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The growing large plants, outdoors, thread...

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ponocrookedbrah

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Zdub has all that rain from the south been coming up your way? all my friends back home say its been cloudy and rainy everyday but the veggie gardens are killin it this year. great spot hope they blow up for ya!
 

anonymousgrow

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Everyone's plants look stellar. Here are a few pics from the hill, I feel like I spend too much time reading and playing with composting and microscopy; at the same time, i couldnt be happier for this only being round two for outdoors for me. It's a Labor of Love.

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mapinguari

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U2 Monkey Haze f2
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McDank8O5

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everybody I expect to see killin it when I visit this thread is killin it! great to see a lot of new names killin it as well. haven't been posting as much this season cause im not around a computer as much but heres one of my biggest about a week ago...

PBD


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Veg N Out

I crumpled the Deer & Orchard fence last year like an accordion. Get the concrete reinforcement mesh, it's better.
 

ponocrookedbrah

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I could see that happening if its your only support. Tposts and a couple or 3 wraps of the hortinova are gonna support the weight. the cage is really a base for me to shape and shrub out my girls, and giving support for the first month or so. if that was the only support then definitely go with the concrete mesh. I used it for my maters the past few years and its awesome, just difficult to work with.
 

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The missing pages are trolls posts or fighting between members that have been deleted but still show up on the total amount of pages for the thread.
:good: Still one of the greatest threads of all time here on ICMag :gday:
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DHF

Must have something to do with Veg`s holier than thou attitude and ego........but I digress......

One helluva thread and has been from the get.....Fuckin it up with childish behavior takes away from the context and content......

Hope it continues down the path to Nirvana with no more bumps in the road.....

Great show guys......even you Veg.....

Peace....DHF.....:ying:......
 
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NorC@liGrower

For those of you using the type of pH/moisture probe like Tom suggested very early in this thread:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SOIL-PH-MOISTURE-METER-TESTER-WATER-QUALITY-16-LONG-/260562834792

I am curious if, when using a probe like this, when you determine plants need water?

Many are using 1/2 inch emitter tubing. Do you just keep your best moist all the time or let the top inch or two dry out before watering?
That's the meter he recommends? They are Looks like a Control Wizard. They are inexpensive. I went through a few of those. You need to clean the tip regularly yet still found them inconsistent and sometimes would just crap out. A friend got a Hanna soil pH tester and really liked it after he also went through a bunch of Control Wizards. Only thing he said they ended up being good for was poking holes for nute spikes.

Tom knows his stuff though and glad they work well for him.
 
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That's the meter he recommends? They are Looks like a Control Wizard. They are inexpensive. I went through a few of those. You need to clean the tip regularly yet still found them inconsistent and sometimes would just crap out. A friend got a Hanna soil pH tester and really liked it after he also went through a bunch of Control Wizards. Only thing he said they ended up being good for was poking holes for nute spikes.

Tom knows his stuff though and glad they work well for him.

It was years ago in the beginning of this thread, around page 40 if I had to guess. What I do remember is that it was a "control wizard" brand named meter. I've been fiddling with one for a few months now and it seems pretty consistent. I do question its accuracy though, particularly with pH. I'll get readings deeper (10") in the soil in the mid to high 5's, but the lab that I send soil off to shows my mix to be at 6.6.

What I'm mostly concerned with is overwatering. I'm using the 1/2 emitter tubing for the first time this year and would like to keep the top 4" moist as it houses a lot of biological activity. Doing this without fostering fungal pathogen growth is where I'm lacking experience.
 
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