kelticBlue
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Hot Dawg!
as always great looks at the garden....
as always great looks at the garden....
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Wow again! Hey, do use eggshell at all; if so, how?
Cheers..
Rad said:Beautiful pictures ... again
About that heavy duty surge suppressor, is it a UPS with the battery old enough that it is starting to go? My experience with UPS is limited to desktop PC UPS and surge suppressors. The UPS seem to last about 2 years. They also seem to handle power spikes and brownouts better than straight surge suppressors.
We've used egg shells for probably 20 years gardening ... they take a while to break down OR I have to work too hard = bake and put into food processor OR put into vinegar and let sit for a week .... I'm too lazy.
So for straight up calcium I use .... calcium carbonate and/or Calcium Sulfate Dihydrate (Gypsum) and/or Crab Shell Meal
I usually just add those 3 into my soil mix at the beginning building the soil and top dress the crab shell meal as the plants mature. Say a light handful to the top of the pot. Sometimes I mix that with EWC and make a slurry and water in.. and usually once a round add in gypsum in a slurry - say a 2 Tbs. to 4 gal water. The gypsum has sulfur which is a must have for healthy plants. Rock dusts have that but in a slow release form sometimes my plants need a helping hand. I grow in No-Til pots so I'm always amending organic calcium/nitrogen/micro nutrients and of course mycos from ACT.
Usually all I do to kick the ladies up a notch is a kelp and EWC tea with some dried nettles. That right there pretty much fixes any issues and if no issues girls go crazy.
Hey there Rad - For surge suppression I use passive devices.. I know a UPS will work for sure but I'm cheap .. I'd have that hooked up to my stereo rig IF I had one!
I learned how to do it on the cheap as I build my own electronics - high end stereo tube gear. Had my share of issues very similar to what I was having here with lights. It really gets down to cleaning up the AC in and clamping any spikes. I could of course just hook up a variac and be done with it but I like my variacs about as much as my seed collection. Something like that to be used daily is a band-aid. Best to deal with the AC in and try and clean it and clamp it. For clamping I get a GOOD power strip with filtering AND clamping.. good ones are what I use for audio gear since that equipment is more $$ than an LED light even a really really good LED.
What I should be doing is opening up all the lights I use and add in a XY capacitor across the line - that gets rid of the line noise big time. The power strip (Tripp lite or Furman AC-215) for audio has surge and filter protection.
All the LED lights I have do have an X/Y cap but they are made of ceramic disc and well for reliability AND function I prefer to use Metallized film X1 rated capacitors and those are what I use when building electronics. They will take a surge a big one like lightening unless it hits the house! The issue with noise on the line and how it works with AC/DC (all large high power grow lights are AC to DC)
when noise from SMPS (switch mode power supplies) that are very common in house holds these days create noise and that noise creates issues with some transformers - likely heating them up and then they become unstable causing my power strips to heat up and trip. Getting a spike from a neighbors AC unit is likely my issue.
I tested a filter on one circuit that was tripping - fixed the issue. The other circuit I was also having issues with, I installed a heavy duty pool pump timer that can handle 40amps. That circuit still cut out due to power strip over heating from one of the lamps not liking the noise/surge ... turned off that one lamp problem kinda solved. I have another filter/surge suppressor in hand and will put that into action and turn on the offending lamp to see it that helps.
right now I'm outa the woods with lamp issues. What I really need to do long term is hook up a whole house line noise/surge suppressor, and get a few dedicated 20A circuits just for lighting/fans instead of the 15A I have now. I'm going to try and install one 20A circuit tomorrow for the flower room and quit futzing about with 15A circuits.
Cheers, BB. I have read a few opinions on the utility of eggshells... I oven bake til dry then crush to powder in mortar and pestle. Is that enough processing? I recently read PeeJay I think on 420 say that they should be BURNT in the oven.. Like, charred. I have read elsewhere that eggshell is useless unless properly composted over 10-20 years or whatever...
Hoping to have my eggshell practices confirmed as correct is possible from another source!
Thanks.
AllSmiles said:Very late but sub'd! Just read a few pages and can't wait to find time to read the rest! I'm just getting off the bottle and this is the path I want to be on. Thanks for sharing! And of course I couldn't resist and skimmed threw the last few pages. I'm speechless!
The purple is the most favored buddage from my friends... green is still MY favorite so far.
I hate to admit it, but I'm going to be a bit sad when you chop the purple Chemdawg. That plant is among the finest I've ever seen her on 420. Congrats on pulling her through in beautiful fashion Bo!
Did you get my q on the malted barley? Looks like build a soil carries both corn and barley. Just wondering where you get yours from?
Malted organic corn I got from:
glutenfreehomebrewing.org
Link to product I use:
Organic Corn Malt
I have a wheat intolerance I didn't know about until I quit wheat for health reasons = NDE - near death experience = that's when I started growing meds! FTMFW. Thanks to my wife for all of this ^^^ and me being here. Yay us!
For organic malted Barley - organic Briess malted barley - this was a tip from Coots - go for the lighter malted barley:
Briess Organic Bonlander Munich Malt : Northern Brewer
Still no chop on the Chemdawg ... she's throwing out a new set of pistols but it was cool/cold nights .. not going to last tho! All cloudy trichomes ...
Smoke report on the BBD:
Reminder.. DON'T smoke freshies ... Woooah. I puffed a small buddlet last night after trim, I was wigged out for almost 20 hrs.. This plant is a Sativa hybrid leaning toward Sativa.. green hornet reared her head after about 5 minutes into puffage. I got agitated, annoyed and other wise completely stoned to bee-jeebers then laughed my ass off for a good .. a while. I'll give another proper smoke report after a proper cure. It's a keeper and strong as hell complete with waking up on the couch with drool after I ate a bag of popcorn AND I had to go to work today. Ouch! Ah well someone had to do it.
completely stoned to bee-jeebers