Basement Organic Patch

[EllieGrows]

I realized that calling it Si was incorrect or atleast impercise. In reading it seems silicon taken up by plants is silicic acid in the form potassium or sodium silicate. There is form of that in Meta K in which I use 1-3ml/gal throughout flower when watering.

Weird you mentioned recently foliaring with a silica product, which do you use?

 

[Mt Toaker]

Good god that back corner plant is craaaaaazy! Pullin up a chair

 

[EllieGrows]

First up is some shire, picture sucks but trust me this is the nicest flower I ever grew. I saved this is and two other colas intact so that when this harvest is long gone, I can pull em out for special occasions.

Some Indiana Bubblegum and Purple Indica that I got going on, gave them the tea pictured below will pull them around the first, maybe later.

Process pictures for those interested in my methods.

 

[EllieGrows]

Good god that back corner plant is craaaaaazy! Pullin up a chair

We took her down a few weeks ago at 100 days, she was a little over ounces. Beautiful colouring from pink to almost maroon. Thanks for stopping in!

 

[noyd666]

nicely done eg, should smoke up big time.

 

[Buju09]

** dusts thc from all these flowers of his seat ** Jeez you almost get high just sittin' in this thread.

 

[CalcioErba2004]

You have become such an awesome grower. I am proud of you ellie.

 

[BasementGrower]

what soil is that ? name brand?

 

[EllieGrows]

You have become such an awesome grower. I am proud of you ellie.

Still getting there by my eyes, thanks for stopping in and for your kind words.

** dusts thc from all these flowers of his seat ** Jeez you almost get high just sittin' in this thread.

Get your grubby hands off my flowers

what soil is that ? name brand?

I use promix, vital earth earth worm castings, #4 perlite, vital earth compost, blood meal, kelp meal, DE, greesand, bonemeal, gypsum, cottonseed meal, pulvarized lime (thanks to DrL for giving me his recipe). After mixing I spray it with compost tea (hi brix, ewc+compost no EJ) and put it in 35 gallon rubbermaid containers until I use it. Sometimes it gets to cook longer than others. Some of the buds in this thread were also grow in just peat, ewc, and perlite.

 

[EllieGrows]

I have regularly innoculated my plants with a nitrogen fixing microbe by dipping the cut in it at rooting and as a soil drench. I ran out of it and never got around to applying a light and definitely noticed a drop in vigor on those plants compared to the rest. Will definitely be sure to continue using the product.

 

[huarmiquilla]

howdy EG,

how you do?

lovely garden! thank you to share
respect

am keen to ask you opinion with respect to such nitrogen fix microbe, pherhap you to share such and such name?

respect, lovely gardening and lovely green thumb....hehehe resin thumb

positive vibrations

 

[EllieGrows]

It is sold in a variety of ways, i know there are ways of getting it through agricultural sources in a cheaper more concentrated form, I buy it from a company that sells it as azos (or Azospirillum Brasilense).

The following is from their website.

Nitrogen From the Air!

Somewhere along the evolutionary development of the "Plant - Soil - Microbial Matrix", certain bacteria began to specialize in tasks to enhance plant growth, which in return provided the microbes with a food source exchange opportunity. A select group of bacteria classified as "Diazotrophs" began to supply nitrogen to plants from a range of sources, including decomposed plant litter, dead micro-organisms, and sequestration of atmospheric nitrogen. Azos belongs to the last of these groups and functions primarily as an atmospheric nitrogen converter.



A Natural Isolate From the Amazon

Azos is a particularly-efficient agent originally isolated in the Amazon Basin where the lack of soil, the rapid breakdown of any vegetation by hungry microbes, and the environmental conditions which require "Growth to Survive" is a fundamental proposition of the ecosystem. Azos specializes in the highly-efficient conversion of the N2 form of nitrogen into plant-available NH3 ammoniacal nitrogen. Azos is so efficient that between 50% and 70% of all the nitrogen required by most crops can be supplied by this organism.



Azos' benefits to plants is not limited to nitrogen-fixation alone. Azos also acts as a growth stimulant, catalyzing the release of a natural growth hormone (Indole-3 Acetic Acid) in plants. This naturally-released hormone increases root development and optimizes the harvest potential of your garden. Together, Azos and Mykos work symbiotically to help ordinary plants become the Xtreme.

 

[blynx]

Room looks awesome Ellie! You really got the Shire dialed in!

 

[huarmiquilla]

howdy EG

how you do?

thank you to reply
respect

positive vibrations

 

[EllieGrows]

Room looks awesome Ellie! You really got the Shire dialed in!

Dialed is a funny word, think I lost some momentum there at the end didnt quite water them right. The diesel grease coming off these flowers is intense, totally lung expanding. Cant do shit with your hands if you break it up. Thanks for stopping in, sorry I wasnt able to respond to your PM. Will get in touch with you soon.

howdy EG

how you do?

thank you to reply
respect

positive vibrations

Life is good, enjoying my time and building momentum! I hope your life is well.

Always happy to share information because so many people have freely shared with me.

 

[catalyte]

organic gardens always show ya the prettiest and most colorful flowers no doubt about it...

seems like ya got it all under control... nice strain line-up too!

 

[Relentless]

Very nice!! What size pots are those?

 

[razor ridge]

roll on neck bone

 

[EllieGrows]

Very nice!! What size pots are those?

Ive grown mostly in 5 gallon smartpots. Recently my attention has been brought to two separate ideas.

First that there is a relationship between the hormonal state of the plant and relative root-boundedness which combined with the geometry of the medium reflects the overall amount of flower production.

Second that smart pots can support a bigger plant for the amount of medium (takes more growth to be in the state of the same amount of relative root-boundedness) they contain versus a given plastic pot due to the air pruning of the roots. I believe this may have pros and cons. In a properly vegged smart pot there is less medium per amount of plant matter and a quicker cycle of wet to dry. In plastic there is a possibility of more sites for cation exchange because of the relative amount of plant matter acting on a relatively larger amount of medium and has a longer wet to dry cycle.


So what im trying to say is that its up in the air and im still experimenting with pot size, and plastic vs. smart. Gonna try out some of the square planter sized smart pot liners for light of an indica cultivar should be fun.

 

[EllieGrows]

Here we go again...