Recycled Organic Living Soil (ROLS) and No Till Thread

Chunky Stool

Chunky Stool

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bizfactory said:
Anyone delt with broad mites organically?
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Broad mites are a bitch.
If you are in flower, the best option is early harvest, IMHO.
(Don't forget to rinse buds w/mild peroxide solution before drying.)
If you are still in veg, hot shots will nuke mites. Gotta minimize airflow for it to work effectively because they use vapor to kill bugs. Penetrates every nook & cranny.
Good luck!
(I realize hot shots are not organic, but nothing else has worked well for me.)
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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Kind Sir said:
I'm sorry to




I'm sorry to bug you, what do you think about my mix? Should I add anything else? And what size pots do to use indoors?
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No bother mang, that's why we're here :) I think your mix looks good. I'd definitely get the basalt for extra mineral content. worms are good for worm bin, but those composting worms dont do tunneling like a night crawler would, if that's what you're looking for.
I have some gypsum in my mix for some extra calcium mainly, but honestly I've never done a run without it so i couldn't tell you if it's crucial or not. but Ca is always a good thing to have, as its used a lot during flower production and helps build strong stalks and cell walls.
I also have some insect frass in the mix as well for some extra chitin material. it has a 2-2-2 NPK from what I remember. my early mixes did fine without the frass though, not a deal breaker by any means.
For pots i'm running 7.5 fabs right now but i think i'll be moving to 10 gal. The next run of 4 con cheese I do is gonna have one 10 gal fab, one 7.5 gal fab, one 5 gal plastic, and one 7-10 gal plastic. So i'm gonna see which pots that particular strain likes.
it's good to experiment and see what works for you and the types of strains you grow.
my friend was just telling me the other day about a couple strains he has that he only grows under LED because they just produce better.
one thing i would suggest is getting some cowboy charcoal and making some bio char. smash that shit up in a sheet or something into the smallest pieces you can make. charge it for a week, like making an aerated tea basically, with some minerals and nutrients (heaviest on the N side for the nutes), and then for the last day i put some molasses and castings in there to help populate the char with organisms as well. drain it, but don't let it dry, just mix it right in. i saw some good results when using it and i'm working on getting some more together for my mix to have all the time.
 
Kind Sir

Kind Sir

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ShLUbY said:
No bother mang, that's why we're here :) I think your mix looks good. I'd definitely get the basalt for extra mineral content. worms are good for worm bin, but those composting worms dont do tunneling like a night crawler would, if that's what you're looking for.
I have some gypsum in my mix for some extra calcium mainly, but honestly I've never done a run without it so i couldn't tell you if it's crucial or not. but Ca is always a good thing to have, as its used a lot during flower production and helps build strong stalks and cell walls.
I also have some insect frass in the mix as well for some extra chitin material. it has a 2-2-2 NPK from what I remember. my early mixes did fine without the frass though, not a deal breaker by any means.
For pots i'm running 7.5 fabs right now but i think i'll be moving to 10 gal. The next run of 4 con cheese I do is gonna have one 10 gal fab, one 7.5 gal fab, one 5 gal plastic, and one 7-10 gal plastic. So i'm gonna see which pots that particular strain likes.
it's good to experiment and see what works for you and the types of strains you grow.
my friend was just telling me the other day about a couple strains he has that he only grows under LED because they just produce better.
one thing i would suggest is getting some cowboy charcoal and making some bio char. smash that shit up in a sheet or something into the smallest pieces you can make. charge it for a week, like making an aerated tea basically, with some minerals and nutrients (heaviest on the N side for the nutes), and then for the last day i put some molasses and castings in there to help populate the char with organisms as well. drain it, but don't let it dry, just mix it right in. i saw some good results when using it and i'm working on getting some more together for my mix to have all the time.
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Ohh so nightcralwers are better for actually in the pots? Didn't know that! I can buy those locally I bet.
 
CaptainCAVEMAN

CaptainCAVEMAN

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The pictures at the beginning of this thread no longer show up. So will that happen to all the threads and all the pictures we post?
Apologies, I know it's off topic and this is not forum support, I just went back to page 1 to refrence some old info and was shocked the pics were gone which in turn makes quite a few posts irrelevant.:cuss:
 
DesertGrow89

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Chunky Stool said:
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My favorite soilless mix (Gritty Kitty) is now a 4-part:
2 parts ProMix HP (or sunshine #4)
1 part rinsed Special Kitty
1 part rinsed coco coir
Try it, you'll like it!

I should also mention that @RM3 also uses special kitty (he gave me the tip). His mix is half clay, half sunshine #4.
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Yeah I've tried it and just think that you would get a higher quality finished product with a ROLS mix, Perhaps the quality of RM3s cannabis is top shelf despite not being organic, I don't know. But I do know there was far too much water retention with the clay, and I didn't even use that much (special kitty). Won't go back to it again but wish you well with it and hope that it works for you!
 
Aruanda

Aruanda

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@CaptainCAVEMAN Yeah I noticed that too when I read through this thread. A lot of missing photos near the beginning. I was frustrated wanting to see people's beautiful organic flowers but to no avail. There are others throughout the thread that are missing. Sometimes if I reloaded the page they'd show up though, not the ones near the start from the originators which is a bummer.
 
DrCannaPath

DrCannaPath

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Hey everyone......I came across this Ukrainian soil amendment called Sapropel or saprozem fertilizer
And I was wondering if anyone is familiar with it or has used it or anything similar. Mixing it or top as mulch maybe?

Description:
Sapropel - environmentally friendly fertilizer, contains the most important batteries of plants. Sapropel is rich with organic substances, contains nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, calcium.
This is the description from the retailer:

The sapropel-uniform student invisible weight consisting of the organo-mineral substances which are formed of the remains of the plants and animal and mineral and organic impurity brought in reservoirs by water and wind. Sapropelic fertilizers are made from ground deposits of fresh-water reservoirs which were created from the died-off water vegetation, the remains of live organisms, and also particles of soil humus, peat, clay and sand. Sapropelic fertilizers - the irreplaceable product applied to radical improvement of the earth for its recultivation and sanitation. When entering sapropelic fertilizers into the soil, its mechanical structure, water-absorbing and moisture-holding ability improves, for 2-3 years gives increase in the soil a humus and, activates soil processes. Thanks to slow solubility of the substances operating in a product the balanced food of plants is provided with all batteries.


Check out my new QuadStrain grow ;-) :
https://www.rollitup.org/index.php?threads/916619/
and my previous TriStrain grow ;-) :
https://www.rollitup.org/index.php?threads/883569/
 

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ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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I noticed upon examination of my amendments, that there seems to be a bit of K missing from the coots mix.

where do you all get your K from?? I've noticed some slight P and K def. late in flower, and i just know that the yield should be higher than what it's been for me. I'm not expecting hydro results here or anything so don't get me wrong. I'm just thinking 12oz off a 600 is a little low that's all.

I have a product i'll be experimenting with and following the package instructions http://organicallydone.com/products/Bloom-Boost/

mix in 1tbsp at transplant (the container they'll be flowering in), 1-2 tbsp topdress at initial flowering, and 1-2 tbsp 3 weeks into flower. seems like pretty decent instruction; plenty of time to get completely used up by the end of flower. i'll be applying closer to the 1tbsp rate for first trials.
 
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