if growing in the ground mold is hard to not get, the humidity that rises up from the ground on cold nights when the ground is still warm, and when there is too mush rain it it like your flushing your plants, and flushing in the late staged of bloom can lead to fungus, root rot, and bud mold....colder temps done help either.......aero should be fine cuz hes in smart pots way above the ground, but if his pots collect too much water in the fall then he too will have a little problem....
Hey thanks for the good energy! yes tea is funnn stuff cant get enough of it!! Ive only fed them once with the 300gal. I premixed allll sorts of shit lol i had left over hydro nutes few bags of espoma, dry blood, all types of guano, floranova grow and bloom, some great white shark. i got the ppm up to a 1000 in the 300gal it was beautiful! Once they start getting bigger and demand for water increases i will start feeding more. Being in the water really helps. After 3 weeks of dry dry weather i went out last night to check the bog babies and those ones are soaking wet! heres a comparitive pic 3 weeks ago then last night. UNREAL imagine how big by next month??? before... and 3 weeks later..I only brought the question up because from my observations he seemed to be in a similar, if not the same kind of climate as my own. Typically the area I'm from receives rainfall rates same where in the vicinity of 40 inches annually. In the case of the flood of summer '06, a lot more. Which creates a whole different epidemic with botrytis (bud mold).
Aero, I send my best wishes toward you and your endeavor. May it be a safe one. You said you've started making applications of guano tea. Shit's fun stuff right? What components do your teas consist of?
that is why i am running the ak47 last year i purposely let some 5footers go until 1st of November if anyone remembers last year we had snow by mid October. These bad ladies made it thru 2-3 weeks of 30-40 degree weather and some snow with no mold and some killer purple buds. I did this test with 4 strains. ATF, DURGAMATA(shiva skunk), and bubblegumsour. All of them were molded up dead by the first except my beautitful aks they looked like they could have stayed out all winter lol
lol insane? your not in control unless your outta control lol.that's very interesting about the ak's mold resistance, over here we also have to use resilient strains, maybe i will try some ak's in the woods next year? are you running a selected clone that was selected for mold resistance or is it just the local available cut?
loving your grow man. when i first read what you planned i thought this guy is nuts, lol. but i quickly saw that you knew exactly what you were doing, can't wait to see these babies flowering.
surely you can reuse those 200 gallon pots of soil next year with a few amendments added? or?
peace
I have about 75lbs of wormcasting in each smart pot.. No agitator but i have to drive a few miles to my spots and the water mixes like crazy on the ride.Sounds good to me. You may want to consider adding some earthworm castings, seaweed extract and molasses to stimulate the microbial populations in your teas. How do you prepare your guano tea, does that reservoir for your truck have an agitator?