If at first you don't succeed

@canagen

Wow! Thanks for sharing, that’s quite the recipe.

Our base mixes are identical but if I don’t use peat I usually buy Black Gold Organic potting soil as a substitute and the plant growth appears the same regardless. Never tried Pro Mix, maybe I will next time.

This is what I add (per cu ft):

1/2c Neem Meal
1/2c Kelp Meal
1/2c Insect Frass
1c Glacial Rock Dust
1c Gypsum
1c Oyster Shell Flour
1c Basalt

Cooking for 3 weeks before use.

I’m still fiddling with my recipe but it has worked very well for me. Other than the obvious differences it sounds like we follow the same practices overall. I use carbon filtered tap water but I adjust it to 6.8 and rarely water to runoff unless I want to check its pH which sits around 6.5. Occasionally watering with some teas. The major difference is the amount of amendments we both use, dang! Have you run into any issues running that mix?

For my current grow I decided to experiment with amended coco and followed the exact mixture that mr.canucksgrow on youtube uses. I actually don’t really agree with his method but I want to see for myself. Throughout veg the plant has looked fantastic. I just recently switched to flower so we’ll see how it turns out.

Yes I think that most all ‘recipes’ floating around is a variation of the Clackamas Coots orginal mix. It started out as a simple mix and then just went downhill from there. heh heh…

My three current plants are in this mix. The youngest GDP is the second plant to run through that pot. I had a seeded female in there and I wanted to see how many plants it could sustain before running out. In my previous grow using 15G pots, I was able to run 4 plants through without a topdress or re-amendment. I did run into some N tox with that mix, possibly due to adding alfalfa, bone and blood meals. I did not use them with this current mix and so far, no toxicity issues. There may be deficiency issues later on but I am still in the veg period. We will see.

Your plants are looking real good as well. Do you have a grow log going? I love weed porn!

Here is the small GDP under natural light. New growth was getting too light green for my liking so I top dressed with 1/4C mixed neem/karanja and watered with molasses added. Also snagged more worms from the bin to get them munching on the previous roots. Should keep them busy for awhile.

Do they look underfed to you? I don’t know if the soil is getting exhausted or if it was caused by this:

Temps went down to ~65 one night. It has lost the purpling so I don’t know. What do you think?

Should be fine

I agree☝️, should grow fine with time

Clackamas! I was trying to remember the name… Subcool also had a good looking mix but I haven’t tried it yet.

Unfortunately the ‘Grow With Jane’ app does not want to work on my phone. I’ve tried reaching out to support but haven’t heard back yet. If I can’t get it sorted I might just start a thread, not sure yet.

I have the google pixel 3 if anyone here knows of a fix…

I may have found an ideal seedling light.

Took the plastic lens cap off to expose the diodes and kept at ~15":

Looks like it has regained its color and responding well to the light.

Is this the one that had the Brown coloration to it

Yes though it looked purplish to me. But my concern was the lime green coloration it had prior to my topdress.

What is interesting to me is while the affected node had outgrown the coloration, the stems of its fan leaves did not. I wonder if that is normal.

Here you can see the stems alternating between green and purple.

I doubt if it will affect the outcome of the plant. Just another tidbit of info to store for later use.

Yep, many of my leaves have purple stems. I heard it could be sunburn or nutrient deficiency, however, I know it is not either of these with my plants. Therefore, I think its normal.

Genetics play a role in the purple stems too. If it was a problem there would probably be other symptoms soon after they turn purp

Just a weekly update:

GDP I @ week 11:

GDP II @ week 6:

If you look close enought, you’ll see a little Afghani poking its way out of the solo cup. One of my home grown seeds. Looks viable.

Punch Pie @ week 8:

Looking great

Thanks.

Just some interesting observations on my soil mix. It can only sustain one grow in that 7G pot. With a neem/karanja meal top-dress, it seems to have recharged the soil.

As well, I am noticing minor magnesium deficiencies in the GDP although the PP does not. A light soil drench with Epsom Salts helped but it tells me I need to increase the Dolomite Lime in the mix.

Just more stuff for me to chew on.

Cheers everyone and have a safe and happy holidays.

My respects! Organics it’s strong.

For the next cycle, I want to use organic fertilizers from Green House Seeds, they are praised in our Russian-language forums.

Getting close to flip. I believe I finally have some control over the environment with temps that hover between 68-75 and RH 51. That’s been for the whole week.

Here is my ghetto extractor setup:

I had to jam a plastic lid in the hose to further reduce air flow.

Also did some defoliation though it went against my grain but have noticed wet spots where leaves would remain in contact. Should be flipping once they have gone over the stress.

Looking bushy

I keep looking back and feel it may need more defol. What do you think?