DonTesla
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Haha yea hey..Almost hate to transplant her, she's made a great comeback. It's official btw, we got an all female 'den now.
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The Dons' Organic Garden
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DonTesla
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can't wait for the Earth Blend!
DonPetro
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It should be decent. Of course it will be fully amended as well. I may or may not add the DE rocks to this mix.
NoSwagBag
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I thought you were vermicomposting?
DonPetro
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Yes i am for sure but have more waste than my worms can consume. I keep a big bag of scraps in the freezer for them, the rest goes outside in the compost heap.
DonTesla
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a pimp got options!
DonTesla
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man, in a few years we gonna have like 60 solid batches of soil, i wonder if we gonna have em all labelled or mixed together and amended. imagine being like, oh thats the rasta blend from '14, thats the DE-free earth blend, thats the Vamp blend growing the Mendo F2 there. thats the re amended 2.0 and this here is the new DonMega Super batch with uber fungi! lets roll, braa!
DonPetro
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Imagine a 25-cycle soil mix. Or a large no-till bed. Living mulch and worm cast teas...oh the life!
DonTesla
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hahaha i'd have that beard dreaded right down, with little nuggets stashed in it.. like a christmas tree but with exotic strains like Mindscape and Gravy Widow
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Reds, Awesome bra
Slow and steady wins the race
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What do you think would be good for a 4x4 space
and a 8x4 (two 4x4s attached, open in middle)
I know that (un)professional growers lol use one 1000w in a 5x5
or an air cooled 1000w HPS in a 4x4 (maybe that helps)
but what would be a good equivalent with DIY LED i wonder
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DonPetro
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400 true watts of quality LED should replace a 1000w hps i believe.
DonTesla
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whats our hybrid led gonna do?
4 small lights, 2 longer lights, or one big fat square light per 4x4, whats your thoughts..
4 small lights, 2 longer lights, or one big fat square light per 4x4, whats your thoughts..
DonTesla
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Thanks dawg! But yea. It was Petro's design hahaha.
I just endorsed it, and painted it, lol.
But now i've adopted it, and even came up with a couple small improvements..mini castors instead of legs, and less blocks on the side so you can slide it off. replace 2 blocks with one hook and eye-hook screw. Be trying to help people set them up the same way, its great for house plants, peppers, herbs, tomatoes, anything and everything.. they're powerful when fresh and thriving. Plus AACT's, dang.
And the wood is a nice touch, tho. Layers are nice too. We don't really have to worry about a wet layer, but thats cause we enjoy going in there more. I pull the Co2 out of it nicely, its beside the vegging princess squad with a fan shooting it up and on an angle, being heavy it spreads everywhere.
But yea Petro is a good designer/formulator he does everything his own way after digging deeep, mon. With our hardware mesh we don't even have to harvest, its automatic. Nothing like big heavy scoops out the bottom, I don't worry about the worms in there, the more worms everywhere the better.
I just endorsed it, and painted it, lol.
But now i've adopted it, and even came up with a couple small improvements..mini castors instead of legs, and less blocks on the side so you can slide it off. replace 2 blocks with one hook and eye-hook screw. Be trying to help people set them up the same way, its great for house plants, peppers, herbs, tomatoes, anything and everything.. they're powerful when fresh and thriving. Plus AACT's, dang.
And the wood is a nice touch, tho. Layers are nice too. We don't really have to worry about a wet layer, but thats cause we enjoy going in there more. I pull the Co2 out of it nicely, its beside the vegging princess squad with a fan shooting it up and on an angle, being heavy it spreads everywhere.
But yea Petro is a good designer/formulator he does everything his own way after digging deeep, mon. With our hardware mesh we don't even have to harvest, its automatic. Nothing like big heavy scoops out the bottom, I don't worry about the worms in there, the more worms everywhere the better.
Just finished reading the vermicomposting thread. Don T I like the pictures of your worm bin design.I'd like to build one similar, so if you don't mind I'll be picking your brain when I get started.
DonTesla
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There be 50 earthworms per square foot, in a really healthy garden soil. (0.09 sq meter)
according to Lowenfels and Lewis (Tm'ing w Microbes)
And this is just awesome:
A mere teaspoon of good garden soil, as measured by microbial geneticists, contains a billion invisible bacteria, several yards of equally invisible fungal hyphae, several thousand protozoa, and a few dozen nematodes.
according to Lowenfels and Lewis (Tm'ing w Microbes)
And this is just awesome:
A mere teaspoon of good garden soil, as measured by microbial geneticists, contains a billion invisible bacteria, several yards of equally invisible fungal hyphae, several thousand protozoa, and a few dozen nematodes.
DonTesla
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With a good amount of worms in each pot or plant zone, they pull decaying mulch down into the topsoil, making richer castings.
Im all about the worm tunnels and dens, and the increased aeration and water retention they bring. Thats why I mix them in with the mulch now. They keep reproducing like crazy so why not. Plants like worm exudates, they carry beneficial bacteria and fungal spores too. Then boom these bacteria jump off cause they like the root's exudates. An insane restaurant, I imagine it'd be like riding tremors underground, mon.
Side note:
Not to knock P's worm researcher, he was a pioneer, but in Teaming with Microbes they say each cocoon has about 15 babies. However, they don't footnote their sources until the end of the book.
Im all about the worm tunnels and dens, and the increased aeration and water retention they bring. Thats why I mix them in with the mulch now. They keep reproducing like crazy so why not. Plants like worm exudates, they carry beneficial bacteria and fungal spores too. Then boom these bacteria jump off cause they like the root's exudates. An insane restaurant, I imagine it'd be like riding tremors underground, mon.
Side note:
Not to knock P's worm researcher, he was a pioneer, but in Teaming with Microbes they say each cocoon has about 15 babies. However, they don't footnote their sources until the end of the book.