A Shed With A Valley View 2026

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This will be my dumping ground for this years projects. Primary focus will be on taking Funeral Cookies f1 --> f2 and Gorilla Bubble f2 --> f3.
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I dropped my last 9 known Funeral Cookies ((Ghostown f2 x Swayze) x (Cookies and Chem)) last Sunday. Plan is to pop few Gorilla Bubble every Sunday until planting season. F2s were selected from a GG4 leaning female and selected male from F1s.

I am also in the process of resetting my shed from either viroid/disease or the absolute worst f'up I have ever done to my soil.
20260215_181259.jpg(They're not dead yet @HBZ Toledo Strip, the are in reveg too) Everything smells good and I haven't id'd any pests, I did have an imbalance of sprigtails but that seems under control with an application of hypoaspis miles. Root growth is atrocious, plants feel sick, viroid testing would run about $150 - 200 by the time I got enough confirmed negative samples to be confident, then I'd be in the position to drop another 75-100 for a soil sample to see what's wrong with the mix.

You may have seen some convo on another thread about going to salts and that's my tenative plan. Front runner for now is Kalix 4 part. I won't start with the cleaner as I have heard people say thay can taste/smell hypochlorous acid in the final product (different brand Athena??), I'll keep using my ozone generator to mange biofilm. Also for now won't use the enzymes until I decide if I'll be reusing media.
 
Got a new raised bed built outdoors and removed the 3x3 from the shed. Gonna get everything cleaned up but I'll probably let these UK Spunk @Bullfrog finish before moving anything in. These are at the start of week 4.
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The older seedlings are needing transplant and I'll probably get that done tomorrow. I'll hydrate the coco with a light nutrient mix and begin the transition to salts. I did end up getting the rootwise microbes and enzymes for my take on synganic.
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Up to 75% the listed veg rates. Kalix initially sent two bags of bloom and no base, used plain cal-nit for the first few batches. I also didn't have any ph down on hand until a couple days ago.

Debated using the blumats but for now I'll be hand watering.

The light is at 30%, maybe 3-400 ppfd, the 4.5in pots I moved them to only lasted a week. These are about 2.5 gal, 40L coco left me with enough to fill 10 starters that I'll plant tomorrow.

By end of next week I should be ready to clone these and maybe bring in the Funeral Cookies.
 
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Up to 75% the listed veg rates. Kalix initially sent two bags of bloom and no base, used plain cal-nit for the first few batches. I also didn't have any ph down on hand until a couple days ago.

Debated using the blumats but for now I'll be hand watering.

The light is at 30%, maybe 3-400 ppfd, the 4.5in pots I moved them to only lasted a week. These are about 2.5 gal, 40L coco left me with enough to fill 10 starters that I'll plant tomorrow.

By end of next week I should be ready to clone these and maybe bring in the Funeral Cookies.
If KALIX didn’t correct this auto I would call KALIX or seller and explain such. I dont see why they wouldn’t fix this

Telephone: +1.541.858.3333
E-mail: sales@kalixcpn.com
 
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Working the learning curve, figuring out how to water coco, where I want the ec / ph...Haven't used the b-vitamin or RAW Terpz yet. RAW Terpz looks like a vatiant of the "Profile" part of the Kalix line.

Letting the pH swing a little higher, I started at 5.8 and it raises a to about 7 after a few days. Gonna start at 6 and try to keep it closer to 6 for magnesium. Currently using citric acid but will likely incorporate phosphoric and nitric at some point.

Currently running at 75% strength ~2.5 mS and 50% of that for seedlings.
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Seedlings have been the most problematic switching from organic to salt. Woulda been easier/better to do hard pivot, the youngest are all salt with the exception of using Rootwise weekly and for initial media soaking.
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GB clones taken a couple days ago.
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Power outages hampering things too, but all in all I'm pretty happy.
 
I've started using the blumats and I knew they were going to be tricky cause of the low tension of coco. It's hard to adjust to optimal saturation without having runaways (when the sensor/carrot won't shut off the water).

Given that difficulty I'm now doing a quasi hand watering by opening up the carrot to free flow until runoff.
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Then at the first sign of runoff I close down the carrot so there is one hanging drip. This prevents the media from drying out between waterings. Been doing this the last couple days and it takes about 10 minutes of running like in the pic. If you see the arrows on the brown knob I open one unit (distance between arrows) at a time, flow starts and then slows so I open another unit, rinse and repeat till runoff.

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Growth has exploded 🤯

Light bumped to 50% and raised to maintain ~700ppfd.

Little worried about salt buildup since I am only doing minimal runoff, likely gonna drop the ec when I switch to bloom which will be whenever the current rez (25 gal) is empty.
 
Love watching stuff like this. Altho my results seem dialed in with my simple organic methods ..( with most strains) these days I sure miss the hydro days ..I keep thinking about switching but look over at the organic nute shelf that's completely full and remember how long it took me to figure out just when and why to use all that shit and realized it probably isn't as simple as I think.. Ive almost ordered new meters multiple times to get back other methods but haven't committed...Just glad I can soak info in case I do
 

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