hey everyone you're here with mark bauer at perfect gardens tv you're here back with grow
journal episode number two with mark and jason uh like i said this gentleman's been with us for
about 10 months to a year now he's been a client of mine we've kind of went through this whole
evolution in our experience from him being a client to him now being pretty much the primary
r d facility for perfect gardens for testing lights uh nutrients just because of how steady
and consistent jason is through his growing experience and right now he just brought up a
really great question i thought we would bring up if you guys haven't checked out our monthly
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off some of the things we did notice uh two things particularly in this grow is we
we ventured the plant uh one week longer uh just because he he waited for the flipping the plants
because i was going to come to town so he ended up vegging the plants a little longer than he would
normally would have by doing that we started to also see some deficiencies
a little sooner before the plant finishes its grow roughly we're about six weeks in right right jason
yes okay and jason just asked me a great question he said let's back up real fast since we're still
weeks six weeks into veg and we do already growing with biodynamics using down to earth the issue
with this is that we're running into a phosphorous deficiency and we can tell this because
of the purple stems i'm gonna while i'm doing this i'll be bringing up some of the pictures but these
purple stems uh it's a clear indicator that we are seeing a phosphorus deficiency and right now if we
used some linga knight which is there is linganite is actually water soluble which actually
might end up working fairly well uh we also might also use mpk's p205 uh phosphorus as well the
reason why we want to use a lick a liquid water soluble versus something else is because we need
something for the plant to take up immediately anything else could take five to ten days from
now and the plant will be ready to harvest by that time uh and jason asked me a great question
he said can't we do something for our soil for the next grow and yes absolutely jason what do
you have right now uh you do you have soil already sitting yes okay i have what type of nutrients do
you have on hand let me see if i can pull them up as well fertilizers yes fertilizers bone bone meal
we have almost everything you can think of uh alfalfa meal kelp meal bone meal blood meal
back frontal siber guano gypsum azomite oyster shell that's uh my down-to-earth product
okay i also have um down to earth 444 you know all-purpose fertilizer what i'm going to do right
here is i don't think we've done it together yet is the grow journal correct i don't think so now
okay and that's my fault what i'm going to do right now is actually pull it up for anyone
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and we're doing a grow journal i'll be doing the work for james today and showing the rest of you
guys how to how to mend your soil because this is what jason wants to do jason actually wants to put
these amendments in his soil and cook his soil for roughly around two weeks
before he transplants the the new seeds into it so the biodynamics has a chance to build up a fungal
and a bacterial colony and begin to make those those rocks and and bone meal and feather meals
nutrient available so on this on the third tab right here you're going to see the the soil mix
tracker and you said you have insect flasks kelp neem alfalfa bone meal and linga knight correct
i do not have the neem seed or the insect press okay do you have like a shrimp meal or a crab meal
i can get okay well i would probably say you want to re-up on the kelp and the neem uh again because
okay you have kelp so that yeah that's perfect and the insect flask is uh a natural
uh pesticide as well i know you don't really run into bugs but just just in case it is a natural
pesticide so the the neem and the insect flask you whether it's insect crab or shrimp meal those are
real more used as a natural pesticide than than as the npk right but they do have calcium and
other stuff in there so what i would do initially is i would end up um getting and all you simply
do for this recorder is you come over here you actually how much soil will you end up using four
seven gallon and four ten gallons do you transplant the seven into the ten well
that's how much soil i have oh okay you have four so i have uh i have to add it up it's
28 and 40. so i have 68 gallons worth of soil so we're just gonna we'll put 70 68 we'll just
put 68 to be and do you see right here as i added in the 68 it actually automatically
updated the amount of you would put into your the totals exactly and like how we could have used
this in this grow and we're going to do it better on the next grow jason just to be really clear so
right now we we've already talked about how to fix it i know you you you really solid it but for the
next grow what you would end up doing is what we would we're going to figure out how much um
we should put into your soil and then cook it and then put the plant in there watch for a deficiency
