Total Noob using teas and I am a believer
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GandalfdaGreen
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No more nutes until she perks up. I think once it does dry out she will perk up. You are spot on. What was your potting mix? Hang around here for awhile and see if there is anything you can pick up. It's a great group of really nice guys.
VTMi'kmaq
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thankgoodness Gandalf is soo thorough, I gotta get into the habit of scolling back at least 2 pages when I get on here daily (I don't even wanna think about a week lmao) just to make sure I haven't missed anything. crusher she looks like exactly what gand said, I am not a fan of anything to my seedlings but light, love and earth worm castings ( usually 1 cup of castings to 5 gallons of water) I have heard they can handle 4-5 tbs of blackstrap in addition to the castings if ya wanna do that too. Just wanted to give you some options!
GandalfdaGreen
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I feel that I have to share this with you. It is the only bottle I use. I just posted this up in the problems area but I wanted it here too. I swear by this. 100%.
- Quantum Apocalypse. It is a must have in your room. The #1 thing to have. Use up to a week before harvest. I use it only as a preventive measure. Pure organics. I can not say enough about this product.
http://www.quantumapocalypse.net/
st0wandgrow
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Arrived to my mailbox in 10 days. Very cool transaction!
These are being popped on 9/22. Based on your recommendation they are leap-frogging Bodhi's Dream Lotus and Mr Nice Medicine Man. Once my Serious Seed Bubblegum move in to flower these are next. I will be sure to post up some pics in this thread.
Thanks again for the suggestion
GandalfdaGreen
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I can't wait to see the Bubblegum. Have you grown that before? I have a Kali Bubba 8-9 weeks in. I love Serious. I know that you will get a few keeper phenos from this pack. I hear that is the norm.
st0wandgrow
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Gotta do it! Try to sell her on the savings you will realize by turning your table scraps in to ganja gold for your plants. "No more expensive hydro-store bottles honey".
Through a little trial and error, I would highly recommend a couple compost bins in your yard in addition to the worm bin. It takes worms quite a while to break down veggie/fruit scraps just tossed in to the bin. You could make a table scrap slurry in your blender to speed the process up a bit, but a dirty blender for the old lady to wash every day won't have her too happy with the worm bin idea either.
Keep a bucket with a lid under the sink. Toss your scraps in there. A couple times a week take the bucket out to your compost bin. Be sure to add *at least* equal parts carbon (twigs, sawdust, dried leaves, dried grass clippings) to your organic matter. Once you fill up one bin, leave it be for a couple months and start adding your scraps to the other compost bin. Try to turn your bins weekly, and keep things moist (not wet) if you can. The first bin will take on a more pleasant smell once the thermophilic process winds down, and that will be your cue to move to step 2. Bring a 5 gallon bucket of this partially finished compost in to your worms and let them rip through it. It will be a worm orgy. In a matter of a couple weeks you'll have some nice rich vermicompost for your plants.
The production of my worm bin has increased 5-fold by feeding them composted matter instead of straight veggie/fruit scraps.
st0wandgrow
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I grew it years ago along with Kali Mist. The Kali Mist was so good, and my space was so limited at the time that I killed off my BG mama. So now that I have ample space I am running it again. I also have some Kali Mist beans, but those will have to sit for a while as my garden is pretty full of plants earmarked for patients. They come first. I'm maxed out on plant count now trying to nurse some really rough looking cuttings back to health. They are 25% cbd, 1% thc genetics destined for some people in need. Keeping my fingers crossed that at least 1 of them will root....
Mad Hamish
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Stow... I'm pretty embarrassed I've never taken notice of your plants bro. You have some excellent taste in reefer. Your patients are lucky to have you. I am sure all your clones will look up soon enough! They will ALL root. Even if they are slow to do so, hang in there bud, it sounds like you are hanging on to some amazing medicine. Kali Mist is one of my all-time favourites too, it manages to cut through any state of mind and any high that you might already be on. I couldn't sleep on it, it kept me up all night working on music
Thinking about your patients first: RESPECT! But I am sure they will love the Kali as much as you do. They trust your taste, otherwise they would be off to some other caregiver for their meds. Perhaps you should trust your tastes a little more too? That might have been out of place, but you deserve the best, just like you feel your patients do. All the best, and may your cuttings grow into TREES.
