Concrete's Mixed Grow: Soil 2018

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Chocolope (left and upper right), Amnesia Haze (lower right)
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Critical Mass
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Skipping to the end. I have a few of the same lamp you have with reflectors.

I like the reflectors so I can be in the flower room without sunglasses. lol

You started out with a BIG selection.

You're killing it. :surf: for first grow.

Green thumbs - whats that soil you're using??

Where did you get it?
 
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Skipping to the end. I have a few of the same lamp you have with reflectors.

I like the reflectors so I can be in the flower room without sunglasses. lol

You started out with a BIG selection.

You're killing it. :surf: for first grow.

Green thumbs - whats that soil you're using??

Where did you get it?
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Thanks! Dan from Timber is recommending that everyone remove the reflectors from Vero 29 Gen 7 lights.

I am using E.B. Stone Ultimate Recipe organic soil. It's sold at Armstrong Garden center.
 

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Jdeck said:
When are you looking to harvest concrete? I’m having a hard time not picking up the scissors.
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I don't know. Do they look ready? I flipped on Feb 20, so 44 days ago.

Yesterday, ALL of my plants sprouted new bright green pistils! You can see in the 2 pics I just posted. LA S.A.G.E. CBD is a hot mess of clear, cloudy, and amber trichomes with green, white, and amber pistils.
 
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Thanks! Dan from Timber is recommending that everyone remove the reflectors from Vero 29 Gen 7 lights.

I am using E.B. Stone Ultimate Recipe organic soil. It's sold at Armstrong Garden center.
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I herd about that. I'm still using them. I had 1 reflector in my VEG room that I kept hitting my head on that sorta melted a little bit. Maybe thats the reason - heat.

All my other Timber lamps are fine. I've got a bunch.


I took a look at your soil mix. It's real close to the mix I make but I couldn't tell what the amounts are for the amendments but VERY close to my mix. I've been running it no-till for about 20 flower and VEG runs (at least) still going strong.

I do amend between runs.

Flowers look beauty.

No Fans???
 
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I herd about that. I'm still using them. I had 1 reflector in my VEG room that I kept hitting my head on that sorta melted a little bit. Maybe thats the reason - heat.

All my other Timber lamps are fine. I've got a bunch.


I took a look at your soil mix. It's real close to the mix I make but I couldn't tell what the amounts are for the amendments but VERY close to my mix. I've been running it no-till for about 20 flower and VEG runs (at least) still going strong.

I do amend between runs.

Flowers look beauty.

No Fans???
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How do Timber compare to your other lights?

This grow is going well, and I think its the soil and light. Maybe I'll compost this soil and use it again next winter. Just worried about pests, which I have none.

I have a box fan above the light.
 

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I have a box fan above the light.
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I see it now, nice. I've never seen one installed like that!

For using soil over. You don't need to compost it. The soil is always in a never ending circle of compost. You can move the containers outside and plant clover in them and just let it go like that until you're ready to plant again. Dig a hole plant a plant. Done.

Can leave the clover grow until the cannabis plant gets large then the clover naturally dies back. Thats how we do no-till.

What we worry about in no-till is running out of Ca (calcium), cannabis likes a lot of Ca. That mix you're using has short medium and long term Ca in the mix. So top dress with a little kelp meal and EWC - next round good for water all you need.

Look into Malted Barley ground to fine powder. You can scratch in an oz (enough to fill a small coffee grinder) in and water. That will help your soil microbes. The plants will finish faster and have more resin.

Bugs check out IPM routine.

I use:

1 tbs spinosad (monterey garden spray)
1 tbs Pro-tekt (silica)
1 tbs Ful-power (fulvic acid)
1/4 cup coconut water with aloe (trader Joes version - no sugar/preservatives) optional
1/4 cup kelp tea - growth hormones here - optional.
gallon filtered water

spray weekly

Thats my IPM regimen. When I don't slack I dont get pests and by pests I'm talking mites.
 
