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Living organic soil from start through recycling

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Gascanastan

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Gascanastan,
what size pot would you suggest for 2 plants...think a 10 gallon will do it?
nice bud shot...you must have been drinking advanced nutrients big bud straight from the bottle and pissing all over those bitches! i heard it works better like that...kinda like how compost through the worm bin is better.

Cultivar/type has a lot to do with container volume. Some types won't need much rootspace at all...others are soil biosphere hogs and utilize all the space in any particular pot they are in depending on veg time before flower,etc.

Overall two plants per 10 gallon should be fine....cultivar/type depending.

I inject AN into my neck and then puke on my plants as a foliar application......eco-foliar regurgitation....all done from the safety of my spacesuit!
 

bigshrimp

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Yall are behind its all about the aptus shits now.

Get the biggest tub of aptus pellets you can find and plenty of milk. Mix 50/50 and drink the slurry for all meals. You should have explosive diarrhea in no time.

Aim directly on plants for best results.
 

ClackamasCootz

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If they can't afford Aptus and they want to see sh*t really blowing around perhaps they could try using Colon-Blow

Available in Italian-strength!!
 

Gascanastan

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Space Cheese cola's.(aka TGA's Dairy Queen) No-till ROLS...nice and larfy low calyx to leaf ratio but quite frosty. Good smoke,but what a wreak to grow,just all over the place larfy and horribly PM susceptible. Romulan and Skunk coming through on this big time more than anything else....an experimental cross to BMR was structurally better and equally good smoke. This may make a decent parent to something...somewhere...

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MJPassion

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So looks like lots of these products i can't get right now because of the season. I got the peat moss from ace. The local feed store said they dont carry every item on my list ?!?! I don't wanna pay for shipping either. Anybody in Colorado can shed some light on some stores you guys shop at?

You kind of need to be creative in your search depending on your location and what you need. CO is bigger than most european states so specific location is everything if you have to drive far. There aren't very many places on the west slope that I am aware of. I've hit up IFA, all the nurseries, grocery stores, health food stores and said screw the grow stores! Any grain mills nearby may have hulls of some sort, there's one near me and wheat hulls are free for the taking. One of the nurseries will give me free used containers. The news paper shop gives me free old papers (for the worm bins, compost, mulch and fire starter). If you are near any forested ares go wild-crafting for weeds and forest duff.

Try and find similar stores as are listed for other parts of the country. I know there has to be a pottery supply store somewhere nearby but I can't seem to find one. Some things (comfrey roots) will need to be ordered. If you can't order it yourself maybe you could have a friend do it for you



I noticed mine has a similar smell, sour milk with a slight sweetness to it. Are you using Coot's recipe? Im curious because you dont mention diluting or anything or the sort before using on your plants. What kinds of awesome results have you been witnessing, maybe some praying among other things?;)
Yes I used CCs recipe, diluted, and 13 yr old "Ramin" rye seed (purchased for making Scotch) with near 100% germination. Plants prayed, sort of, they raised their paws for a couple days but not like in some of the pics I've seen.
 

bigshrimp

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Try landscape supply places for drainage/texture amendments. Likely find something, mine carries pumice, calcined de, leaf mold, pine bark fines....

Bulk amendments at usually reasonable prices.
 

ClackamasCootz

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bigshrimp

The local ones sell a paint-bucket full for $2.00 on lava rock, pumice, river rock gravel, etc.

Mix 'n match if you like - it's still just $2.00
 

ColorGRo

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Thanks will have to check those places out. Aeration isn't an issue. Im going to order Comfrey roots when it gets warmer.
 

Microbeman

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MM,
is that a 1:1:20 mix for your EM? being 1 part mole-asses, 1 part "bennie and the jets" EM, and 20 parts chlorine free water? and have you tried any additional ingredients? this guy has some recipes and i was just about to activate some of mine, but i'm wondering if i should consider adding more to it or is it just a waste of product in your opinion? i bought the stuff off of the link provided so i wonder if maybe he's setting me up for the old up sale... i'm so paranoid from my days of going to the hydro store but this guy seems to know a thing or two about gardening so i can't really tell...
DDG

The stuff the Gardner's pantry carr

http://www.gardenerspantry.ca/great-tips-and-videos/activated-em.html

The EM the Gardner's pantry carry is from SCD but I would buy only the EM original stock and ferment it yourself, not 'activated' by someone else.

I use the 1:1:20, 1:1:18 and 1:1:14 ratios depending on what the use is. I've been doing variations since 1999(?). I was doing fermentations and plant concoctions before starting down the ACT path. It was my friend who was involved with EM who first turned me on to ACT.

EDIT: I just noticed they have their initial temperature and pH wrong in their recipe. I would not use it over 3.5 (3.6 in a pinch)
 
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Microbeman

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I use peat.Spaghnum moss, I collect it from swamps, so it's fresh and green.
I just cut it with scissors to smaller bits.
It is a good fiber in my soil, but mind you, you need nitrogen add, because, when it breaks down, it draws nitrogen from soil.

This is very different from Sphagnum peatmoss.
 

ColorGRo

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Clackamas

Yes. I was going to order that specific B 14 species of it. I Dont remember the exact name of it but i know which one to get.
 

ColorGRo

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Yes. I was going to order that specific B 14 species of it. I Dont remember the exact name of it but i know which one to get.
 

ClackamasCootz

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It's called the Bocking 14

If you'll let me know the length of the root pieces you receive I can show you how to turn 2 pieces into 4 or even 6 depending on what you have to start with.

By next year you'll be able to take slew of root cuttings from the plants you start this spring. Dozens from 1 plant - you cannot kill this plant. Ever.

HTH

EDIT: watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khax_h0bBYs
 
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