Total Noob using teas and I am a believer
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GandalfdaGreen
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That's what I am talking about. i want to gear my mixes and my teas to do this every time. I think it's the way it should be. Mother nature likes colors too. I have some pics of a few Starlet Kush and the two phenos of the Engineers' Dream that show some fade too. I'll post them later after the big win here.
dlftmyers
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Beautiful Pics Loving the colors Go Boston...Super Blue Dream x Harlequin Jo aka Freedom Baby. #13.
Medium height. Very frosty. Smells like citrus, lemons, hints of blueberries, and sweet tea. It's like a Lemon Snapple tea with a little berry in it. It really looks like top shelf flowers.
Mad Hamish
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When it looks like a mish mash of everything, its usually pH brother. Be careful with feeds, abundance now can lock out other things. You are in coco right? Give two buffered pHd waters till SEEPING not run too much run off and you should be right as rain. A touch of CaMg on the second one.
RedCarpetMatches
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I don't see the reason for all the coco dislike I see in organics threads. In my experience roots absolutely love the stuff. They go crazy in it. High water retention, good CEC, excellent aeration by itself, almost impossible to overwater...what's not to love? IMO it's the best medium for tea lovers. As long as you rinse salts out at first, watch PH, use dolomite lime, and don't let dry out, then your golden. I'm doing my first coco and tea run now...new for me. I've used Earth Juice and the very underrated Dyna Grow line with great results in coco. I'm just going to alternate between nutrient and ACTs. My seedlings are only a week old, so I'll post up some growth (or probs lol) when I notice anything out of the ordinary. Cheerio
Rrog
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Well, coco can suck the cations right outta the soil, and it needs to be conditioned, can be salty, etc.
Peat doesn't have these issues and is also more bioactive. I'd love to be a bigger fan of coco, as it is sustainable.
I'm looking at cow manure substitutes like "Re-Peat" for something that has the physical properties as well as sustainability. Plus it can be made locally.
Peat doesn't have these issues and is also more bioactive. I'd love to be a bigger fan of coco, as it is sustainable.
I'm looking at cow manure substitutes like "Re-Peat" for something that has the physical properties as well as sustainability. Plus it can be made locally.
RedCarpetMatches
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How much can it suck out and for how long? I always rinse and "pre-charge" before using. Seems to work so far. It just seems like you get the best of both worlds with coco. I honestly can't compare to true living soil yet as I just started my worm bin. Worms are loving their new home so far...don't want to wake up to worms crawling out of airholes :O I did have some good cooked soil that ate 3 of my precious babies. Infested with a ton of damn mites. Posted all that in the ROLS thread. Sorry for rambling guys as I'm excited about teas, amendments, microbes, etc. I can't wait to see the results of my coco and teas. I also can't wait for my vermicompost!!! PS I have an online crush on Rrog.
Rrog
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Ha! Good to hear about the VC. You'll be a very happy fellow.
I've used different coco combined with some finer stuff all the way to the chunky blocks. I would add boiling CalMag+ water to the coco. Knock out some sodium and tie up the binding sites with less problematic Ca and Mg. I seem to remember that pH swings can affect that solubility.
I've used different coco combined with some finer stuff all the way to the chunky blocks. I would add boiling CalMag+ water to the coco. Knock out some sodium and tie up the binding sites with less problematic Ca and Mg. I seem to remember that pH swings can affect that solubility.
GandalfdaGreen
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Maybe that explains my insane amounts of dolomite lime in my Rev mix. Remember that Rrog?
2 cft of Coast of Maine Bar Harbor blend
2cft of coco
2cft of perlite (large and small)
1cft of EWC
1cft of Maine Coast Lobster Compost
Amendments are:
12 cups of Happy Frog 5-5-5
4 cups of greensand
6 cups of oyster shells
4 cups of dolomite powder
14 cups of prilled dolomite
2 cups of blood meal
2 cups of rock phosphate
4 cups of gypsum
4 cups of kelp meal
32 cups of cow manure
2 cups of high N bat guano
4 cups of feather meal
8 cups of bone meal
4 cups of Happy Frog bulb fertilizer
2 cups of excellerite
2 cups of azomite
4 cups of humic acid
4 cups of alfalfa meal
8 cups of organic rice
st0wandgrow
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Not really my favorite bowl/pipe, but since it's Halloween I have to post up the monster bowl! There's a guy here on RIU by the name of "Dankshizzle" that blows glass, and I had him make me this. I've picked up 8 of these (they're all different) and given them to friends. He makes some cool stuff.
GandalfdaGreen
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That is a really cool piece. Damn. I see the blood speckles on the counter. Go Mrs. st0w.
st0wandgrow
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I love the colors on that Freedom Baby. Beautiful! Nicely done Gandalf!
RedCarpetMatches
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That looks like a Cal Mag overdose! I use 1 cup of Dolomite/cft in my coco and have never had a deficiency. Doesn't greensand take years to break down?
