Chronikool, you always post nice pics, but Ive been only around for a few months on this thread, I am curious, can you tell me or us, if there are others wondering as well, a little bit about your growing setup, soil? Want to know whats behind your always wonderful pictures!
No troubles. Pretty simple with my setup and i think a lot of other people seem to complicate the growing of weed.
SOIL: So i 'started' this soil about 6 years ago (has moved house twice now) from some generic bagged mix/compost...(to be honest i dont remember) and it has been recycled numerous times as i have grown continuously throughout that 6 years. The magic comes from the fresh homemade worm castings and compost that i add.
AMENDMENTS: So i pay about 80 bucks every 6 months for my amendments. They include Blood and Bone (with seaweed) Sulphate of Potash, Basalt rock dust, Dolomite lime, Chicken and Sheep manure pellets. I gave up guanos about 6 months ago as i found them unnecessary. The rest i make at home, worm castings, compost and Korean Natural farming amendments.
WATERING: Tropf Blumats take care of my everyday watering needs and every so often i will make up a Malted Barley enzyme tea with worm castings (no molasses) or a FPJ (fermented plant juice) will be added. Not that strict on that as my soil has already got a lot of goodness in there.
LIGHTING: All DIY LED fixtures. Citizen, Luminus, Bridgelux, Cree and Samsung diodes and controlled wirelessly with Sonoff modules.
ENVIRONMENT: So i have 5 x flowering tents, 1 x veg tent, and 1 x clone/seedling tent. This is a perpetual setup that works quite well for me. Flowering tents are all 2.5 x 2.5. Veg tent is a 4 x 4 tent on its side making it a 4 x 7 (x4) and the clone tent is a 2.5 x 2.5 on its side making it a 2.5 x 6 (2.5) I have 2 x carbon filters that take care of the smell.
METHOD: So running a perpetual setup, there is always something to do, and i work best when i have a routine and lots of small jobs. Ill start from veg. So from a half gallon plastic container they go into 5 gallon fabric pots as they enter the flowering tents. In this transplant i add amended soil, worm castings (worms included) and some clover and alfalfa seeds to the top so they can germinate going into flower. Upon completion of flowering, the plants are cut and the soil in dumped into bigger totes where i reamend it, water it and sit it under a tarp with 5 other totes. (so each reamended tote has 12 weeks of sitting time) i water the totes every 2 weeks.
Sorry if that was boring and drawn out.