Radogast 2 - Return of the Clones

PlanetJ said:
Does composting pine needles truly yield acidic compost, or is that an urban myth ? Do Pine Needles Acidify Soil - Garden Myths

Also, using bottled nutes atm, I do not look at my pH at all .. I drop water and nutes once a week .. the rest they will have to figure out for themselves ... it's a natural selection kinda thingy ;)
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Water and nutes once a week? You've never checked pH? What are you using for nutes?

I&I

Edit : if you don't check pH, why do you have a link about proper pH levels in your sig? So you do believe pH has a part, you just don't check yours?
 
My nutes are all stabiliised at 6.2, my water is 7, soil should be able to account for the difference ..

I feed Bio Nova dedicated for soil.
PH is important, but standard potting mix has enough in it to be able to rwgulate pH. My seconden grow got delayed a month die to impropwr pH in Coco

On phone .. Hard to read, sorry for typos
 
Mr Teddy said:
That's when you've got to be careful. One minute they are talking in soft tones about Neem and Dust, the next they are suggesting you take a little rowing boat out on the lake. Just remember what happened to Fredo.
*hums the theme tune*

Result about that time with the author. Well done!
:circle-of-love:
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:rofl::rofl::rofl: Priceless!
 
Water PH down to 6.0


Day one of low PH water (not much to see, but it's reference)

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The best and the worst of the seedlings.

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BIG sigh of relief! I'm impressed that you've kept them going all this time. It was like you were willing them to stay with you while you figured it out. You're such a good dad. :laughtwo::green_heart:
 
Rado, do you have any compost at your house at all that isn't frozen? If not you might wanna buy a bag if that is doable for you. I remember you have coir and food scraps at the moment in there, right? I was gonna suggest you fill a tray with compost and put it on top of your worm farm. I think they will all rip through your compost in less than a couple months and you'll have plenty of VC for top dressing and teas when those babies are larger, and in bigger containers. They really do go through composted materials way faster. And again, adding micro and macro nutrients to the bin through things like rock dusts, OSF, powdered roasted eggshells, kelp meal, etc makes your VC really rich and full of the whole spectrum of nutrients, mellow and available.

In the summer we should be selectively harvesting wild comfrey, yarrow, dandelion, horsetail, stinging nettles etc, etc (dynamic accumulators) whenever we are in nature. These are excellent compost and worm bin additions. The bounty of the land should be harvested by humans in my opinion, but in a sustainable manner. I'll pick and eat a wild raspberry, why not take a clump of horsetail for my garden? Isn't the earth for all creatures and we are supposed to make our way with what we find here?

Oh yeah worms. Got off there a bit... Anyway try a tray of compost and see what happens.
 
COorganics said:
Rado, do you have any compost at your house at all that isn't frozen? If not you might wanna buy a bag if that is doable for you. I remember you have coir and food scraps at the moment in there, right? I was gonna suggest you fill a tray with compost and put it on top of your worm farm. I think they will all rip through your compost in less than a couple months and you'll have plenty of VC for top dressing and teas when those babies are larger, and in bigger containers. They really do go through composted materials way faster. And again, adding micro and macro nutrients to the bin through things like rock dusts, OSF, powdered roasted eggshells, kelp meal, etc makes your VC really rich and full of the whole spectrum of nutrients, mellow and available.

In the summer we should be selectively harvesting wild comfrey, yarrow, dandelion, horsetail, stinging nettles etc, etc (dynamic accumulators) whenever we are in nature. These are excellent compost and worm bin additions. The bounty of the land should be harvested by humans in my opinion, but in a sustainable manner. I'll pick and eat a wild raspberry, why not take a clump of horsetail for my garden? Isn't the earth for all creatures and we are supposed to make our way with what we find here?

Oh yeah worms. Got off there a bit... Anyway try a tray of compost and see what happens.
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Compost seems a rare commodity this winter. Can't even find it in local stores. The ground is frozen inches deep.
I might have to go to the big city to a hydro store for compost.

As for comfrey, dandelion, nettle, horsetail, etc that is Totally party of my outdoor plan. Once it starts working outdoors, I will have material for indoors.

I am currently reading "The Wild Wisdom of Weeds", a new book by Katrina Blair. She is a child of nature and weed activist.
Weed as in those magical plants that thrive in disturbed soil and restore the land for other plants to grow.

In this book, she provides uses, habits, harvest techniques, and recipes for:
Amaranth, chickweed, clover, dandelion, dock, grass, knotweed, lambsquarter, mallow, mustard, plantain, purslane, and thistle.

My wife is totally onboard with a mix of flowers, weeds, medicinal plants- she just wants me to call it going fallow, or some other euphemism for letting the weeds grow.
 
Gfcollective said:
Thought of you when I seen this rado. It's 50 min but a good short video for your future practices I believe.


I&I
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Those guys are funny. They are getting in done though. Does Minnesota even have MMJ? I would not want to be making those videos, lol.
 
Radogast said:
Compost seems a rare commodity this winter. Can't even find it in local stores. The ground is frozen inches deep.
I might have to go to the big city to a hydro store for compost.

As for comfrey, dandelion, nettle, horsetail, etc that is Totally party of my outdoor plan. Once it starts working outdoors, I will have material for indoors.

I am currently reading "The Wild Wisdom of Weeds", a new book by Katrina Blair. She is a child of nature and weed activist.
Weed as in those magical plants that thrive in disturbed soil and restore the land for other plants to grow.

In this book, she provides uses, habits, harvest techniques, and recipes for:
Amaranth, chickweed, clover, dandelion, dock, grass, knotweed, lambsquarter, mallow, mustard, plantain, purslane, and thistle.

My wife is totally onboard with a mix of flowers, weeds, medicinal plants- she just wants me to call it going fallow, or some other euphemism for letting the weeds grow.
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I've always had a soft spot for what I like to call "spontaneous vegetation". We've been fined for it in the past. The fact that I showed up at court with a detailed list of the many species we had growing and their handy uses did not impress the magistrate.
 
Sweetsue said:
I've always had a soft spot for what I like to call "spontaneous vegetation". We've been fined for it in the past. The fact that I showed up at court with a detailed list of the many species we had growing and their handy uses did not impress the magistrate.
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I want to hear this story.
 
I was ramping up my bloom room over the last few days and ran into a hitch. I was backing down my 24hr timer everyday on the MH and when I got to 18 I turned on my HPS. The room went dark after an hour but I didn't notice until 12 hours later. I have everything running through a heavy duty but old surge protector and the little breaker/reset switch opened effectively shutting down all fans lights etc. I had previously run testing with everything ON including manually spiking the CO2 regulator and nothing tripped so I thought I was good. I was disappointed and had to think quickly so I just set the room on 12/12 without the MH as I had run the entire last grow. Today I realized I could probably test again running a separate outlet for the MH. The entire basement is on one circuit but the circuit breaker didn't open just the surge protector. So I gotta go do that now, hoping I can do it I really want that extra spectrum in the room this time.

We all have our problems and solutions in the grow experience right?

:peace:
 
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