No stress man. There's alot going on here at 420, catch up when you can big dog, I appreciate the appearance. Just cruising along in this zone. I blame its slow growth on shitty dirt. The "Back-to-Roots Organics" dirt from Lowe's and Walmart is FUCKING GARBAGE and causes slow potassium deficiency in every plant I've stuck in it.Hey Amigo
Sorry I'm late.
Looks great.
Hope you have a nice weekend.
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Bill284
Gia Green makes a powder veg and flower nutrient.
Haven't played with Gia yet. I'll pickup some and spice up my mix with it, see what happens. I made my own bokashi and it's in my SIP, but not my vegetables or this Flux plant. I'll have to whip another bokashi batch though, I left it a little too wet in the bucket and when I came back to it a month later, it smelled like horse poop.Gia Green makes a powder veg and flower nutrient.
If I use soil no matter what is in it I add some.
Never get a problem.
I also use bokashi and frass though.
Takes care of my roots for me.
Just 2 cents.
Keep On Rocken
#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284
It's cheap to by on zon here and keeps for months in the bag.
I got those little bastards knocked down to random stragglers. A combo of Dr Zymes, DE, and leaving them outside overnight under an outside light. I let the bugs of the world have their way with the gnats all night long, that took care of any flyers, and The DE is killing off the newcomers. So far so good! I just thank God that my big plants are separated from the babies. There isn't a single gnat in my main room.You could do a fine sand mulch, but I found you get really wet SIPs that way. I did manage to control them once just omitting any mulch and then just burlap. I allowed top 1/2 inch to become dry and they disappeared. Although... I could see your drain hole being an issue, mine have a 1/2" pvc pipe w/1mm fine window screen on them to keep the suckers outta there, seems to work as I've watched them try and fail to squeeze in.
Now that is some clever-ass, hardcore gang-bangin' right there. I am well impressed. I'd say, "take no prisoners", but you do, and then you feed 'em to the sharks! Whooboy, I put dollies under my SIPs, so I could do the same so easily, never occurred to me. I almost want those bastards to show up now. Yeah, the DE is really such a good product to have on hand, I love it. Microbes love it too, I can tell. But even wet, the stuff kills all the emerging little pricks. Man, you are on the job, proper-like.
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Now that is some clever-ass, hardcore gang-bangin' right there. I am well impressed. I'd say, "take no prisoners", but you do, and then you feed 'em to the sharks! Whooboy, I put dollies under my SIPs, so I could do the same so easily, never occurred to me. I almost want those bastards to show up now. Yeah, the DE is really such a good product to have on hand, I love it. Microbes love it too, I can tell. But even wet, the stuff kills all the emerging little pricks. Man, you are on the job, proper-like.
PS, highly recommend the dollies BTW, lemme know if you want pics and a part list from Home Despot. You can get nine good dollie pieces out of a 4x8 sheet for the 27gal footprint SIPs.If you get it cut at HD try to get a couple 3 inch-wide strips as long as the long side of the dollie, use the strips to reinforce the longest span between wheels each side. Works if you don't, but bows a little without the strengthening. Be sure to get the 360 deg. rotating wheels for all four corners, means you can spin'em in place for dealing with canopy management. I've got the full parts list with UPC codes.
Wood chips is a big NO NO when growing Cannabis! She probably died from the high tannin content. Cheers!She's looking a little sad, I just had to drench her in water with mosquito dunk in it. The gnats are driving me fucking bananas, I can't get rid of the little bastards!
I'm gonna go full nuclear here soon if I can't get a handle on these little flying shits.
Interesting. I had a plant looking pretty sad with a nice thick mulch layer of fresh, chopped up leaves. It perked up dramatically when I swapped that out for a mulch layer of worm castings and compost.
Something I learned from Grandma picking out twigs and wood chips out of local soil mixes for her vegetable garden. Found out the reason why when I got older and started growing myself. All the best! Cheers!Interesting. I had a plant looking pretty sad with a nice thick mulch layer of fresh, chopped up leaves. It perked up dramatically when I swapped that out for a mulch layer of worm castings and compost.
Never thought about the tannins but maybe that was indeed my issue.
It didn't die, it's in the pic.
It hurts me to chop them up, they work so hard to grow that stuff...Yeah, you say that now..
