Other than adding perlite and/or coco at the time of mixing my mix is 50 used soil reammended thru the worm farm and 50% used soil completely unammended. Then I use spikes and layers more or less as per The Rev's mixes, all together in 10gal cloth pots or 6gal cloth cubes that fit in milk crates. Clones get 6gals, seeds get 10gals.
Man I like this guy! He's encouraging! It's being taken more seriously than I thought!
Can’t wait for it to come out hopefully I have interwebs by then!
If I’m not mistaken it’s Phosphorus that they were destroying Florida for before I left.Smh bastards CLThat’s why I got angry when I figured it outcan you imagine how much we could cut back on emissions and unsustainable practices if we were taught in childhood how simple it is to maintain a high quality self sustaining garden? How clean and efficient our farms could be if we had started from this point instead of fighting literal wars over nitrogen?! Don’t get me started on Phosphorus lol. We’ve been betrayed for profit, again.
I feel my blood pressure raising just thinking about it
If I’m not mistaken it’s Phosphorus that they were destroying Florida for before I left.Smh bastards CL
That's one good thing to look forward to this year!
Great video.
Ok, I have a question. When do we get to the SIP part?
I had anticipated culling them down by 2s at each transplant, now I’m already gonna have to adjust slightly to 8 healthy plants instead of 6. This adjustment leaves an opening and I’m thinking about making a SIP or 2 for my flowering containers. But no for real lol, even The Rev himself says in this 2nd version of the book, he uses self watering pots these days. He likes to use living water in them as well which I’m already prepped to do, except I still need a freshwater fish tank which I have, I just killed the last batch of fish thinking the environment had already stabilized. (It didn’t lol)
The more the better!
I have tried using various different spikes, although not straight EWC, and the Rev's work the best. When you disect the final rootball you can see how the roots reacted to it. So I just stay with his recipe. Seeds take longer to go from start to finish than clones do so I give them the big pots. Having a worm farm allows me the luxury of having too much soil so why not, its better being used than just sitting there. Clones get 6gal cubed smart pots that drop right into milk crates, and they work really well for the shorter clone lifespan. The extra soil space in both 6 and 10gal pots allows the myco to set up in all that room before I up the microbes. I usually grow 4 pots, and 40 gallons of wet soil holds my humidity in a 5x5 tent very stable, which makes the VPD alot easier to maintain. I'm messing with a hybrid sips setup right now that shows promise, from seed to harvest I hope, which would make my grow almost labour free once the 10gals are going. They ARE pretty heavy when fully sipped with H20! And yes, big pots give big rootballs which makes for the ability to run safely at a high VPD when moving the light closer. Nothing worse than getting nice and close to the light only to find out your rootball cant keep up to your photosynthetic rate and a perfectly good plant in a healthy pot starts to exhibit signs of starvation as it is forced to grow faster than the roots/myco can handle. Small pots are definitely where you learn though, If you make a mistake or miss a timing point you know really quickly. Here is some really solid small pot advice.... Dont defoliate at all (but do de-larf) unless its a leaf that is growing inwards to the center of the pot, blocking other bud sights from the light, and even then only defoliate it if it cant be tucked out of the way. I even supercrop leaf stems to "bend" them out of the way. The reason is that all your fan leaves are batteries full of water and nutes, so if you screw up a small pot grow, which is really easy to do, you have as many leaves left as possible to life-raft you through mistakes. Quite often in the beginnings of a journey into small pot grows you will end up losing a lot of leaves over the plants life. De-larf as early as possible, as growing larf that will get stripped later is an unnescessary burden on the contents of your small pot. I kinda (well totally) loved your bagseed plant, and if I recall you stated the seeds were from you MIL's grow that selfied. If thats true, all selfy seeds are feminized, as they were created by male parts of a plant that were actually female dna so you get a seed that is XX, not XY as the female plant simply has no Y chromosomes to contribute to the seed, so I would go straight ahead on the assumption that your plants are females. If you do get a male then your MIL's neighbour is making pollen.
I've found in my small scale setup that I've had way more females than males from seeds than I should have, statistically speaking. Pretty small sample size for me though as I grow mostly from clones. I do think there is something to environment as it relates to see. Need to read more about I though.