GandalfdaGreen
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I feel that if your soil is working and growth is green that a tea is to be used twice in bloom and once in veg. I am using the teas to assure I have enough in my mix to finish strong. I have decided to run the Rev's mix without the fertilizer spikes. Those seem crazy. I am also taking the N and P layers out of the mix. I am really curious to hear how often and how much you guys feed your plants. Do you check the ec/ppms of your teas? What do you add to your teas and why? I know I could run my soil for the whole cycle without a problem but I think I can get my yields up by a 1/3 at least if I tweak things. I don't want to sacrifice quality of course. I guess I am a ready to push the line again. The last time I went over it by a touch. I love tweaking this and finding out just where to run these. I was thinking that I owe it to them to get the best out of them. I plan to use my soil over and over. That is where I will be aiming long term to fix things. So much to be humbled by. Organics has helped heal my soul.
st0wandgrow
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I appreciate your kind words Hamish. I also love your optimism about these cuts, but OMG are they pathetic looking! I'm very anxious over these as I have promised some very sick people a clone from these once they are ready. If you and Myco lived here you would be at the very top of my high-cbd clone list! I am so encouraged at the wonders that this plant can do for such a wide array of ailments. It's truly amazingStow... I'm pretty embarrassed I've never taken notice of your plants bro. You have some excellent taste in reefer. Your patients are lucky to have you. I am sure all your clones will look up soon enough! They will ALL root. Even if they are slow to do so, hang in there bud, it sounds like you are hanging on to some amazing medicine. Kali Mist is one of my all-time favourites too, it manages to cut through any state of mind and any high that you might already be on. I couldn't sleep on it, it kept me up all night working on music
Mad Hamish
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So far, I have only given one feed of a veg tea in the time the LVBK has been in living soil. After that it has been pure water only. A little while after transplanting, I gave them a tea at a ppm of 350, not very strong at all. And it has been much more than they needed really. I had a tiny bit of leaf curl and gave them a little dose of pure water and they came right. They are looking better every single day bro. The only reason I fed the tea was because I had no other delivery system for the Lacto B I felt like adding, I think it is a great organism to promote as it really is nature's workhorse bacteria from what I have read.
What I fed was a tea made out of some very simple ingredients: A little bit of horse manure COMPOST, that was pretty much nothing but knobbles of myco-webs, with a tiny bit of kelp mixed in, and a tiny bit of a friend's well-aged chicken manure compost. These ingredients I added simply for a boost in fungal activity of the right kind, as I had not yet had access to the mushroom compost at the time of doing the first soil mix, and as a bio-food for the Lacto Bacilli. I knew that simply by bubbling I would attract all the bacteria I could possibly need too, so it is a nice 'indigenous' mix of microbes. And I wanted a foliar spray to promote a healthy phyllosphere, I have used it twice in foliar form at even lower PPM's. I have used this on the hydro plants too, and I can tell they are loving it.
I am pretty confident that they need very little more for their entire life, but I will still do the occasional foliar feed to make sure the phyllosphere is as strong as possible, this is basically to prevent any kind of 'fast and nasty' moulds to ever take hold.
I have two kinds of water I am using: Rain water to mix the teas, seeing as when I get to about 350 to 400ppm, the high pH of the rainwater tank is brought down to 6.6 to 6.7. For normal watering, I use river water that is available to me, pH 6.5. So my grow is now 100 percent chemical free, not even pH up or down. Nothing but stuff nature gave me and I can tweak with all the accuracy of hydroponics. It's really blowing my mind.
I am a little addicted to making teas now... So my garden has been getting some, my mom's garden has been getting, my gran's garden has been getting... I have given bottles of Lacto B bolstered teas to friends who have used it, and all of us are still to find a plant that did NOT benefit. I even have a friend who has ordered a large scale batch for his commercial greenhouse.
Yup. I have gone tea mad.
GandalfdaGreen
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I know. I always have a tea brewing just for the smells. I have one outdoor plant that was a root bound, neglected clone. It was either kill her or toss her out back. I have fed her a tea weekly. She loves it. Outdoor plants are beautiful. She is purpling up from some cold nights a week ago. It was in the 40's. I thought it was mold. I will get a few blunts of medicine off her. It is a sin that I never get to smoke outdoor meds. It was cool getting help from the sun and rain too.
cancrusher
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thanks mate.
just using hortico potting mix. very new to growing, and gardening all together to be honest. just sick of paying for shit weed so decided to grow my own. this is about my hundredth attempt lol all my others died, 2 white widow auto, 2 easy bud and one other ak47. this is my last hope lol.
this is an updated photo, bottom leaves seem to be yellowing.. no sign of fixing itself as of yet..
also have another plant going (the one on left) its over a month old.just random bag seed..just looks really fucking small too me. im starting to get shitty lol im putting in decent $ but i cant even get past a few inches tall?? ive got 250watt bulb going, using up power for nothing ? ive done research online. so much research. i need somebodies help!!
