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Water straight from the tap does no harm to soil biology. A bit of chlorine is a good thing.

I've trained all the girls in the big pots this weekI hadto raise the lights to fit the cages over the girlsThis one is growing nicelyAll the youngest ones are coming along.I clones the seed plants to identify their sexThe cheese pheno hunt is now in phase 2. All 3 big Buddha plants have now got some daughters.2 weeks since the last feed. 1 teaspoon of gypsum and one tablespoon of 5 3 5.2 out of 6 fems have made itmore pruning and trainingLush green and happy plants.

@nakes yes, you can add dry ammendments to your existing soil. The amounts will depend on what's already in your soil and the size of your pot. If the plants are really green then go easy with the nitrogen. Dolomite raises pH, only use a small amount. Heres a list with the right proportion and components https://www.royalqueenseeds.nl/growing/334-vertafort-100-gram.html

Fire juice is rank, but the plants love it. it's ingredients are fermented ostrich bones. I kicked over a bottle in the garden once and it stank out the place. You can use any of the liquid feeds mentioned, or buy the pellets and granules at the garden centre. You can mix your own with your nitrogen from the pigeon, Bonemeal will add phosphate, dolomite lime for magnesium, gypsum for calcium and potassium sulphate to push the flowers along.

Pigeon is one of the strongest manures. The smaller the animal, the hotter the poop. Talborne is good for soil indoors, if a little bit smelly. Ever time you water it in it releases a whiff of poop. It contains some bone meal and chicken poop. I use some soy meal granules called Naturado that doesn't smell and its decent for flowering indoors.

Thats a good call. Turbo grow has soluble Sillica too https://turbo-grow.co.za/composition-and-application/

@GGG a bit of Sunday MacGyver when you can't find any clear cups.

They look fantastic and I hope you enjoy your reward for the efforts.

Maintain the right temps and don't worry about humidity. As your ladies grow and you water more then the humidity will also rise up. Good luck with the house building, did you design a grow room into the plans?

@Marzcanna hi there, that isn't something that I would try directly into the pots. Nettles contain a bit of sillica, or river sand for some long term benefit. liquid silicon can be used as a foliar spray, but it's made from potassium sillicate, so its very strong alkaline. It will also give a good boost of available potassium that the foliage can absorb. Just go low and slow with the dose, if you are tempted.

Today the seedlings all got topped. I spouted 6 out of 6. I put the between a damp tissue and put the them by the heater. Within 48 hours they all cracked and today I put them into pots of the seedling mix. Choc Gelato, Palomino, Double Sunset and Tortoni.

This week I managed to burn my 2 hash plant cuttings, so I scraped off the top dressing and just gave them plain water. Playing around with different soils for the cuttings. This one is in Best Green peat mossAll the young ones before I topped them.The 2 big ones are nearly ready to flip over to 12/12.A new mix for clones and seeds. 4 parts coco 2 parts Best Green and 1 part perlite.

Hello GGG, your soil looks like a winner and sounds simple to use. I want to nominate another brand too https://www.norsag.co.za/floragard.html It will provide feed for around 4 weeks before feeding and can also be mixed with Coco and compost too.

They look really lush and are growing fast. Do you fill the screen before you flip? And are there any drain holes in the bottom of your totes?

Good luck and have fun with your autos. Are they feminised seeds?

@GGG Thanks for that, I will check out your diary too. I aim to try and make it low maintenance and keep the costs down at the same time. The worms keep busy in the pots and I put on the regular top feeds. I mix together an even amount of worm castings with peat. Then blend it in with a 5 kg brick of coco.

I topped the two hash plants and cleaned up the bottom branches. I put down some worm castings, along with some more gypsum and 5-3-5 granules. They were looking hungry so I gave 2 scoops of feed and one full scoop of gypsum, this time. I'm watering them once a day. I spray 500 ml onto each pot so that there isn't any runoff, I aim to keep the roots moist without them sitting in a damp puddle. The water is straight out of the tap and I don't ammend the pH.

I planted up my hash plants on Wednesday evening. One has mycoroot and the other without. Let's see if it makes any differenceTwo similar sized clones for the myco experiment.my seedlings are staring to pick up and are looking greener this week.new cuttings from the hash plant/blueberry girls.I put these two into some fresh soil and topped them up with some worm castings I planted some raddish in the big pots and topped up with more worms and castings.

If anyone in Cape Town needs worms to start their own farm, they can hit me up. I've got a thriving population and will gladly share with the forum.

Good luck to all the contestants, this looks like a fun competition with some great prizes.

@Live Canna thanks for the tip. I'm down in the Cape Town area and the only time I used Lucerne it came in a big bale for horses. We put it into the compost pile and it made it really heat up. It's good to know that you can also use it indoors too. @The_StonedTrooperthe bricks I buy are supposed to be Pre washed and buffered but the EC starts off at 2.2 and it's only after soaking and rinsing it out twice that I bring it down to 0.7 Its a lot of effort it takes a long time to get it ready to use.

last week's neem spray was a bit heavy at 3 ml but the only bugs I can see now are fungus gnats. The leaves didn't like the spraying every 3 days but it seems to have broken the remaining mites and thrips. I cleaned up the bottom branches and will give a spray of fish mix next time. On Tuesday I did a top feed of malted barley and on Thursday I did a light spray with kelpak at 0.5 ml. The seedlings all had the same dose too. I took the lid off the clones today and noticed the first root poking through. Now the humidity is higher its a good time to harden them off before they get transplanted. This weekend I must put up the rest of the mylar, before the irrigation gets put it into place. keep it green out there and have a good one.

@Live CannaThey are looking much better now. Was it Atami Coco that you used? I have used their blue bag and it was really good quality. I've had lots of problems with using the bricks though and it takes a lot of water to get it ready to use. How much alfalfa do you mix in and where do you get the it from?

I only asked because I used the 50 litre bricks and the salts need rinsing out and then the Coco has to be dried before blending in the rest of the mix. How are the plants looking this week?

All these tents look very tidy to me. This is my attempt at a bathroom conversion.