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Forever After Soil Mix for Ultimate Quality

Karma Xul

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What ppm of molasses do you recommend. Even if it feeds equally fungi does not breed at the same rate as bacteria. Fungal spores take 12 to 18 hours to wake up. What do you think they are breeding to keep up with bacteria. It is a poor fungal food due to its carbon to nitrogen ration which at a high are no more then 13 to 1 though most much lowers. Under 30 to 1 is bacterial foods though under 10 to 1 is super feed. That breed bacteria like crazy and this is what turns a brew anaerobic in part. That aside what ppm do you recommend people use of this super food? If you are doing thermal compost you can counter the anaerobic bacteria with turning though this brew is not getting up to 160 degree F nor would it benefit the diversity or oxygen saturation potential which reacts it max far lower in temperature. This will breed pathogens like ecoli. This is profitable for some though those are not friendly with the cannabis plants freedom or well being let alone the one growing with this environment as it dissipates in to the air.

Why would you tell people to use molasses? At what ppm do you tell them to use?

How is molasses equally a fungal food and how would also superfeeding fungi, if they breed up with bacteria, help the available oxygen of a bacterially saturated conditions. Every 20 minutes it will double with food. How much are you breeding and are you worried about the other species breeding?
 

Karma Xul

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So many people going anaerobic in growing styles. Ciliates are not good and come from anaerobic conditions. Chelation is when a ion attaches to a protein or amino acid. Sure adding in fermentation will increase initial boost, much like how phosphorus increases weight though both have a great cost. Yeast are a complete protein though a plant needs the larger players of the soil food web to get the cycles up to par and so more sustainable. What happens when anaerobic conditions occur the N, S, P and others of the 42 essential nutrients we lose as they turn into a gas. Then we need to put in additives and charge our mix and after a while we have life though it is diminished and so is the quality of our system and the products of our systems. Soon many will lose faith and keep putting more on and more on and become morons. Quicker is rarely better. Balance however seems to always be key.
 

Karma Xul

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Still some organizing to do. I think Im going to let them grow. Well the 42 front runners. Likely giving away the rest though the Master C99 I may do an early harvest with, should there be room
 

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So many people going anaerobic in growing styles. Ciliates are not good and come from anaerobic conditions. Chelation is when a ion attaches to a protein or amino acid. Sure adding in fermentation will increase initial boost, much like how phosphorus increases weight though both have a great cost. Yeast are a complete protein though a plant needs the larger players of the soil food web to get the cycles up to par and so more sustainable. What happens when anaerobic conditions occur the N, S, P and others of the 42 essential nutrients we lose as they turn into a gas. Then we need to put in additives and charge our mix and after a while we have life though it is diminished and so is the quality of our system and the products of our systems. Soon many will lose faith and keep putting more on and more on and become morons. Quicker is rarely better. Balance however seems to always be key.
I did not know that some nutrients were lost into gas when the pile goes anaerobic. I always assumed it would simply take longer to break down, has there ever been a study showing just how much nutrients vanished into thin air?
 

Karma Xul

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There are many studies regarding denitrification. It is a basic staple in ecology. 78 percent of the atmosphere is nitrogen.
 

Karma Xul

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I'm worried about space so I trimmed them back again. My reasoning is they will not be getting any side light with two months of sheltered growth. My thinking changes based on weather / growth rates / temps which can stretch. Then what of heavy winds? I may tie the bases off though I'm not sure on the fencing. Great for security though I have rows of 9ft fence and some other security features. If thinking of widening them though containing height for another month or so.
 

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Spreading them out, setting timers on 4.5 hours and setting up more lights / hangers. I'm thinking 5500 watts should do and at 4.5 hours it's like running 1200 watts or so on constant. Time to let them grow a bit...
 

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Karma Xul

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I'm going to have these come on for 45 minutes at around midnight. 5000 watts in total now though at 45 minutes a day not to much in electric and not putting any strain on the grid. Some look dim though they just turned on. Lights come down early morning as the sun comes up. Still more organization to go
 

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May still be a bit early in the game for trimming though this one has 12 leads. Not sure about the middle ones yet
 

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I folded the larger hollow areas, where I cut, first then pinched. I then pinched after to flatten not puree and cut towards the end of that in hopes it will have a clean seal. Im not looking to grow pitcher plants.
 

Karma Xul

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Bubbas gift. 5 growth tips. If you look close there are 7 growth tips here though I plucked a couple more just now.
 

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Karma Xul

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Sorry to hear you cant zoom in. IS there anything I can do on my end? We finally got some sun yesterday and looks like we have a bit today as well. Growth is starting again.
 

Karma Xul

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Made some venting improvements. 67 F yesterday with a high of 81 in the atrium. Still a couple mods needed in the next couple week's. These are old pics....
 

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At sunset the other day. Slight heat stress though on the mend...
 

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Updates. Couple more fans to go then some building and digging
 

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