The Mars Hydro FC4800, Prescription Blend And Weed Seeds Express 3x Sponsored Grow: The Amazon Pt I: A Flowering Paradise

Hi mate. For my close ups with the microscope. I just rest my arm on a camera tripod. You can set it to the perfect height and it eliminates most of the earthquake shakes..
you could probably rig up a clamp for it too.. they have many uses do camera tripods.

Thanks Squig!! Maybe when Santa brings me one for Christmas, I can utilize that for my trembles! Multi-purpose!!
Or, you can just get one of these - the one with the lights was a wally world Canada item.

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I like the functionality of the hand held scope, that and it's not so cumbersome, you know? Now, if I needed a petri dish and fungii pics...damn straight I'd get a standing one!
 
Cool! Thanks! She'll get some good shots, just need the right equip.
I actually was looking for a stand for my hand-held ‘scope too so this was perfect timing! Thank you so much!
 
Couldn't forget my beautiful praying G girl...she is very happy which makes me happy :circle-of-love:

I think I like this set up? Maybe...won't be for long now...trich check on Frankie later.

Ciao!

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Just curious how high your lights are above your general canopy?
18 inches. I keep the dimmer at 75 when G is in the tent and 100 when she's out. When she is the last man standing, I'll be raising it to 18 inches above her and run at 100. I don't want it too hot for her being as close as she is right now. Luckily for me, it worked out perfect after they got cropped to even the canopy enough for the younger girls
 
Jasmine has couple weeks or so still but she is filling in really nicely and fabulously thick...

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Frankie's finishing buds are looking lovely

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My trim fingers are at least fresh from my small but mighty 26 inch auto Cinderelley harvest...pics tomorrow of the now curing jar buds and that's it for now, here's one through the "looking glass"...thank you to whomever gave me my nomination for MOM, I am still beside myself with happy nerves:thanks:

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Man those are some glittery gals!
 
Man those are some glittery gals!
Thanks girl! Can't wait til next week to get some nice ones of Jasmine and Bubs! This is such a fun time, I love these fruits of our labors
 
I thought this was interesting - list of the bacterial enhancers for sustainable agriculture. Basically it is a list of bacteria that aid nutrient delivery and availability in the root zone. I have had very good luck with mycorrhizal inoculant. I'm going some of the nitrogen beneficial microbes next.

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I thought this was interesting - list of the bacterial enhancers for sustainable agriculture. Basically it is a list of bacteria that aid nutrient delivery and availability in the root zone. I have had very good luck with mycorrhizal inoculant. I'm going some of the nitrogen beneficial microbes next.

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Wow Charlie, you're pulling out all the strings, huh??!! What made you start implementing this in the first place? Where did you find this gem of information?
 
ECM is my very good East Coast friend. He's gonna rock his light!!!!

*Cleaned the tent for the girls* Check....

**Catch up on sleep** On deck....

*Dream sweet grow dreams* Soon....

Hope you all have some, too!

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Wow Charlie, you're pulling out all the strings, huh??!! What made you start implementing this in the first place? Where did you find this gem of information?
I used to use Pro Mix peat mixes growing my "youthful-days" 420. When I started here at the 420 website, I was looking at the Pro Mix web pages for a peat/perlite mix percentage so I could mix my own. When I was looking, I saw that they also sold versions of Pro Mix with mycorrhizal inoculant additive. I wondered what that was. Pro Mix said it was a vital beneficial fungal microbe inoculant added to Pro Mix for enhanced and vigorous root growth.

I did a little more research on it and found it really works (according to real SCIENCE). So I searched online at Amaz** and found mycorrhizal inoculant products that were sold to mix in with your soil or soilless mix (excluding rockwool). I tried "Xtreme" mycorrhizal inoculant. It can be used when transplanting or as a top/side dress for existing plants or that can be mixed in fertilizer/compost teas or hydro top-feed situations for better root growth. I guess the mycorrhizal inoculant forms a fungal-web-like structure binding the roots together in the soil and soilless media or the case of hydro - "strings structures" - and helps capture nutrients. Apparently, the plants roots like this and the fungal-web helps the roots absorb and process nutrients better. I used in in all my peat/perlite mixes, so far. A little goes a long way.

