Growing Cannabis 101: Dean West Quest To A Successful Sativa Harvest

[DeanWest89]

I like where you are going with this one and let me jump right out of the gate concerned that you are not yet creating enough microbes and relying on the mineralized soil, and you are still trying to feed the plants yourself with the 5-5-5. Your tea looked to be the right color and probably had a lot of good stuff in it, but I noted the lack of foam which would have indicated a strong population of microbes.... how big of an air pump do you have in there? Have you looked up and gotten the components to make some of the high power compost teas that we use in TLO... these recipes will assure that you have the correct microbes coming in to do your work for you. It really is super important to brew up exactly the microbes that feed on the things that your plants are needing right now... and just a basic tea with EWC and a few other random components is not going to provide what it takes.

Thank you for your input, yes I am still amending my soil with the gaja green . I just couldn’t afford to buy the stuff individually so I went with it again. Does every grow not start with pre amended and cooked soil ? I’m just curious , cause I have a lot of old organic soil , are you saying I can just use compost tea no amendments and still have well fed plants??

I’m really trying to grasp this here.

mad far as my compost tea that pic was just after I got everything in it and had it running 20 mins , I have the 30 gal aquarium pumps it’s just enough in my 1 gal pitcher , next time I brew one I will take an after pic for you.

now can I do a TLO in such small pots even? I would like to be able to do multiple runs in them plant cover crop in between grows with them. I did take some of my natter out of my worm farm which is littwrally crawling with life. Its beautiful stuff , I am going to keep trying until I get your approval.

do you have any links in your past articles on TLO start to finish or how to or something , it’s so hard to find things that you’ve done cause there’s so many or the recipients in the middle of you past journals , I remember you were trying to get a link going for all your stuff did something like that ever happen

Anyway thank you for stopping by and taking the time to reply and give me your advice . I really appreciate it

 

[Emilya Green]

Thank you for your input, yes I am still amending my soil with the gaja green . I just couldn’t afford to buy the stuff individually so I went with it again. Does every grow not start with pre amended and cooked soil ? I’m just curious , cause I have a lot of old organic soil , are you saying I can just use compost tea no amendments and still have well fed plants??

I’m really trying to grasp this here.

mad far as my compost tea that pic was just after I got everything in it and had it running 20 mins , I have the 30 gal aquarium pumps it’s just enough in my 1 gal pitcher , next time I brew one I will take an after pic for you.

now can I do a TLO in such small pots even? I would like to be able to do multiple runs in them plant cover crop in between grows with them. I did take some of my natter out of my worm farm which is littwrally crawling with life. Its beautiful stuff , I am going to keep trying until I get your approval.

do you have any links in your past articles on TLO start to finish or how to or something , it’s so hard to find things that you’ve done cause there’s so many or the recipients in the middle of you past journals , I remember you were trying to get a link going for all your stuff did something like that ever happen

Anyway thank you for stopping by and taking the time to reply and give me your advice . I really appreciate it

