AussieStoner
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Hi guys. I've been reading the forums for a couple of months now and i love reading peoples grow journals and the advice that is available here.
I had a grow many years ago when i was a kid and it didn't get far as my patience wasn't the best and the leaves ended up getting smoked long before any signs of fruit.
So about a month ago i decided to grow some bagseed i'd collected over the last year or so. The whole thing i wanted to do with stuff laying around the house and i didn't want to buy anything as much as possible.
I'll just get you up to speed to where i'm at currently. I also wanted to experiment and try different things on the plants to see what was good and what was bad. So some things may be against convention or whatever, i'm no gardener (though eagerly interested, go Gardening Australia!), just someone that has a hunger to learn.
I sprouted my bagseed in damp tissue in a cool dark place, as i had done the time before. Over half of them sprouted within a week, these then went into egg carton with some potting mix. Four at first, a couple days later another two.
08.03.07
10.03.07
After a couple of days they were growing well. While they were in the egg cartons though i did things like put worm tea on a couple as well as scraping the inside of a banana skin and put that on. Like i said, i want to experiment. You can see some worm tea on them below.
I decided to pot them now. Only the two on the right as they had grown the best. With these first two i potted them in the egg carton as is was biodegradable, but i later pulled them out of this as i had a suspision that it may have been hindering in growth.
13.03.07
I planted the other two in a pot together, just for variation from the others.
16.03.07
I noticed that the soil was drying very quickly, being in a tropical part of Australia and also being end of summer, the sun is hot and harsh. So i though of the whole mulch on garden bed idea for water retention. I used some wood shavings i had for some mice.
I've been watering once a week as the wood shaving retain the water in the soil for that long. The occasional worm tea has been offered as well.
The next post will be even more up to date with where these are at currently. They are growing very slow for obvious reasons. Little to no nutes, outdoor soil grow. I get so jealous when i read the posts that have a jungle within 3-4 weeks. But this is what i've chosen to do for now. :cool2:
I had a grow many years ago when i was a kid and it didn't get far as my patience wasn't the best and the leaves ended up getting smoked long before any signs of fruit.
So about a month ago i decided to grow some bagseed i'd collected over the last year or so. The whole thing i wanted to do with stuff laying around the house and i didn't want to buy anything as much as possible.
I'll just get you up to speed to where i'm at currently. I also wanted to experiment and try different things on the plants to see what was good and what was bad. So some things may be against convention or whatever, i'm no gardener (though eagerly interested, go Gardening Australia!), just someone that has a hunger to learn.
I sprouted my bagseed in damp tissue in a cool dark place, as i had done the time before. Over half of them sprouted within a week, these then went into egg carton with some potting mix. Four at first, a couple days later another two.
08.03.07
10.03.07
After a couple of days they were growing well. While they were in the egg cartons though i did things like put worm tea on a couple as well as scraping the inside of a banana skin and put that on. Like i said, i want to experiment. You can see some worm tea on them below.
I decided to pot them now. Only the two on the right as they had grown the best. With these first two i potted them in the egg carton as is was biodegradable, but i later pulled them out of this as i had a suspision that it may have been hindering in growth.
13.03.07
I planted the other two in a pot together, just for variation from the others.
16.03.07
I noticed that the soil was drying very quickly, being in a tropical part of Australia and also being end of summer, the sun is hot and harsh. So i though of the whole mulch on garden bed idea for water retention. I used some wood shavings i had for some mice.
I've been watering once a week as the wood shaving retain the water in the soil for that long. The occasional worm tea has been offered as well.
The next post will be even more up to date with where these are at currently. They are growing very slow for obvious reasons. Little to no nutes, outdoor soil grow. I get so jealous when i read the posts that have a jungle within 3-4 weeks. But this is what i've chosen to do for now. :cool2:
