Automatics make good Organic sinse

Appreciate the reply! I’ll get my pots ready ahead of time

 

I’m not sure this is telling or not as all plants were thirsty and this photo was taken minutes after watering. Day 34.



I did label the pots! The healthy praying plant on the left (Sweet and Sour 1) is in the 11 week prepared soil and looks the healthiest and biggest. The middle is a SODK in the reused soil that was full of old roots, and the right side is Sweet and Sour 2 that went into freshly mixed soil. It’s not exactly exhaustive proof but the prepped soil with bennies is growing the healthiest and biggest plant so that’s something I guess...

As an aside, my wife is caring for them at the moment and she took it upon herself to cut a couple of fingers off the larger fan leaves that are blockers. I can’t tell which ones she did from the photo but thought it was good thinking! As long as it’s not a conduit for pathogens (which I think is possible) it seems like a good half way house. Let some light through to the lowers and still be able to photosynthesise. Anyone got thoughts on this? I mean, you wouldn’t fuck around like this on a commercial grow but we are crafting 3 plants in a tiny tent here so can pander to the little ladies as much as we like.


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Left these out just for experimental reasons as I've noticed the plants aren't as affected by temperature as I thought they previously were not saying that these can grow through the snow who knows but it didn't get cold enough to freeze last night so I left them out just to see what they'd do in the snow and absolutely nothing happened though it was only one night and the male is droopy he's not happy about the reveg process and all the sunlight he's getting now that wasn't from snow you can see the female is still perfectly fine she's had no issues but she wasn't flowered then reveg it is supposed to get below freezing at one point tonight but only for a brief hour I'll put them in the garage I don't want any frozen pieces tomorrow morning

 

Thanks to Mauwie I went out and mixed up all the soil, slightly different mixes in each so I’m curious to see what performs the best. They’re sitting in my dark tent now until I get my beans.



I will be keeping it moist but would it be a good idea to give it a little spray of water and molasses? Maybe that’ll help kickstart everything

 

I'd hit it with some water and 200x aloe and call it a day. I've never used molasses though

 

Don’t have Aloe :/ I’ll have to see where I can get it from around here

 

I don't know molasses is needed, but how I start the process is by fully hydrating that soil, field capacity top to bottom. Then I just let it sit, in my growing condition. Lights on, etc.. That's when I stabilize the environment. Humidifier, dehumidifier, ac, heater etc.. Whatever you need to dial it in so the temp and rh are as stable as possible before you drop beans. Becomes second nature after you do it a few times, but with autos you want to keep your Temps up around 80 all the time, that takes some effort to truly dial in the grow space.
Anyway, I can't say if you should or shouldn't use molasses, but getting em up to temp and hydrated is important. Sorry to ramble, I'm doing another sampling of my Malawi, and is just has my mind in a trance.
I'm excited to watch your grow, my official guess to the biggest plant goes to that bigger grow bag

 

Those plants look fantastic.

 

Of all the VPD charts I’ve looked at, I like this one the most. Thanks for sharing!!


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I believe I have my temp controller set to stay between 77 and 85. Right now as it's cool the heater kicks on when it hits 77 and shuts off at 85. They seem to be happy. I may turn the high range down from. 85 to 82-83 and keep a really narrow swing

 

Rambles are appreciated, they give me lots to read and learn haha. It’s gonna take some work for me to reach 80’s I think unless my light gives off a good amount of heat (I’m in a cold basement) but they’ll be outside after a month anyways. The pots are hydrated and chillin in the tent so they’ll have like a week to sit before they even see a seed.

I will be putting a CDLC in a 5 gallon and the 7 gallon (bigger one) then a freebie in the other 5 so we’ll see how that turns out!

Save the molasses for teas?

 

Also I appreciate all your guys’ help and patience. I tend to overthink and stress out a little so I’m always asking questions and worrying.

That’s why I like organics... LITFA (kinda)

 

I don't make those kind of teas, I can't say. I do use some alfalfa and kelp tea, but not active. More of an extract tea for gibberlins and natural growth regulators, as well as micronutrients. And plenty of folks grow autos under 80 degrees and do well, I would say it's mandatory but I have had stunted autos before, and now I go the extra mile to make sure temp isn't a reason if it happens again. Lol.
Back to the molasses, I wonder what the NPK is on that? I see a lot of folks using that and it has me curious.

 

I’ll see what I can do about temps!

I’m not sure what the NPK values would be, to my knowledge its mainly used for the sugar and carbs to feed the microbes? I think? Could be bro-science

 

Scratched in a few tbs of fishbone meal. She's going to get big. Seems happy so far except for the foliar I did and was in a hurry so I didn't get all the neem emulsified well enough. Didn't seem to burn it though

 

Hi guys!

Its been 10 days after I first post about the overwatering issue that I experienced. Now girls look like that... I take off the leaves that are dry and death. Today is the day 45 and there are no flowers. Is it due to the stress of over watering ? I saw some new growth on the branches that can be seen in images.

I am totally lost right now. Dont know what to do. A bit sad and unmotivated. They look unhealthy and given up. Could you please help me ?

Is there any chance that they can be harvested ? Should I start a new grow ?

 

It’s just easy. I’ve got printed sheets all over my walls but this is way easier.


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I get so impatient at this stage. I want to see pistils! As I already chucked out a male from Falcon’s Reg auto seeds I used, I don’t want to see another. It’s tricky working away from home and relying on photographs.


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Ok, the advance soil prep question got me thinking. Here’s a question for you experienced and clever folk, if I want to keep all my soil from my fabric pots after harvest, how should I store it? I don’t intend to grow over the summer months (I’ll be working plus it’s difficult for me to control temps), so I’d need to store my soil for 3 months. I want to keep it indoors. Just leave in the bags with a little moisture or tip it all out into a bigger container. Leave roots or take them out?


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