Yes, check out Emmie's links in my signature for a nice collection of my best stuff... and also check out my current grow that is just wrapping up, the berry d'licious... in that one I did a little experiment.
I just saw that light bulb come on over your head and you now grasp the concept... and my grow there illustrates what can happen. It is turning out fantastically too by the way... But in that grow I started out with a strongly mineralized supersoil and then other than a supplement I am testing out, I did not feed these plants one molecule of food. They got water and microbes... that is it. No top dressing, no foliar sprays... zip, nada, nothing. The microbes do all the work for you if it is already in the soil. And every grow doesn't have to start out with brand new amended and recooked soil either, you can easily get a couple of grows in large containers. I wouldn't want to go multiple grows with 3 gallons of soil, but 7 and 10 would be easy.
So yes, with a good soil all you need is microbes and water.... and you mentioned compost tea, but keep in mind that every compost tea is different. The goal with a tea is not to create a nutrient rich soup that can be used to feed the plants, what you should be doing with a tea is something completely different. You are designing a particular tea to be populated with the exact microbes that feed on the exact nutrients that the plant needs at that time. Early in veg, you want the nitrogen hungry critters teeming in your tea, and you really don't need any of the others. Later, you will want the workhorses that feed on iron and potassium and phosphorus and calcium to be the most prominent ones in your tea, and the way you make this happen is to create brews that have small amounts of those exact foods in them. If you supply the food, the targeted microbe will thrive... all others will not. Making a tea is a balancing act, and one you can control with exactly the right inputs. Again, those inputs are quite small and you can not and should not expect your teas to supply nutrients to the plants. This is not their purpose. Everything that plant needs is in that soil already... you just need to workers to go and get it and supply it to the plants.
So throughout the various stages of growth, there are teas that specialize in what is going on in that stage. When I brewed my own teas I had recipes for each of these stages, early and late veg teas, a bud inducing early flowering tea, a strong flowering growth tea and a finishing tea.... These were my staples, and each one was brewed a little differently and with different inputs, simply designed to bring in the specific microbes needed at that time.
My last grow's main experiment was to make that whole tea process a lot easier and more efficient. I used a product called RealGrower's Recharge, which is a freeze dried collection of very specific microbes for every stage of growth, complete with small amounts of their food to get them going, in an easy to use mix with water system that essentially gave me instant compost teas, with much stronger populations of microlife than I could ever brew in my home AACT system. I ran this whole last grow on old worn out supersoil that had recently been amended, water and recharge. Nothing else was needed.
Now, regarding your teas. First of, the worm juice is wonderful stuff and just full of all different sorts of microbes. Consider that muck the seed that starts your compost tea. Compost is also a good source of raw microbes and is often used to start the tea. It however is not a specific tea and this is why it does not work as well as a carefully constructed tea, because what you have in there is a battleground. All the little microbes are competing for food and some of them even eat the other ones. If you get too much of an aggressive batch of protozoans, or even worse, terrors of the amoebic kind, huge numbers of the beneficial bacterium can be wiped out, leaving you with nothing doing the work you need done in the soil. Then there is the matter of your tiny air pump. It is not nearly enough to do what needs to be done, essentially moving so much oxygen through that mix that the bad stinky anaerobic microbes, the ones that thrive in a vacuum and places without oxygen, can not survive. You attack them right out of the gate with huge amounts of air, and right off the bat you end up with only aerobic bacteria... almost all of them beneficial. Brewing a tea without enough active aeration is not very beneficial to the plants, because again keep in mind that the whole reason you are doing this is to supply microbes... the correct microbes... you are not directly feeding the plant.

 

[Backlipslide]

I really wish I had the tools to make something like this , when my dad passed away I was supposed to get a bunch of stuff but my other brother felt like he deserved it more cause he wasn’t as close to dad , so I didn’t argue it not worth the time . Just would have been nice to use my dads old stuff know what I mean , thanks for taking the time to show some support along the way I really do appreciate it brother

The sentimental value from those tools are worth all the money in the world. That’s too bad about your brother getting the tools, that definitely would have been a great gift from your father. Maybe he’s the type of brother that would settle and give you a few of them to you. So you both can enjoy. If he’s anything like my brother, then that ain’t happening lol!

And not a problem at all! The pleasure is mine!

 

[DeanWest89]

