SO this is my first grow diary on the forum, Ive actually been documenting this grow for my return Youtube series (After Youtube Kindly flagged me) so i will use the still images for this grow diary.
At the current stage I'm about a week away from switching my girls to 12/12. The strains are tall plants, Blue Dream, Durban Poison & Pure Power Plant, in limited space, for that reason I've trained them and decided to do a 6 week veg. For this grow I'm testing 2x "1000w" LEDs which was gifted to me by a friends company.
For this run I decided to test a theory that's been circulating around the net (especially with a certain YouTube grower) that you can grow in amended coco, i've grown in coco & perlite for years, measuring EC & PH, we know its an insert medium, and understanding how coco works and is used we can understand why adding amendments to it might rise a few eyebrows. We ll find out if it's possible. With that said I will also be growing in organic soil & we will do a side by side.
First I washed and buffered a brick of coco with a solution of cal-mag for 16hrs
The Amendments
Alfafa Meal
Aloe Meal
Basalt Rock Dust
Bio-Char
Canna-Kashi
Calcitic Lime
Diatomaceous Earth
Dolomite Lime
Fulvic Acid
Frass
Guano (Sea Bird)
Gypsum
Humic Acid
Kelp Meal
Malted Barley
Manganese Oxide
Montmorillonite Clay
Soft Rock Phosphate
Zeolite
Mycorrhizal Fungi
2weeks old At this point i had to leave town for awhile and had someone do a bad job of looking after the seedlings
Abit of yellowing especially in the coco, I would think it was a lack of cal-mag and bad watering
Veg Stage
After a month I transplanted them and they were able to bounce back
At this point I had also given them some compost tea
3 weeks into Veg I ran into a problem with fungus gnats
Sprayed them with some neem oil & I setup some sticky traps. The fungus gnats were sorted out
Where Are We At Now?
We at day 34 of veg, some of the plants have very small growth in soil, cocos are growing well, as for the lights I'm eager to see how they do in flower, worse case i swap them out for my quantum's. Space is also a concern so I've done a bit of training before I switch them.
Will Update in a week or 2, I plan to defoliate some plants and send them into flower