DonChiefums20 said:
Love your garden man. Great looking canopy I wish I had the ball to put a tent that big in my room lol.
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I wish I had the balls to get multiple tents!
bobrown14 said:
I see it now, nice. I've never seen one installed like that!

For using soil over. You don't need to compost it. The soil is always in a never ending circle of compost. You can move the containers outside and plant clover in them and just let it go like that until you're ready to plant again. Dig a hole plant a plant. Done.

Can leave the clover grow until the cannabis plant gets large then the clover naturally dies back. Thats how we do no-till.

What we worry about in no-till is running out of Ca (calcium), cannabis likes a lot of Ca. That mix you're using has short medium and long term Ca in the mix. So top dress with a little kelp meal and EWC - next round good for water all you need.

Look into Malted Barley ground to fine powder. You can scratch in an oz (enough to fill a small coffee grinder) in and water. That will help your soil microbes. The plants will finish faster and have more resin.

Bugs check out IPM routine.

I use:

1 tbs spinosad (monterey garden spray)
1 tbs Pro-tekt (silica)
1 tbs Ful-power (fulvic acid)
1/4 cup coconut water with aloe (trader Joes version - no sugar/preservatives) optional
1/4 cup kelp tea - growth hormones here - optional.
gallon filtered water

spray weekly

Thats my IPM regimen. When I don't slack I dont get pests and by pests I'm talking mites.
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Thanks for the tip! Your plants look great, so it must be working.

I'm traveling June 12- Jul 11, so I won't have time to take care of clovers once this grow is done. In fact, I don't want to think about growing until maybe next winter. This has been very rewarding, but so time consuming! I had no idea growing would take so much time. That has been my biggest lesson learned.
 
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How do Timber compare to your other lights?
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Timber are great. Upped my game quite a bit when I switched over to them.
I've got some QBs in my lineup as well - I had to turn down the 1 QB I have in flower it was burning the caps off my trichomes at the top of the colas @ 24"

My Timbers have the Vero29 3K + 1750K

This is Tangerine Zkittlez @ 40 days

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DT @ 45 days of 90+ flower days

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Beauty of cover crop is you can just put the containers outside. No need to do anything. Just an option for ya. Composting is OK - need to have a lid so all the soluble nutrients dont leach out with the rain. You can think of your container as a mini compost bin that you can grow plants in.

With my grow I can leave for extended time without the need to be here. Done that every summer for the last 6 years. I have automated watering.

We just went to Lake Placid for 4 days last week.

I've tried to figure out the best path to the least amount of work.
 
bobrown14 said:
Timber are great. Upped my game quite a bit when I switched over to them.
I've got some QBs in my lineup as well - I had to turn down the 1 QB I have in flower it was burning the caps off my trichomes at the top of the colas @ 24"

My Timbers have the Vero29 3K + 1750K

This is Tangerine Zkittlez @ 40 days

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Volcanic eruption

DT @ 45 days of 90+ flower days

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Tangerine Zkittlez

Beauty of cover crop is you can just put the containers outside. No need to do anything. Just an option for ya. Composting is OK - need to have a lid so all the soluble nutrients dont leach out with the rain. You can think of your container as a mini compost bin that you can grow plants in.

With my grow I can leave for extended time without the need to be here. Done that every summer for the last 6 years. I have automated watering.

We just went to Lake Placid for 4 days last week.

I've tried to figure out the best path to the least amount of work.
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Those look great. 90+ flowering days? Wow. What did they look like at harvest?


I need some input right now. My leaves are starting to turn yellow @ day 46 after 12/12 flip. I just gave them plain water with a little molasses. Should I add nutes and flower longer or flush now and harvest in 2 weeks? In my arsenal, I have Cal Mag and Fox Farms Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom, and Grow Big.


My plants are arranged with 4 pots in the corners and 1 in the middle. Critical Mass is the one in the middle with the spread-out colas and all the curled brown leaves. The others have slight to moderate yellowing.

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