first legal organic outdoor grow

Palatinate_Mate looking ok ther are not enough hours of sun and the lamp was to far away at first. I guess I'll wait a couple of days until I select the strongest plants. --- 26.04 Day 13 well, stressful week.. repotted the strongest plants. I dug them a little deeper because of the long sprouts, they are ~5cm above the soil. I used a mix of : 1 part wormcasting 3 parts potting soil 1 part expandet clay I'm not shure if ill use that mix later outside as well. Whats on your mind? Whats your organic soil mix? How do you use composttea?

Palatinate_Mate The weather is still pretty nasty at my area, I'll wait a little longer until I give them sunlight. I think they took the repotting well, only the northern light has some brown spots on one leaf. Last week I had some problems with my Selfmade soil. PH was at 8.5. I did'nt have any lemon juice and i thought citric acid would work as well. The solution had PH 5 and I used half a Litre for round about 30 L of soil. And well, the soil had PH 5. I did'nt get it and tested it again, 12 h later. Same result. I think the solution i made was buffered way to much. I used two tablespoons of chalk , PH is finally at 6.0.

Palatinate_Mate Day 22 repotted them today into 4l pots. They are still inside, fan is blowing. Hopefully the weather is getting better, really want to place them outside :D the ladys show signs of deficiency, but they are still young, so I'll wait a couple of days. Nothing to worry yet, I guess. I'll fim them next week, soon after they've recovered. --- Day 25 Laydies looking fresh and healthy, only some brown n dry tips. I think the humidity was way to low while I repotted them... FIMed all of them, speedy got some LST as well. Speedy chile is quite fast it was about 2 cm bigger than the other plants. --- Day 27 The weather is better now, the plants can get some fresh air. And I failed a little :D To get them used to the sun, I placed the ladies next to a wall, without direct sunlight. They did well the whole day, in the evening I thought they'd be ready for the last rays of sunshine. It was maybe half n hour before sunset. Resulted in some burned/dried out leaves, thankfully only the lower ones. I stil cant belive that ther was to much UV light, maybe it was a combination of sun and way to low humidity? it was a little more windy at the sunspot...

Palatinate_Mate Day 29 Plants took the sun/low humidity stress well. I removed the completely dried leaves. A new problem accured: I think i failed the FIMing. I belive my cut was a little to high? I'll wait couple of days and see what happenes. Nevertheless I started LST on the northern light. I'm not shure whats the best to do with Skunk XL, initially I only planned to FIMit. Should I FIM it again? Would be nice to hear some toughts from an experienced grower. --- Day 30 I decided to FIM the failed notes again. If it wont work as well, I'll just top them. Skunks lower branches got some LST as well. --- Day 31 Holy shit, I might have killed speedy chile. The plants where outside and weather forecast said it would be cloudy from time to time. But it was sunny the whole day and I found the plants as you can see. NL and Skunk looking good. --- Day 32 Speedys condition didnt change, but at least it's not worse. At least at the moment.

Palatinate_Mate Sorry for the delay, i was out of town. --- Day 41 RIP Speedy Chile. She didnt make it. I removed her from the pot to check the roots. In my opinion they look fine. The strange thing is, the roots didnt really grow into the new soil, nearly shaped like the old pot. I Plantet it next to some herbs, lets see what happens... Im not sure, but maybe the soil was to hot. Autos tend to get nute burn if they are grown in regular fertilized soil, maybe fast flowers (like speedy chile) as well? has someone experience with fast flowering strains? NL and Skunk look pretty nice, they start growing like hell. Still weather was nasty last week, mostly rain, no more than 3h of sun. But hey, FIMing worked well, getting 4 new canopys

Palatinate_Mate day 45 weather is still nasty. Cold n rainy. i hope it will be better next week. Nevertheless the plants start to grow faster. I think Ill start to defoilate in a couple of days. --- day 48 ladies got some LST today. weather is still cloudy we had two houres of sun today, but thats ok. August is way more important :D I found two aphids and removed them. I'll keep an eye on Skunk next couple of days. defoilated northern light today.

Palatinate_Mate day 53 some birds ripped some leaves and twigs. I suspected the cat in the first place, but I found a lot of birds droppings and saw one on the plant. Skunk got some free bird topping, lucky lady ;D Also got a small greenhouse, weather is still could n rainy. Yesterday was the first day with a couple hours of sun. The girls startet to grow faster, did some LST every couple of days. They are ready for their final pot, roots start to grow out of the drainholes. Ill put them into 30-40 l pots, not sure yet.

Palatinate_Mate Repotted the ladys, Skunk got a 30l Bucket, NL 25l. They got some LSt as well.

Palatinate_Mate Well, time flies by. I was out of town but the girls did great. Weather was more summerlike than the weeks before and the plants doubled their hight. Got some bad news as well. I found some pests, traces look a little like thrips do. But they are smaller and brown, not black. Anyway, I used neemoil. The Plant are still in veg, so I didn't worry that much. The infestation on NL was way bigger than Skunks. Only the lower leaves were infested. --- Day 81 I removed some leaves, to get better ventilation and easy access to spray the plants. NL is in preflower now

Palatinate_Mate Day 92 Well I must admit, I neglegted the laydies last couple of weeks. I dont realy had time to look carefully after them, only gave them water, but i didnt check/adjust PH. Skunk xl showed marks of salt burn, so I checked the runoff water: PH 7.3 Northern Lights runoff was PH 7.2 I gave them water with PH 6.0. 6l tabwater and added 1ml vinegar essence (25%). Strange thing is: NL looks fine, no signs of PH imbalance, might be the indica dominace? Beyond that neemoil worked well and weather was inconsistend as hell. One day with 28°C the next naining with 18°C. Thx german summer

Palatinate_Mate day 99 Weather is finally summer like, sunny and hot. The girls are getting thirsty much faster then last weaks. Skunk already started to stretch, grew arround 15 cm in one week. Thats the sativa dominance I guess. They get PH adjustet water, once a week with some composttea. The PH is between 6.0-6.3 the runoff water is arround 6.5-6.8. PH is still a little to high, nevertheless the saltburn marks didn't spread. I'll let them recover a couple of days and defoliate them once more afterwards.

Palatinate_Mate day 107 Weather was not that nice last week, had two sunny days, the others cloudy or raining. The ladies got water with PH6.25 NL is still fine and didn't show any signs of salt burn. She got some diluted compost tea. Skunk has still some damaged leaves, but it didnt spread, I still didn't feed her.