When I transplanted my 420 from 1-gal plastic pots recently to fabric bags for the flowering tent, I noted EXTREME root development and growth. I thought about taking a a pic and posting here but I was busy with dirty hands and thought - I'll do it next time. Wish I would have posted a pic - the root growth was phenomenal and the root balls transferred so easily because the roots had fully enclosed the soilless media so tightly. I became sold on mycorrhizal inoculant!

I was doing some research and talking with another professional grower here and he said you need to add some more microbes once in a while and feed and care for those microbes (soil fungi and soil bacteria) so they do not all die out eventually. Those microbes like sugars in the form of black strap molasses and carbs like kelp (me too). Soooo...you see why I prepared a compost tea last weekend that included kelp to feed my little root enhancing buggers (the tea you said: "I'd eat that."). You can also just feed the microbes powdered supplement products like Recharge that have all that kelp, molasses and things mixed in. Recharge mixes well with compost teas and nutes/water. I have some Recharge. Last weekend, I just wanted to try a powdered compost tea mix I purchased previously first with some added liquid kelp I had. Worked wonders - saw the results within hours.

Well, I was doing some research tonight (as I am watching SF beat the "stink" out of the Chargers) and there are plenty of nitrogen fixing microbes too. Recently, I had a little issue of "lime-greenness" and "veininess" in the flowering tent mature leaves and I added a little iron to green them up. The veg tent also needed a little more nitrogen and I fixed the issue yesterday too. So now I am looking for beneficial microbe products that I can add easily to my growing plants so I do not encounter the slight deficiencies in nutes I have previously encountered. Products that I can add easily by top/side dress or mixed-in with nute/water applications. Products that will help the roots along and add plant vigor and growth through a kind of fungal/bacterial/plant food web. That professional grower I communicated with said "the roots" are the key to awesome 420

So I found that chart/figure that shows the kind of microbes that aid plant roots in development and feeding. There you go...that's the LONG of it. Plenty of books and papers on the subject. I still want to use nutes, maybe, and not go full-blown organic, but I also want vigorous plant growth too and no deficiencies. Maybe I can have the best of both worlds - happiness derives from the simple things in life and is best celebrated in small doses. Happy plants, happy life. @Krissi1982
 
This gentleman knows what he is talking about:


@Krissi1982

also, see his Edelweiss posts - incredible
 
I know you're ready for this! @Mars Hydro can I say, light em up up up !!!!!

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Oh it's on like Donkey Kong!!!!

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@Krissi1982 trying to keep up with all you have going on is a task within its self but determined to catch up, that setup with the ladies looking happy under their new rays of sunshine courtesy of @Mars Hydro is looking like F'en awesome I likey a lot lol:adore::adore:
 
@Krissi1982 trying to keep up with all you have going on is a task within its self but determined to catch up, that setup with the ladies looking happy under their new rays of sunshine courtesy of @Mars Hydro is looking like F'en awesome I likey a lot lol:adore::adore:
Hey buddy. Wow you certainly have a chore on your hands catching up on my journals. This is a fun one, obviously, with all these flowering ladies....they are indebted to Mars and the 4800. They absolutely adore this light Ceasar! Thanks for taking the time to keep up and catch up, that's a lot of work and means a lot!
 
This gentleman knows what he is talking about:


@Krissi1982

also, see his Edelweiss posts - incredible
When Ry came on here, I was one of the ones he found to want to add even more to my grows...I am using his lollipop method on one of the Gelato girls and doing a comparative, that's why I dropped 2 of those seeds. He provided a lot of good information to me and to this community. Clearly a professional and home grower for many years with much experience to yield
 
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