These things are going crazy. Literally just the build a soil 3.0 and water so far. I’ve only had to fill the reservoir twice and I’m letting it dry down for 24 hours like Jeremy does in the build a soil YouTube season 3. I’ll be adding my first top dress of craft blend this weekend. I’ll also be watering with aminos, root wise myco and some other goodies per their feed chart. I’m not doing the “all in” I’m doing the basic and advanced supplements schedule off of the schedule.

a year ago

Ok I’m sold on mycorrhiza and aminos. I’m also sold on build a soil and earth boxes.

a year ago

These earth boxes and the build a soil is crushing it. These things hold mid 30s in the ecowitt sensors and it’s been 3 days plus since I filled the reservoir. Once these ladies get bud enough for the cover then it’s really going to be awesome. I can tell they hit the bottom of the box, they exploded in size overnight. If you’re on the fence about these earth boxes, so far I can’t see any issues and it’s light years easier than those 3 gal pots in my first grow.

a year ago

The earth boxes got a watering last night and I filled the reservoir on all of them. I also put a gallon in the 10 gal fabric pot. The ecowitt sensors are reading 36% give or take a few percent depending on the sensor, so the bottom watering is working well.

a year ago

I top watered again today but this time did the whole top of both earth boxes and the full top of the 10 gal. About 1.5 gal across the 3 containers. Wanted to encourage root spread and growth. I am for sure going to fill the earth box reservoirs as the transplant holes I made when repotting were about 2/3 of the way to the bottom screen. I will say that the myco inoculated plants from the beginning are for sure showing a size difference. When my first round finishes up and that goes to a photo period tent I’ll do another test with cloned plants to justify the test but for now, my bro science is making me happy I did the immediate inoculation.

a year ago

Just watering from the top still. I’ll probably fill the reservoirs this weekend and drench the 10 gal to minor runoff. I am blown away how much faster these are growing over my first run. The myco and bigger soil buffers are definitely the way to go. Compared to the same time last grow these things are really taking off.

a year ago

The transplant to earth boxes went well. I’m following the build a soil season 3 auto flower method. I’m using 3.0 soil. Only top watering until they get bigger. Ecowitt soil moisture sensors will and have been kept at 28-32%. I ran out of soil for the 10 gallon fabric pot so I filled the top with happy frog and top dressed with craft blend but only about 1/2 cup as 70% of the pot is build a soil 3.0. The plants by the watering pipe are the ones that has myco from the start but they all got it in the transplant hole upon planting in the earth boxes. Realizing this is no where near a good experiment I wanted to make sure they all got love. The one in the 10 gal pot was not one of the ones inoculated from the start.

a year ago

I have one VIVOSUN setup with all their stuff and my other is all AC Infinity with all their stuff. The VIVOSUN stuff is nice but the ac infinity stuff is definitely nicer. Most times when comparing side by side the difference is negligible but in this instance, the ac infinity I feel is worth the extra money. Not so much for the tent but the electronics, fans, lights and controller software. Being able to set VPD targets versus temp and humidity is a game changer. I built this vent thing out of foam insulation so when it’s -30 f outside it doesn’t get in. All the vents have back draft preventers and I covered the outside facing side in this black fabric so when you see it from the street it’s not completely obvious and nasty looking. I’m not so much afraid of police because it’s legal here now but I just don’t want to piss the neighborhood off with reflective foam in my window. I love being able to mount the led inverter outside the tent to keep temperatures down. The AC infinity humidifiers are amazing pared with the controller and vent fan. It will kick on what’s needed to get to my VPD target and with the weather swinging so much lately it’s been super nice. I’ve had to stay on top of my VIVOSUN tent because you can’t do the VPD target with that and my equipment was not able to keep up with the humidity swings in that tent like the AC infinity stuff. In all it’s just nicer. I do however like the four individual led lights in my VIVOSUN tent as if you get some plants that are different height you can just raise that quadrant and your good to go. But the evo8 light from AC infinity is better on power. I’ve got four of the 200 watt VIVOSUN lights in the one tent and the 730 watt AC infinity light in the other. The AC infinity is running way lower than the VIVOSUN and they are both at 60%. Calculations on the difference between 800 watts and 730 watts at 60% power should be about 7% but the Samsung EVO runs the new H series diodes and the difference is 17% at the wall.

a year ago

10 days in the cups and I wanted to transplant. These are autos and I heard they can freak out if they root bind in their containers and work has been really busy so this weekend I had to go. The myco seedlings were throwing roots everywhere. Don’t worry about the clear cups, I put them into red solo cups to block the lights. I think I saw combatmedic or someone else in here do this and loved the idea. Totally stole it but it worked. Pics 1&2 are what the myco inoculated ones looked like, about 10% bigger above ground but the roots were crazy. Pics 3&4 are one of the non inoculated ones. Last pic is how they all looked when in this phase inside the solo cups. I know this really has zero scientific value because they aren’t clones and started from seeds and autoflowers. When I go to photos I’ll do this with clones and really put some effort to it. I was so busy I forgot to get pics of the tap roots with the mycorrhizae on them but you’ll have to just trust me, or do it yourself and see. Caligrow has a video on this on his YouTube and he showed the process.

a year ago

Seeds went into solo cups that had clear cups inside them so I could peak at the roots to gauge transplant time and what the effect of the myco was. I added mycorrhiza to the seeds that also had it added to the pre germination process. The tap roots had hairs on them so I guess the inoculation worked. Each pair got one with and one without this process. The bottom cups have the myco. I also setup my AC Infinity 5x5 with their new pro + 8 port controller, the evo8 730 watt light, a completely overkill 8” online exhaust, two of the cloud forge humidifiers, two 6” fans and one of their 9” static fans at the top to move that air around. All is vented directly outside and the lung room is sealed except the closed doors gap between the hard floors. With both tents in the room I’m just loling at how hard the door is to close because the vents are pulling so much air out.

a year ago

I watched CaliGrow poop seeds with myco in the paper towel. I did this to half the seeds. Lightly wet in paper towels and into sealed ziplock bags. Total bro science here but the ones that had the myco on them popped and the tap roots were about a cm after 24 hours. The non myco ones were about 1-2mm. All seeds were soaked 24 hours before the paper towels.

a year ago