From scratch only! No premixed bottles of "stuff"

[iHearAll]

Also those peyote cactus's of yours, are they simple to maintain? I have always wanted to get some peyote for achem.... Reasons but never have just done it. I have a large sanpedro that I grew up with and took a cutting for my kitchen counter but that is where that stopped.

yea i do so very little for them. the seedlings need near 100% humidity, moist, and must be out of direct light. maybe even covered with a paper towel at times.
the adults however get moderate sunlight and almost no water ever. so i just leave them in a glowing window and never open the shades

 

[Orphan Crippler]

i have a soil blocker. i harvest some vermicastings, moisten them, and press them into blocks. sometimes i cut the vermicastings with peat moss or powdered biochar.

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/c-455-soil-block-makers.aspx
that link is to the distributer. let me know if you ever get one, there's a few tricks to making them stick the blocker while you move from the pile of casting to the tray.

the smallest ones can hold a weeks worth of growth after germination and the medium can hold 2-3 weeks of growth. theres also shapes you can stamp into the tops of the larger ones that make it so you can trasplant your small blocks into your large blocks

That is pardon my french so fucking sweet!
One of those simple ideas that makes planting much easier. Lets hope made the designer tonnes of cash.

 

[Orphan Crippler]

yea i do so very little for them. the seedlings need near 100% humidity, moist, and must be out of direct light. maybe even covered with a paper towel at times.
the adults however get moderate sunlight and almost no water ever. so i just leave them in a glowing window and never open the shades

I hear that placing a cutting of peyote on another living fast growing cactus makes the peyote grow faster as it taps into the system of the larger cactus.
I think I should look around and see If I can find some of those here.

 

[iHearAll]

That is pardon my french so fucking sweet!
One of those simple ideas that makes planting much easier. Lets hope made the designer tonnes of cash.

i imagine it was something from hundreds of years of designing. cuz we made them in asia using an arc welder like presto. i mean obviously we didnt have arc welders in the 1800s but i imagine there were wooden designs and such. tho originals i can think of though in the forests and farms of 3rd countries make then slicing or molding. a tupperware container with holes punched in the bottom works as a pretty good mold. you could start a full tree in a soil block that size. i have seen a 3inch pvc blocker with a log dropped in the top to stamp it down. worked great for transplanting into for a month or more. pretty accurately makes a liter size. watering them reminds you how slow we should water our potted plants. cuz itll bead up on the top and roll off the size if you're impatient ha

 

[iHearAll]

I hear that placing a cutting of peyote on another living fast growing cactus makes the peyote grow faster as it taps into the system of the larger cactus.
I think I should look around and see If I can find some of those here.

iv not had any luck with grafting. rooting tops yea i can do that all day. i havent reaaaaalllyy tried all that hard in grafting tho. like i didnt use pereskiopsis or similar for seedlings i tried. i merely topped a few inactive torch cactus and placed bridgesii on top, there wasnt much way to keep pressure on it so they separated. i then rooted these instead. i also tried grafting to opuntia ficus but i gave the seedlings i grafted with too much light and they burned. theyre pretty vulnerable when they arent bonded to anything. they can dry out really fast and since you cant wet them for any reason at this stage your at the mercy to the environment you give them.

 

[Orphan Crippler]

My moringa tree had it a bit rough this winter and is only now starting to come right. My plan is to dry some moringa leaf and use it as a soil additive due to its high calcium and vitamin content.

 

[Orphan Crippler]

Thinking that some of these "superfoods" can have value in the garden.

 

[iHearAll]

usually they are high in antioxidants. makes for great foliar sprays. mix with peppers and onions and neem leaves and rum and EM and molasses and whatever else you go that will repel insects and mix it all up. lol. thatd be a biodiverse fuckin spray

 

[iHearAll]

cucumbers and larger plants (like cannabis) would start in a medium block.

