~ OG Chem ~ quest for the odor of death ~

[quiescent]

I've got 4 Sun Hut Silver tents, here's a quick run down of the equipment I've got in them.

Sun Hut XXL (4.75' x 9' x 7')
2 - Magnum XXXL 6" hoods
2 - Hydrofarm magnetic 1kw HPS ballasts powering Hortilux Super HPS bulbs
3 - 6" inline fans... 2 are scrubbing and exhausting out of the tent, the other is exhausting the lights from the hoods pulling air from outside of the tent

(2) Sun Hut XL's (4.5' x 4.5' x 7')
Each tent has identical equipment
Hydrofarm Radiant 6" hoods
Hydrofarm magnetic 600w HPS ballasts powering Hortilux Super HPS bulbs
6" inline fan scrubbing, going through the hood and exhausting out of the tent

Sun Hut LG (3' x 4.5' x 7')
4 bulb HO-T5 light
6" inline fan scrubbing the space, hooked to a fan controller

 

[quiescent]

I made all the soil I'm currently using in late summer/early fall. I over-complicated the hell out of it but I think that I've ended up with a more consistent soil that's giving me far less problems than my previous mix that I ended up having pH/calcium availability issues with.

I started off making my compost mix portion in mid summer. Its not ideal and I know there's a few people that are going to say that "its easier and cheaper to do it yourself"... that requires foresight of the need and the time to make the compost, frankly I had neither but was more than glad to pay for some quality bagged products.
In 8-10 (could have been as high as 12.... terrible memory) 35 gallon totes I mixed up a few storebought compost items. Each tub recieved a deposit of:

(2) 40lb bags of Green Thumb mushroom compost
25lb bag of earthworm castings.... good shit, as good as it gets without coming out of your own bin
1.5 cubic feet Monrovia Plant Compost
1.5 cubic feet Monrovia Soil Amendment
4lb bag of Espoma Bio-Tone Starter+ 4-3-3 (Hydrolyzed Feather Meal, Pasteurized Poultry Manure, Cocoa Meal, Bone Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Greensand, Humates, Sulfate of Potash, and
Sulfate of Potash Magnesia)


I've used a wide range of Monrovia products for a couple of years now in the veggie garden, all quality and mostly organic... not 100% sure what's in their soil amendment but I think its got some oscomote in it, not organic but it works well enough for me to allow it into the "grey area". I've tried to be 100% organic in the past, have had a few issues with the soil I mix myself until this new batch.

I let this sit for at least a month, feel it was closer to 6 weeks though. It came out smelling fucking great and it had a pretty good consistency considering its moisture retention properties.

Given that I'm growing many strains, a lot of blueberry crosses with a few sativa leaning crosses that eat on the light side of things I saw the need for many different soils. I had previous experience working with ProMix BX and Sunshine #4 and realized they'd be perfect in helping me achieve the differences I needed. The SS4 is what I used for the hotter mixes, the heavier feeders also tend to need better moisture retention as they drink more. I used the BX in the lighter feeders, if it was available at my nursery I woulda used the shit that has yucca in it instead.
The measurements given are how much I mixed together at one time, any more and you're working too damn hard to mix it evenly.

Seed Starter - I start seedlings and clones in this
5 gallons ProMix BX
1 gallon EWC
1/2 gallon chunky #4 perlite
1/3 cup dolomite lime
1/4 cup Espoma Bio-Tone Starter+ 4-3-3 (Hydrolyzed Feather Meal, Pasteurized Poultry Manure, Cocoa Meal, Bone Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Greensand, Humates, Sulfate of Potash, and
Sulfate of Potash Magnesia)


Mid-Late Veg Mix - I usually do 2-3 transplants after the seed starter mix, I only use this in veg
3 gallons compost mix
5 gallons ProMix BX
1 gallon chunky #4 perlite
1.5 cup dolomite lime
1.75 cup Monrovia 3-6-4 (feather meal, bone meal, blood meal, potash of magnesia, kelp meal and alfalfa meal)
1 cup Dr. Earth's Kelp .6-.5-2.5
1 cup Espoma Jersey Green Sand 0-0-.1
1/2 cup Sunleaves Peruvian Seabird Guano 10-10-2


