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Thanks Bonsai! Sounds like the best July 4th everBurgers and dogs on the charcoal grill........ Hope yours was great too.
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LOL.....well it's warm enough to be Memorial Day...so.....Thanks Bonsai! Sounds like the best July 4th ever
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There it is. PistalsEaster Sunday and all the restaurants are closed! Here are some pics of AK-47 pistils, AK clone transplant, and the worm bin prep:
It was time to up-pot the AK clone that I'm keeping so I mixed up some more soil and did this:
Last night I set up the worm bin in anticipation of the worm arrival!
Layer 1, shredded paper:
Layer 2, Kellogg seed topper:
Layer 3, one bowl of blended potato skins, carrot peels, eggshells, and teabags:
All ready for worms! Last, here are some pics of the beginning of pistils on the AK, flip day 8. Looks like some of the pistil tips are turning brown already, is that normal?
I hope your Sunday went well and you either made dinner or went out for Chinese food!
yesterday was great. I brought out all the house plants and gave them foliar sprays and let them enjoy a few hours in the sun. APRIL FOOLS! Woke up today to it snowing and accumulating....guess spring isn't quite here yet! Good thing I love snow!
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Snowly cow Van, that's not exactly April showers. Soon though, it should be soon!
Very overcast here today but I moved everything out of the shed because it's probably still more umols than in the shed. Not worth spending $130 to find out though
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Sour G is showing variegation on existing leaves, and new leaves have a strange appearance. Hard black veins causing a ridged look to them, and kind of folded in the middle. Any thoughts?
On a brighter note, here is Auto Masszar on day 7. It's a slow grower so it's not quite ready to be laid flat yet. It's getting pH'd water with 1½ tbs Big Bloom in a ring about 6" out from the peat.
It was time to water the AK again, but since the runoff was high last time I thought I'd play around a little with the mixing. I had half a gallon left of the old nutes and it takes 1.5 gallons to water this baby, so I mixed up a gallon without any Grow Big. It went like this:
Water @ 220 TDS
1 tsp Armor Si (+43)
3 ml cal/mag+ (forgot to measure)
¼ tsp Open Sesame (+251 including cal/mag)
2 tsp Tiger Bloom (+447)
3 tbs Big Bloom (+229)
Total 1190 TDS - 220 = 970-229 = 741 TDS nutes
I added that gallon to the ½ gallon I had and got a total mix of 1330 TDS. Runoff was ~12 ounces at 1930, or +600. That's better.
At some point I may calculate the blended NPK ratio, or I may not. Depends on how math capable my brain is feeling later, because right now...not
I hope either the sun or the snow brighten your day!
Very overcast here today but I moved everything out of the shed because it's probably still more umols than in the shed. Not worth spending $130 to find out though
.Sour G is showing variegation on existing leaves, and new leaves have a strange appearance. Hard black veins causing a ridged look to them, and kind of folded in the middle. Any thoughts?
On a brighter note, here is Auto Masszar on day 7. It's a slow grower so it's not quite ready to be laid flat yet
. It's getting pH'd water with 1½ tbs Big Bloom in a ring about 6" out from the peat.It was time to water the AK again, but since the runoff was high last time I thought I'd play around a little with the mixing. I had half a gallon left of the old nutes and it takes 1.5 gallons to water this baby, so I mixed up a gallon without any Grow Big. It went like this:
Water @ 220 TDS
1 tsp Armor Si (+43)
3 ml cal/mag+ (forgot to measure)
¼ tsp Open Sesame (+251 including cal/mag)
2 tsp Tiger Bloom (+447)
3 tbs Big Bloom (+229)
Total 1190 TDS - 220 = 970-229 = 741 TDS nutes
I added that gallon to the ½ gallon I had and got a total mix of 1330 TDS. Runoff was ~12 ounces at 1930, or +600. That's better.
At some point I may calculate the blended NPK ratio, or I may not. Depends on how math capable my brain is feeling later, because right now...not
I hope either the sun or the snow brighten your day!
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Shhh, nobody reply...I'm doing math here! I took the NPK totals of today's nutes and multiplied them by .66, then I took the NPK totals of the last nutes and multiplied them by .33, then I added them together and reduced them. Anyone want to tell me if that's close to the way to figure out what the 1.5 gallons was????
If it was, I fed at 1 - 2.7 - 1.8. If it wasn't then somebody correct my math!
