ShLUbY
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@greasemonkeymann yeah or 145 lol. this baby is cookin! can't wait til it's ready... maybe sooner than expected....
ShLUbY's Garden
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Mason Jar 92705
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That's awesome, bro, they're cookin' for sure! Be patient and let it sit 
ShLUbY
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just been giving it a "toss" with the pitchfork every 4 days or so. there's no bugs out there flying around it at all either. i think i started this compost at the right time of year... after a few frosts lol. i have faith that this will be done in december sometime... maybe for christmas! nothing like some amended compost for christmas lol.That's awesome, bro, they're cookin' for sure! Be patient and let it sit
whitebb2727
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We let the chickens dig in ours.
greasemonkeymann
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hah, yea looks like I was a lil low on that guess huh?
That's a toasty pile ya got there, but that's good, that's what you want
greasemonkeymann
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hmm, not to shit on your parade, but Christmas would be pretty fast man...
that's not very long... who know though man, i suppose it's possible.. but you'll need to turn it more than normal, like every 3 days or so, and make sure it stays tarped to keep it a perfect humidity
ShLUbY
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yeah i hear ya. i been turning it every 4 days so far. i'll keep on that regimen. tarp is on 24/7! i added some moisture to the pile yesterday.... it seems to have kicked it into high gear... i'll try and get the bottom of the pile inverted and get that wet next time.
Richard Drysift
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Yep I DIY-ed a few of these- I added some PVC frames to support plants. Makes it easy pushing plants around the room
ShLUbY
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thanks bud.
the Dr. Who and 9lb hammer i got the seeds from Ann Arbor OM of Medicine. the rest of the stuff were all cuts i've aquired. I'm kinda new to sprouting my own plants. I was misinformed about how hard it is to do and find a good keeper plant, and relied on clones for too long. WISH i would have not listened to ppl and just did my own thing. i now find that those same people know so little about plants, and growing, and soil... sometimes i wonder how they even get the bottles to work for them lol.
all plants are currently being fed vegamatrix (except a few new babies that are going into the no tills when they are ready). I have a couple 20gal no tills that are ready to plant, but i dont have the veg room situated yet, the room that i'm using now wont allow the no till to fit through the door lol.
the mix from the pictures.... basic stuff: fishbone, kelp, neem, crab, alfalfa meals.... oyster shell flour, gypsum, rock dusts, greensand, soft rock phosphate and epsom salt (except the latest mix i had run out of these... no biggie though i don't think).
my first two no-tills have no fishbone meal in them, but i may topdress and work in some. The second 2 no-tills are fully ammended, one with biochar and one without. it's my biochar challenge! they'll be ready to plant soon, so i'll have all 4 no till beds rockin shortly. the living mulch is looking great in the first two. the biochar has no living mulch, as i'm just focusing on the biochar difference and no other influences on that ecosystem.
oldbikepunk
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I like the glass on hoods. You don't have to worry about water spray or other potential bulb-breakers. I do use an open-bulb, 1,000 watt MH that hangs vertically when I have room. I haven't had room for 20+ years but i do again...thanks to the magic of divorce. Shluby, my 22 year old son and i love South Park so your avatar is hilarious and of course from the World of Warcraft episode. I see you're on the hash-making thread as well. I will be doing that once i have materials again in a few months. I'm 50 and have smoked since 15 (my San Jose CA hood had five and seven year olds smoking with their biker dads, and kids buying "lids", ounces, at age ten to have "pot-parties), and grown, and attempted growing, since i was 16. We grew in the woods since age 17 in 1982 above a cemetery. Anyhoo, these threads on RIU are very informative and i appreciate all the little things I've learned here. I have a huge variety of seeds started and six clones a couple weeks now in a big bloom closet. Platinum GSC, Sherbet, and Blue Dream are fair-sized. Alien OG, Key Lime Pie, and THC Bomb vegged a couple weeks and in they went. I pay for TGA seeds, but I make a ton too. I make clones. All in the Frog Soil. SF Bay. Dark Heart Nursery clones. 215. etc., I give away seeds and sometimes clones and sometimes large plants because i get too jiggy with the growing sometimes so why not?