and then as we see deficiency we top feed with a certain amount that we're missing and then we
added add that back in there and then on the next grow we'll know it's like okay we actually needed
four tablespoons of insect fast not two we saw right okay good yeah i totally get it yeah
okay first one's you know trial and error that's the only way you learn
you got it so what that'll be easy enough what i would recommend personally and what i found to be
pretty pretty solid and this is with the insect class i don't know have you ever used bone char
biochar or biochar i mean i've been hearing about it okay i'll send you a link for the bio chart
a small five pound bag from amazon and some insect flasks those two probably the only two things i'd
recommend you could put one tablespoon of linga knight right now because it is water soluble i
would recommend to put one but then you're going to have to do a top dress roughly three weeks into
flowering at with an additional two tablespoons and and let that water solubility soak into the
humic layer and let laying the humid glare hold on to the water soluble minerals does that make sense
yeah yeah okay so i'm going to replace that three with one huh i said because it's water soluble and
if you're watering it you'll reduce the amount that's in there more than uh the plant will take
up so you have to re-up exactly exactly and you can technically put three tablespoons in there
if you want and i know you're so disciplined at your watering you don't really have much water
runoff correct no you know what's funny out of these three plants they all get about the same
amount they get two and a half gallons water when i water them and one of them oil have quite a bit
of runoff another one will have very little it's it's amazing how different the plants can be and
the root systems absolutely the phenotype characteristics on these plants are insane
you know they're supposed to they come with the same batch but they end up like you say you see
these small minor differences and yeah what else have you noticed different about some of the
plants that you're growing that are supposed to be the same well you know uh with the ak-47 that i've
was have grown and i've grown uh four different plants each one is different we
the last ak-47 that i grew it had had leaves it was short stocking i had to lift it up and
it had you know the fat indica leaf they weren't long and skinny leaves they were
fat i noticed that i remember you know what that makes me think a little bit more too
were the new was was that was the second phenotype was the leaf structure size the same from top to
bottom was was there a size difference from the top to the bottom one do you remember that well
you know the bottom leaves are always bigger but that now that as far as structure was concerned
this is relatively the same right yeah throughout the plant yeah although i seem to remember that
as it started budding it started shooting out long skinny leaves out of the buds i mean um
it was that was your first scroll right no the second girl i was the second girl
jason i'm really i get excited just keep doing i'm i'm really looking forward to doing this on
a weekly basis like what we're doing right now because i can trust what you're doing uh because
i know how consistent you are last point to this thing just to make sure you can put in
two or three tablespoons of laying at night the more water-soluble material
just have water discipline or you'd be thr you're just going to throw a you're you're going to throw
out your nutrients so that makes sense okay okay and then so i put in and so roughly right now
with that amount of soil you'd you're going to be putting in roughly eight in a third cup of each
you could see it right there right eight eight and third cup of each right and then you'd put 12 and
a half cups of lanai if you chose to do three if you chose to do one it would end up being uh 68.
and personally actually i would probably recommend putting more because we have seen a phosphorous
deficiency in all of your growth so far i think yes yeah well all three of these plants had the
purple purple stems they did and the ones that i have now you know all three of them have have the
purple purple stems it's happy uh you know it's not the stalk well there is a little striping in
the stalk but it's got the leaves it could also be that the light and using more more strength
when does the purple go away or the purple yes the sprinkle should fade back away and just think
about it too we are using more light and obviously if we're seeing a deficiency the plant could be
potentially using up more phosphorous because of atp production right yeah yeah so this is
interesting jason once again man i appreciate you so much i'm looking forward to getting on
to this uh getting onto the second oh the third grow journal with you in the next few days and
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so the first set of lights i purchased were and fun a brand called nfun and i actually got
two sets of those they were uh two 240 watt light panels two panels equaling 240 watts
and after that the other ones i purchased was a leno focus