Paddy Goes Auto for the Winter

[MedFarmer]

shes worth it mate lol

hope your keeping well

Yeah all good here mate. Have spent the last few days sorting my greenhouse. I also gave my girls a bath today lol. Soaked them in water to the soil line to make sure all parts of the soil inside were wet.

How are you at the moment?

 

[NuttyProfessor]

all good mate , just getting on with things . do you keep soil damp at all times , i see people like to dry it out to its light to lift , im started to not agree with that , im sort of given them 3 litres once a week so they are kind of half the weight between dry and soaked if that makes sense ??

think they are 12 litre pots ?

 

[MedFarmer]

all good mate , just getting on with things . do you keep soil damp at all times , i see people like to dry it out to its light to lift , im started to not agree with that , im sort of given them 3 litres once a week so they are kind of half the weight between dry and soaked if that makes sense ??

think they are 12 litre pots ?

If your soil dries out anywhere for too long then roots in that region will die. The water will take the path of least resistance through the pot so dry areas may stay dry. That's what I have read and it make sense to me. When you first pour water onto dry multi-purpose compost it doesn't want to soak in straight away as it's dry and sits on top before finally soaking in. The same can be said of dry areas in the pot. If the water can sit on dry compost on top of the pot for a short moment then what chance has running water got to soak into dry compost inside the pot. It will just run over it. These Fluxed ladies are the last plants to get bottled nutes from me. It's all organic for the rest now.

 

[NuttyProfessor]

happy days , they are gona love you mate

so what do you think of bottom feeding / watering

 

[MedFarmer]

happy days , they are gona love you mate

so what do you think of bottom feeding / watering

Yeah that is okay for watering in organics with plain water but I would not do it with nutes as you really want to be flushing old nutes through with the next lot of nutes and it's easy to flush with clean water. You want old nutes(salt) getting pushed down and out rather than be sucked up and stored if you get what I mean.

 

[NuttyProfessor]

yeahh i understand , ive been reading up on this living organic soil and making super soils that you just water , i only give little trevor bottle nutes the rest get my tea/brew sometimes with molasses and little epsoms

 

[MedFarmer]

yeahh i understand , ive been reading up on this living organic soil and making super soils that you just water , i only give little trevor bottle nutes the rest get my tea/brew sometimes with molasses and little epsoms

I've got plenty of cooked soil and made another 80 litres today and yesterday which will be for the outdoor girls. It will be ready for the end of April. A minimum of one month to cook with two optimum.

 

[NuttyProfessor]

ive got four bags of compost and 4 bags worm castings , i might do one of these up you know

 

[MedFarmer]

ive got four bags of compost and 4 bags worm castings , i might do one of these up you know

Give it a go mate. Teas and water only saving money on nutes. Worm castings are very good. I'm gonna get me a worm farm for that shit

 

[NuttyProfessor]

what i was gona do was drench my mix with my teas / brew , add my bad bacs to my good then drench the soil mix, i have lime and rock dust ect ect ect , then i was going to add some worms ?

 

[MedFarmer]

what i was gona do was drench my mix with my teas / brew , add my bad bacs to my good then drench the soil mix, i have lime and rock dust ect ect ect , then i was going to add some worms ?

What lime have you got?

 

[NuttyProfessor]

dolomite

 

[MassMedMan]

I found a local source today foot those red wiggle worms. Looking forward to making my own worm pooh, or collection what they made

Plus, those feckers will attract some good fish on my son's pole in our backyard...

Like the LOS method....

 

[NuttyProfessor]

I found a local source today foot those red wiggle worms. Looking forward to making my own worm pooh, or collection what they made

Plus, those feckers will attract some good fish on my son's pole in our backyard...

Like the LOS method....

dont kill the poor worms lol

 

[MassMedMan]

dont kill the poor worms lol

No mate, never. Just the lazy ones, I'm going to donate them to some fish...... it's for the kids

 

[MedFarmer]

Dolomite is good.

I bought a book called 'True Living Organics' - The ultimate guide to growing all natural marijuana indoors. It has some good recipes for organic soil with tea recipes too. It also covers recycling the soil when you have harvested. If you need any info just ask mate. This also applies to anybody reading this thread who would like help.

 

[NuttyProfessor]

Dolomite is good.

I bought a book called 'True Living Organics' - The ultimate guide to growing all natural marijuana indoors. It has some good recipes for organic soil with tea recipes too. It also covers recycling the soil when you have harvested. If you need any info just ask mate. This also applies to anybody reading this thread who would like help.

good for you mate , your as good as gold thanks mate

 

[NuttyProfessor]

as ive fermented all the stuff i did , can i put some of the bad bac into the good stuff add mollasses keep it aired with bubbles to kill of the bad and make the good thrive on the dead bad , well can i drench my mix in this and add my micros that way to have my soil living ?? , im also adding bone and blood meal to my mix

 

[MedFarmer]

as ive fermented all the stuff i did , can i put some of the bad bac into the good stuff add mollasses keep it aired with bubbles to kill of the bad and make the good thrive on the dead bad , well can i drench my mix in this and add my micros that way to have my soil living ?? , im also adding bone and blood meal to my mix

Yes you can add the bad to the good and bubble for a couple of days with molasses. If you have used nutes on the mix then no you will not get good bacteria back easily. If you have not used nutes then the mix should have good bacteria already so the tea drench is good. Do not add the lime, rock dust or blood and bone with your current plants. They need cooking time. If you have spare soil about then think of cooking a mix.

 

[Smoke3js]

Dolomite is good.

I bought a book called 'True Living Organics' - The ultimate guide to growing all natural marijuana indoors. It has some good recipes for organic soil with tea recipes too. It also covers recycling the soil when you have harvested. If you need any info just ask mate. This also applies to anybody reading this thread who would like help.

Since you offered, I'm interested in finding out the best way to re-use a soil mixture after growing/harvesting plants with it. My best friend and I grow "together" (simultaneous grows, I'm DWC/Top Feed Hydro and he's soil/vermiculite/etc) and as we were cutting down his latest harvest this past weekend we both looked over at the pots and had the same thought: can we use this soil again?