Brandon420's Living Soil 2022 Second Run

I'll add to that, a special on the sister Bed 24, the 50 Hawaiian Fanta plants







Take me to Cali! I will grow my heart out lol

I need a greenhouse and outdoor grow desperately. Too bad NJ stinks.

Now @West Hippie has me looking at another outdoor grow I am just going to itch for years to have til I retire. If I could only get my med license to grow for some people here!!

@Mycelium Farmer thanks for letting me crash and view this wonder. You do the things I dream of doing one day. With @Melville Hobbes and his outdoor grow to @Bill284 and his greenhouses and now this, ugh, MOVE ME!!!!
 
Very cool MF!
Do you use any other treatments on your plants?
Yes, I still spray with preventive jadam pesticides. I do not buy any pesticeds/sprays. Once it’s in flower though, I only spray kangen water. Nothing else
 
Here is some pictures my lady put together last year. They contain info on kangen water with pictures from the farm here.
My lady is a distributor.. She can help someone get set up with a machine and on a payment plan if requested.
There are several large scale operations in the area too... nurseries and full grows... that use kangen water on a large scale successfully. I think it's more common in other countries, but I'm sure it will catch on eventually.

















What an amazing post of information. Thank you. I know how much work that must've been to put together.

Beautiful plants all around.

Remember, it's two rings- not one before its offical ;):rofl:
 
😊wow I’m blushing.
Really though, thanks for hopping on the thread everyone. Glad to be an asset here and to be able to seek advice and help so easily. People pay big money here in Humboldt for the kind of help all of YOU pour heart into on this website.
Thanks, really.
You are an asset to this community @Mycelium Farmer

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

NTH
Take me to Cali! I will grow my heart out lol

I need a greenhouse and outdoor grow desperately. Too bad NJ stinks.

Now @West Hippie has me looking at another outdoor grow I am just going to itch for years to have til I retire. If I could only get my med license to grow for some people here!!

@Mycelium Farmer thanks for letting me crash and view this wonder. You do the things I dream of doing one day. With @Melville Hobbes and his outdoor grow to @Bill284 and his greenhouses and now this, ugh, MOVE ME!!!!
 
Yes, I still spray with preventive jadam pesticides. I do not buy any pesticeds/sprays. Once it’s in flower though, I only spray kangen water. Nothing else
What do you use in your Jadam pesticides? I use Dr.Bonner’s castille soap , garlic powder, cayenne pepper flakes,Serrano peppers and peppermint oil making sure to only spray the leaves.
 
It changes crop to crop. This winter I plan to get ahold of make as much stuff as I can to get me through spraying the next year.
This crop hasn’t had much for sprays… I’ve used the bracket fern concentrate once-twice a week for only a few weeks. Used kangen when they were babies in the nursery.
My big thing is making sure the soil is fed and happy, the plants are fed and happy, and with just those two things the bugs have a real hard time taking over.

The mix you described is great, and we used almost the same mix a lot last year when I had a few extra experienced hands to help make all this stuff. I’m pretty short staffed and running around like a maniac, a calm maniac, this year.
 
😊wow I’m blushing.
Really though, thanks for hopping on the thread everyone. Glad to be an asset here and to be able to seek advice and help so easily. People pay big money here in Humboldt for the kind of help all of YOU pour heart into on this website.
Thanks, really.
Thank you! It's a really good feeling knowing that our heart goes as noticed as it does. It's obviously apparent yours does, too! CA is a long way from NJ but it's so good to have you here with us at :420: to share that knowledge no matter the distance

:thanks:
 
What do you use in your Jadam pesticides? I use Dr.Bonner’s castille soap , garlic powder, cayenne pepper flakes,Serrano peppers and peppermint oil making sure to only spray the leaves.
Somewhere in my google drive I have a regime of what sprays and teas we did in the past years. I will see what I can scrap together
 
Oh, and it’s probably important to add. I do dust with sulpher at the end of veg, right before flower. I make sure to wash with lots of kangen within 2 weeks of dusting sulpher. I believe it’s a great preventive practice for those nasty russets. I really probably don’t have to with the kangen, and my lady isn’t the biggest fan of me dusting sulpher… but after losing a crop to russets (before we had the kangen machine) I can’t help but to take a few extra preventive measures at the right timing of the plants


And don’t forget, give your soil lots of compost teas. Healthy microbial life in the soil keeps the bug world balanced
 
Somewhere in my google drive I have a regime of what sprays and teas we did in the past years. I will see what I can scrap together
The spray I use is for a couple of plants I’m sure it’s not feasible on a wholesale operation like yours. But whatever works is all that matters. Hope you’re having a good day. You do have me interested in Kagen though. I’m going to look on zon for the smallest way to supply.
 
