First True Living Organics Grow

Silky T said:

How old are they and what where do you get seabird guano? What's TLO? I'm learning. I'm a noob. I started a thread Manure and Mariuana 2015 and someone directed me to an organics thread which had this thread. Yours is the first of many that I opened and read. It had a catchy title Anyway, any new info you can provide would be great. It would go nicely in the thread I just mentioned. Nice plants!

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Hey thanks! Well first I get in my boat and sail out off the coast of Peru to an island made of bird shit then I shovel as much as I can carry in a paper sack. Lol naw jus kiddin -you can get Peruvian seabird guano at your local hydro store homes. TLO stands for true living organics- an organic grow style designed by The Rev; author, editor & contributor to Skunk magazine. Check out his book call True Living Organics or read the stickies in the organic section to learn more.
I have grown mj using synthetic nutes like FF for years & can tell you that weed grown naturally using only soil amendments, worm castings, and clean water is much more flavorful than if you use chelated synthetic nutrients but then again ya gotta start somewhere. I didn't know until I did some research that the main difference between using nutes & organics is the preservation of microbial life which feeds all plants naturally. Nutrients feed plants directly whereas organic compounds must first be broken down by microbes for plants to use. Synthetic nutes kill off the microlife which forces the grower to keep on using them or end up with deficiencies which is fine. The plants do not care -they just want food- it's just some growers like me no longer wish to line the pockets of nutrient companies & prefer to use organic amendments to achieve the same end with better results.

Oh and these plants are 2-4 weeks from harvest. The kushes will finish before the hybrids & Sativas I imagine. I will be checking trichomes next week to see how much longer before I can cut them down & get the next set of plants ready for bloom phase- good luck & happy growing peace

neonknight420 said:

If ya wanna go organic first thing you have to do is throw away all synthetic nutes.

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Yeah but what if I wanted to run my aero flo rails in the wintertime when my RO system will be frozen over? Got like hundreds of dollars worth of shit here...why waste it?

Ok well not like anyone gives a shit anyway but I am fairly certain I figured out what went wrong with my grow. On the advice of the asshole at my local hydro store who wanted to sell me more stuff I didn't need I bought some HPK & a week after using it is when I noticed a serious cal mag deficiency I could not seem to correct- it was an uptake issue. I mean I did have thrips & got rid of them easily but I now believe the root cause was using too much dissolved P in bottled form which killed the myco fungi, threw ph off, & locked out either calcium or magnesium or both. This seems to make more sense than bad light spectrum- I've harvested several times using same lights with no issues like this.

At last it's harvest time!!! Here's what the Girl Scout cookies looked like just before chop- all the kushes are done & drying now; just the Sativas & hybrids left will be down next week I imagine & then get ready for the next set -strawberry sour deez & purple trainwreck on deck. Good time to button up this thread & call it a day thanx for lookin

Looks good ! Way to pull through. Organics baby!!!!

Organja said:

Looks good ! Way to pull through. Organics baby!!!!

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Hey thanx! They looked much worse than they ended up being at harvest; still managed to get some nice buds and learned a lot from this grow

That's whAts up mang!!!