ShLUbY
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haha yeah south park is my favorite, i thought it was an awesome av for the forum. i don't watch a whole lot of TV, i try and keep myself busy instead, but i love south park! im not worried about breakin the bulbs, i don't spray anything when lights are on or worry about splash ups. i'm interested to see if yield bumps a little bit. it's been warm the past few days, and the room as been gettin in the upper 70s, but nothing too serious. sorry to hear that you had to go through divorce to get a grow room again, but now you'll have a bunch of ladies to keep you busy. that's awesome you make your own crosses. i'm going to start gettin' into that eventually. haven't reached that stage yet lol. thanks for stoppin by OBP!
ShLUbY
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Got a few things accomplished today....
carbon scrubber hung on some ratchet hangers. man did that free up some floor space!!!
Blumats were installed in the no-tills. I can't wait to see how these things work!!! no more watering those by hand. i still need to get a few more. eBay was the best deal for those of you shopping.... plants have their own water tower!!
Here's a few updates on the Con Cheese @ 14 days today... she's starting to get some flowers!
I purchased the Powder Mildew Killer by Growers Trust. supposedly it's guaranteed to CURE pm.... we will see! it arrived today, and i'll be applying it tomorrow. just dont have the energy tonight lol.
the neem combined with the bicarbonate is working great on the PM.... one treatment a week keeps breakouts to practically zero. once you see a spot, it's time to treat everything again, and it's gone for another week at least. gonna try potassium bicarbonate next if the PM Killer doesn't cure the PM.
the domina's are doing great, and i'll have some pics of them in a few days with before and after of putting stakes in the pots and spreading them out a little bit. It's gonna be a beautiful canopy. I used to scrog... but since ive stepped up my grow game, i found my stems supported the weight as long as i tied up the main branch to a stake. I can not wait to show these things at like week 5....
i'm gonna get the no tills planted soon, as soon as my new veg area gets decided and done. 2 are ready to plant and 2 are a week away. i have the 4 plants out of the cloner in pint size containers. it'll be a couple weeks before they're ready to go to the big boys. at least the blumats are in them now and i can just put water in a bucket and be done lol. one less worry.
time to chill and make some dinner....
carbon scrubber hung on some ratchet hangers. man did that free up some floor space!!!
Blumats were installed in the no-tills. I can't wait to see how these things work!!! no more watering those by hand. i still need to get a few more. eBay was the best deal for those of you shopping.... plants have their own water tower!!
Here's a few updates on the Con Cheese @ 14 days today... she's starting to get some flowers!
I purchased the Powder Mildew Killer by Growers Trust. supposedly it's guaranteed to CURE pm.... we will see! it arrived today, and i'll be applying it tomorrow. just dont have the energy tonight lol.
the neem combined with the bicarbonate is working great on the PM.... one treatment a week keeps breakouts to practically zero. once you see a spot, it's time to treat everything again, and it's gone for another week at least. gonna try potassium bicarbonate next if the PM Killer doesn't cure the PM.
the domina's are doing great, and i'll have some pics of them in a few days with before and after of putting stakes in the pots and spreading them out a little bit. It's gonna be a beautiful canopy. I used to scrog... but since ive stepped up my grow game, i found my stems supported the weight as long as i tied up the main branch to a stake. I can not wait to show these things at like week 5....
i'm gonna get the no tills planted soon, as soon as my new veg area gets decided and done. 2 are ready to plant and 2 are a week away. i have the 4 plants out of the cloner in pint size containers. it'll be a couple weeks before they're ready to go to the big boys. at least the blumats are in them now and i can just put water in a bucket and be done lol. one less worry.
time to chill and make some dinner....
DonPetro
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Everything is looking great bro! Just a few qs...how long does it take for that 5 gal pail to drain? It makes sense to use a system like that with a large no till pot or bed. Also what triggers pm?
