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Thanks for the tips. Can you set the carrots to maintain the dampness in the tote, so you don't have any run off?

One carrot per tote? I am going to put one plant in each tote. Do you also use the drippers?

If I can get 2 pallets, put a tote on each one. Do you use the blumats too? Or water by hand.

What is the active ingredient? It says on the label that it's for ornamental plants. Be careful using systemic synthetic chemicals on your indoor crop.

This one seemed to be growing normally and then pushed out 3 branches from the node.Then reverted back to 2 branches, at the next node up. Random pics It makes life easier and is quicker to dose with a pipette, instead of a teaspoon

@GGGthank you for the kind words and the suggestion. What about using a pallet? 150 litres must weigh a fair bit. I'm going to use this mix again, from last year's grow. The pots are bone dry so I gave them a good wetting and a dose of seagro. I've got a lot of old hydroton that I can mix in to lighten the load on the floor joists.

They are looking great and making some nice tops too

The clawing is going now but some tips are still affected. I don't think they liked my defoil very much and my attempt to dry out the soil was a disaster move on my part. The leaves have stayed small after the plucking and some thrips are also joining the party. The two biggest are the hungrier plants so I upped the dose of granules, doubled up to 2 table spoons, gave a spray of Epsom salts and put in 3 mls fishmix with the last two waterings. I was given some 12 V strip lights and a pair of 80 watt t-5s. I can add some light for clones with the strips and boost the veg with another 160 Watts. Or even use them on the periphery of my flowering area. I'm prepping the room for flowering and think I might go up to 160 litre totes for th first 2 plants. My only concern is bearing the weight of soil onto the floor boards.

I agree, the curling round the bottom of the pot is from over watering. Its very easy to do, I also have a heavy hand, but if the Pot is raised up and never sitting in its drain water this can help to improve things. Or try not watering till run off. Little and often will discourage the roots from dropping straight to the bottom.

Hello Dave. If the soil stays constantly wet, with too few roots then the problem will continue, if you keep up with daily a watering routine. I would let them dry out a bit, let the roots breath and then they can start to build and fill out the pot. An automated watering device (blumats tropf) would help to take the guesswork out of the situation. The carrots cost about R200, I would buy one of these instead of spending more on a moisture Meter. Weighing the pots is an excellent suggestion and I am going to start trying that out too.

Hello Bud, I water my 25 litre pots in a similar fashion. When I transplant into them I give roughly 300 ml per day and go up to 1 litre a day as they grow. During flowering they can take in 1.5 - 2 litres a day

Please can I claim the seeds and tub of myco?

This diary is a great read and I always enjoy the updates on those roots too.

Charlie is looking strong, this week. Hopefully the Durban is a quick grower and she will catch up with her big sister.

It is inspiring, a raised bed would be cool to see indoors. The plants are looking superb. I've got 2 totes full of soil thats ready to use. I'm going to transplant from 25 litre pots into the totes and try those blumats too

The other 7 Watt bulb is keeping the boys happy in the cupboard. @GGG hello buddy, I hope you are well. these 2 are the great white Sharks and they're just about to start shedding pollen.

This week I've run out of space to veg so I hung up some more lights. I have a spare 50 W of 4000 K strips with a Ballast and dimmer switch. I bought a pack of cool white bulbs and a light switch. I'm also using my 6 Volt magneto torch over some clones.

The estimate EC for Hortimix x 3, if I follow the GHE soil guide.

I didn't know that. I've seen it in the 1 part, Greenhouse powder feeding range, They also sell it as a seperate supliment. I thought flora series is calcium nitrate in their Grow, MKP for bloom and Hortimix A, for the micro. Its greenhouse grade calcium nitrate, from Haifa. The soluble Ca is in the form of calcium oxide and it dissolved easily, the part A wasn't as easy to mix, but there's no sediment left in the bottle. Eskom is increasing their tariff again, so every saving helps. The spreadsheet from Hortishop helps to work out the ppm for different combinations. Thanks for the tip. I came across it when I searched through the old threads. B and MKP could mix to x 5 strength, but A will need more work. veg 5-3-5 and bloom 6-2-8 is what I use for my organic ferts. Dr Bruce says that 2-1-2, from start to finish is the ideal ratio for cannabis. I tried the 5-3-5 in bloom and got the same yield, but the quality was better when feeding with higher rates of N and K. I think if I follow the GHE chart with the x 3 strength hortimix then I can get close to my ideal NPK. Or, My next idea is to buy a tub of Potassium sulphate and mix it to the same strength as MKP (75 g per litre). At week 3 give a boost of MKP and then switch to Potassium sulphate till the end of flowering.

I tripled the strength, so now I will use 1 ml instead of 3. Then worked out what the grams per litre for each element and the npk ratio for the diluted solutions. 3:1:5 for veg. 3:2:7 when you begin adding MKP, in 1:1:1, along with the A/B R60 for a concentrated, 3 part nutrient blend. I will play around with similar ratios to the GHE Flora and crunch some more numbers.

This area is ideal for 1000 Watt HPS. 1.2 x 1.2 is too small for that light. You can get 800 g from 600 W but you need the right variety, dialled in environment and a completely stress free grow.

Its uncomplicated and easy to follow. I want to simplify the hortimix, so it's just as easy to use. GHE isn't specific to cannabis, it's a universal blend so there's room to tweek any of these brands to suit what we do. I use the spreadsheet and play around with the ratio till I find something that works well.

2 or 3 bottles is easy and GHE is also more concentrated than hortimix. It lasts a long time and is good value for money. If I can mix the 5 litres hortimix into a 1 litre then it will be less hassle to work with. A B and Bloom is all I plan to use for this round. Another guide to EC strength for hydro and soil. https://www.dinafem.org/en/blog/how-adjust-ec-cannabis-growing/#post-comments

Me too. Thanks @RedEye Thank you very much. If I read it properly it's for the 12/12 period. I presume Week 1, 0.6 EC carries over from the veg schedule?

This is what is recommended to tunnel tomato farmers. Use eqaul amounts, through the stages of growth. Thats why the powders are weighed out in those amounts (1 : 1.5) for the stock solution. They veg on A/B and flower on A/B/C until the harvesting is done. Every farmer will tweak the program to optimise the results. Increased P in early flowering helps to set more blooms. Less N and more K during ripening improves the quality and flavour. The 525 + 350 powders are measured out to make a 500 l tank with an EC of 1.4 (10 ml A and 10 ml B per litre.) Thats a bit high for my vegging and the addition of 10 ml MKP pushes the EC to 1.7, which is way over the limit, for my blooms. I aim to feed a max of 1.4 EC, so I will adjust the amounts down from the recommendation given by Shiman. Amen to that. That chart has changed since I last used hortimix. Its designed to confuse growers like us, but their nutrient calculator spreadsheet is a brilliant tool. Can you say why you add the bloom booster during veg? 1 :1 :1 is apparently for full bloom, if I read the label correctly.