RedCarpetMatches
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EZ Widers FTW!!!
st0wandgrow
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I'm kicking around an idea and want some advice from any handymen here. My flower room is about 14x10. I have 3 1000 watt lights in there on 6 foot light rails. I want to try some no-till, but I'm worried that my 5 gallon buckets are a little on the small side for this. I've been thinking about making/buying some sort of raised beds (or troughs) to go under my light rails. I'm thinking 6 foot long x 3 foot wide and about 18 inches deep. I could put one under each light rail and still have room to walk between the rows. The entire bed wouldn't be used for each run so I could leave a couple feet "fallow" each round with a cover crop like clover and let the root balls break down for 9 weeks. I'd even add some worms in there. I'm thinking about laying down a few tarps, and then building a frame out of metal, or even pvc where I could velcro some geopot type material to the frame, then fill the beds up with 10-12 cubic feet of soil each .... leaving room to top-dress and mulch. I'm sure I could run this soil for a year or so (5-6 crops+) before having to replace it.
Any thoughts on how I could go about this? I would love to get out of the buckets and have a big swath of dirt to let the gals really stretch out in.
Any thoughts on how I could go about this? I would love to get out of the buckets and have a big swath of dirt to let the gals really stretch out in.
RedCarpetMatches
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Cool idea that would save a ton of time. They sell Eco felt at most fabric places. They'll even cut the roll to your size! There's prob something more durable you could use for all that weight. I'd email some fabric pot places and see if you can get any piggies to squeal.
Rrog
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Have I got the solution for you!!!Plywood base with 1" ball bearing castors. Very low profile and super heavy pots glide with ease.
Next we introduce a 3" air cavity and some hardware cloth stapled to the top. You can rest giant Geopots on these and get excellent air circulation under the fabric.
I will build these for you if this is what you're looking for.
hyroot
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I've done beds in the past before I started rols. With as wide as you are doing you don't need have the bed more than 12 inches deep. Mine were 2.5 x 2.5 feet . 12 inches deep. Soma style beds. My 7 gals are only 9 inches tall... The soma beds had a 2 inch layer of hydroton then weed mat between soil and hydroton. Keeping the layers separate. PVC in each corner going down to the hydroton. Creating a bed of air beneath the soil. worked great. But cleanup was a bitch. No till rols would do great with beds. No cleanup...
look up the book growing marijuana soma style. You can read most of it for free online in google books.
all the fabric pot companies make fabric beds too. Cheaper on amazon.
look up the book growing marijuana soma style. You can read most of it for free online in google books.
all the fabric pot companies make fabric beds too. Cheaper on amazon.
GandalfdaGreen
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I was just talking to Rrog and I wanted to post something I just told him about the Super Blue Dream x Freedom Baby. Rrog is my priest.
That is the first plant I cut. I had to. My flowering room's RH is 50% right on the nose. 4 fans are on all the time. Big open room with a ton of circulation. I only use a fraction of the room. Temp is a steady 72-73 this time of the year. Last night I noticed the smaller leaves at the very top of the cola changed overnight from a perfect green to a sick deep yellow green with a curl at the very tips. I knew what it was immediately. I found a small area of bud rot/mold. I took pictures within 5 mins of the find and then cut her down and cut away the affected bud. I only lost a very small amount thanks the higher powers.
My point is to check your plants everyday. Don't just go through the motions. I am so lucky I caught this at the earliest point. You want to know something funny? I was told by M4K that things were cool and that he wished my luck or something like that in bringing them to finish. This was a few days ago or close to it. When I heard that I was happy and thought that it's water only for 10-14 days. Cruise control. No problems. What could possibly go wrong? I even thought about the possibility of bud mold. Can't happen in these conditions.
I am still laughing at myself. Talk about a dose of humble pie.
That is the first plant I cut. I had to. My flowering room's RH is 50% right on the nose. 4 fans are on all the time. Big open room with a ton of circulation. I only use a fraction of the room. Temp is a steady 72-73 this time of the year. Last night I noticed the smaller leaves at the very top of the cola changed overnight from a perfect green to a sick deep yellow green with a curl at the very tips. I knew what it was immediately. I found a small area of bud rot/mold. I took pictures within 5 mins of the find and then cut her down and cut away the affected bud. I only lost a very small amount thanks the higher powers.
My point is to check your plants everyday. Don't just go through the motions. I am so lucky I caught this at the earliest point. You want to know something funny? I was told by M4K that things were cool and that he wished my luck or something like that in bringing them to finish. This was a few days ago or close to it. When I heard that I was happy and thought that it's water only for 10-14 days. Cruise control. No problems. What could possibly go wrong? I even thought about the possibility of bud mold. Can't happen in these conditions.
I am still laughing at myself. Talk about a dose of humble pie.