ShLUbY
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I don't know how long it's gonna take the pail to drain yet; i'm interested to see this myself. i literally have no experience with automated watering systems. but these just seem too good to be true! my buddy is using them with the Canna A+B products right in the reservoir. he's loving them so far. Mine will be for water only, and when i want to give them some coconut water or aloe drench or whatever i just water it in like normal, except i don't think i'll need to use as much since i won't need to saturate the whole soil medium.... maybe a half gal to a gal of drench right to the base of the plant is all i think it'll need. I'm thinking i may need 3 maxi's per 20 gal, but we'll see. it'd just be a more accurate moisture reading to have 3 of the maxis' in there.
As for the PM.... it's not a trigger so to say... we're dealing with a fungus here. all fungus reproduce by spores (ideally though some do reproduce asexually). So once a spore lands on a plant and starts to grow and actually penetrates the cell tissue of the plant, it's trying to grow and reproduce and spread spores to more plants to continue its life.
PM is a systemic fungus that lives in the plant no matter if it's producing the conidiophores (the PM you actually see) or not (once the plant has been infected of course). I've read many things that say high humidity causes it (which would be my outdoor vege garden this summer), and that low humidity causes it (my indoor cannabis garden right now) and all this other crap. the one that made the most sense to me is a dry leaf surface area; that's what PM likes in order to put out the conidiophores and release spores. the key to getting rid of it, I BELIEVE, is interrupting the life cycle until it hasn't had a chance to infect more plant surface/tissue. I feel like, though i don't know this to be fact, the plant will fight it off eventually if you can control it from spreading to more surface areas of the plant. the only problem is right now, the plant is constantly making new leaf surface that is not treated because it just grew! so i'm seeing the new break outs on newer leaf tissues, not the old stuff that has been treated.
All my small plants in veg that had PM that i got from my friend to save the genetics (Sour D, GG#4, Querkle, Con Cheese, JC2) are all VERY VERY healthy looking, no PM outbreaks for a week at least (and by an outbreak i mean i see one friggin spot and spray the whole place down lol), leaves praying like crazy, and green as all get up. Even the two Con Cheese in flower had PM just before going into flower, and a couple very isolated leaf breakouts during these first 2 weeks, but man she is happy and healthy as ever. No break outs going on at all with it right now.
i'm battling the PM on every level and about to go further. Getting an ozone emitting bulb with UVC for veg and flower (ozone knocks the spores dead outta the air), i have crab shell topdressed and covered in mulch in all the vegamatrix containers hoping that the plants will respond with chitinase enzymes to help break down the fungal cells inside the plant, i've been spraying neem + bicarbonate which has been very effective, bout to hit them with the geranium oil i just got yesterday from growers trust which allegedly CURES pm.... so if all of this combined doesn't work... well i just don't know what to do other than start buying seeds!
drekoushranada
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I have a set of blumats I might try again. It was not fun climbing in and out of the 5x5 vertical grow tent. The room is looking really good my friend. Keep up the good work.
whitebb2727
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I try to have a lower humidity than most say. I'm fine with mine in the 30's or low 40's
ShLUbY
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yes this is ideal for the end of flowering. currently i'm running around 45-50% with the dehuey rocking. in the winter, it's very easy to achieve 30-40% constantly and i'm looking forward to this winter coming up for that reason alone lol.
whitebb2727
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ShLUbY
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so they tell you to use a pipette to get all the air outta the blumat caps.... jsut fill up a 5 gal bucket, and open them under the water, fill them up and let the soak. when they're done soaking, open them back up underwater, tip the cap upside down and shake the hell out of it. this will get ALL the air bubbles out of the cap. i find they were very easy to dial in. and really for an amended soil.... it's a no brainer.
i'm gonna get a bunch more for when i do 5 gal, 7.5gal, and 10 gal side by side fabrics for single run soil recycling grows. just to see what containers single runs do best in, and compare to the no tills as well. i think 5 and 7.5 gals will be killer because they'll require more frequent watering, which should increase CEC. i may need to make some teas for them towards the end but we'll see....