Originally posted 5-7-13
So it's spring time 2013 and the weather has been great in my area. The month of April was warm and less windy than a normal year, nice for starting seeds. I popped a handful of seeds early March, and they are nice and big already. So far I have 5 plants showing sex, and 5 females. 3 or 4 are Blue Dream x 5g and 1 or 2 are Double Og Sour. This year I am not trying to grow the biggest plants ever, but I am trying to grow the highest quality herb I have ever grown. The rest of the seeds were started at the start of April, and a few around 4/20.
For soil this year I took two approaches. I drove a total of six hours and grabbed soil from a worm farm in Chico, Ca. This is the soil I am most exited about. The other soil I mixed up 3-400 gallons of a mix that has treated me well in the past. If anybody wants me to post up the soil mix, with soil tests, just let me know. After mixing my soil, getting the tests, then I re-amended the soil with the recommendations given. So I hope to have two fantastic soil mixes this year. I have also added a heap of worms from my bins to all my smart pots that already have the soil ready to go.
At transplants I add roots organics organism to the roots and I add Mycos globally. I also like to make an AACT (actively aerated compost tea) a couple days after transplant.
Other goals I am setting this year are as follows:
Test weekly Brix and plant sap ph
Maintain brix percentages above 12 at all times (unless a storm is coming, ext)
Maintain plant sap ph of 6.4, give or take .4
Use foliar feedings as main feed for plants
Find a good calcuim foliar product
Create a fantastic final product
So lets hope this year brings everybody a bountiful harvest, and don't forget to share with friends and family. Nothing like giving a friend a full basket of heirloom tomatoes and hot peppers from the garden. It's a unique way of getting to know somebody and that's the way our ancestors did things. Enough hippy talk, lets see some pics.
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Twins!
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