Yes, check out Emmie's links in my signature for a nice collection of my best stuff... and also check out my current grow that is just wrapping up, the berry d'licious... in that one I did a little experiment.
I just saw that light bulb come on over your head and you now grasp the concept... and my grow there illustrates what can happen. It is turning out fantastically too by the way... But in that grow I started out with a strongly mineralized supersoil and then other than a supplement I am testing out, I did not feed these plants one molecule of food. They got water and microbes... that is it. No top dressing, no foliar sprays... zip, nada, nothing. The microbes do all the work for you if it is already in the soil. And every grow doesn't have to start out with brand new amended and recooked soil either, you can easily get a couple of grows in large containers. I wouldn't want to go multiple grows with 3 gallons of soil, but 7 and 10 would be easy.
So yes, with a good soil all you need is microbes and water.... and you mentioned compost tea, but keep in mind that every compost tea is different. The goal with a tea is not to create a nutrient rich soup that can be used to feed the plants, what you should be doing with a tea is something completely different. You are designing a particular tea to be populated with the exact microbes that feed on the exact nutrients that the plant needs at that time. Early in veg, you want the nitrogen hungry critters teeming in your tea, and you really don't need any of the others. Later, you will want the workhorses that feed on iron and potassium and phosphorus and calcium to be the most prominent ones in your tea, and the way you make this happen is to create brews that have small amounts of those exact foods in them. If you supply the food, the targeted microbe will thrive... all others will not. Making a tea is a balancing act, and one you can control with exactly the right inputs. Again, those inputs are quite small and you can not and should not expect your teas to supply nutrients to the plants. This is not their purpose. Everything that plant needs is in that soil already... you just need to workers to go and get it and supply it to the plants.
So throughout the various stages of growth, there are teas that specialize in what is going on in that stage. When I brewed my own teas I had recipes for each of these stages, early and late veg teas, a bud inducing early flowering tea, a strong flowering growth tea and a finishing tea.... These were my staples, and each one was brewed a little differently and with different inputs, simply designed to bring in the specific microbes needed at that time.
My last grow's main experiment was to make that whole tea process a lot easier and more efficient. I used a product called RealGrower's Recharge, which is a freeze dried collection of very specific microbes for every stage of growth, complete with small amounts of their food to get them going, in an easy to use mix with water system that essentially gave me instant compost teas, with much stronger populations of microlife than I could ever brew in my home AACT system. I ran this whole last grow on old worn out supersoil that had recently been amended, water and recharge. Nothing else was needed.
Now, regarding your teas. First of, the worm juice is wonderful stuff and just full of all different sorts of microbes. Consider that muck the seed that starts your compost tea. Compost is also a good source of raw microbes and is often used to start the tea. It however is not a specific tea and this is why it does not work as well as a carefully constructed tea, because what you have in there is a battleground. All the little microbes are competing for food and some of them even eat the other ones. If you get too much of an aggressive batch of protozoans, or even worse, terrors of the amoebic kind, huge numbers of the beneficial bacterium can be wiped out, leaving you with nothing doing the work you need done in the soil. Then there is the matter of your tiny air pump. It is not nearly enough to do what needs to be done, essentially moving so much oxygen through that mix that the bad stinky anaerobic microbes, the ones that thrive in a vacuum and places without oxygen, can not survive. You attack them right out of the gate with huge amounts of air, and right off the bat you end up with only aerobic bacteria... almost all of them beneficial. Brewing a tea without enough active aeration is not very beneficial to the plants, because again keep in mind that the whole reason you are doing this is to supply microbes... the correct microbes... you are not directly feeding the plant.

Thank you very much for the emilya , I have been trying to find RealGrower’s recharge here in Ontario and not a thing , the only thing I can find is Raw npk’s microbes for veg and they have a bloom version I’m still trying to find a decently priced source here in Ontario. I do understand the concept of the tea I put a table spoon of the organic amendments in my tea to try and brew Bactria best suited to break down the stuff in my soil , I don’t try to feed with my teas in try to repopulate ( idk if you recall but you chewed my ass out over how I used to grasp what I thought compost teas did. So that part I did improve on . I run two small pumps with 3 small stones in my 1gal tea brew jug it keeps my bag moving and at the end of 24 hrs it’s usually overflowing into the catch plate with all this nice dark mater on the walls where the foam was ( the brew ring I call it) that being said , I do plan on getting a big air pump enough for keep a 5 gal pal dancing But I am under a budget here so I am trying to up my game with what I have . I found one person who is selling RealGrower’s and it’s 89.99 8oz bag .

I will be checking out all of your stuff now that I can find it in one place , I already started looking already. I really appreciate the above and beyond help and support you show to everyone here. Thank you for pushing us all to get better with what we are trying to achieve . I will most definatly be checking out your current recharge grow when you first started it I was all over it and then I started getting tired and not wanting to pick up the phone for my own stuff let alone someone else’s , but you have to fight the ruts and push on . I really enjoyed time on here learning so I make sure I dedicate atleast an hour a week to my journals and more on everyone else’s journals .

you are the goddess of organics in my opinion

 

[DeanWest89]

The sentimental value from those tools are worth all the money in the world. That’s too bad about your brother getting the tools, that definitely would have been a great gift from your father. Maybe he’s the type of brother that would settle and give you a few of them to you. So you both can enjoy. If he’s anything like my brother, then that ain’t happening lol!

And not a problem at all! The pleasure is mine!

Brother I will never even see one of thoes tools again . Something I will have to live with . I did get a few things that are very sentimental but the tools man , I remember using them with his as a kid some of them anyway the rest were new but I just wanted the old stuff anyways enough of that
cheers dude

 

[Emilya Green]

Raw npk’s microbes

Hey I just looked these folks up and this is exactly what you want! I also saw that you can order as little as $10 worth of the stuff direct from their GrowersHouse web site... and that is probably enough to get you through a grow. Get on it man... you have your solution in hand.

