Thats some excellent stuff there.
I was about to purchase some of somas lavender but i am now going to click on your link and see what i can find.
Can you give some info on what lighting and nute products you have used to create these buds and wether you think that the tric counts you have will be achievable in our basic setups as well please.
I am very interested in your querkle and Eugene.
Are the Eugene seeded yet?
And if so how did you seed the Eugene?
Love the pics and will be definitely having a good look through all that you have
Nat I grow in all soil organically with no liquid nutrients as soon as I can find some order here I will post up my method but here is my soil mix
Subcools Super
To me there is nothing like the flavor of properly grown organic cannabis. The subtle flavors and aromas created when using mother earth is over whelming to the senses when done properly. As with many vegetables a rich Organic soil can bring out the best in a plant. Over the past 20 years I have tried almost every possible way to cultivate our favorite plant and while hydro is certainly faster and the yields blow soil away, I have developed a soil that performs extremely well and theres very little guess work. I dont worry about ph or ppm I simply have spent a few years developing a sound recipe and in combination with 7 gallon nursery pots I can run from start to finish using only water. Other than a bit of sweat equity every 90 days or so it takes a huge amount of science out of the garden and puts nature back in charge. This recipe is slightly different from my last and from the one so many use as gospel that I have passed around for years from grower to grower.
The main change is a soil I am trying that the new hydro store carries. Northern Lights Hydro is a chain and we had never shopped there before. The guy was ultra nice and gave us a 10% discount on the entire order and gave us a free bottle of Vita Grow Rooting Hormone and a Free Fox farm T-shirt. His prices rocked to so I am trying his new product. I always use at least 2-3 large bags of high quality organic soil in addition too 2 large bales of sunshine mix. I had been using a local product but last run it was mainly peat and bark and I wasnt impressed so I am adding this product as well as some blood meal to stop the fading I got to early last run.
Lignite, also known as leonardite, mined lignin, brown coal, and slack, is an important constituent to the oil well, drilling industry. Lignite, or leonardite as it will be referred as hereafter, is technically known as a low rank coal between peat and sub-bituminous. Leonardite was named for Dr. A.G. Leonard, North Dakota's first state geologist, who was a pioneer in the study of lignite deposits. Leonardite is applied to products having a high content of humic acid. Humic acid has been found to be very useful as a drilling mud thinner.
So lets take a look at the ingredients of this new product
Roots Organic
Coca Fiber
Perlite
Pumice
Compost
Peat Moss
Bone Meal, bat Guano, kelp meal, green sand, soy bean meal, Leonardite, K-mag, Glacial Rock Dust, Alfalfa meal, Oyster Shell Flour,
Earth worm castings and Mycorrhizae. Looks like a great product and I will be growing one plant in just this new soil to see how it performs. It would be great not to have to do all this work.
Here are the amounts
2- 1.5 Cubic Feet bags Roots Organic ( Or Any high quality Potting soil
2- Large bales Sunshine Mix #4
3- 25# bags Organic Worm poop
5# Steamed Bone meal
5# Bloom bat Guano
2.5# Blood meal
¾ cup Epson salts
½ cup Sweet Lime ( Dolimite)
½ Cup Azomite ( Trace Elements)
I open all ingredients and place inside the baby pool. This one has been used so many times it has 2 big holes in it but I just sweep up the mess.
I place the Sunshine in first chopping it up with a rake then I place the powdered nutrients in a circle around the mound. Then goes in the bat poop and then the potting soil. The Azomite is a granular product I found at a local feed shop for replacing trace elements in soil after a crop. I use this mainly when I replenish my soil but this is a 100% fresh batch. Then its as simple as my Skipper used to say Put your back into it. This is hard work and I am kind of obsessed with doing it thoroughly, even breaking up all the clods of soil my hand. I mix for about 15 minutes then I store in large Tupperware bins and a few garbage cans. This will be repeated 2 more times as I like to make sure its mixed up well.
Once its placed in the containers I water it slightly adding maybe 3 gallons or water to a large garbage can full. It will make the stirring harder next week but it will activate the Mycorrhizae and I think help all the powders dissolve. In colder weather it will not break down as well so for you guys living in the frozen areas drag the containers into a warm area. I like to stir the soil from time to time but if you have it stored indoors its not practical so just stir it well before using.
***Disclaimer**
Warning! This soil is really hot and you cannot plant seedlings or clones directly into it. When I do my final transplant into #10 pots I fill each pot ¾ full with Super soil and the top ¼ I add plain potting soil and stir the top portion. This allows the roots to become used to the soil. After a few days the growth on a transplant is amazing Jills Comment was most peoples soil plants dont grow that fast.
Using this soil its not necessary to add nutrients with the exception of bloom maybe once and Liquid karma and Bcuzz to enhance flavor.
Hope thats helps, in the final shot it is all cleaned up, it took me about 30 minutes and cost on products was about 125$
Give it a shot if your into incredible flavor.