boblawblah421
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A pound of food grade DE can be shipped to your door for $10 or less. I can't say I've never bought GH products, or countless other "organic" bottled stuff. I can confidently say, however, that I I wont do it again.
Total Noob using teas and I am a believer
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May11th
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I dont buy bottled stuff unless its fish imulsion. I like powders. This gh stuff is called rare earth, 8.50 for 1.5 lbs and its 60% silica, 40% leonardite, I ran d.e before for a knat problem, barely used it though, my shops are hit or miss and I never order anything besides seeds off the internet, I have bad luck with delivery. Ive ran bottled general organics and just prefer my cheap powders lol.
Pinworm
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Haha. Goodshit.
May11th
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Need more advice, so when brewing 30 gals or more each run, do you run 1 tsp per gallon or lean it back a bit, I made a mistake of not running enough nutes in my tea and I just started the tea thing , also I hear foam means nothing, does the smells mean anything, the one I just used smelled like a quarter pot lol im just trying to get things right, also I brew a veg and a flower tea. What ingredients should I have handy to maje a great tea? Anyone care to show me their setup so I can have a good idea what to shoot for. Please and thank you guys, im constantly changing stuff around for the better thanks to riu and mainly alot of your guys stuff ill read and learn from, I respect you guys.
st0wandgrow
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Post #14. That's all I do for teas
https://www.rollitup.org/organics/728645-another-simple-compost-tea-recipe-2.html
https://www.rollitup.org/organics/728645-another-simple-compost-tea-recipe-2.html
cancrusher
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appreciate the input, but i really know nothing about compost tea lol? willing to give it a shot if you could point me to some info? or is it in that thread you mentioned.. cheers
boblawblah421
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Shit loads of info on this site about compost tea.
It's been a super long night. I'll give ya my 2 cents when I wake up.
Illegal Wonder
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Butting in once again... I'll try and make my next post more group oriented. I'm at 7 1/2 weeks flower today and I'm thinking of chopping 2 down and leaving one in for a few days to a week. I read another guys heri grow and he said at 49 days they looked ready and at 56 he chopped, with much larger plants could tell he was quite good at the SCROG technique. So I'm figuring at 53 days on my 2 plants that have around 70-75% red hairs and seemingly the same if not higher % of cloudy trichs to clear. Haven't noticed any amber but its my first time looking for them, and not sure if I want them on heri... From the sounds, this stuff is super strong and not sure how much fun the couchlock would be...
May11th
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Holy cow superskunk isnt no joke, that stuff is strong and I only had about .5 grams and I was high for nearly 2 hours then I passed out for 12 hrs lol wtf I didnt know it was super potent. It was a quick flowering strain too and had 80% cloudy /10 amber/10 clear. My gosh the stuff I good smokin!
mycomaster
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Hells yeah! I love SuperSkunk, all that fruity flavor, and a kick to the head like a pissed mule! Finishes fast, and with flowers that you have to see to believe. Definitely will be getting some more one day. I might get some from a couple of breeders, and see which is closest to the one I had so long ago. Thanks for sharing May, maybe a pic or two, PLEASE, LOL! Take er easy folks. Peace and Love.
May11th
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Forsure man. I just wake and baked and anymore than 1 small bowl and I would be watching tv for the next few hours but I need to go get a new kight and im thinking a 8 tube t5 seems perfect its going to be for my small veg plants, which are all blueberry right now.
Mycomaster, im thinking of ordering cinderella 99, which breeder did you go to and can you give me the run about with your experience with the plant. Im looking for good all around plants and thats one of them, then maybe more superskunk but from someone else, I had a ton of hermies, like 10 out of 45. Not good nirvana , the temps are falling outside and its helping my grow lol I had temps reach near 100° in my growroom but the stuff miggt of slowed and stressed but I was able to keep the stuff going and they gave me good product in return.
Mycomaster, im thinking of ordering cinderella 99, which breeder did you go to and can you give me the run about with your experience with the plant. Im looking for good all around plants and thats one of them, then maybe more superskunk but from someone else, I had a ton of hermies, like 10 out of 45. Not good nirvana , the temps are falling outside and its helping my grow lol I had temps reach near 100° in my growroom but the stuff miggt of slowed and stressed but I was able to keep the stuff going and they gave me good product in return.
mycomaster
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I have an 8 tube T5HO from Sunleaves. I like it alot, and the ability to link em together, and turn half the bulbs out at a time are both nice options. As far as the Cindy99, I've heard alot of things about her origins, but they all seem like B.S. to me really. She grows like an Afghani Indica, but is suppose to be a Herer pheno, I don't think so. Anyways, she veg's like a monster, has a structure you could be a tree house in, and ends up with flowers bigger than a closed fist. not much more to say really, except you can talk about the colors, purple, red, blue, or maybe the smells of exotic fruits when your trimming. I picked mine up from G-13 Labs. They also have a decent SuperSkunk too. I hope you find what you're looking for as far as a new light, and some strains you like as well. Peace and Love.
Illegal Wonder
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I've been looking at that cindy 99, def been catching my eye... I'm not sure what I want to pick up next, Cindy99, DreamBeaver, or Brainstorm...
RedCarpetMatches
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I've read Female Seeds has a good cheap C99.
boblawblah421
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Cindy99 was definitely a winner in my short time with her. Unique look, smell, and flavor.