Going in late and small for the second run... But these babies will grow big and strong when they finish. Spread out 50 Lemon Ghoulie plants with 3' spacing in two different rows in this living organic soil bed. Just mulched with oak chips from a tree that fell on the garden fence this year, and fed with several Jadam fertilizers and some Jadam microbial solution. Foliar sprays with stinging nettle and kelp concentrates.

Will be posting updates, they just dug there roots into the soil after planting a few days ago and are getting ready to boom... the sheep topped the first few for me already when they got through the gate .

Its been a few years since I have been on forums...

Wow! You really have it going on, and in a huge way! Welcome back to the forums! I get too busy sometimes and overlook some of the great gardens that get presented here, and somehow I missed yours until now. I am going to take my time to read through and catch up.
Cheers from your newest fan!
 
The spray I use is for a couple of plants I’m sure it’s not feasible on a wholesale operation like yours. But whatever works is all that matters. Hope you’re having a good day. You do have me interested in Kagen though. I’m going to look on zon for the smallest way to supply.
We used a very similar recipe for our nursery. It was pretty feasible for us. I found it depends a lot on your sprayer if you are working on a bigger operation... You can get some really nice sprayers that can really spread just a few gallons over a big crop, while other common cheap garden sprayers might take 100 gallons to spray the same plants.

It's not that the plants are getting more or less spray.... its just able to break the water up into smaller clusters of molecules to mist/soak the plant. Atomizers are pretty efficient way of spraying too. But I don't use them... I ll post some pics of my favorite sprayer and my easiest to use and move around the garden sprayer sometime.
 
The spray I use is for a couple of plants I’m sure it’s not feasible on a wholesale operation like yours. But whatever works is all that matters. Hope you’re having a good day. You do have me interested in Kagen though. I’m going to look on zon for the smallest way to supply.
You might be surprised how far small homemade batches can stretch and help even on a large operation. Just making water soluble calcium from a dozen eggs a week, if kept consistently making all year every week, would cover an operation like here. That's why I love seeing other people encourage more people to get into natural farming methods. I little of what's around and available to you can go a really long way.
 
Wow! You really have it going on, and in a huge way! Welcome back to the forums! I get too busy sometimes and overlook some of the great gardens that get presented here, and somehow I missed yours until now. I am going to take my time to read through and catch up.
Cheers from your newest fan!
Looking lush and healthy. I love it.
Thanks for joining the journey Emilya! Please enjoy the read.
Thanks EZ! Gardens starting to smell as lush as it looks.
 
Epic ! Just Epic ! When did you start farming, you look very young in your Avatar 🙂 I know there are ups and down to all our endeavors, but on the whole how would you rate commercial growing
In terms of years, I'm probably one of the least experienced growers on the site.

I started at this commercial operation in 2019...by halfway through 2020 I was assisting farm management... by last year I ended up becoming farm management... and by this year I'm taking over the Business management and still managing the farm.
I'm young and have so much to learn, I understand that... for that reason I never like to turn down advice or knowledge from those with years behind this.
Growing up in the Sierra Nevada Foothills.. more central CA then where I am now... My dad always had plants growing up. Whether it be a few in the back yard, or a small indoor room... to 30-40 plants at a property in the mountains he bought when I was starting high school;
Growing up though, I never got to smoke or learn the tools of growing weed. Just had to carry 5 gallon buckets of water for the plants and help at harvest time. My journey really started the tail end of 2019.
How would I rate commercial growing? that's a tough question. I love it.... but I'm working on converting this land to a closed loop farming system that doesn't just depend on commercial cannabis for income. So I do love commercial growing, but I vision different ways the business can stay afloat rather than just pumping out weed.
 
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