The New & Improved [ROLS MEGATHREAD].

[Coba]

ya man blowhard is right. at least when he asked me what I was growing, I told him a laundry list of veggies and herbs and some cutesy ornamentals for the wife like a wild Kalanchoe my grandma brough back from Turkey last year and the Acacia tree I'm trying to propagate by cuttings for my South African buddy. I even mentioned organic landscape maintenance and how it's my responsibility to take care of my lawn and landscape as Mother Earth intended.

way more than just "tomatoes" wink wink. they all know what "tomatoes" really means... might as well just tell him I'm growing pot if i was just to say "tomatoes"... and I don't know how he feels about special ordering anything for a clandestine cannabis garden and I'm not going to ask.

yea, I'll go back and put a $100 bill in his face... that should do the trick.


You may not vote on any more threads today.... damn, already and it's early,

oh well thanks Mr.S and Invocation

 

[Neo 420]

Lookin good, Mate I always like seeing your pictures something to work to

Thanks W! On the eternal quest to capture and keep as many diverse microbes as I can.. So they can take care of my ladies!!

 

[Durdy]

@Neo - They just grow up so fast!

 

[MrSterling]

Things like kelp are why I want people to try gardening other stuff before they get into cannabis. I know too many people worried about ordering simple garden stuff that everyone uses because they're afraid the garden center is "gonna know" they grow. If you garden you're already familiar with the stuff and then have the added benefit of being able to talk legit shop on a legal topic and not make up some cover.

 

[wintergreens]

Love this thread! Soil recycler here running a start mix of 25% perlite, 25% coco and 50% EWC. Going on 2 years with this soil, only feeding brewed tea's.

 

[invocation]

Anyone here play with blumats in their ROLS no till setups? Seems to me they are winner for these setups. At least I'm going to try with my 10 gal fabric pots and top feed any teas/nutes etc. Hell maybe even get real lazy and just top dress a little salad of botanicals and other things and let the water just drip. I already use a 2 inch layer of ewc/compost.

 

[MrSterling]

Coot uses them. Bluejayway as well I believe but don't quote me on that.

 

[invocation]

Coot uses them. Bluejayway as well I believe but don't quote me on that.

Thanks for the heads up Sterling. CC or Bluejayway if you have any pointers free feel to chime in or anyone else for that matter. I know Rrog uses them.

 

[Cann]

Can you tell which plant didn't receive a barley seed tea? LOL. Love this stuff. Praying leaves all day

 

[W89]

Lookin nice and perky mate!

 

[invocation]

I agree Cann. Again the fruits of reading a great wealth of information. I think these will be chopped soon.

 

[Cann]

god i need to start taking pics at lights off...those are gorgeous. good work sir

 

[Greenheart]

Would a link in the first post to the older locked and tucked away thread be a good thing for newcomers? I'm still plowing thru that one atm anyhow.

 

[John Deere]

Things like kelp are why I want people to try gardening other stuff before they get into cannabis. I know too many people worried about ordering simple garden stuff that everyone uses because they're afraid the garden center is "gonna know" they grow. If you garden you're already familiar with the stuff and then have the added benefit of being able to talk legit shop on a legal topic and not make up some cover.

Salsa gardener here. Last summer I got the gas meter guy all interested after he asked about some ACT I had going.

edit--Just to clarify, he got interested in my organic salsa garden, not my basement grow--he didn't see that.

 

[vonforne]

Would a link in the first post to the older locked and tucked away thread be a good thing for newcomers? I'm still plowing thru that one atm anyhow.

done

 

[greenmatter]

Anyone here play with blumats in their ROLS no till setups? Seems to me they are winner for these setups. At least I'm going to try with my 10 gal fabric pots and top feed any teas/nutes etc. Hell maybe even get real lazy and just top dress a little salad of botanicals and other things and let the water just drip. I already use a 2 inch layer of ewc/compost.

blumats work

i had problems with top dressing because of roots growing into the 3mm lines. tried to solve that by lifting the lines above the top dress, but instead of dripping the water ran back along the line and got the area around the blumat so wet that they were hard to dial in. i've been running the slave drippers on stakes to keep them above the whole mess and it seems to be working great so far.

 

[invocation]

blumats work

i had problems with top dressing because of roots growing into the 3mm lines. tried to solve that by lifting the lines above the top dress, but instead of dripping the water ran back along the line and got the area around the blumat so wet that they were hard to dial in. i've been running the slave drippers on stakes to keep them above the whole mess and it seems to be working great so far.

I really appreciate the tip. I think I have the equipment to do that already from my old cocoNUT days. Great observation! I can only wonder how a living mulch would do once that was dialed in. Reminds me of irrigation stakes on a lawn. I try to picture this shit in my head as real life like if I was in a forest under a tree. Seems to be working so far

 

[MrSterling]

As much as I love the idea of a living mulch I just like the easy of a heavy wood mulching better. Worm activity last cycle was nuts near the surface and the moisture retention was superb.

 

[Coba]

Things like kelp are why I want people to try gardening other stuff before they get into cannabis. I know too many people worried about ordering simple garden stuff that everyone uses because they're afraid the garden center is "gonna know" they grow. If you garden you're already familiar with the stuff and then have the added benefit of being able to talk legit shop on a legal topic and not make up some cover.

Salsa gardener here. Last summer I got the gas meter guy all interested after he asked about some ACT I had going.

edit--Just to clarify, he got interested in my organic salsa garden, not my basement grow--he didn't see that.

the top 5 homegrown veggies IIRC are: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, string beans, and eggplant...

not one of them are photo-sensitive. that means they don't need 12-12 to flower.

4 years ago... when I started growing cannabis, I was talking to the local retail nursery owner about my tomato's veg stage food and bloom stage food... I didn't understand why she wasn't understanding what I was talking about.

because, when I grabbed the international box of guano from the hydro store it clearly had directions for a vegetative period vs. a flowering period.

man I felt dumb.

edit: man, I feel dumb now.

 

[BlueJayWay]

I've got a nice little routine with keeping various plant material as mulch and 'pockets' of 'living mulch' I.e. established clover plants here and there - I don't like a carpet of 'living mulch' ....

...I'd be curious to see pictures of carpets of living mulch being utilized and maintained successfully long term.