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Just before I ran out of plant space, I ran out of root space. So, I bought some medium sized plantable peat containers, they're grrreat. Just plant em whenever the roots poke through. I filled them with the following soil mixture.

Soil

70% Premium Potting soil with slow release fertilizer

Nutrient analysis
N - 0.08%
P- 0.24%
k- 0.08%

30% - Organic Starter mix

This shit is quite light and loamy which helps make up for
the heaviness of the potting soil. Also it includes many
organic materials including sphagnum peat moss, composted
softwood bark fines, horticulutural grade vermiculite,
major and minor organic nutrients, and a wetting agent to
increase absortion of water.

I also added quite a bit of broken up eggshells into the mix, maybe 10%.
Then I mulched the soil with a full, even coating of ground eggshells. I watered pretty well everyday and later every other for the first 6 weeks.

Then I moved the plants down into the large grow zone. (155 watts fluorescent light producing 10 000 lumens)

I vegged my five plants on a 16/8 cycle. An even longer night than the reccommended 18/6.

I Think that the result is slower growing, more healthy plants, under the idea that roots develop at night, and better roots equals better plants. I vegged for about 5 weeks.

At some point i transplanted again, directly planted the peat containers. I think the new pots are 8" diamater and 10" high. Prolly too small but they'll have to do as I have no more horizontal space.

Then I gave them 12/12 for a week so I could determine the sexes, destroyed
the three males and put the two females back to 16/8.

A week later they went through a week with no water.
This mocks a natural drought. During this time they exploded.
Doubled in height. So I flushed them deeply (mocking the heavy
rainfall that follows a drought) and put them down to 11/13, starting the flowering stage after 2 weeks of the seedling stage and 6 weeks of vegetative growth.

I figure that thirteen hours of darkness ensures enough time to establish
a healthy budding process. They've been this way for a week now, and when it seems there's about two weeks left (about a
month and a half from now), I will flush them clean of all
crap once more and put them down to 9/15.
I've read that this light cycle allows buds to fully mature. Some people
give their plants 36 hour darkness right at the end to finish it off as well.

Fertilizer

Throughout vegging, I fertilized every other week with miracle gro All Purpose
liquid concentrate plant food with micronutrients applied at 1/4 strength.

Nutrient analysis
N- 12%
P- 4%
k- 8%
Micronutrient analysis
Fe - 0.10%
Mn - 0.05%
Zn - 0.05%
EDTA (Chelating agent) - 1.18%

Upon flowering (A week ago) I began fertilizing with a slow release
all vegetable fertilizer. It consists of little balls of
fertilizer which are applied to the soil and are slowly
broken down as you water your babies. It has an N-P-K
reading of 5%-10%-10%. I apply it the soil at a little
under half strength in addition to the weekly 1/4 strength liquid solution (now with honey for the flowering stage)
The reason I fertilize with 1/4 and 1/2 strength chemical
fertlizers is because I like to fertilize partially
with chemicals and partially organically.

Organics

I apply ground eggshells, used coffee grounds, the contents
of used tea bags, and honey to the soil as organic fertilizers
they leech their valuable nutrients into the soil
with every watering and never burn the plant. Feed the soil
and the soil feeds the plant.

I do not apply honey directly into the soil, but dissolve
it into the 1/4 strength liquid fertilizer with warm water
every other week, and just with warm water (no fertilizer)
on the alternating week starting when the plants begin
budding. This increases bud size by up to 20 % and
makes the buds taste better. Another good source of sugars
is molassess. Table sugar however wont work.

So my watering schedule is ( and I always use dehumidifier water for it's purity) every sunday- Plain water
Wednesday - Honey/water
alternating wednesday - Honey/water/nutrients

I'm going to watch for soil gunking to to excessive honey, if it occurs I will switch to applying honey every other week.

So here I am, past the initial 8 weeks and just finishing my 1st week of 11 hours on/13 hours off light cycle. I have consumed about half my vertical space. I have many small flowering zones consisting of a couple of long white pistils and a couple of nicely forming actual flower zones (clusters, not just pistils).

After 9 weeks i anticpate 7-8 more where you can watch and learn, and hopefully we can teach each other. I hope to get some pictures up real soon, so stay tuned.

Wallunit grower - THeCloset