McLoadie's Third Grow Journal

mcloadie said:
Good, sometimes we find a little niche where conditions are pretty good! I will tell you jeff, I'm kinda a weird guy, I take God seriously, and since he is who He says He is, then I can expect Him to communicate to me, He loves me and wants the best for me. I pray for my plants all the time. I am alert, always watching and listening, then interpreting what I see and hear. Since I'm assigned to this realty for the moment I will make the best of it, and take advantage of my gifts that have been bestowed upon me......I don't dwell on "why", I try to focus on following orders. All that said, it may allow you to understand why I do what I do. I can't seem to shake a picture you posted from my mind, the conversation was about soil, and you posted a picture of what looked like peat moss......natural occurring where you're at........that shit is part of a tea recipe for you. I know that its acidic, so if you do a little work, with that peat, some weathered cow dung, and some mychos, I'm sure that you will come up with some dynamite tea! I have taken old worn out cow patties, probly at least a year in the desert, so most of the nitrogen is already leached out of it. I break it up real fine and put it in water, I bubble it for 24 hrs., look at it and see how concentrated it is, and usually cut it so it's 75% water. I have pissed in it before too, you just have to be careful cuz this shit can be hot and burn plants. What I hope to do every grow is to keep my plants right at the edge of burn.........not burning. I hope you or someone gets some idea to do something with this post. The other day I was making infused oil for one of my patients....and out of nowhere the words "almond extract" came to me, I have heard of almond oil, but never almond extract. So I go to the store and sure enough, there is such a thing....... "a few drops", ok, so I put in a few drops. IDK much, but the oil is working fine for the patient, and she cut back on the dose by 50%.........so, for under ten dollars, I made a years worth of medicine for this lady.
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Mac, that tea idea looks to be a good one, unfortunately, I have to look at my reality too. I have a 3 month max time frame to make that work, after that everything is in a deep freeze and that tea doesn't look like something that I'd want stored in my cabin for a long period of time lol!
 
DharmaBud said:
Mac, that tea idea looks to be a good one, unfortunately, I have to look at my reality too. I have a 3 month max time frame to make that work, after that everything is in a deep freeze and that tea doesn't look like something that I'd want stored in my cabin for a long period of time lol!
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You store the ingredients dry, then soak em when you need to. You'll figure it out jeff.
 
DharmaBud said:
Water ph, yes, but It's a cheapy. I was thinking of buying something better. It puts my well water at about 7.9 ph.
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Start by making just a gallon at a time, you got houseplants?, mine get my leftover teas and they just about run us out they grow so nice. Get a cow pattie, a moose pattie would be better, you just want to make sure that the shit comes from animals that haven't been fed gmo's. In one gallon of water, break up the shit into powder and put it in the water, or, what I do is put the shit in a sock so I don't have to filter it. Put about a baseballs worth in there, or in the sock, you need an aquarium air pump if you can get one, if not just stir it now and again. If you're gonna grow you are gonna need blackstrap molasses, most of us use the shit out of it, put a tbsp. in the bucket. Get 1 cup of that peat moss lookin stuff you showed in the pic., that could go in the sock with the shit. If you get an aquarium pump put an airstone on the hose to get fine bubbles, tie the sock off to the bucket handle above the bubbles. Let that mixture bubble for 24 hrs and then check the ph. I would say that the ph will be around 5.9 or 6, maybe a little lower with the peatmoss stuff, if it's low, add your water til the ph comes up to around 6.5. Try to test it on a houseplant. You will know pretty quick if it's too hot.....the houseplant will show you, you just want to test it on a plant that's in a container. You'll get the hang of it, when we start a custom tea we don't know exactly how hot it is............but I would add at least 2 gallons of water to it to get the strength down for starters. The only way you're going to figure out how strong to make any concoction is to apply it in different concentrations til it burns........then back off the concentration. Anybody else with any ideas?, I make shit this way all the time, and everyone probly makes it a little different...it will supercharge plants.....NOT seedlings or YOUNG clones....they have enough nutrients in the soil to last til they're well established, if I could get some of that stuff I saw in the pic I could give you a better idea about it!
 
Yeah, what mac said.

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mcloadie said:
Start by making just a gallon at a time, you got houseplants?, mine get my leftover teas and they just about run us out they grow so nice. Get a cow pattie, a moose pattie would be better, you just want to make sure that the shit comes from animals that haven't been fed gmo's. In one gallon of water, break up the shit into powder and put it in the water, or, what I do is put the shit in a sock so I don't have to filter it. Put about a baseballs worth in there, or in the sock, you need an aquarium air pump if you can get one, if not just stir it now and again. If you're gonna grow you are gonna need blackstrap molasses, most of us use the shit out of it, put a tbsp. in the bucket. Get 1 cup of that peat moss lookin stuff you showed in the pic., that could go in the sock with the shit. If you get an aquarium pump put an airstone on the hose to get fine bubbles, tie the sock off to the bucket handle above the bubbles. Let that mixture bubble for 24 hrs and then check the ph. I would say that the ph will be around 5.9 or 6, maybe a little lower with the peatmoss stuff, if it's low, add your water til the ph comes up to around 6.5. Try to test it on a houseplant. You will know pretty quick if it's too hot.....the houseplant will show you, you just want to test it on a plant that's in a container. You'll get the hang of it, when we start a custom tea we don't know exactly how hot it is............but I would add at least 2 gallons of water to it to get the strength down for starters. The only way you're going to figure out how strong to make any concoction is to apply it in different concentrations til it burns........then back off the concentration. Anybody else with any ideas?, I make shit this way all the time, and everyone probly makes it a little different...it will supercharge plants.....NOT seedlings or YOUNG clones....they have enough nutrients in the soil to last til they're well established, if I could get some of that stuff I saw in the pic I could give you a better idea about it!
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I'm putting your recipe in my blog for safekeeping Mac!
 
Hiyas, mac - doin' great, thanks!

I just harvested my first plant in 25 years, and I done good! And it's all due to you guys, the truly good people like yourself who post on :420:

:thanks:
 
Graytail said:
Hiyas, mac - doin' great, thanks!

I just harvested my first plant in 25 years, and I done good! And it's all due to you guys, the truly good people like yourself who post on :420:

:thanks:
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Well thanks for cluing me in to such an auspicious occasion!!!! Why no grow journal! Will you grow again? When? I want a grow journal!!!!
 
DharmaBud said:
I'm putting your recipe in my blog for safekeeping Mac!
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They never end, you will have your own recipe before you know it, I end up not having all the stuff for a recipe, or adding something else. A good read for you would be Jorge Cervantes, indoor growers bible or handbook or whatever it is, it's not so much biology, but a great philosophy on growing, and easy reading.
 
mcloadie said:
I know that plants will grow well right in the ground outside, but we struggle to reproduce those same qualities in our pots!
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Speaking from personal experience some of us (me) struggle more than others but the end results are worth it.:green_heart: Good Morning Mcloadie- going to chop another plant today!:)
 

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