Normal Feeder Mix - has Sunshine Mix #4
5 gallons compost mix
5 gallons Sunshine Mix #4
2 gallons bricked GH coir
1 gallon chunky #4 perlite
1.5 cups dolomite lime
2 cups Monrovia 5-6-6 (feather meal, bone meal, blood meal, potash of magnesia, kelp meal and alfalfa meal)
1 cup Dr. Earth's Kelp .6-.5-2.5
1 cup Espoma Jersey Green Sand 0-0-.1
1/2 cup Sunleaves Peruvian Seabird Guano 10-10-2


Light Feeder Mix - has ProMix BX
5 gallons compost mix
5 gallons ProMix BX
2 gallons bricked GH coir
1 gallon chunky #4 perlite
1.5 cups dolomite lime
1.75 cups Monrovia 3-6-4 (feather meal, bone meal, blood meal, potash of magnesia, kelp meal and alfalfa meal)
1 cup Dr. Earth's Kelp .6-.5-2.5
1 cup Espoma Jersey Green Sand 0-0-.1
1/2 cup Sunleaves Peruvian Seabird Guano 10-10-2


Guano - No Coir - has mix of BX and SS4
5 gallons compost mix
3 gallons Sunshine Mix #4
2 gallons Promix BX
1 gallon chunky #3 perlite
1/3 cup Sunleaves Mexican Bat Guano 10-2-1
1/3 cup Sunleaves Peruvian Seabird Guano 10-10-2
1/3 cup Sunleaves Jamaican Bat Guano 1-10-.2
1/3 cup Sunleaves Indonesian Guano .5-12-.2
1.5 cups dolomite lime
1 cup Dr. Earth's Kelp .6-.5-2.5
1 cup Espoma Jersey Green Sand 0-0-.1


Earth Juice Mix - has ProMix BX / No Coir - to be used in conjunction with a bottled organic fert/regular AACT diet
5 gallons compost mix
5 gallons Promix BX
1 gallon chunky #3 perlite
3/4 cup FoxFarm Tomato & Vegetable 7-4-5 (feather meal, bone meal, fish meal, fish bone meal, sulphate of potash of magnesia, alfalfa meal, blood meal, bat guano, kelp meal and gypsum)
3/4 cup FoxFarm Fruit & Flower 5-8-4 (feather meal, bone meal, hydrolyzed fish, fish meal, fish bone meal, sulphate of potash of magnesia, alfalfa meal, blood meal, bat guano, rock phosphate and gypsum)
1.5 cups dolomite lime
1 cup Espoma Jersey Green Sand 0-0-.1


After mixing I added Espoma Garden Gypsum @ .75 cups/~15-20 gallons of medium and watered with a nice EWC/molasses tea.

I let the mix sit and was not happy with how much water it retained, too much mushroom compost me thinks...... In lieu of that issue I have been mixing what comes out of my tubs at a 3:1 ratio with ProMix BX before planting. My plants are happy so I will likely continue cutting my tubs with the BX and supplement the nutrients lost with top dressings of EWC/guano/kelp after the stretch stops. Just to make sure its clear:

I HAVE BEEN CUTTING WHAT IS IN MY TUBS WITH PROMIX BX AT A 3:1 RATIO DUE TO MOISTURE RETENTION ISSUES

 

[quiescent]

I've been using almost all of the Earth Juice line with a bit of Botanicare's Silica Blast here and there. I basically feed the "Normal" dose of everything in the line as needed. I feed the normal dose of catalyst and microblast in between feedings. This is what I've got at my disposal at the moment as far as bottled nutes go...

Earth Juice Grow 2-1-1
Earth Juive Bloom 0-3-1
Earth Juice Microblast
Earth Juice Catalyst
Earth Juice Meta-K 0-0-4
Earth Juice Hi-Brix Molasses 0-0-3
Botanicare Silica Blast

I've got some liquid seaweed and fish as well but only use the kelp as a foliar here and there, fish just sits there..... if I got my hand on a quart of some neptunes fish/seaweed I'd be more likely to use them once in a while.

Once I run out of the EJ grow/bloom I am going to be switching to the GO line for my macro/micronutrient needs. I will likely still keep using the EJ Catalyst, Hi-Brix and Meta-K.

