Recycled Organic Living Soil (ROLS) and No Till Thread

greasemonkeymann

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Ive been hearing about Bodhi since I joined this forum. And yes the pics are insane. Where does a fellow weedist source their Bodhi seeds? how was shipping? Im waiting to get some sin city seeds atm or rare dankness.
I soaked my first seed in ful power solution 24hours then planted. Tried just planting em and the ful power soak definitely sped up the sprout time.... however, very odd, they are growing at the same pace.
Weird but there are variables. Dif mix slightlyy, and dif things added and foliared and what not.

Has anyone tried soaking in plain h20 vs ful power dilution?
I got mine locally, so can't say much regarding that, I don't do any soaking (other than water for 12 hrs, which actually had 10 out of 12 "oystered" in that time), I plant in half homemade screened compost and seedstarter mix, in toilet paper rolls.

The compost has all the goodies that I need
My 12 Bodhi plants are doing well, just transplanted them last night. they are about 6" high, second set of true leaves.
 

Fogdog

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Smell mo like outdoh update

Couple weeks ago, Slightly after transplant into final 40gallons


More recent after couple week veg, still have a extra 2 months before flower starts


Critical kush
Beeeewtyyyful, man. an inspiring organic grow to say that least.
Hyroot, thanks for posting these. I'm planning my first grow, to start in July (independence day for Oregon's non-medical growers) and trying to learn as much as I can before the problems start. I'll be a small grower -- limited to four plants, indoors most of the time but outdoors maybe next year. I'm aware of temp, humidity, air flow, lighting requirements and building control for these parameters into my grow cabinets. But my question is not about me, it's asking what you normally do to prevent infestations. Do you do periodic foliar feeding? Is preventative spraying for PM, mites, etc. recommended or would pest management sprays be recommended mostly after a problem is found.

In the second video you posted, both the folks from Dragonfly and Bamboo talked about spraying daily. Really? Some of the sprays they talked about should be active for longer than that. So my question is, how much pest management spraying do you think is needed?
 

st0wandgrow

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Beeeewtyyyful, man. an inspiring organic grow to say that least.

Hyroot, thanks for posting these. I'm planning my first grow, to start in July (independence day for Oregon's non-medical growers) and trying to learn as much as I can before the problems start. I'll be a small grower -- limited to four plants, indoors most of the time but outdoors maybe next year. I'm aware of temp, humidity, air flow, lighting requirements and building control for these parameters into my grow cabinets. But my question is not about me, it's asking what you normally do to prevent infestations. Do you do periodic foliar feeding? Is preventative spraying for PM, mites, etc. or treatment after a problem is found.

In the second video you posted, both the folks from Dragonfly and Bamboo talked about spraying daily. Really? Some of the sprays they talked about should be active for longer than that. So my question is, how much pest management spraying do you think is needed?
If you include neem seed meal and crab shell meal in your soil mix that will go a long way in deterring pests from your garden. I spray once a week, sometimes it's neem oil, sometimes kelp, sometimes aloe..... but the key to my pest free garden is what I put in the soil, not what I spray on the plants.
 

Midwest Weedist

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If you include neem seed meal and crab shell meal in your soil mix that will go a long way in deterring pests from your garden. I spray once a week, sometimes it's neem oil, sometimes kelp, sometimes aloe..... but the key to my pest free garden is what I put in the soil, not what I spray on the plants.
Stow nailed it. In my opinion, like 90 percent of pest management (organically) comes down to soil amendments. Before I started including neem and karanja in my mix I always battled bugs at some level, whether they be gnats or what have you.
 

Midwest Weedist

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Hey guys, wish I could drop a picture of the ladies but life has been hectic running a business and pulling 12 hour days. I start flower today and I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on something. When I flip tonight I'll be shifting when my "daytime" is by about a quarter/half of a day. Instead of being on at 6am and off at midnight, it'll be on at 6 pm and off at 6 am. This is to compensate for the rising temperatures outside and to make it so my plants aren't awake only when I'm at work. I'm curious if this will cause any stress or unusual effects? Do plants get jet lag? Haha
 

st0wandgrow

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Hey guys, wish I could drop a picture of the ladies but life has been hectic running a business and pulling 12 hour days. I start flower today and I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on something. When I flip tonight I'll be shifting when my "daytime" is by about a quarter/half of a day. Instead of being on at 6am and off at midnight, it'll be on at 6 pm and off at 6 am. This is to compensate for the rising temperatures outside and to make it so my plants aren't awake only when I'm at work. I'm curious if this will cause any stress or unusual effects? Do plants get jet lag? Haha
I'd say you'll be fine. The only consideration to me would be to give them the extra 6-12 hours during the shift of darkness as opposed to giving them 18+ hours of lights on.
 