 

[DeanWest89]

Hey I just looked these folks up and this is exactly what you want! I also saw that you can order as little as $10 worth of the stuff direct from their GrowersHouse web site... and that is probably enough to get you through a grow. Get on it man... you have your solution in hand.

Would you consider it at the quality of the realgrowers recharge . I’ve honestly been trying to buy it here for almost a year and a half . But it’s the best I can really get in my area . It’s taken me a long time to find it
Idk how to thank you for your help , your an awesome growmie , you always go above and beyond on helping everyone, you have really helped me step up my game , I really respect the fact you didn’t tell me what I wanted to hear , even though I didn’t agree/understand from lack of knowledge and stubbornness ( especially in my first attempt at “organic” “ no till” < I’m sure that was laughable h. You have almost mastered your craft and I am thankful to be able to pick your brain , and be able to learn from you .
I believe you should be up for nomination for some kind of award for how much above and beyond you go to help a fellow passionate grower out to try and achieve some wonderful things in the grow with top notch quality cannabis to smoke at the end



@Teddy Edwards idk if you guys notice how much this lady is so quick to give her undivided attention , to give you a better explication then most google searches. she has really helped me along the way and I know there’s a lot more of me out there

 

[Emilya Green]

Thank you for the compliments and especially the nod toward the moderators, but please also understand that I have been nominated many times to be member of the month and actually achieved it one time. Being nominated for something such as that among a group of highly qualified people like we have here at 420mag is reward unto itself... and actually winning the popularity contest that results is a surprise when it happens, especially considering that I am not good at popularity contests because of my tell it as I see it style. There are still nominations I would like to see and that would mean a great deal to me if they did happen such as the big contest at the end of the year and there are always the editor's coveted award for the grow journal of the month that I would like to see my name associated with someday, but that recognition is not necessary for what I do here. I do what I do, not for reward, but to pay back this community for what they have given to me and my family, a debt that I could never repay. Also, I get rewarded in other ways. Over the years private benefactors have provided me with many thousands of dollars worth of grow equipment including lights, ballasts, hoods, tents, filters, seeds... I have been truly blessed and greatly rewarded.

Regarding the Raw NPK, I think it may be better than the Recharge that I am using! They break their product into two parts, one for veg and one for bloom, highly concentrating the needed microbes for those periods in those specific products. Recharge combines every microbe they make into the one package, and as such it can not be as efficient as what those folks are doing at NPK. I am considering ordering some of it to try myself in a future grow.

 

[DeanWest89]

November 11/27/19

Journal update-
hey everyone so today I decided it was time to transplant into the 3 gal pots. The other day I came home and my solo cups were dry so I was like yes time to transplant up. Well I decide I was going to do it the next day , which was yesterday, so I guess before work while I was misting I left my humidity dome off my sour ds . I came home to #1 looking strong and beautiful and # 2 limp as my grandfathers D*ck. Immediately I water it til run off then ran it through again and again .she was rough I’ll tell yah. I did take a pick and I thought I lost her , she was the most vigorous and started to use her water up faster , if I would have put the dome back on she wouldn’t have used up all the water so fast like she did. I leave a small amount in the bottom of the dome tray when they start getting close to transplant stage but they both had perfect roots , they didn’t start wrapping much but they still held all the soil together , my one worm was still alive , I put one small worm in each solo cup to try and it seemed beautiful idk if it changed anything or not at the very least keep microbial life going and it munches on the top much layer in all 3 gal pots
So last night I transplanted #2 and put a dome on her . I woke up this morning to a lot of rain so no work for me. I go down to the tent and noticed she had bounce back 80% and I decided it was time to transplant her up as-well , I removed the decimated leaves and she’s now falling way behind #1 but she’s alive and I have faith she will catch up

Environment- so i switched back sown to 1 light with it a touch lower just so I can maintain Rh better it got up past 28 with 2 lights so fan was always going dropping Rh , I have no humidifier I have to mist so I finally had a breakthrough as far as climate control , I decided to actually dial in my smart inline fan with the computer interface thingy , and I have it set my Rh @65 for my low and 83 for my high the fan comes on at 81 to the first speed and brings it back down until it’s below 81 and it doesn’t come on unless it rises or the tent hits 28 but when I checked 12 hrs later it was holding at 75% . This is perfect for veg for me and especially for my Moby Dick auto who is beginning phase of stretch so I want this environment dialled is so she get nice and big for flower with some lst .

