Soil Food Web Gardening with Compost Teas

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Rrog good point about the vernacular on that one..how you been? i've been so damn busy with life that I haven't even had time to read or post on any forum...I'm like 15 pages behind on the ROLS thread now lol not to mention the ALSG group...madness.

bout to water my veggie gardens, juice some fresh citrus, and fill up 3 corny kegs with homebrew all three are IPAs lol. 15 gallons of IPA =

btw how worried are you guys about smell leaking from the house? I used to have my A/C vent out the side of my house through a window, but yesterday I decided to change that after I got a strong whiff of dankness on the sidewalk while checking my mailbox. I now have my A/C vent through the ceiling and into my attic, where it is pushed out the top of my roof by one of those spinning roof vent deals w/ a fan. The problem is, I can still smell it from the street sometimes depending on wind direction. Before it was noticeable that it was coming from my house, now it is harder to pinpoint...but the smell is still there. one of my neighbors is a cop for what its worth (across the street luckily). not that I am doing anything illegal, but it is still unnerving.

how would you guys feel about this, and what would you do if you were to try and fix it?

Wow! Just curious, how many plants are causing this stink?

DANK fuckin stinks straight up hehe but yeah good point Rrog. What strain? I seal all my hoods with tape and run over sized scrubbers cause I'm paranoid in a smart way

I've got a carbon scrubber sucking from my flower tent, venting inside, and it works pretty good, but when I've got ladies in the last couple weeks before chop, you can smell them when your in the basement, but not outside.
Lol. My buddy grows all this Headband and OG and vents outside, no filter. His shit stinks! Pure Land we would say...


My Jack Herer plant STINKS right now. Only a couple weeks away!

I'll take some photos before cutting her down.

What you got stinking Cann?

I use to worry about it, then I got a Can 150 for my grow the thing is 5 ft tall and 150 lbs, but the fucker works. I have had it over a year and still no smell and for 350$ thats less then a 1$ a day to keep me from worrying about it. I live in a city and have a shared driveway with my neighbor who has 3 teenagers and my other neighbor is even closer so I don't want any smell. At my old house I use make my own filters or buy small ones but I got tired of coming home and being able to smell it 2 weeks after getting it. So I bit the bullet and got the biggest one I could find and not only has it saved me time and $ in the long run but now I have peace of mind.

Yep oversized is what you need for sure. I always go for quality when it comes to odor control because it does make a difference.

Organic grown plants stink way more than hydroponics thats for sure. I dont know why but they do.

100% Landrace Sativa has no smell! Grew some trees in my back yard and you could not smell a thing. When you touched them they smelled like basil and old spice. I had to chop at Thanksgiving though so they might have gotten stinky if they could have had 2 more months of sun

its about 30 plants causing the stink..most are under 3'' though so nothing ridiculous. week 7.5 for most of them, week 5.5 for a few. i'm running through a bunch of the TGA stuff that I'm not going to keep...kaboom, the flav, ace of spades, etc. my only keepers from last time will be plushberry, cheese quake, and a good sativa pheno of the flav. too many plants throwing nanners...(some of these threw nanners again the second round so I am going to have some seeded buds... ) glad I got my hands on some new genetics.

i have a can 70 filter that runs at all times venting through the roof, so the only thing causing stink was the A/C venting hot stanky air outside. maybe i will set the carbon filter to scrub the room and hope that the A/C will smell less now that i have it venting through the roof. I don't mind stink inside my house...its just on the sidewalk that scares me. perhaps I will put something strongly scented in my attic to mix with the weed smell...lots of orange trees here - maybe i'll hang a rag soaked with orange oil.

When I grew Mr Goo outside a couple years ago, I could smell it out front. It was a small plant - 4 feet - the Malawi was 10 feet and no smell

Cann said:

its about 30 plants causing the stink..most are under 3'' though so nothing ridiculous. week 7.5 for most of them, week 5.5 for a few. i'm running through a bunch of the TGA stuff that I'm not going to keep...kaboom, the flav, ace of spades, etc. my only keepers from last time will be plushberry, cheese quake, and a good sativa pheno of the flav. too many plants throwing nanners...(some of these threw nanners again the second round so I am going to have some seeded buds... ) glad I got my hands on some new genetics.

i have a can 70 filter that runs at all times venting through the roof, so the only thing causing stink was the A/C venting hot stanky air outside. maybe i will set the carbon filter to scrub the room and hope that the A/C will smell less now that i have it venting through the roof. I don't mind stink inside my house...its just on the sidewalk that scares me. perhaps I will put something strongly scented in my attic to mix with the weed smell...lots of orange trees here - maybe i'll hang a rag soaked with orange oil.

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I know exactly what you mean.. I run a sealed room and use raptor hoods but for some reason either the grow room air gets through the glass and seal of the hood or it penetrates my ducting. ANyways my ducting exhausts in the attic and I you can smell it in late flower usually after week 5. I was thinking of throwing a a booster fan on the end of the ducting and push that air through a small carbon scrubber, better safe than sorry. That or maybe a jar of the ona brick , not the ona gel.

Mohican said:

When I grew Mr Goo outside a couple years ago, I could smell it out front. It was a small plant - 4 feet - the Malawi was 10 feet and no smell

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When I ran hydro I never had smell issues, ANd sometimes I would run my flood table and 12 plus plants and never had any strong odors outside the sealed room, with organics the odor is so much stronger, I guess I'll have to buy one of those huge carbon scrubbers. and in my sealed room my carbon scrubber runs 24/7.

I love this forum. Just discovered this thread and read a few pages...so much good info. I've been using AACTs with good results, but I hear what Rrog and others are saying about it not providing anything more than good compost/vermicompost.

I found the info on using seed sprout teas and aloe/coco water particularly interesting and will try aloe on my next water. I was gonna AACT next water, but now I'm gonna top dress with some EWC and local compost with a lil DE to hold off some of these unknown lil "mites" I've been seeing recently and water with 2tbsp aloe and 1tsp agsil per gallon.

Definitely looking to find some barley and comfey as well.

I can't wait to start applying all of this to my veggie garden once I get it going.

Cool!

Just know that the DE wont do much to the mites once it's wet. I'm pretty sure they need to come into contact with the dry powder in order to be affected, as it dehydrates them or something.

But, I could be wrong.

DE when dry, will have sharp edges to cut open the soft bodies of some larvae. I don't use DE any longer, as I think it makes the soil a bit mucky. I don't need the water holding properties and have other agents in place for pests. That's just what I do.

But didn't you know, DE is just calcium bentonite ?

One of the really important rock dusts, also called azomite.

I use quite a bit of this stuff in my mixes, never had any muck problems, but I also use lots of coco.

I have several Ca sources and I use Bentonite Clay, actually. EWC has a lot of Ca.. it's the shit!

Man some of these Kush hybrids I grow cant get enough of the Calcium...

You would think they evolved over a limestone deposit or something, haha.

Probably all those Minerals from the Hindu Kush mountains washing down the hillsides each year...

Huge CaCO3 in the castings.

Rising Moon said:

Man some of these Kush hybrids I grow cant get enough of the Calcium...

You would think they evolved over a limestone deposit or something, haha.

Probably all those Minerals from the Hindu Kush mountains washing down the hillsides each year...

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I have a strain by raskal OG called " WHite Bubba " ( Raskals White x Pre-98 ) and I have the same issue dude. The thing is a cal/mag whore.