indianajones
Well-Known Member
Hey guys and gals, it's been a long time since I've been able to really post anything. Here's what I'm working with now, just a personal grow for me and the ol' lady. I started a single seed in some cali connection tahoe og, a single seed in another bag of OG, and six seeds in some critical kush that were pollinated by a herm afghani. so far the tahoe and two of the critical have shown female. Space is 40"x76", but it has very little headroom, plants can only be 24-30" from the top of the soil. Not really looking forward to OGs in such a short space, but it's what I had on hand.
I started veg under 2x 20w 2' LED fixtures from lowes, they are 4000k and make 90 lumens per watt, cri is 83. After they had filled out their dixie cups, I transplanted them into 3g containers of my soil mixture and put them under a 3100k 315w sunsystem. I've got minimal work to finish light proofing the space so my plan is to get them started flowering on Monday. I'm going to re-wire my COB fixture next week and get it put in there with the 315w. Would have done it this week but I finished the vegetable garden and planted over 900 seeds for the CSA.
So here's my soil mix
1 cu ft coco
1 cu ft organic seedling soil
5 gallons coco chips
2 spent lions mane mushroom substrates
2/3 lb coarse ground wheat bran
2 cups espoma garden tone
2 cups azomite
1 cup food grade pure calcium carbonate lime (which was a big fuckin mistake using pure calcium carbonate)
So the soil mix works really well except for being magnesium deficient. I didn't really think about it when I was mixing the soil, but the calcium carbonate lime is for edible saprophytic mushrooms, which don't like magnesium. I should have picked up a bag of dolomite lol, because I could have avoided a magnesium deficiency. My tap water has too much calcium as well, so I'm diluting it 50% with distilled and adding some Epsom salt. I use botanicare pure blend pro (grow for now, will switch to bloom in flower) as a pH down, it only takes 3 mL per gallon to get the pH to ~6.6 after i dilute with distilled.
Now on to some pics, because who reads nowadays anyway? Oh, one more thing, you will probably see pictures from my mycology lab in here, so I hope you enjoy mushroom photos.
Lion's mane mushrooms just starting to fruit
pestalotiopsis microspora- this is the same isolate of plastic digesting fungi found in Ecuador by Yale researchers.
Germination station
Babies a couple weeks back
After getting on top of that mag def, taken in the last cpl days.
I started veg under 2x 20w 2' LED fixtures from lowes, they are 4000k and make 90 lumens per watt, cri is 83. After they had filled out their dixie cups, I transplanted them into 3g containers of my soil mixture and put them under a 3100k 315w sunsystem. I've got minimal work to finish light proofing the space so my plan is to get them started flowering on Monday. I'm going to re-wire my COB fixture next week and get it put in there with the 315w. Would have done it this week but I finished the vegetable garden and planted over 900 seeds for the CSA.
So here's my soil mix
1 cu ft coco
1 cu ft organic seedling soil
5 gallons coco chips
2 spent lions mane mushroom substrates
2/3 lb coarse ground wheat bran
2 cups espoma garden tone
2 cups azomite
1 cup food grade pure calcium carbonate lime (which was a big fuckin mistake using pure calcium carbonate)
So the soil mix works really well except for being magnesium deficient. I didn't really think about it when I was mixing the soil, but the calcium carbonate lime is for edible saprophytic mushrooms, which don't like magnesium. I should have picked up a bag of dolomite lol, because I could have avoided a magnesium deficiency. My tap water has too much calcium as well, so I'm diluting it 50% with distilled and adding some Epsom salt. I use botanicare pure blend pro (grow for now, will switch to bloom in flower) as a pH down, it only takes 3 mL per gallon to get the pH to ~6.6 after i dilute with distilled.
Now on to some pics, because who reads nowadays anyway? Oh, one more thing, you will probably see pictures from my mycology lab in here, so I hope you enjoy mushroom photos.
Lion's mane mushrooms just starting to fruit
pestalotiopsis microspora- this is the same isolate of plastic digesting fungi found in Ecuador by Yale researchers.
Germination station
Babies a couple weeks back
After getting on top of that mag def, taken in the last cpl days.