How about Pot of Gold? I've seen POG finish the size of a football.
Anybody have any experience with Critical Sensi Star, The Church, Serious 6, or Berry Bomb? All of the above claim to be fast finishing, mold resistant, potent, and big. I figure if 3/4 of the strains I get show 3/4 of these traits, I'll be golden.
How about Pot of Gold? I've seen POG finish the size of a football.
Anybody have any experience with Critical Sensi Star, The Church, Serious 6, or Berry Bomb? All of the above claim to be fast finishing, mold resistant, potent, and big. I figure if 3/4 of the strains I get show 3/4 of these traits, I'll be golden.
st0wandgrow
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I've had The Church in my garden for years. I wouldn't call my pheno a huge producer, but it's more than respectable. It smells very nice, tastes very nice, and is a breeze to trim. It never gets mold either even in the most humid parts of the year. It's a pretty balanced 50/50 plant which is nice to smoke any time of the day. It's a very pleasant buzz, but not overpowering.
Mine is ready between 8-9 weeks.
Mine is ready between 8-9 weeks.
boblawblah421
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Your compost tea preparation really should be catered around your soil, or lack there of.
I have been tweaking my compost tea recipes and applications since before I went organic about three years ago. Of course, anything I thought I knew on the subject was nonsense until I made the decision to dump the bottled nutes.
My yields suffered when I tried to include specific veg or bloom fertilizers to my tea. It's not about feeding the plants. It's about feeding the microbes.
If you have a warm, but not hot, well aged, well draining compost, your compost tea should be saved for the occasional re-inoculation of your soil, but more importantly, a cool morning foliar.
With a soil recipe similar to the one found on page one of the ROLS thread (I use basically this method, with a little more diversity on the minerals, and a little fish and fish bone meal), I would recommend an occasional bacterial dominant tea, and the slightly less occasional fungal dominant tea.
Bacterial:
1 - 2 cups local leaf mold/compost/topsoil (not from a local store! from your shovel!)
1/2 - 3/4 cup EWC
1/4 - 1/2 cup kelp meal
3/4 - 1 oz molasses
1/2 - 1 tbsp rock dust of some sort, or DE
a pinch of any mycorrhizal products you may have laying around
These measurements are per gallon. I now will make 15 gallons and use a little more than half one day, dilute it a tad, and use the rest the next day.
Brewing the tea for 24 hours or more will help, along with this recipe, in providing a bacterial dominant tea.
Hi, great, i'm really lapping up organic info but not off to the best start. Can someone suggest a boost tea for seedlings. They are a month old but it's just not happening.
They are in a mix of dirt/coco/perlite and a very small amt of compost. They are not much over an inch tall with three small leaf sets..
I've tried a few things, all ruled out. It's down to the dirt I think. At first I thought the soil was still a bit hot but now with them starting to yellow i'm thinking perhaps they need a feed. I would have thought they would get enough from the dirt but then they are 4 weeks old.
I gave them a light dose of chamomile tea in the first week/as the first watering, maybe that fucked with them?
Anyhow, any suggestions for an early feed tea.. I have kelp etc but was holding off on those things..
They are in a mix of dirt/coco/perlite and a very small amt of compost. They are not much over an inch tall with three small leaf sets..
I've tried a few things, all ruled out. It's down to the dirt I think. At first I thought the soil was still a bit hot but now with them starting to yellow i'm thinking perhaps they need a feed. I would have thought they would get enough from the dirt but then they are 4 weeks old.
I gave them a light dose of chamomile tea in the first week/as the first watering, maybe that fucked with them?
Anyhow, any suggestions for an early feed tea.. I have kelp etc but was holding off on those things..
boblawblah421
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I wrote this on the ROLS thread. Lots of valuable info there. At least read the first few pages, which I had absolutely nothing to do with, other than learning from it.
No need to dilute compost teas if they are prepared well. I'm not keen on any foliar during their day. A cool morning, right before lights are on, or the sun is up, is when I like to do my foliars.
Apparently if your tea is brewed in a clockwise vortex, bacterial colonization dominates the fungal. Counterclockwise apparently booms out a more fungal tea. I didn't bookmark the page I found this info, like a dumb shit, but it was a scholarly article from some university. Maybe Colorado. Maybe I hit the bowl too many times and switched the directions up. Hopefully not.
Anyways... Along with the direction of your vortex, you can encourage a more fungal tea by skipping the castings, and buying a bag of mushroom compost from Lowes. Better yet, find it locally. Now skip the kelp and molasses. If you have any mycorrhizal products laying around use them along with the mushroom compost. Feed the fungi some alfalfa, aloe/yucca, and oatmeal.
When I want a more fungal based tea, I will take the mushroom compost, alfalfa, and ground oatmeal, and mix them all together. I then make sure it is damp, set it in a light proof bucket with the lid lightly set on top of it, and put it somewhere warm and dark. Come back in a couple days and you should see mycelium growing in your bucket.
After you've done this, and brewed your tea with your new mycelium cake and some aloe or yucca, for somewhere between 10-18 hours (the longer the brew, the more bacterial your tea will be), filter it with a paint strainer, or something of a similar micron size. Too small of a micron and you will filter out the fungi. The fungi actually grow in size in your tea, as opposed to the bacteria that reproduce.
Hit your ladies with this right before a slightly cooler morning, undiluted. Foliar or soil. They'll dig it.