I can only carry in so much to amend soil, both in the physical sense and cost sense. Hauling in amendments, if you're going to build self-sufficient soil, is a LOT of work and costs a lot. Not to mention I can't use blood meal, bone meal, etc. because I'll have animals digging everything up.
As for time-release nutes, I've heard of them fucking shit up with releasing nutes at incorrect times, such as excess nitrogen during flower. I don't know if this is true or not.
I also feed my girls HEAVY. Spontanica especially will eat up all the nutes you can throw at her. During stretch I'm feeding 2x the recommended dose at 2x the recommended rate and they could eat more! I don't know if I could get that much food to them using time-release without burning them before stretch.
That, and in my environment I have to be out there removing mini greenhouses, opening up the tops of chicken-wire cages, sprayign for insects, spraying a variety of (safe) fungicides, etc. I figure I'm out there a bit anyway.
hello guys ! how are you ?
@ DuskrayTroubador, i read your thread too and it was a great grow, beautiful plants, crazy about the bear visit, i will be very interested if you could share some quick smoke report/ feedback on the strains your grew specialy the spontanica, i was interested in this strain along with KC33, leda uno, and TNR but i choose leda uno because its was a bit earlier and maybe with a bit more potency basing on other outdoor growers experience. Do you found the spontanica fems to be homogenous ? you were the first grower i saw growing KC brains fems, i have ordered a 10 seeds pack of leda uno fems, i hope the germination ratio will be as good as you, 3/4 for you if i remember well.
Maybe you could add an organic fertilizer to the soil it will help a lot but if you just add some worm casting i dont think your soil will be very very hot, depending how many worm casting you will add and your native soil. 10% high quality worm casting is good. personally in your case i will build a quality soil mix using the native soil, some organic well balanced fertilizer mix for flower or tomatoes/strawberry ferts, 10% worm casting, perlite, some guano high in P, and adjust the pH of the soil if necessary with maerl/lithothamne/dolomite lime. i will plant the very young plants in a seedling mix and dig a hole of approximatly 4 liters and fill the hole with a soil mix stronger than your seedling mix (like some biobizz all mix for example) but less strong than the quality mix. so 3 soil mix.
Another thing maybe and please take it as a grower friendly advice for your security and not a negative criticism at all, its about your security, i saw some electric poles in your pics, if you can, plant each plant in a separate plot, it will be more stealth than many plants put together.
The Green Poison FV was dank as fuck, the Spontanica is pretty potent as well. It keeps me stoned off my ass. The Special Queen is solid as well.
The Spontanica fems aren't all the same. All the seeds germinated IIRC. I remember fucking up when I went to plant somehow, but I can't remember exactly. The plants however showed some variety. Two were pretty similar, one finished a week and a half, maybe two weeks after the others. This one was also the biggest one, tipping the scale at about 2lbs dry.
The Spontanicas finish before Leda Uno does, I think.
I definitely want to use earthworm castings, some bat guano might be good, too. Insect frass is the chit (pun intended), so I recommend that. I watered it in last year, and will be mixing it into the soil and watering it in this year. Anything else you'd recommend?
As for the power lines, you're right. I'm not using that plot again next year. In fact, I'm probably never going to use either spot again; I'm probably going to somewhere completely different for this upcoming season. I probably won't figure out where with enough time to get there and properly set up with the luxury of a pre-season; I'm most likely gonna have to get there and hit the ground running.
EDIT: I also want to plant clover as a cover crop, but I don't think I'll have any time to let it germinate and grow before putting germinated seeds in the holes too. Mulch instead? Kygiacomo recommended using leaves instead of mulch, which I kinda like.
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