Howdy farmers.

I got a late start on photographing these. We're almost into the beginning of week 4 in flower.

Cannatonic is a strain high in CBDs. Actually, they are almost a 1:1 THC:CBD If I remember it's roughly 8% thc + 9% cbd. Close to that. All the plants came from 1 mother. Also, I'm employing the supercropping method this time.

1st totally organic grow. I'm using SubCool's [TGA Seeds] SuperSoil mix with a couple added features. If you want the recipe let me know and I'll post it. This way, we water with vermi-tea, molasses, kelp extract, fish hydro, or R/O water, or dechlorinated water w/ a pH of between 6.0 to 6.8. Actually, Resin Seeds says their Cannatonic strain with do perfectly fine in a pH up to 7.5. Mycorrhizae and beneficial bacteria play a HUGE roll in benefiting plants in a totally organic growing medium, allowing the roots to take up the nutrients from bone meal, blood meal, jersey sand, soft rock phosphate, micronized azomite, etc. provided by the busy little beavers known as beneficial bacteria. I'm blown away by the lack of work that goes into growing this way, also by how healthy all the plants are.
By the way, the letters in the word 'Azomite' a mineral compound means: A to Z Of Minerals Including Trace Elements. I thought that was pretty neat.

Looking good so far. Please include a pic or two with normal lighting, if you get a chance, next time? I just can't seem to get used to that much purple. I can't tell how healthy they are that color, I bet they look nice.


Thanks...

SME

Okay, I'll see what I can rig up to get some "normal" lighting in there.

SisterMaryElephant wrote:Looking good so far. Please include a pic or two with normal lighting, if you get a chance, next time? I just can't seem to get used to that much purple. I can't tell how healthy they are that color, I bet they look nice.


Thanks...

SME

Don't do anything special on my account, only if it's no hassle. I don't want to make things harder for people...

What size pots are you using?

With this batch I'm using 5 gallon. I might move up to 7 gallon next time, just so there isn't any root-bound issues.

Caregiver wrote:What size pots are you using?

Everything seems to be progressing really well. The plants will be starting their 6th week [of the 8 to 10 week flowering period] this Tuesday [6-5]
Cannatonic - Resin Seeds
Temp: 73 degrees F
Co2: 1500 ppm
Water R/O
Lighting 2 - SolarStorm 800w
Fert: Organic minerals & Guano

Here's my SuperSoil recipe. It's based on SubCool's [TGA Seeds] soil recipe.

Fills 1 – 44gal. Trash can - 6.5cu Feet. I place all ingredients on a big tarp and mix w/ a shovel.

3 – 1.5cu foot bags of a good potting soil. Roots Organic, Fox Farm Ocean Forest, Vital Earth Manna Mix and alike.
2 cu feet [or 1/2 of the 4cu foot bag] COURSE Perlite
1 – 3gal bucket of small/medium Perlite [if adding the extra peat moss cited below]
25 pounds [1 bag] organic worm castings. Must contain living beneficial bacteria
2.5lbs. Steamed Bone Meal [3-15-0]
2.5lbs Indonesian Bat Guano Bloom [0.5-13-0.2]
2.5lbs Blood Meal [13-1-0]
1.5lbs.Tennessee Rock Phosphate
1/2c Epsom Salts
1/4c Sweet Lime [dolomite] Be careful as too much magnesium from the lime will stunt plants and raise pH too high.
1/4c Micronized Azomite [A to Z of minerals, including trace elements]
1/2c per cu-ft of soil: Naomi’s Mineral Mix or Agricola Mineral Mix [google to find them]
2tbls Powdered Humic Acid
Add Mycorrhizae to suit – Usually 1 ounce Fungi Perfecti Myco-Grow
> Verma tea: Use to wet the Super Soil & add beneficial microbes. 3 Gallons R/O water [any water without chlorine or chloramines], 2c Worm Castings, 3oz molasses, 2oz ECO-Kelp, 2oz ECO-Fish. Aerate for 24 hours, then add to soil.


Add all ingredients on a tarp and mix well. Add Tea and mix well again.
Shovel 2 to 3 shovel scoops into the garbage storage can and sprinkle in a little of the compost tea water, if necessary.
Repeat till full.

Let sit for 2 weeks then dump it out on the tarp and mix well again. Add back into garbage can. Let sit for at least 2 more weeks.
Keep slightly damp, water only if necessary, and water with Verma tea.
Adjust pH. Desired pH is 6.5 [6.0 to 6.8 is fine] The pH will adjust itself so don't get too into trying to control the pH.

To lower pH, use “Alaska Peat” Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss: 1 – 3gal bucket of peat moss will lower the pH approx. 0.3 points when added to the above recipe of SuperSoil. Add the same amount of small Perlite as Peat at 1:1 to counteract the water retention ability of the peat moss with the aeration and drainage abilities of the Perlite.

By far one the best thing I've done is to use Fungi Perfecti's - MYCO GROW Mycorrhizal Root Dip Gel. 1 tsp to a quart of water, let gel-up, then dip the ready-to-plant cloned roots in the gel. You are adding myco directly to the entire root system. When you transplant to your last pot, you will see the most vibrant, healthy, massive roots ever. Plus the added benefit of the myco helping the plants more easily take up moisture and most importantly, lots of phosphorus during flowering from your organic minerals.

I've planted young plants [2 weeks out of the cloner] directly into this SuperSoil mix without any adverse effects. No burns of any kind. The added course Perlite allows for more air in the root-zone. When growing organically in soil, you probably won't get those HUGE arm-size buds like the hydro guys get, but I guarantee the organic bud will taste fantastic!

what is the distance from the plant tops to your light ?.... thanks

I'm new to the forum but I've been browsing a while and I wanted to congratulate you on your purely organic gardening technique! I'm curious as to how this one yields for u because I wonder how much potential for yield is in organic soil in the first place as compared to a more active style of cultivation such as hydro... Also, have you looked into the cloth pots? One of my biggest fears about organic soils is their oxygen availability and I feel like cloth pots would help that and they're already proven awesome for new root growth stimulation in the first place as they air-prune the roots and encourage new tips to shoot.

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