 

[Orphan Crippler]

Those blocks remind be of those large grodan rock wool cubes except organic and packed with fertilizer!

 

[iHearAll]

Those blocks remind be of those large grodan rock wool cubes except organic and packed with fertilizer!

i had rock wool once. i lost it. funny texture. i kinda wonder if i can root cuttings in my soil blocks....

 

[Orphan Crippler]

I root cuttings in coco and ewc so it should work fine in a ratio of 1 part 50/50 coco perlite and 1 part ewc so the medium doesn't dry up.

My hit rate with this method is about 80% and most nb simple and not time consuming at all. I think I would rather plant more clones with a lower success ratio with min effort than checking on them all the time for an extra 10% gain.

They look similar to those rapid rooter plug thinggys

 

[Orphan Crippler]

At some point in the future I think I must do a comparative grow off between two clones from the same mother.

1 grown with the BioBizz range well just the grow and bloom as they are bloody expensive and 1 grown with my FPE Mixes.

I am pretty sure that my FPE's will be able to compete no prob.

I'm a bit annoyed with myself that with my current grow I stripped the lower leaves in a brutal lollipop fashion and now there will not be any scrag for me to make my own bloom booster from fresh fermented bud.......(chenches jaw)

 

[Orphan Crippler]

Found some bloody spider mites on my moringa this morning...

Hate those little vermin swine with a passion and will nuke the shit out of them with some neem/conola/Lemon Habanero chilli mix.

The Habanero mix destroys their mouths every time they try stick the plant with their little knives and works well as they start to starve to death MUWHAHAHAHA

The chilli breaks down after 2 weeks or so under intense lighting so it wont hurt your harvest if you spray just before flower.

I don't spray anything once flowering starts and if you get a case of the borg the only plan is to start again and ensure they don't take hold before flower. Hasn't happened to me even with those rat bastards outside if you just spray a few times in the veg cycle.

 

[iHearAll]

do you use a surfactant to break the oil down into the water? i was mopping my floors in neem but i got lazy this month and I've run out

that chili spray is the tits. it doesnt work much on caterpillars i noticed.

 

[Orphan Crippler]

do you use a surfactant to break the oil down into the water? i was mopping my floors in neem but i got lazy this month and I've run out

that chili spray is the tits. it doesnt work much on caterpillars i noticed.

I add a drop of dish soap after finishing simmering the chili before I spray to help dissolve the oils into the solution.

 

[iHearAll]

that's a bangin pest repellent. i have a white fly problem on my cucumbers right now. ive been hitting them with cedar and chilli tea. it kills them but they can apparently survive if they are new after the spray and will still eat the plants leaves even though theyre all spiced up.. im going to have to do some companion planting.

 

[iHearAll]

so ive been using 2.5v to spin a little 9v motor with some magnets on it as a stir plate to brew compost teas. the bar magnet i have is an inch size magnet so it doesn't make it very effective at lift up sediment in a 5 gal pail. so i just pullled the gun on this 4 inch stir bar to use in 5 gal pail batch teas. i use a vortex brewer for my buds every week but that thing draws 40w of power whenever it's on. id like to experiment with stir plate clones here in a few days. another downside of the stir bar tea is that is clangy loud where the bar just constantly vibrates the container.

what i just purchased^^^

 

[iHearAll]

so i promised some mushroom cultivation right? maybe not in this thread per say but i certainly did!

im fermenting the bird seeds, peat and gypsum with a little EM and molasses in a pail. when the substrate is cultured ill pasteurize it and hopefully have a spore syringe ready.

 

[platt]

wait! ^
You are in, lets say..Phase I: Innoculation of sterile whole grain. And whole-grain requires sterilization. Its a broad spectrum & powerful substrate capable of growing whatever. The sequence is: sterilization-----innoculation+incubation----1 specie into a jar = starter/clean spawn or long term storage.
After that its a matter of spreading the full colonized starter into its final pasteurized and eventually fermented bulk substrate