Living soil dry back dilemma...

[JustBlazin]

Thats not barely.

Lol, I just assumed cause I top dress with the malted barley, no idea what else it would be.
You got any idea?

 

[McShnutz]

I bring up some gnarly barley and throw some on with my top dressings. The plants seem to like it when I do. I'm thinking it's from the enzymes.

Spot on! Cannabis is an annual that benefits most from a bacterial relationship. Bacteria and enzymes go hand in hand and actually, they're present due to the bacterial colonies.

 

[McShnutz]

Lol, I just assumed cause I top dress with the malted barley, no idea what else it would be.
You got any idea?

Barley is similar to wheat, spelt, rye. It's all basically a grass.

 

[myke]

Lol, I just assumed cause I top dress with the malted barley, no idea what else it would be.
You got any idea?

Looks like a weed lol.

 

[McShnutz]

Lol, I just assumed cause I top dress with the malted barley, no idea what else it would be.
You got any idea?

Anything malted undergoes germination to increase starch and then converted into sugars by the enzymes in the furnace. This is known as malting. The longer the "bake" the darker the lovibond (color). No malted kernel of grain will ever germinate.

 

[myke]

Looks like a weed lol.

White clover maybe?

 

[McShnutz]

Whatever it is, it's about to open flowers.
Lol, ooooh, that some dank.

 

[JustBlazin]

White clover maybe?

I don't think so, looks like those have three leaves on each set, the one i got only has 1 leaf and the flowers are pretty small

 

[mudballs]

Chickweed

 

[JustBlazin]

White clover maybe?

Whatever it is, it's about to open flowers.
Lol, ooooh, that some dank.

Pretty sure it's chickweed

 

[JustBlazin]

Chickweed
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Beat me to it
Thanks

 

[mudballs]

Sorry, i like this thread, didnt mean to interrupt you guys.

 

[JustBlazin]

Sorry, i like this thread, didnt mean to interrupt you guys.

All good thanks for the info, I had no idea what it was.
Looks like it can be used as a living mulch/cover crop. And some people eat it.

 

[McShnutz]

Sorry, i like this thread, didnt mean to interrupt you guys.

Never an imposition. The more the merrier

 

[myke]

All good thanks for the info, I had no idea what it was.
Looks like it can be used as a living mulch/cover crop. And some people eat it.

Id chop it,fear of it spreading.

 

[McShnutz]

Since toy already have it, look into individual values to determine if it's worth cultivating and rendering into a fermented plant extract

 

[McShnutz]

Fucking talk to text....
Since you already have it....

 

[lakesidegrower]

I read on another blumat thread at icmag you can stick your drip line in a long straw and stick the straw down into the middle of the pot/rootball now when it drips the water flows down into the middle of the pot giving you a more even water wicking starting from the middle of your pot.

that's a pretty damn genius idea, I really like that

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this looks like a really well thought out set-up - its pretty wild that the two carrots supply those tapes, or am I missing something and its one per tape....
I have to use either r/o or rainwater/snow melt as well - my well water is packed with calcium carbonate which doesn't fly with my pots - I've bene melting snow all winter with a livestock water heater wand thingy in a bucket, it actually works incredibly well
I think I might need to get an r/o system set up this spring, unless I decide to try rainwater only

 

[lakesidegrower]

@McShnutz really healthy looking plants, they look just about perfect - looks like you have your watering on point my friend haha

 

[McShnutz]

@McShnutz really healthy looking plants, they look just about perfect - looks like you have your watering on point my friend haha

Very kind of you to say. Thank you.
Yeah only 2 for the whole bed, I was really skeptical so I added a carrot right next to the base of the plant with 2 drippers. I was going for a dual rootzone management approach and I actually brought the plant closer to the overwatered end. Since shutting it off completely, growth has been more than ideal. Once you find that sweet spot the look of the leaves tell you they're happy.

Some of the best water I've used aside from de-ionized is rain or lake/pond water. I have a betta tank I bought for my kids when they were young and of course the kids kill off the fish, didn't tell me and one day I saw it half decomposed on the gravel floor. Thought, hmm... NUTRIENTS! BACTERIA! Gave it to newly emerged seedlings and was mindblown at the reaction. Mother Nature will forever have a place in my gardens.

If your content with the added chore of collecting water, I keep that going until it bores you. An RO makes thing "easy-to-use" BUT requires maintenance and replacements. Took me awhile to get over the amount of brine water that goes down the drain.