after I saw the tiny mushroom cobweb mold took over and now it's fucked. I am about to toss it into the worm bin, hope the worms enjoy it anyway, I probably left out a lot, but already feel like I am saying too much I am new to all this so if there's any do's or don'ts you guys know of, any secrets, I would love to hear some! have a lekker slow and steady sunday all!

Organic amendments or inputs are the way to go imo. SST's and FPJ's are awesome diy/grower additions for any plants, but balance and a light hand is key. My comfrey based FPJ's usually tend to be on the acidic side and will cause problems if applied undiluted. I prefer not to adjust the ph and just dilute it. My first SST's(corn,red adzuki beans) did cause problems. Initially the plants responded well, but the eff up came later. (Had to cull and burn) I suspect that the amount of available starches caused an imbalance in the soil microbiology and instead of doing good, stimulated a pathogenic Fusarium fungus outbreak due to it being prevalent in our area. The rootzone microbiology is complex, consisting of numerous organisms, some are beneficial to plants, others not so much. They keep themselves in equilibrium, but an excessive "outside" input can tip the scales in the wrong direction. Still using SST's, but much more diluted than before. Less is more.

I’m very much enjoying this full on approach. Love it bro. Look forward to seeing these plants rocket. the enzyme can be seen like that, you could also see them as organisms or bodies that carry out the life functions or processes, so they are another piece of the puzzles. they start the movement of simple compounds into more complex ones like amino and then into proteins, very important stuff. However most of this sst are energy free types of nutrient replacements so they are full amino and protein compound already, getting that dosage right is honestly the key. But I’m still yet to get that right lol The amount that comes from the initial process of seed starting is immense as you can imagine. So basically what you have are different types of more complete nitrogen compounds in action. This is the inception of life. Very many complex process taking place, so many locks become open etc. and micro nutrients just make those processes that much more efficient if they are there. Ya KNF is cool but like you said, it can go south easily. But you’ll learn how to use your nose. And if it’s even slightly offish. Chuck it. Just for me begs the question of anaerobic decomposition, I don’t know if it’s a long term solution, because of the type of microbial colonies that develope , but still don’t know enough to comment properly.

it's not that much work hahah I am planning to do way more! I want to introduce as wide a variety of different kinds of enzymes, bacteria and fungi as I can without doing something crazy. starting with the more simple stuff. I will be using the malted barley in my teas aswell, never grinded them up though. gona do that next time!

I dont disagree, I was pulling out our autos root systems to see what was going on under the soil, and that is exactly what I saw. The root space is of auto is tiny, wish I had taken a picture.

hey @Totemic Great post, seems like we all getting hooked on these seeds. Wanted to ask, I see how you germinate several seeds in one pot. Do you see a stagnation in growth when transplanting? Do you think germinating in rockwool and then transplanting in FF soil is a good option?

@prom, thanks for that Love it, thats what we have going, was not sure whether to use it or not, maybe a waste. Going to go for 20 litres which was recommended to us. Thanks for the advice and support in this learning curve. Yip I have never been fond of auto's, great to change my mind though.

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My wife got me some Purple Power CBD seeds (Femenized Auto) from the Green Smoke Room. I totally messed it up though, I got over confident and sloppy, I think I added too much perlite , over watered and too much nutrients. she's a bit stunned. The perlite started making thick layers of pond scum, So I replaced the grow medium but from the pic as you can see it came back a little but. But at least it recovered and looks like its growing again. I'm not familiar with auto flowers but the below plant started making pistils right away. Not sure if its because it was stressed or if it is just how they are. In the same tent I have 2 other plants. When I realized i stuffed up on the Purple Power CBD's I went and bought a different CBD plant but this time a clone Dont kow the name. On the pot when I bough it it read "NARC" Try find NARC when searching relating to weed ,Narcotic this narcotic that so I'm now sure what CBD plant it is. And this clone growing like MAD! CBD clone in the back and just normal regular unknown seed in the front also doing quite well. (With the little CBD Purple power in the back for reference) Why is it that all of my grows have a light "Green" leaf colour yet no sign of stress or nutrient burn or any sort of deficiency. When I got the clone the leafs were a very dark green and had some nutrient burn but as I do as I always do the plant is growing happily and the dark green leaf colour became a lighter green . When ever I look at other growers plantd they are also a darker green. I'm tempted to add nitrogen, but not sure if I should. ?

I have topped the plants in the big tent. Two of the plants at the most bottom right are showing those initial signs of deficiency I've been having in some of my recent grows and I am putting blame on the transplant this time. They had the least developed roots and are now stressing or the roots are struggling to uptake nutrition. For now I have given them a potassium silicate additive foliar feed and I went ahead and just sprayed all the plants. I am hoping that in the time it takes to build the canopy the two laggers will catch up. Smaller tent is developing some really nice bud so far. All the bud sites are looking good. I'm expecting this to be a very good run even considering the initial bump in the beginning regarding the medium pH.

1 week in flower for the Dark Phoenix, Chem d still vegging. Will be joining the flowering tent on Sunday.

Give thanks for the support brothers Chris and John ii truly am grateful One Love

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Which Brands you talk about.. mentioned above?? You might want to reread what you post.. this one is a bit useless or did i miss something??

Rammstein wanted to go tour in 2020.. then lockdown hit the world.. so they got bored and spontaneous recorded an album... unplanned is always best ^^