Indoor Autotron's organic super soil perpetual grow

[BISCUITS]

I don’t know if I recommended it yet but if not you should read TLO 2.0 by the Rev.Sounds like you have about everything needed for an awesome mix.I highly recommend crab or shrimp meal as well or insect frass for the chitin,npk and calcium too.

 

[Autotron]

I don’t know if I recommended it yet but if not you should read TLO 2.0 by the Rev.Sounds like you have about everything needed for an awesome mix.I highly recommend crab or shrimp meal as well or insect frass for the chitin,npk and calcium too.

I remembered you mentioned TLO 2.0, where is it? Is it a post on here or a book or post somewhere else? The chitin is good for resin boost if I remember correctly, right? I thought I recall reading that the chitin or chitosan stresses them just a little to get them to produce more resin. I might be wrong though.

 

[Autotron]

I don’t know if I recommended it yet but if not you should read TLO 2.0 by the Rev.Sounds like you have about everything needed for an awesome mix.I highly recommend crab or shrimp meal as well or insect frass for the chitin,npk and calcium too.

Ended up buying the Rev's book, Total Organics and am about halfway through it. Very interesting stuff indeed. Definitely stresses the importance of letting your soil cook after amending it.

 

[Autotron]

Took @BISCUITS advice and just sprinkled a 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon of Uprising Bloom on the soil surface of each pot along with a tablespoon of freshly ground malted barley. I then put a layer of earthworm castings on top before covering it all with wood and bark mulch and watering. Hoping this gives a good boost to the life in the soil. I'll also try using some of the spikes in a week or so and also trying straw instead of wood mulch on top of other pots.

 

[Autotron]

I'm a little peeved because the Toof Decay and Sour Bubbly seeds I planted in those pots still haven't sprouted and it's been a week. The previous Sour Crack seeds I had in those same pots of soil didn't sprout either, so I'm going to assume it's something with the soil or something else specific to those pots that has caused me to lose four seeds at this point. I wonder if it's because I didn't cook the soil first or something related to pH. I would have thought the plug of straight Biobizz Lightmix in the center would have prevented any issues with that though.

I'm going to dump the soil from those pots into my recycled soil bin and start afresh. I usually just plant my seed directly in the final pot and put a clear plastic cup over it as a dome, but I'm going to be a little more rigorous this time. I'm going to put these new seeds in some distilled water until they sink, then germinate them in a moist paper towel in a cd case placed upon my germination pad to keep them warm before I plant them in the soil.

In other news, the two other Sour Crack seedlings are looking fabulous for their age so far! The one in the 1-gallon pot is a little bigger than the one in the 2-gallon pot. I'll get some pics up soon.

 

[tripaholic88]

interested to see the progression my friend

 

[Autotron]

Some pics of the two Sour Crack going at the moment in a 1 and 2 gallon smart pot. I took off two fan leaves to hopefully encourage the lower branches to shoot up. This is as aggressive as I get with training these since they're so fast and small.

 

[Autotron]

I don’t know if I recommended it yet but if not you should read TLO 2.0 by the Rev.Sounds like you have about everything needed for an awesome mix.I highly recommend crab or shrimp meal as well or insect frass for the chitin,npk and calcium too.

Thanks for the tip on the book bro! I've read the Rev's book twice over now, good stuff. I also picked up Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels, which is an interesting read too. I'm about halfway through with it.

One thing I find funny about the Rev's recipes is that he'll put in specific individual ingredients like bone meal and blood meal, and then he'll be like "add some all purpose 5-5-5 organic plant food or bulb food". Those mixes are basically partially or entirely composed of the same raw ingredients that he says to throw in there anyways. That's like looking up a recipe for chocolate cake and they're like, "add flour, butter, cocoa and chocolate cake mix from the store". Huh? I thought we were cooking from scratch here.

He also says that cooking stuff long enough is the key to mellow the super soil out and correct for any heavy dosing of any particular ingredients. Based on this, I'm inclined to just use my various Roots Organic Uprising dry mixes as the foundation for dry nutrient mixes instead of buying a bunch of new individual ingredients. Those Uprising mixes already have a broad variety of ingredients in them, so as far as I'm concerned for now, I'd rather spend my money on some of the supplements like bokashi, manure, compost, etc.

 

[BISCUITS]

I concur

 

[Autotron]

Things are chugging along smoothly with my two Sour Crack, so I'm a happy camper! I've successively pulled off six fan leaves from each as they stack nodes. I'm happy because it didn't stunt them and I can see how much it's exposed the lower branches and allowed them to grow tall. I've just been feeding them with tap water that I let sit in a bucket for several days and pH with Earth Juice citric acid crystals so that it falls in the 6.3 - 6.8 range. Luckily my tap water has only chlorine in it, but no chloramine.

Im upset because none of my three Toof Decay or two Sour Bubbly germinated successfully. I tried the paper towel method with most of them and they still didn't germinate. I put them between wet paper towels in a clean Tupperware sandwich container wrapped in a tshirt and placed on a germination pad that gives off a small amount of heat. Temps were between 80-100F. Some seriously bad Iuck, I think. I never have these problems with germination. I can't think of anything that I did that would have caused this. The AvT and WC were showing fails within two days when I put them in the same container as the TF and SB.

I popped an Alien vs Triangle and White Crack that have just sprouted in their final two gallon pots today. Super excited to see these grow since they're some of the highest THC content Mephisto strains that have actually been tested and verified.