greasemonkeymann

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Hey guys, wish I could drop a picture of the ladies but life has been hectic running a business and pulling 12 hour days. I start flower today and I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on something. When I flip tonight I'll be shifting when my "daytime" is by about a quarter/half of a day. Instead of being on at 6am and off at midnight, it'll be on at 6 pm and off at 6 am. This is to compensate for the rising temperatures outside and to make it so my plants aren't awake only when I'm at work. I'm curious if this will cause any stress or unusual effects? Do plants get jet lag? Haha
it'll be fine man, as long as you don't interrupt the 12 hrs off, and as long as it's only the one time.
I do the same thing in fact.
 

greasemonkeymann

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I'd say you'll be fine. The only consideration to me would be to give them the extra 6-12 hours during the shift of darkness as opposed to giving them 18+ hours of lights on.
yes, this is exactly right, you don't want to mess with the light schedule (meaning no more than 12 hrs of light), the darkness is ok, if they are flowering, hell I had a surprise landlord visit about 10 yrs ago, and I had to put them in air/light tight container for 30 hrs...
no problems, other than my sweaty palms while the landlord perused my shit..
 
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earthling420

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hey all, I was wondering if there's any hope left for my lady. I switched her to flowering after I thought I got rid of my gnats. then somehow my timer got fucked up and I think it might have been on 24 hours. I fixed it amd now she is barely switching, amd slowly losing more leaves. any help? I tried an ewc molasses tea too
 

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Midwest Weedist

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hey all, I was wondering if there's any hope left for my lady. I switched her to flowering after I thought I got rid of my gnats. then somehow my timer got fucked up and I think it might have been on 24 hours. I fixed it amd now she is barely switching, amd slowly losing more leaves. any help? I tried an ewc molasses tea too
Do you have any aloe vera plants available to you? They make a great "tea" for plants that are stressed and damaged.
 

earthling420

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Smell mo like outdoh update

Couple weeks ago, Slightly after transplant into final 40gallons


More recent after couple week veg, still have a extra 2 months before flower starts


Critical kush
wow. gorgeous ladies. with that many gals Im wondering do you water them with the hose?
 

earthling420

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Do you have any aloe vera plants available to you? They make a great "tea" for plants that are stressed and damaged.
I do, should I foliar her as much as I can with aloe and neem and silica?

I cant water a lot of stuff in causeshes drinking real slow and with the gnats, im lettin her.dry a lil. If it wil even help get rid of them who knows. just sucks to come this far and she start dieing like this. breaks my heart, but she's a fighter so ill stand by her to the end :hump:
 
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Pattahabi

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I do, should I foliar her as much as I can with aloe and neem and silica?

I cant water a lot of stuff in causeshes drinking real slow and with the gnats, im lettin her.dry a lil. If it wil even help get rid of them who knows. just sucks to come this far and she start dieing like this. breaks my heart, but she's a fighter so ill stand by her to the end :hump:
Fresh aloe, puree approximately one ounce of the gel (I've been pureeing skin and all) per gallon of water. Spray immediately on the tops and bottoms of the leaves. If you're not too over watered, you might even mist the top of the topsoil a little. Aloe I have used excessively and I have not noticed any negative results. Neem and silica you will have to experiment a little to find the dosage that works for your situation.

Peace!

P-
 

greenghost420

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damn didnt realize BAS could be getting over on folks. i just threw them some bizniz too. he didnt seem to be able to tell me how much cal/phos to add to a ft3 or even how much to topdress. i was like wtf! i was told not to topdress with it but rather a drench or foliar. anyone confirm this?
 

Midwest Weedist

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I've been pondering something; rice hulls mulch. There are some organic growers who mulch instead of using a cover crop, and with as fast as rice hulls break down, wouldn't they make a decent mulch?
 
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