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I suggest following directions to a "T". That's how the kit is designed to by used.
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I suggest following directions to a "T". That's how the kit is designed to by used.
lowandslow
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Suggestion noted and taken! Going to run a clone of the new Dinafem Strawberry Cough they put on the market recently. Should be 10 weeks or less. They claim it's based on Kushman's original genetics, so I'm curious to see how HB affects the expression. My buddy will be running the same cut in typical supersoil, raised beds indoors.
The breeder weighed in on the haze, says to feed water until she fades out a bit more, probably a week or so. Already seeing some of the salt burn fade out, big fans are dropping a bit more rapidly now. Thanks for the help!
puffinpass
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doc bob, new here, been reading up a lot on your true high brix kit, can you pm info about it? what's included with it, price, etc. not sure if I should purchase a kit from you or make my own...I will have about 45 plants outdoors this summer.
At Doc's request here is how to "tune" your soil.
No problem...I'll do my best to make sense of it
...one more bong rip 
...there we go..
Now that I'm good and baked and coughed myself into remembering I have broken ribs...I can explain this I think.
Lets start with explaining what I do. I add my "scrap" any plant matter I am not going to use as medicine gets recycled into my soil (aside from thick woody stems). It can be fresh or dry, I try to get it in there fresh. But it honestly doesn't matter. I add a handful of Root zone cover it with soil and water it. We will call this TUNING THE SOIL. This puts the soil energy "in tune" for our crop. Its just green mulching people have been doing it for hundreds of years. It's nothing new. I didn't reinvent the wheel. I just went back to find what they did back in the day to grow food properly before chemicals. With all this being said...
Your first round should cook per instructions with 20-30lbs of worm castings for at least 30 days. If you are able to tune this first run soil feel free to do so. If not save your trim.
You can just let the 2nd run rip if you wish. I did it was fantastic. However, if you tune it....it'll be 100% better.
After the second run. This is where things get good. I tune it and add 20lbs worm castings and a small bag of pro-mix + the 2nd amendment. Cook it for 30 days.
Third run tune it, cook it 30 days.
Fourth run tune it, cook it for 30 days.
Fifth run tune it, cook for 30 days.
To be continued at my discretion
Just a footnote. There are a few variables in this methodology. Pots are the biggest variable imo. I use smarties they allow for thin roots and loads of soil to recycle. I will not guarantee it will work with anything else. Remember this is just what has worked for me.
Also I usually only have about half of my soil in use at a time as well. So I constantly have some cooking.
No problem...I'll do my best to make sense of it
...one more bong rip ...there we go..Now that I'm good and baked and coughed myself into remembering I have broken ribs...I can explain this I think.
Lets start with explaining what I do. I add my "scrap" any plant matter I am not going to use as medicine gets recycled into my soil (aside from thick woody stems). It can be fresh or dry, I try to get it in there fresh. But it honestly doesn't matter. I add a handful of Root zone cover it with soil and water it. We will call this TUNING THE SOIL. This puts the soil energy "in tune" for our crop. Its just green mulching people have been doing it for hundreds of years. It's nothing new. I didn't reinvent the wheel. I just went back to find what they did back in the day to grow food properly before chemicals. With all this being said...
Your first round should cook per instructions with 20-30lbs of worm castings for at least 30 days. If you are able to tune this first run soil feel free to do so. If not save your trim.
You can just let the 2nd run rip if you wish. I did it was fantastic. However, if you tune it....it'll be 100% better.
After the second run. This is where things get good. I tune it and add 20lbs worm castings and a small bag of pro-mix + the 2nd amendment. Cook it for 30 days.
Third run tune it, cook it 30 days.
Fourth run tune it, cook it for 30 days.
Fifth run tune it, cook for 30 days.
To be continued at my discretion
Just a footnote. There are a few variables in this methodology. Pots are the biggest variable imo. I use smarties they allow for thin roots and loads of soil to recycle. I will not guarantee it will work with anything else. Remember this is just what has worked for me.
Also I usually only have about half of my soil in use at a time as well. So I constantly have some cooking.
Thank you curso for taking the time to educate us all! Just to clarify, let me know if I got this right - the first time we recycle the soil, treat it like new (tune if possible) and use the regular first run kit amendment + castings. Then after second run, we add more promix and use a different (3rd round) amendment mix + castings. And finally, for any subsequent runs, no more amendment is required and we can just tune it with our trim.
Want to make sure I got this on lock as I got a load of used kit soil...
Thanks again curso!
After the 2nd run add the 2nd amendment (doc sells it) and tune it. I added small bag of pro-mix hp and some castings. You could add some castings with each tune if you wanted to. Its totally unnecessary though. I haven't added anything but plant matter and Root zone since the 2nd amendment.
slowgro
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Hmmm - so there really is a use for that 4 year old bag of fan leaves after all...
Hi Curso, Hi Doc, and Hi to all. Been doing a lot of reading and catching up. Thanks so much for all the info and help you so generously share. I've always favored compost and soil preparation over fertilizer as a basic mindset, so it's cool to discover all these recent developments. Maybe the one benefit of prohibition is that it has brought such intensive development of methods which will apply to growing better food as well.
Anyway, Doc, I'd like to get a couple of kits, if you would PM me. Also, I think you mentioned you might arrange for getting our regular garden soil tested and ammendment prescribed by your lab - I've got several yds of compost/used potting soil. The county agricultural extension refused to test it - said it was too good, and self-correcting...
Great site, great people, great thread!
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Check your PM's. Also, ditch the compost. 99.9% of the time it wrecks everything.
Yep you got it. Each run is a set up for the next. After each run tune your soil. After the 2nd run is complete add the amendment and recook it with ewc. I added the small bag of pro-mix hp to bulk it up and stretch it soil a little further.
When I first started doing this I was figuring that I should have to add amendment every 2 rounds. I was wrong. I might have to add something after the 5th. We'll see its flowing now
thecanuck
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You cant ditch us that long again curso lol
Had I continued down the path I was on, I never would have left the house bro. I have to do what I have to do sometimes to continue moving in a forward direction
thecanuck
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Well, all i care about is that youre OK. Started thinking the worse there for a minute. Glad i was wrongHad I continued down the path I was on, I never would have left the house bro. I have to do what I have to do sometimes to continue moving in a forward direction
Curso...thanks so much for gettin back about the recycling the soil.Now i finally got it! Cheers
Oh yeah man I'm excellent (ribs aside)...hahahahaWell, all i care about is that youre OK. Started thinking the worse there for a minute. Glad i was wrong
Curso...thanks so much for gettin back about the recycling the soil.Now i finally got it! Cheers
My pleasure. That's what this is about. Sharing to make everyone's experience better. I've been playing with this HB stuff for a while now. I'm happy to help
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slowgro
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Thanks Doc,
I wasn't clear - I meant amending garden soil/compost for growing flowers and vegetables - fixing it up as far as possible. I know you've said compost is usually too high in K
With your kit - I understood even the first version of the instructions, and would follow them to a T.
Such cool stuff - I'll find the PM.
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Your veggies will be much better in every way if you don't use the compost. Food is even more important than our favorite plants!
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