Cann's Organic No-Till Garden

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Cann, how r you processing your fresh botanical teas. im just chopping up the plant material on a cutting board. wondering if i should process in the vitamix..

kushking42 said:

Cann, how r you processing your fresh botanical teas. im just chopping up the plant material on a cutting board. wondering if i should process in the vitamix..

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I think a good chop is fine personally. I wouldn't go as far as juicing them for teas but I guess you could if you wanted. I take crushed dry leaves when I make teas and add them to water.

ok that sounds good next time i use nettles or borage ill let it dry. guess ill harvest them now and let them sit out. probably way more powerful than fresh.

What about aloe, how do you guys crush them for teas? I notice that sometimes the gel just stays together for the most part so I'm not sure if I'm getting the beneficial enzymes throughout the tea.

Also, krushking, I've heard those vitamix are amazing for juicing. How do you like yours so far? Can't you put in say an orange with the peel and it will turn everything to juice?

Aloe is total juicing material!

I just scrape the leaf for the gel.

Rrog said:

I just scrape the leaf for the gel.

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I'll keep doing what I'm doing

Prob makes a good cloning gel

i cut and filet them. then scrape the gel/juice and process in the vitamix. passes through the sprayer much more easily. before the vitamix i was having to constantly clean the nozzle. very frustrating!. the vitamix is great. turns my greens and fruits into a real nice consistency. i dont leave the peels in though. there is enough fiber in there without. plus i cant rob my compost of all those citrus peels!

the aloe i scrape up and whip it with a fork...it seems to work a little bit better than just throwing the chunky gooey filet in the mix. blender is the best if you want to spray it through a sprayer without clogging...but i'm lazy. plus i have the freeze dried powder, so....

EDIT: didn't see KK's post there...like he said blender is definitely the way to go if you want hassle-free spraying. glad to see you around here KK your setup this year is looking baller...glad to see you are taking your game to the next level.

botanicals i just shred with my hands and throw em in...nothing complicated.


saw the whole 3 stars thing...happened the other day when I was giving some folks shit for their techniques...what ya gonna do? head back to the garden...

peace y'all..i'll post some pictures later. little bit of a situation with some powdery mildew in the flower tent...working on a horsetail tea based off nugbuckets thread. lets hope this shit works...cause its too late for neem w/o burning the f*** out of pistils. hmmmmm.....

TGA gear is dank as fuck...but god damn it has no resistance to PM. in fact, its like the TGA gear in my room is a magnet for PM...everything else is clear, but the TGA stuff is bad. can't wait for these swami plants to show sex...

The horsetail works great for me, I use it at a 25% dilution.

Alright..so its been a while since I updated. Things are crazy busy around here. First, the results of my soil experiment:

Plants were chopped at 58 days because I found mildew on a few fan leaves. Here they are after being trimmed/dried:

from left to right: cootz soil + enzyme teas, roots 707 + 30% "supersoil", roots 707 w/ daily h2o, roots 707 + roots nutrient line, and roots 707 (control)

Here they are individually pictured next to the control:

roots nutrient line
daily h2o (makes a damn big difference in airpots!)

"supersoil"
cootz soil + enzyme teas, aloe, etc.

Final weights:

control = 12.3grams
h2o = 17.1 grams
roots nutrient line = 17.8 grams
"supersoil" = 19.0 grams
cootz method = 26.6 grams


and there you have it....not the most accurate test from a scientific standpoint...but the results stand for themselves. the cootz plant weighed 2x more than the control...thats good enough for me lol.

So now that the experiment is over I can focus on my main issue at the moment...a little bit of powdery mildew in the flower tent. The plant that has it the worst is The Flav...which is also one of the largest plants in the room. Since I am pretty late into flower I don't want to spray neem, so I have been spraying horsetail tea following nugbuckets thread here. The horsetail has been working pretty damn well for me, and there are now almost no visible patches of mildew the horsetail powder is a bit expensive, but definitely a lifesaver...

Besides that, everything is going great. These new bulbs + larger pots are making a big difference. Never have I seen plants stack flowers like these ladies are doing at the moment...pretty crazy.

Now time for a photo dump. I actually figured out how to take decent bud pictures with this new camera...so here we go:

poorly photostitched panorama shot of the flower tent


The Flav (too big to fit into the frame lol)


Sourband (sour d x headband) sharing a 30 gallon no-till



Plushberry




Gods Gift x OG Kush


Qrazy Train

Very very interesting!! Fun getting updates on your adventures.

EDIT- Am I reading this right that you found improved growth with constant moisture soil?

Hey cann have you ever thought about trying one of those UVC wands? I bought one for like 20 bucks on amazon and it just destroys mildew and it also kills whiteflies and aphids.

You and rrog are slowly converting me into a no tiller. Seems like the best method for the lazy gardener in me. I just need to get some bigger fabric pots. Would you think 7's would be too small?

15 gallons seems to be a growing opinion as to the minimum size for long term no-till. You can do it in less, but more is definitely better. I have my friend starting a 15 gallon geopot grow this weekend. Soil have been cooking for 6 weeks.

I use a UV-b lamp from veg through harvest. Never crossed my mind that I might be helping reduce mold...

UV-B won't do it. It may help a little. But our atmosphere filters out almost all the UV-C rays. UV-C is very dangerous and prolonged exposure to your eyes will cause you to go blind, and if you hold a UV-C light to your skin for about a minute it will burn and possibly turn black. UV-C destroys the DNA in cells and makes it unable to reproduce. Hospitals sterilize countertops and other surfaces with UV-C. Also UV-C bulbs are what is used in ozone generators, some bulbs produce ozone while others do not.

A little 15 second wave over a plant is enough to kill bugs and mildew but not harm the plant from what I have seen. I have seen these "cleanlight hobby units" from the Dutch for sale for like $300 or so bucks and I can make one of those for about $50. Currently I have dropped a UV-C bulb (no ozone) in the middle of one of my carbon filters that I have filtering my intake on my bloom tent, before the fan so none of the rays escape. It sterilizes the air coming in as well as removing dust and shit from the intake.