OttawaLiquid's Organic Soil - Querkle, AK-47xBlockhead and Blueberry

what up Rollitup.. it's getting cold... days are getting short.. time to start growing indoors

Been busy with school but exams are almost over so here is my little grow journal

I've stepped things down a little bit

I'm just using a 250w MH and then I have a conversion bulb (magnetic ballast) that I will be switching to later

Using a little tiny 2 x 2 grow tent.

I've cracked 6 seeds with 5 down in soil

3 x Querkle - TGA
2 x BlockheadxAk-47 - Beanhoarder
1 x Blueberry - not sure who the breeder is.. I doubt its the Dutch Passion I bought it from a headshop here in town.

I'll be growing in soil ...

right now just in an organic potting mix I bought.

I'll be mixing up my own super soil with bat guano, bonemeal, green sand .. should probably do that soon and let it cook for a little while...

This is only my third run indoors and I've had problems with burning and soil pH the first two times so I'm going to keep it pretty simple this time.. I've got a little bit of bottled General Organics if I notice any deficiencies but otherwise I'll be just doing dry amendments and AACT's

Love to have you guys along for the ride. I'll try to post random shit to keep things interesting too.
Secret Jardin tent setup with mountain fresh carbon filter.. going to a 4" Vortex inline fan



Querkles are in the solo cups


AK-47 X Blockhead

Here and subbed bro

what kind of soil they in right now?

subbed up BTW

hey man better late than never here for the ride!!!

polyarcturus said:

what kind of soil they in right now?

subbed up BTW

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I'm embarassed to say it... Miracle Grow Organic potting soil

I have some vermiculite in there as well for aeration



I used sunshine Mix #4 last time.. I'm going to try a soil this time.. I gotta get some perlite ..

I mixed up some ghetto super soil last night.. I'll post the recipe and ingredients this evening.

ottawaliquid said:

I'm embarassed to say it... Miracle Grow Organic potting soil

I have some vermiculite in there as well for aeration



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I used sunshine Mix #4 last time.. I'm going to try a soil this time.. I gotta get some perlite ..

I mixed up some ghetto super soil last night.. I'll post the recipe and ingredients this evening.

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well whatever works i would just watch out for over saturation right now because that soil looks like it needs perlite, a lot of it. i was gonna recommend a soiless mix but i figured you had already had some opinions on the 2, the only thing i will say is organic soil is easy, but yield will be less if you dont feed, i would still feed, but less often and a key times.

I've got some vermiculite in there... does that not function in a similar manner? It doesn't have the same size it seems the vermiculite is quite small..

I'll be definitely finding some perlite before my first transplant.

In other news here is a hot young thang smoking a bong...

ottawaliquid said:

I've got some vermiculite in there... does that not function in a similar manner? It doesn't have the same size it seems the vermiculite is quite small..

I'll be definitely finding some perlite before my first transplant.

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no not really. they are both good substances but perlite will provide better drainage than verm. the verm will provide some but it hold some water but not as much as other substances.

you should try and put some Espoma Organic garden lime in your soil mix it will help balance your PH to a good lvl for soil. i have been ammending with it for a while now and havent had any PH issues.

RetiredMatthebrute said:

you should try and put some Espoma Organic garden lime in your soil mix it will help balance your PH to a good lvl for soil. i have been ammending with it for a while now and havent had any PH issues.

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I added a healthy amount of lime to it.. I have the pellet dolomitic lime.. I crush it as much as I can between my hands to turn it into powder as much as possible

2 Querkles showing some green!




Querkle in background and AK-47 X Blockhead foreground.. the two to the left are both AK-47 X Blockheads that haven't shown any green yet


Blueberry is still germinating.. hopefully get a tap root today and plant her!

looking great man, i am still awaiting my blueberry gum to pop out of soil. didnt check on it yesterday so hoping its up today. it had a taproot a few days ago i just think its slow going for some reason.

ottawaliquid said:

I added a healthy amount of lime to it.. I have the pellet dolomitic lime.. I crush it as much as I can between my hands to turn it into powder as much as possible

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a brick and concrete floor works. i have to do the same with my gypsum.

Or a heavy duty coffee grinder, a nice stainless steel hand crank , they can be expensive thou. Cheap electric ones will break really quick lol my second choice would be the brick and the floor... I gotta put my seabird guano in a grinder thou

haha.. good calls.. I should probably do that and get more of a dust for better distribution..

i may be wrong when i say this but lime is lime....its a mineral.

Yes it is.. I'm not sure I follow?

was just saying theres no "special kind" so why go through all the work to grind it up when you can buy it already powdered?

ah yes.. gotcha

I couldn't find powdered anywhere

Looked all over town and could only find pellet style lime

Having trouble finding perlite too this time of year..

My blueberry finally got a tap root showing so I'll likely plant her down this evening or tomorrow. Planning on running these bitches on 18/6 for the next week and then switching to 12/12. I don't have the space for 6 plants in this tiny tent so I'd like to have them sexed asap.

If only there was another way to tell.. earlier.. anyone know of any way?