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No Till Gardening (Indoors) with Team Microbe
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For cuttings I use aloe, fulvic acid, and potassium silicate in my soaking solution before cuts hit the cubes. Here's the recipe:
(Per gallon)
1/4 tsp aloe vera powder
30 ml FulPower by Bio Ag
1/2 tsp Agsil16H
The Routine
After taking cuts I soak them (along with the root riot plugs) in the above solution for 18-24 hours before dipping each cutting in aloe vera fillet gel and transplanting into plugs under the dome.
Once in the dome, I double up trays on the bottom since my heating pad runs hot. After filling the top tray up with water (I fill tray up til just below the bottom of the cubes) I pop the humidity dome on after misting the underside of it. I NEVER mist clones directly.
I'll remove the dome 2x every day for 15 minutes to replace the air and keep photosynthesis pumping as much as possible. I'll remist the dome underside as usual before putting it back on each time.
Periodically I top off the tray water, and spray the cubes if I see them getting too dry. In 7-14 days I harvest and root out 95% of the cuttings with this method.
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Harlequin
The One
Quick update
The stretch begins! Week 1 of flowering...
Gorilla Glue #4
Mendo Breath (OGKB x Mendo Montage)
Harlequin
The One
Week 2
Week 2
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From here on out I'll feed mostly H20, aside from a few kelp teas and pmb dressings
The One - 1976 Highland Thai x 1971 Kandahar Afghani
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Week 2
Week 2 begins!
From here on out I'll feed mostly H20, aside from a few kelp teas and pmb dressings
The One - 1976 Highland Thai x 1971 Kandahar Afghani
Another T.O.
Harlequin
The One
The One up close
Can you explain your method of reammending after a run ?
I'm assuming you reuse your containers?
If you posted it up and I missed it, I apologize.
Just point me in the direction of the post.
I'm interested in the add back.
I'm assuming you reuse your containers?
If you posted it up and I missed it, I apologize.
Just point me in the direction of the post.
I'm interested in the add back.
When you use molasses, are you worried about the sulfur dioxide or sodium benzoate being added? I can imagine that would knock back any good biology from happening.
Here we are real careful not to use it in the field (and I use a lot).
Here we are real careful not to use it in the field (and I use a lot).
The only thing I add to containers before they begin a new cycle is about 1 tbsp kelp meal, and on occasion some karanja meal. About 2 tbsp of that will go in each 25 pot.
The high TCEC of the soil holds onto all of the elements I initially amended with, so that allows me to keep plugging clones in these pots run after run. I'm on my 2nd year in the same body of soil with no ill effects/deficiencies.
I wouldn't worry about using, Microbe Man uses it in all of his ACT recipes and his microscope says otherwise it sounds like. I personally don't find a need for it in the garden unless I'm using it for tea, and I don't make that anymore. Nowadays I make a compost extract to prevent the chances of breeding any bad batches
for ACT and other microbial cultures, teas, and ferments it's best to use unsulfured blackstrap molasses and avoid sodium benzoate.
those 5 gallon buckets of molasses at the feed store often come with all sorts of bad shit mixed in there.
poor cows
Most of the sugar cane farms that I have worked on use mechanical harvesters. This means that the green leaves that would normally be cut off by hand (imagine) would go into the harvested chipped up cane plants.
So unfortunately, what the farmers apply is Roundup or some chinese glyphosate herbicide to the cane so as to mature up the leaves and dry them up prior to harvest, this way they can burn the cane (imagine) faster and easier, setting more sugars.
Molasses is made from the accumulation of impurities in the cane juice process with more and more of the sucrose removed. Known for being full of minerals, which is true, including the ones tied to the glyphosate molecule.
I did my first year of college at St. Joe's in North Windham! And my girlfriend was from Caribu! You all are crazy.
Imagine.