I thought it was worth mentioning that I also have tons of all of the Sunleave's guanos and EWC so I might top dress with that and use the EJ line as a constant nutrient stream/a pH down

 

[quiescent]

I started off with 3 packs of seeds, all 30 were above ground, I had 8 runts
Out of the remaining 22 plants I culled all the floppiest stemmed plants and was left with 12 plants. I lost a few females in the cloning process so today I stand with 6 females and 3 males.

The males will be held onto for later use, the females will be flowered out sensi in the coming weeks. Most likely under 600w in a 4x4 until space opens up in the 4x8 under the 1ks. It will probably be at day 10-14 of 12/12 when it hits the big show.

Not many specifics because things are still in the planning stages, trying to figure out how I'm going to control the stretch. Thinking tomato cages might be in use again.

When I up pot these I'll update, pics are from yesterday before I took 4-6 clones from each plant reducing them to 4-8 branches.

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[Hundred Gram Oz]

Hi bro they are all looking very healthy, they are gonna be huge Thanks for sharing.

HGO

 

[hazefest]

Wow, let me start by saying thanks for staring such an awesome thread (im real excited about this one). You have some beautiful, healthy plants there so i reckon the soil is a winner for sure.....love the size of them too, gonna be some crazy big yields.
Cant wait to see the weight start piling on.
Peace

 

[Sour Joe]

you should definately make f2s

nice veg also

 

[chefro420]

Looks great!! Can't wait to see what you get !

Just train the hell out of them! Those are gonna be huge in that tent ! All 3 phenos I ended up with had a huge stretch!

 

[CurbsideService]

great pics, great thread...thanks for sharing...I think i need a pack of these now!

 

[kai04]

nice pics and plants bro and not to forget ur set up,they ovs. love that soil of yours quality m8 hope you get loads of goodness my friend

 

[quiescent]

Hi bro they are all looking very healthy, they are gonna be huge Thanks for sharing.

HGO

Wow, let me start by saying thanks for staring such an awesome thread (im real excited about this one). You have some beautiful, healthy plants there so i reckon the soil is a winner for sure.....love the size of them too, gonna be some crazy big yields.
Cant wait to see the weight start piling on.
Peace

you should definately make f2s

nice veg also

Looks great!! Can't wait to see what you get !

Just train the hell out of them! Those are gonna be huge in that tent ! All 3 phenos I ended up with had a huge stretch!

great pics, great thread...thanks for sharing...I think i need a pack of these now!

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my thread guys, I really appreciate it!~

The stretch.... the stretch.... the stretch....

Those two words have been killing me the past few days. Are we talking 2 or 3x?

I've been leaning very heavily on up potting the 4 in smaller pots to 7 gallon pots trained with regular tomato cages. The two in 5 gals would go into 10 gallon buckets with triangle scrog type cages. This would be done Saturday, which is when I planned on flipping the switch to 12/12.

I'm hoping the 600w slows them down enough, I can dream right? LOL

 

[t.rex.]

do you mind if i post a pic or two of OG chem in your thread?

 

[quiescent]

go ahead man, can't see too many nice buds!

 

[t.rex.]

cheers to you, bro. out of my 4 female from seed, 1 is chem dankness, 2 are sweet n' funky kush, and 1 smells real light and kind of like plastic for lack of better descriptor. the pic with the cup is my favorite of the two kushy girls.

These are at 37 days 12/12.

 

[blackrome]

How long have you had those in veg.

 

[connoisseur 420]

quest for odor of death

you picked the right strain bro

these stink even in veg

looking good so far

i gurantee you will be finding a winner or 3 from the remaining if not we will send you another 3 packs for free

so keep this thread going and we will honour our word

peace#

 

[Mister Postman]

I'm following along with this one.. Good luck the rest of the way quiescent. Looking good.

I'm currently growing Rez's SFV OG x ChemdogD. Not sure how these two crosses differ other then the male, but I do see some similarities in growth structure so far.

 

[catch22frubert]

I'd def love to fill a tent with some of those stanky ladies...lookin great. These are high up on my wanted beans list. I need some og chem in my life.

 

[KindBudKid]

Conn.. When are some more of these gonna be available??