-This has also made it so much easier to start to harden my plants off I’m hoping by the end of the week I will be able to drop my RH down to 65% I don’t like the high Rh in the tent things get grimy.

ASD #2 I failed you , I have faith you’ll make a come backso I didn’t take a pic before I removed the dead stuff but this is what remained I took this pic 2 hrs after the watering when I noticed I was in such a panic I forgot to take the time to document everything . I think I may name this one “ the come back kid ‘ or T-om-ack-id

ASD #1

double-Ex-L Rolling in hot , she trying to seduce anyone who’s within her sweet aromas grasp this girl is gonna be supporting a huge bust and some big beautiful swinging hips . I hope she blows up in this space , the space bucket was a waste of her potential

ASD#2 Tomackid recovering slow and steady , once she gets her legs stretched she will catch up

This is a little tester run , these are 4 random seeds I found in my outdoor mint choc og , clones from the same plant from my first journal I really stressed the plant out but I didn’t see and bananas no pollen sacks so idk if out of the 4 of them they gave me 8 fem seeds or are they hermie I don’t know but I am going to put them into my space bucket not training 12/12 and see what comes of it as a “test” I stil have 4
3seeds I did test one out it popped out of the soil in 4 days and is in the space bucket now I just want to see if pistols show on all or is it a mix , if it’s a mix I think it would be a toss by being unstable I know nothing about breeding or finding random seeds here and there in you cannabis or what they call bag seeds

thanks everybody have a safe and wonderful day

“Groomed of the world, unite”-kaligrownbudz

 

[DeanWest89]

Thank you for the compliments and especially the nod toward the moderators, but please also understand that I have been nominated many times to be member of the month and actually achieved it one time. Being nominated for something such as that among a group of highly qualified people like we have here at 420mag is reward unto itself... and actually winning the popularity contest that results is a surprise when it happens, especially considering that I am not good at popularity contests because of my tell it as I see it style. There are still nominations I would like to see and that would mean a great deal to me if they did happen such as the big contest at the end of the year and there are always the editor's coveted award for the grow journal of the month that I would like to see my name associated with someday, but that recognition is not necessary for what I do here. I do what I do, not for reward, but to pay back this community for what they have given to me and my family, a debt that I could never repay. Also, I get rewarded in other ways. Over the years private benefactors have provided me with many thousands of dollars worth of grow equipment including lights, ballasts, hoods, tents, filters, seeds... I have been truly blessed and greatly rewarded.

Regarding the Raw NPK, I think it may be better than the Recharge that I am using! They break their product into two parts, one for veg and one for bloom, highly concentrating the needed microbes for those periods in those specific products. Recharge combines every microbe they make into the one package, and as such it can not be as efficient as what those folks are doing at NPK. I am considering ordering some of it to try myself in a future grow.

I respect your humility , and you most very welcome , I know when reading your stuff you have a fun writing style the way you talked about the single pistol on your plants in one of your recent updates I believe . It’s exciting , it’s not just a boring list and point forms.

I am going to be picking some of this up this week, I am very happyto have finally found something you would consider using in your own garden .

Hopefully one day I will be able to atleast achieve some kind of a sponsored grow weather it’s seeds stickers shirts it’s doesn’t have to be big ticket item . Anyway thank you @Emilya

 

[DeanWest89]

November/29/19

JOURNAL UPDATE #7


Welcome everyone I just want to start off saying I have been taking pics for updates but I haven’t had the time to post them , I was working snow and worked a total of 54 hrs in 4 days .

So the last update I had transplanted my asd#2 into the 3 gal fabric pot . She wasn’t looking to well, I waited too long to transplant and the same day I forgot the humidity dome so she was pretty droopy I didn’t think she would come back but she did . I was very happy because this pheno type has the huge sativa leaves , and my asd#1 has more indica style leaves so 2 different phenos I hope one is a keeper but it will have to be something magical.

ASD#1 - I have topped her for the first time at like the 8th or 9th node and I got rid of the first two lowest ones . I did it’s first defoliation just to get some light down to the lower stuff I want the node spacing real tight at this point so I can grow a monstrous canopy.

ASD#2- she has finally bounced back to life but she has been stunted a lot more then her sister . I haven’t topped her at this point yet I didn’t want to stress her out more until she gets some gains happening here .

