Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 5 Entries. Thursday, March 28 View Page Officially starting the soak on this seasons seeds. The plan is to go with the 2560 Gienger if all goes well. I can only keep one plant for the size of my patch and it's reserved for this one if it makes it. I'm going to grow the 2497 Root/Kennedy from the other side of the patch as my back up and I have some seeds from my 580(2907 Paton x Self) end of July pollination ready as back ups to those. Just put the soaking seeds in the tent for the picture. Grow tent set up - 4ft x 4ft, Spider Farmer SE5000 480W. Heat mat set to 90 with the grow light gets the soil temp between 83 - 88 depending on the intensity. The pots in the background were for practice plants. This seasons seeds will get bigger 2 gallon pots, Soil mix will be; 1 part Black Gold All-purpose, 1 part Black Gold Natural & Organic, 1 part Jiffy seedling mix, with WowWallace Myco mixed in.   Sunday, March 31 View Page Seed Starting Mix - Seeds all "popped" and went into pots today. Mixed 1 bag of natural and organic (black gold), 1 bag All purpose (black gold), and 2 bags of jiffy starting mix. I was surprised to find so many large wood chips/branches in the natural and organic mix. I sifted through it and picked out as many large chunks as I could. Hoping to keep a detailed account of exactly what I'm using as I'm using it.   Sunday, March 31 View Page Here's a picture of all the seeds in the grow tent. The pots with plants further along are just test plants that I'm letting grow as I still have room. 2560 - front middle left 2497 - front middle right 2245 - directly behind 2560 2702.9 - directly behind 2497 Everything on the outskirts are seeds from my 580 Leonard - 159% heavy (2907 Paton Selfed - Late July Pollination)   Wednesday, April 3 View Page Watered in Big Foot - Root Boost (Azospirillum Brasilense) and Big Foot Mycorrhizae + Beneficial Bacteria Gold. The Root Boost is Azospirillum Brasilense at 10,000,000 CFU/G compared to Xtreme Azos at 1,000,000 CFU/G I used this last year as well and it worked great. 10x the concentration and lower price per ounce; Root Boost cost 27.35 10 oz (2.74 per ounce) Xtreme Azos i cost 38.60 12 oz (2.99 per ounce) Prices are based on the Amazon price. The GOLD is a mix of Endomycorrhiza at 400 propagules per gram (100 each of Glomus aggregatum, Glomus etunicatum, Glomus intaradices, Glomus mosseae) & 4 different species of of beneficial Bacillus bacteria (Bacillus subtilis 350,000,000, Bacillus licheniformis 200,000,000, Bacillus megatherium 200,000,000, Bacillus simplex 200,000,000)   Wednesday, April 3 View Page Western Labs Test Results Pictured - 900-1,000 sq ft patch (From January) Consulted with Cecil Weston on most of the amounts below but I bumped up a few considering "eyes on" my soil. I have already added; 6 lbs elemental sulfur 120 lbs Pelletized Gypsum 1.4 lbs 20 Mule Team Borax 5 lbs Maganese Sulfate 32% (Alpha Chemicals) .3 lbs Copper Sulfate 25% (Alpha Chemicals) 160 lbs of Alfalfa Meal (Added early February) 8 cu ft Perlite 8 bags of 2.2 cu ft Compress Black Gold Peat Moss (Added beginning of March) Hoping the last two help change the soil composition a bit (can't tell from the soil test but my soil compacted much more than I would consider ideal last year). Still to add; 25-50lbs of Kelp Meal 15lbs of Blood Meal Would like to get 1 more test completed prior to transplanting into the patch from the grow tent.