If it was, I fed at 1 - 2.7 - 1.8. If it wasn't then somebody correct my math!
Hi Shed - I’d help you if I could, but mixing nutes and PPM levels is way outta my ballpark! Hopefully someone who can wrangle tha math will step in soon. I’m sure you’re probably all good though. (‘sure’ and ‘probably’ together like that make it sound like I’m hedging my bets a bit, lol! Maybe I am )
Last night I set up the worm bin in anticipation of the worm arrival!
All ready for worms!
I suggest you fill that at least 1/2 , maybe 3/4 full...does not look like enough media. Worms need mass to insulate themselves...they travel in media...media is key. If you filled that 3/4 and kept adding food scraps weekly it would still be at 3/4 of the bin....in 3 months the volume would be the same but the weight would be 2-3x.
Do you have any old soil, root balls, coir? Worst case chop up a bunch of cardboard (or more newspaper) and fill that bin halfway. Then soak it.
Think of media as the worms' building blocks to give you awesome VC....
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Thanks Blew! Gonna have to be paper scraps/shredding and/or garden dirt to fill that up then. All my old soil has been recycled for pineapple plants. I'll tear out the weeds and overgrown grass from the backyard and throw that in as well.I suggest you fill that at least 1/2 , maybe 3/4 full...does not look like enough media. Worms need mass to insulate themselves...they travel in media...media is key. If you filled that 3/4 and kept adding food scraps weekly it would still be at 3/4 of the bin....in 3 months the volume would be the same but the weight would be 2-3x.
Do you have any old soil, root balls, coir? Worst case chop up a bunch of cardboard (or more newspaper) and fill that bin halfway. Then soak it.
Think of media as the worms' building blocks to give you awesome VC....
NO! No green matter...that cooks (thermophylic) and you will have worm stew...which DOES stink, and then your wife will blame ME...
If you don't have soil, use newspaper, torn up cardboard, or dryer lint (my secret ingredient...),
How much cardboard is too much? I seem to amass a lot of boxes from amazon (one new one just got here via carrying my new carbon filter) but I am not sure the worms can put them all to use.I suggest you fill that at least 1/2 , maybe 3/4 full...does not look like enough media. Worms need mass to insulate themselves...they travel in media...media is key. If you filled that 3/4 and kept adding food scraps weekly it would still be at 3/4 of the bin....in 3 months the volume would be the same but the weight would be 2-3x.
Do you have any old soil, root balls, coir? Worst case chop up a bunch of cardboard (or more newspaper) and fill that bin halfway. Then soak it.
Think of media as the worms' building blocks to give you awesome VC....
Hmmm....no no feeding them the leaves I defoliate from the girls?NO! No green matter...that cooks (thermophylic) and you will have worm stew...which DOES stink, and then your wife will blame ME...
If you don't have soil, use newspaper, torn up cardboard, or dryer lint (my secret ingredient...),
You have pineapple plants as well? What size pot are you growing them in?
I don't use cardboard at all...it just beats nothing in this case. My media is 90% old and/or partially composted soil and then dryer lint, old coir, etc.
if you have 3/4 full bin of soil, you can add small amounts of green matter (like veggie scraps are). When green matter is more than 25% in a compost pile it will go hot....
Shed...an easy solution is buy a cheap bag of dirt and you are good to go....
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NO! No green matter...that cooks (thermophylic) and you will have worm stew...which DOES stink, and then your wife will blame ME...
If you don't have soil, use newspaper, torn up cardboard, or dryer lint (my secret ingredient...),
Oh okay. Thanks for the heads up! Dryer lint I got. And probably more seed topper I'll never use as we won't have grass any more. Can I use plain old soil from the garden as well? I have a mound of that from where I dug a hole for the non-fruiting olive tree I put in a month ago.Shed...an easy solution is buy a cheap bag of dirt and you are good to go....
I have many many pineapple plants in everything from 1 gallon to 10 gallon. Each plant produces suckers and slips so I have an unlimited supply. Only problem is it takes about two years to get a pineapple!
Nah it will just be a hand full or two of leaves when I take them off the plant. Probably not more than 2% even on the biggest batches.
Once I get more than one bin going, I will split the defoliated leaves between the bins to keep it down to a minimum per container.
Ok, that will likely be what I do then. I will only compost scraps and lint and egg shells and cannabis leaves!
Ms Stank took the tops off two pineapples we ate and we are growing them again. I gotta up pot this week. We still have another year or more to go!