Moby Dick XXL auto- this girl has just hit flower and I could tell the stretch was starting , I decided it was time to lay her down and work this canopy into something marvellous. My last attempt was a disappointing 1 oz on a strain thatis
capable of hitting a half pound per plant so I needed to master the craft of this particular auto. And to top it off my last harvest was lost to Mold. LST has officially started

WATERING- so this is going to be my first attempt at 100% organic no till . I will not be ph’n my water for this grow do to natural ph buffers in my amendments, but I do check to make sure it’s not jumping around it’s usually around 6.8-7.1 but if it read 5.7 I would drain and sterilize my reservoirs and start with new water , I keep
Air stones going at all times and I always wait 24 hrs before using it to evaporate the chlorine.

ENVIRONMENT - everything is on point in my opinion , lights on sitting at 27 degrees Celsius and RH is between 75% - 53% by the time I get home from work then I re mist and when I wake up I do it again and with lights off Rh is at 75% and 21 degrees Celsius . I am having to mist twice a day , my humidifier went down. So for now with lights on I’m stuck with the fluctuations in humidity.
Moby dick
This is my auto before any training

This is 1 day after tiring her down ( I checked her after a couple hours after training and she was pointing back up that fast)

ASD #1

ASD#1

ASD#2

this is when lights are off , Ididnt get one with lights

 

[DeanWest89]

DECEMBER 2/19

JOURNAL UPDATE #8


Hey dudes and dudettes welcome to another back to back update because I can’t get my life in order and can’t find time for things when they needed the time spent ... WELCOME TO PARENTHOOD . The land where are your needs and wants are irrelevant and the only time your happy is when your wife and kids are happy. Thank you for bearing with me, I wish I could dedicate more time to this

okay this is gonna be short and sweet to get us caught up

Everything has been on cruise control since last update however my auto got Loose from its tie down and is now erect again so I will be using something different

I used a rubber coated wire and secured it to a clamp on the fabric pot I made sure she can’t twist her way out of this one

ENVIRONMENT- this was right after misting , the fan quickly brought it back down to 75% lights on temps go from 21-27 degrees Celsius

Watering- I haven’t done any watering since the last one , I just mist the top layer daily so she doesn’t dry out and kill all the life I’ve worked so hard to maintain( whatever life is in there ) but I will be adding raw microbes grow and for flower they have so acidic microbes just melt for flower raw microbes bloom . Since I cannot get Realgrowers recharge here this is my only option

ASD#1- has been growing strong she’s now starting to build up her side branching since being topped , I will continue to top until everything has caught up to each other and there’s a flat canopy, this has worked stellar with indica strains , but this is my first sativa I may have to lay them under a scrog if she stretches as much as I think they will

ASD#2 - this one I made a big mistake early on and she got dried out and I almost lost her but she is gaining some ground, I had finally topped her and she’s well on her way to becoming a large girl , she has the more sativa quality’s just by the look of her leaves . I have been doing the same to her as her big sister

Moby Dick XXl- this I where the most change has happened, she is well on her way in flower ,she’s in the middle of her stretch and has doubled in size already I hope she goes a little more then starts stacking her colas up, she has just been getting misted on the surface to keep things moist , I have been watering is very small amounts. I have started to LST her branches into their final positions
This was

And this was on Tuesday, she grew so much I am so amazed I have lowers my lights so she’s getting 25000 lu

So this brings up to Tuesday December 3/19 I will being going downstairs and properly taking plants out of tent to do some nice photos , I set up a nice spot finally , I’d like to get away from my burple pics .

thanks for stopping by I really appreciate the love and support , I hope y’all have a great day . Happy growing everyone

 

[Backlipslide]

WELCOME TO PARENTHOOD . The land where are your needs and wants are irrelevant and the only time your happy is when your wife and kids are happy.

Amen to that brother!

your plants are looking great!

hope all that snow removal has been easy on your back! Unless your in a bob cat! Then happy skids-steering!

My dad is semi retired and, that’s what he does in the winter, snow removal for the town of ******* (not important where it is lol)

 

[DeanWest89]

Amen to that brother!

your plants are looking great!

hope all that snow removal has been easy on your back! Unless your in a bob cat! Then happy skids-steering!

