Pondwater
Well-Known Member
My diary will be to document for my own sake as I can’t keep notes without loosing them, I feel of all forums most home and welcomed here , I don’t expect an audience but if I have problems it will be easy to navigate here without filling forums with spam lol
I am in a self built room of 6x6.5ft
I have 5ft x 6 .5ft of scrog space I occupy
Leaving me a foot to walk in fan and res ,
I normaly have a 100gal bed here 2.5x3.5 ft but I can’t fill the screen enough without long veg so she is going
I plant to use 25lbuckets (5gal) inside 25l buckets with some nice net pots I found down middle and holes round edge
The classic sip n all that
My lighting is self made bxeb gen 2 bridgelux 480watt board 4ft x2 ft ,I use 2 so they fill my canopy with a foot round edge so every baby gets the same light every square ft this is good for testing
I will have 9 buckets
3 will be 50l or 10 gal
And 6 will be 25 5gals
One of my soils states a year of food while the other states only 3month
So hoping that the 5gal will last the season
Correct my soil if there is any problems you see please this is a new mix experiment after using coots for years ,the dalefoot mulched saved a deficient grow so I am hoping it will do all right from the start now
4 part dale foot Tomato Compost UK | Best compost for tomatoes
4 part rocketgro 2 bags
Peat Free Soil Improver | Organic plant goodness made in Somerset 4-2-5
And Peat-Free Fruit & Veg Compost 40L - RocketGro 3-1-2
1part perlite
1part peat guanokalong (base guano starter feed)
2 part ewc with npk 3-1-2
Minerals
Gypsum at 4g a liter
Lime 2g per liter unless chicken poo used and ph is stable 6.5
Rock phos
Basalt
Npk adds
Alfalfa meal 1cup per cu ft
Barley malt 1cup per cu ft
Chicken poop 2 cups per pot 4-3-3
Biochar compost 1/2 cup
Mycorrhizae
Tea feed
Microbe man’s
recipe for a balanced nutrient cycling ACT which many growers claim to have great success with is;
[vermi]compost – 2.38%
unsulphured pure black strap molasses - 0.50% [but you can use a maximum 0.75%]
fish hydrolysate (high quality) - 0.063%
Do not use chemically deodorized liquid fish!
kelp meal - 0.25% max. [Less is more!]
NOTE: This is a maximum amount of kelp and you can experiment using less. This is using regular grade kelp meal for livestock. If you have soluble kelp, I recommend using smaller amounts. As noted earlier kelp meal can initially delay bacterial multiplication and fungal growth in ACT.
soft rock phosphate granules/powder - 0.063% Consider this optional
Fungal Brew;
If you want a brew which is more fungal increase the amount of fish hydrolysate to around 0.19% and you may wish to decrease the amount of molasses used so there is not a foodstock overload. Include a pinch of alfalfa meal, not using more than 0.25%. It is important to not overload a brew with foodstocks, otherwise you can easily compromise the dissolved oxygen capacity of the unit. Most importantly discontinue brewing around 18 to 20 hours. Of course if you have a microscope you can judge that for yourself.
Also, if you do not have fungi in your [vermi]compost, you won’t have it magically appear in your ACT.
Here is the room this system will be replacing /going in
I am in a self built room of 6x6.5ft
I have 5ft x 6 .5ft of scrog space I occupy
Leaving me a foot to walk in fan and res ,
I normaly have a 100gal bed here 2.5x3.5 ft but I can’t fill the screen enough without long veg so she is going
I plant to use 25lbuckets (5gal) inside 25l buckets with some nice net pots I found down middle and holes round edge
The classic sip n all that
My lighting is self made bxeb gen 2 bridgelux 480watt board 4ft x2 ft ,I use 2 so they fill my canopy with a foot round edge so every baby gets the same light every square ft this is good for testing
I will have 9 buckets
3 will be 50l or 10 gal
And 6 will be 25 5gals
One of my soils states a year of food while the other states only 3month
So hoping that the 5gal will last the season
Correct my soil if there is any problems you see please this is a new mix experiment after using coots for years ,the dalefoot mulched saved a deficient grow so I am hoping it will do all right from the start now
4 part dale foot Tomato Compost UK | Best compost for tomatoes
4 part rocketgro 2 bags
Peat Free Soil Improver | Organic plant goodness made in Somerset 4-2-5
And Peat-Free Fruit & Veg Compost 40L - RocketGro 3-1-2
1part perlite
1part peat guanokalong (base guano starter feed)
2 part ewc with npk 3-1-2
Minerals
Gypsum at 4g a liter
Lime 2g per liter unless chicken poo used and ph is stable 6.5
Rock phos
Basalt
Npk adds
Alfalfa meal 1cup per cu ft
Barley malt 1cup per cu ft
Chicken poop 2 cups per pot 4-3-3
Biochar compost 1/2 cup
Mycorrhizae
Tea feed
Microbe man’s
recipe for a balanced nutrient cycling ACT which many growers claim to have great success with is;
[vermi]compost – 2.38%
unsulphured pure black strap molasses - 0.50% [but you can use a maximum 0.75%]
fish hydrolysate (high quality) - 0.063%
Do not use chemically deodorized liquid fish!
kelp meal - 0.25% max. [Less is more!]
NOTE: This is a maximum amount of kelp and you can experiment using less. This is using regular grade kelp meal for livestock. If you have soluble kelp, I recommend using smaller amounts. As noted earlier kelp meal can initially delay bacterial multiplication and fungal growth in ACT.
soft rock phosphate granules/powder - 0.063% Consider this optional
Fungal Brew;
If you want a brew which is more fungal increase the amount of fish hydrolysate to around 0.19% and you may wish to decrease the amount of molasses used so there is not a foodstock overload. Include a pinch of alfalfa meal, not using more than 0.25%. It is important to not overload a brew with foodstocks, otherwise you can easily compromise the dissolved oxygen capacity of the unit. Most importantly discontinue brewing around 18 to 20 hours. Of course if you have a microscope you can judge that for yourself.
Also, if you do not have fungi in your [vermi]compost, you won’t have it magically appear in your ACT.
Here is the room this system will be replacing /going in