$licc's journey with LED and living soil

[$licc Ricc]

The title says it all folks. First go around with LED, had been going organic for a while and been doing alot of reading and research on living soil and thought why not connect all the dots and make it sustainable for years with little to no effort and money.

The setup is as follows:
6in AC Infinity T6 with monitor
4x4 viparspectra grow tent
4x4 Grassroots living soil bed
Steensland Blumat watering system to a 25g res
3 bales Premier of peat moss
5 bags of M3 Michigan Mix
5 bags of FF Ocean Forest
Lots of EWC, Ancient Forest humus
DTE ferts and amendments, some lime
Xtreme Gardening micos and azos
Great White mycorrhizae
+LIFE plant probiotic
Unsulphured molasses
Cal mag
Most of my water Is Poland Springs spring water cuz Massachusetts water is absolutely shit.
And the power house of it all...the worms. Lots and lots of worms. And the Buildasoil 12 seed cover crop

For pest issues I have a few things on deck.
Potassium bicarbonate for molds and mildews(if occurred)
Ascorbic acid powder and citric acid to fight off gnats flys etc...
LOTS OF FLY TRAPS! YOU WILL GET BUGS MAN.

If I missed anything I'll include it later on...so here's the juice.

Germination of seeds on June 10th 2020
After germ...placed in riot rooter cubes...and then soil. I took the strongest ones and gave the rest to a friend who planted them outdoors and some for his indoor personal garden.

 

[$licc Ricc]

This is mostly up to date now with these pictures. The fungal dominant top is absolutely crushing it guys. Mycelia everywhere. Worms have already decomposed one plants roots and stems that I chopped cuz it showed signs of male parts producing. The soil is kinda hot, (which you can see some leaves burning) but due to bad timing and a family death from covid I had to plant them down and catch a flight for a funeral. I did get my soil tested with the University of Maine. Which I will upload as well. I'll post updates as I go now that I'm back in the swing of things and almost done quarantining myself.

 

[$licc Ricc]

Part 2

 

[Dontjudgeme]

Everything looks good beside that cO2 bag, unless you are running a sealed tent which it seems you aren’t with an exhaust fan, unless you are intaking exactly what you’re exhausting. CO2 won’t have any effect on a non-sealed room or tent.

 

[$licc Ricc]

The fan only exhausts when it reached a temperature of 78° most of the time it stays between 72 to 76° with just my AC in my room....it's next to my bed so i only hear it kick on during the mid day when it's mostly hot outside and I don't overkill my window unit

 

[Dontjudgeme]

Well hopefully you have the opportunity to take advantage of the benefits cO2 can have on a grow. Good luck and looking good.

 

[Keesje]

With CO2 you can normally work with higher temperatures.
28 C / 29 C (83 F / 84 F should be no problem.

CO2 in a non-sealed room is useless.

 

[$licc Ricc]

With CO2 you can normally work with higher temperatures.
28 C / 29 C (83 F / 84 F should be no problem.

CO2 in a non-sealed room is useless.

But these bags do take about 6 weeks they say to fully activate...and I've had em in for just a few days. My main issue is my clip fans have been just breaking down outta nowhere...they're brand new off Amazon. But 2x of the 4 died last night.

 

[Keesje]

Did you keep them vertical, or more horizontal?
With horizontal they sometimes burn.
But there is also a lot of garbage sold on Amazon/ebay/Aliexpress.
If you can afford it: Always buy extra stuff, because something will always break down and then there is no shop nearby where you can buy shit.

 

[$licc Ricc]

Did you keep them vertical, or more horizontal?
With horizontal they sometimes burn.
But there is also a lot of garbage sold on Amazon/ebay/Aliexpress.
If you can afford it: Always buy extra stuff, because something will always break down and then there is no shop nearby where you can buy shit.

1 hanging upside down and the other clipped on it's side....guess I just got the bad luck...I'll run up to Walmart or whatever when the storm coming across the north east blows over later tonight.

 

[mistaKushner]

hey man! I don't see any mention of the LEDS you're using, what have ya got rolling for those?

 

[$licc Ricc]

hey man! I don't see any mention of the LEDS you're using, what have ya got rolling for those?

Sorry it's the Geeklight Pro led.

 

[$licc Ricc]

Sorry again growmies it's been busy busy with work and dealing with the humid temps and heat wave we just had up here. The girls are doing great had a pretty bad case of some fungus gnats from some compost I got from a friend that didn't get turned over enough...but no problem cuz neem and alfalfa yeah came in clutch and killed the infestation in just under 3 days.

 

[$licc Ricc]

Temps are mid to high 70s with a 47 to 60% humidity depending on outside temps and rh%. Been trying to find that sweet spot VPD so autopilot is in control. But all in all every thing looks good.

 

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[$licc Ricc]

Lights are 19" above canopy. Exhaust fan only kicking on to exchange air now. Dehumidifier pulling it's weight in liquid gold I've been saving on water by using this filtered water in the res and tea. Cuz why not right.

 

[$licc Ricc]

Bone meal/alfalfa and molasses and some beneficial bacterias to regain dominance in the soil after my lack of attention. I haven't worried much about the pH as long as it's somewhere between 6 and 7 if the stemmed on leaves get to purple I hit it with some cal mag and ground fresh lobster shell as a top dress. Gotta love that new England fish fry's just tossing out shells for free.

 

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[$licc Ricc]

Day 20 of flower ladies are getting frosty and stacking out. Will give them a few days to finish out the weekend and I'll stop em a d finish the lollypopping to focus on the budsites that are getting good light.

 

[$licc Ricc]

Fungus gnats are while dropping in numbers it's not fast enough will be getting some pot poppers on Monday. Nematodes will have to do the job faster and more efficient than the neem and kelp.