My dad is semi retired and, that’s what he does in the winter, snow removal for the town of ******* (not important where it is lol)

Hey brother , I drove a sidewalk plow and it’s hard on the body after 20 hrs straight, thank goodness I’m not in a kidney bruiser haha atleast my machine had a seat with travel to take the impact of some things but i do enjoy being out in the storms though it’s peaceful in a weird way . Thanks for stopping by dude

 

[DeanWest89]

Does anyone know of a small affordable camera for inside my tent that I can do timelaps videos with and have it all be controlled on my phone or tablet ( don’t have a computer) any ideas dudes and dudettes ??

 

[Backlipslide]

I come up with This.

there’s lots out there, you may just have to google camera for timlapse videos, and search through the hundred of options that come up. Pick the best one most suited to your needs/budget. The one I posted above looks decent for what it’s being used for, in price wise.

 

[DeanWest89]

I come up with This.

there’s lots out there, you may just have to google camera for timlapse videos, and search through the hundred of options that come up. Pick the best one most suited to your needs/budget. The one I posted above looks decent for what it’s being used for, in price wise.

Hey brother I appreciate the advise , @Emilya threw an amazing idea at me and their relatively cheap , so I think I’m going to go with the Wyze v2 or the wyze big boy ( idk what it’s called) but has 360 deg biewing options and time laps and all kids of other things , they have sensors to come on when the lights do if you only want to run day time timelaps

 

[Backlipslide]

Sounds like a great camera!

 

[DeanWest89]

Hey @Emilya as you have predicted things aren’t going so well, and I really don’t Know what’s going on , I am going today to pic up npk microbes grow and bloom versions , but there’s a lot of damage , I suspect my medium still was well amended from last grow so I amended as if it had nothing and my tips are just fading away,I am also getting some yellowing happening , will microbes alone stop this from progressing? My compost teas haven’t been doing the job .

also I added a humus layer in each pot , hay from a local farm , now could this layer potentially cause a crazy ph fluctuation or something I just can’t figure it out. I am very discouraged. Now I know whatever damage I’ve done by re amending will only get worse I think as more microbial life makes more food accessible for the plant

Do you ever add a humus or oganic matter layer in your grows at all ? Or was this a stupid idea??

I’ve taking 5 red wigglers and put them into each pot maybe them constantly breaking mater down will eventually evolve into a complete soil food web( I added material from my worm farm) full of springtails and all kids of other life , the best thing about it there isn’t just one species dominating so everyone is keeping everything in check , would this be a complete soil foodweb in my worm farm ?
Any help would be awesome em

I am going to go through your material and study how you get your recycled organic soil back to par without burning up your plants

 

[Emilya Green]

Hey @Emilya as you have predicted things aren’t going so well, and I really don’t Know what’s going on , I am going today to pic up npk microbes grow and bloom versions , but there’s a lot of damage , I suspect my medium still was well amended from last grow so I amended as if it had nothing and my tips are just fading away,I am also getting some yellowing happening , will microbes alone stop this from progressing? My compost teas haven’t been doing the job .

also I added a humus layer in each pot , hay from a local farm , now could this layer potentially cause a crazy ph fluctuation or something I just can’t figure it out. I am very discouraged. Now I know whatever damage I’ve done by re amending will only get worse I think as more microbial life makes more food accessible for the plant

Do you ever add a humus or oganic matter layer in your grows at all ? Or was this a stupid idea??

I’ve taking 5 red wigglers and put them into each pot maybe them constantly breaking mater down will eventually evolve into a complete soil food web( I added material from my worm farm) full of springtails and all kids of other life , the best thing about it there isn’t just one species dominating so everyone is keeping everything in check , would this be a complete soil foodweb in my worm farm ?
Any help would be awesome em

I am going to go through your material and study how you get your recycled organic soil back to par without burning up your plants

Getting the right microbes in there can make all the difference in the world and oftentimes can save a grow in 48 hours.

The layers and the various pH zones in your soil are not a problem either, the roots learn how to circumnavigate among and around those areas. The problem is malnutrition, and the microbes will fix it if you can get them in there... that is what they do... the plants send out the signals as to what they need and the proper microbes try to respond. The wigglers are also a great idea, but as you said, eventually they will help. You need something a bit faster at the moment though.
I know that others talk about topdressing this or that to an active grow to amend the soil, but this is wrong on many levels. To amend properly you need to add the needed components and then compost that soil for a couple of months to break them down. There are no shortcuts to this... and you don't do it in an active grow. I always have half of my soil composting and rejuvenating, while the other half is working.