So unfortunately, what the farmers apply is Roundup or some chinese glyphosate herbicide to the cane so as to mature up the leaves and dry them up prior to harvest, this way they can burn the cane (imagine) faster and easier, setting more sugars.
Molasses is made from the accumulation of impurities in the cane juice process with more and more of the sucrose removed. Known for being full of minerals, which is true, including the ones tied to the glyphosate molecule.
I did my first year of college at St. Joe's in North Windham! And my girlfriend was from Caribu! You all are crazy.
Imagine.
yikes!
makes perfect sense.
makes perfect sense.
Slickdeez16
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Hey TM, Do you grind your malted barley or use it whole? Thanks!
Slickdeez16
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What's your process for making a compost extract? You literally never add any more than the kelp and karanja to reamend your containers? So there's no need for a top dress with anything else, ever?
I grind it down to a powder with my magic bullet blender to make it break down faster
Compost Extract by Lead
Correct, I never add anything other than kelp and the occasional karanja meal dressing. There's no need to add any of the other amendments again because I return biomass to the to layer after harvest; nothing is ever taken from the system asides from flowers.
The only thing I top dress with is straw multiple times per run because it gets eaten by the top layer fairly quickly!
Slickdeez16
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Hey TM. Have your yields increased significantly since you switched to the larger 25 gallon geo pots? What are your average yields now? I'm just switching from doing trees in 5 gallons of dtw coco to 30 gallon no tills and I'm wondering if I'm gonna be able to stay close to the yields I'm used to. I know it's kind of a vague question because of the many differences in genetics and veg times, but will 30 gallons be enough to support a #+ plant given enough veg time? Thanks, slick
I wouldn't say they've gone up too significantly, but they have increased, yes.
I'm sure you'll be able to attain the same yields, if not a little heavier than before. The first few cycles may be average but after that it really starts to get heavy so watch out!
A 30 gallon pot will definitely be able to support a 1 lb plant
v1ru5
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Great thread!
I am actually looking into going soil after 12 years in hydro.
The problem is that I am unsure where to obtain many of these mix components you mention in Europe.
In my country majority of these things you mention in the first post are simply not available ANYWHERE.
Therefore my question to you is that do you know where to obtain these the soil mix ingredients and supplements in Europe?
Many times when I read about these organic style posts, it's all about the U.S of A, and I am left hanging "How to do this across the pond?".
This is the largest factor that has kept me in hydro for all these years, as it seems organic stuff is near impossible to do in EU (or at least in Finland) as the availability of stuff is near non-existent.
Often I've thought that "Apparently EU is the promised land of hydroponics and US is the promised land of organics"
If you don't know, I hope some european grower who sees this post could direct me to a shop (or many shops) that could make my organic dream come true.
Best regards,
v1
I am actually looking into going soil after 12 years in hydro.
The problem is that I am unsure where to obtain many of these mix components you mention in Europe.
In my country majority of these things you mention in the first post are simply not available ANYWHERE.
Therefore my question to you is that do you know where to obtain these the soil mix ingredients and supplements in Europe?
Many times when I read about these organic style posts, it's all about the U.S of A, and I am left hanging "How to do this across the pond?".
This is the largest factor that has kept me in hydro for all these years, as it seems organic stuff is near impossible to do in EU (or at least in Finland) as the availability of stuff is near non-existent.
Often I've thought that "Apparently EU is the promised land of hydroponics and US is the promised land of organics"
If you don't know, I hope some european grower who sees this post could direct me to a shop (or many shops) that could make my organic dream come true.
Best regards,
v1
v1ru5---
check out this sticky from the organic soil forum:
Organic media & amendment suppliers in the UK
verdantgreen is in the UK and has been making his own water-only soil mixes for years. he's a great resource---very knowledgeable.
check out this sticky from the organic soil forum:
Organic media & amendment suppliers in the UK
verdantgreen is in the UK and has been making his own water-only soil mixes for years. he's a great resource---very knowledgeable.
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