Build a Fishstick

[unclefishstick]

all prepped up for up-potting tomorrow...35g tote under the potting bench filled,30 gallon drum about full of amended used soil,and the big barrel full of chopped up rootballs with oly mountain,bu's blend,and worm castings.....still have 30 rootballs to eventually add in to the process...

a little neater now,still need to get more totes to store all the stuff...

 

[Jenn]

You are dedicated fish that's for sure. Even to this website, I am actually not much of a people person and find most people start to rub me the wrong way quickly, but you just keep truckin. That speaks more to your character than mine, but it is what it is. Good job.

 

[unclefishstick]

You are dedicated fish that's for sure. Even to this website, I am actually not much of a people person and find most people start to rub me the wrong way quickly, but you just keep truckin. That speaks more to your character than mine, but it is what it is. Good job.

really i can't stand people,persons i'm fine with,but the seething masses of ignorant humanity not so much...

and the garden is like when people ask how i manage to ride a bike in crappy weather...i don't have a choice,makes the decision to ride easy...same thing with the garden...it's got to be done,so i do it...

 

[Jenn]

^^^ You go beyond fish. You don't have to do shit on ICMAG but you do, you could simply ride a Schwinn, but you don't, and I've seen some nasty fucking grows that you wouldn't touch if you knew about it, but you go big dolla organic, don't sell yourself short.

I would love to not have a vehicle, but that also means people.

Alright, speaking of people I have to head off to the store to pick up a new idiot box.

 

[unclefishstick]

time for the weekly update...

3x3 bed,need to install another layer of trellis,take cuts,and flip this one to flower.just fed with bokashi earthworks complex humate,cal/sil,and microbe plus. 3x gmo 1 stoney's kush

2x4 tent...the problem child....pulled the two sour dubb,they weren't going anywhere...still having gnat problems in here,otherwise the 6 remaining cookies are doing good...fed with big bloom and microbe lift...only about 3ish weeks left,next round will be strawberry mac...4-6 of them...

and the next round for main flower,three plants each in 20 gallon fabric pots...they will get pruned before flowering to remove the inner branches...all re-amended soil...also they will get wormies next week and barley straw after the worms go in...

 

[PadawanWarrior]

time for the weekly update...

3x3 bed,need to install another layer of trellis,take cuts,and flip this one to flower.just fed with bokashi earthworks complex humate,cal/sil,and microbe plus. 3x gmo 1 stoney's kush

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2x4 tent...the problem child....pulled the two sour dubb,they weren't going anywhere...still having gnat problems in here,otherwise the 6 remaining cookies are doing good...fed with big bloom and microbe lift...only about 3ish weeks left,next round will be strawberry mac...4-6 of them...



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and the next round for main flower,three plants each in 20 gallon fabric pots...they will get pruned before flowering to remove the inner branches...all re-amended soil...also they will get wormies next week and barley straw after the worms go in...



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Looking good as usual. I'm no expert but I'm guessing that yellowing is P deficiency. Happens pretty easily with organics. That's why I love bat guano. A little high P bat guano usually takes care of that and it works fairly quick.

 

[unclefishstick]

Looking good as usual. I'm no expert but I'm guessing that yellowing is P deficiency. Happens pretty easily with organics. That's why I love bat guano. A little high P bat guano usually takes care of that and it works fairly quick.

nope,got dried out...

 

[unclefishstick]

first garden chore dealt with...mixed up 30ish more gallons of soil...might just break off and make a grocery run before the winds kick in...looking like the extra shift is going to turn into more little bags of soil amendments...all in all it still seems cost effective since i've made like 150 gallons of soil mix from recycled medium

 

[Jenn]

Are you doing this with your mother plants as well fish?

 

[unclefishstick]

Are you doing this with your mother plants as well fish?

i don't have space for mothers,i serial clone

 

[unclefishstick]

gonna be a big update since i've reached the point where all but one round of plants in the main flower room are in either fresh 3.0 or recycled soil...
mixed up another 30 gallons of soil today and promptly used it all,almost to the point where all the old rootballs have been reamended,i think i have 15 to go,and space in both barrels for them...

so i'll start with the oldest bed,the 2x4...
fed a bloom tea of roots organics bloom terp tea,rootwise,rootwise P fixing critters,quajilla,and enzyme elixer...just 3 weeks left...been the most troublesome of the fabric beds....learning curve and all

and the 3x3 bed,just flipped to 12/12,fed with bokashi earthworks complex humate,cal/sil,and microbe+

main veg tent,all in #5 pots of reamended soil,just sprayed with lost coast plant therapy

and early veg/clone area,also all in reamended soil

 

[unclefishstick]

 

[unclefishstick]

main flower room later,i have nine plants in 20 gallon fabric pots,3 plants per pot to go in tonight...

 

[unclefishstick]

75% of the way there...main flower room almost completely converted to living soil...

the newest addition...

trellis will go in as soon as i can find the legs for it...in this case it 100% recycled soil in the pots,the beds and indeed the new one when it goes in started with fresh 3.0
100 wormies ordered for the pots...


the two 4x4 beds got roots organics terp tea bloom with rootwise,rootwise P fixing critters,beauvaria bassiana,and enzyme elixer

just another couple of weeks until the last quadrant gets harvested and i can get the last bed in place so i'll be ordering the fabric bed soon and getting 16 more bags of 3.0 and another low tide tray

 

[unclefishstick]

worm population now 800...

 

[Loriented]

worm population now 800...

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So is that because you keep purchasing them, or your calculations tell you that....
They can double in population approximately every 60 to 90 days

 

[Jenn]

They can double in population approximately every 60 to 90 days

LOL, oh man I didn't know that. That's going to be a lot of worms...

 

[Jenn]

I actually learned more about worms today then I ever cared to know -

In captivity, earthworms can live for a significant amount of time, often between 2 and 7 years, depending on the species and environmental conditions. Factors like temperature, moisture, and food availability play a crucial role in their lifespan

Yes, composting worms, particularly red wigglers, can double their population in approximately 60 days under optimal conditions. This means that if you start with a certain number of worms, you can expect that number to roughly double within 60

Well, you could always start an earthworm business Fish.

 

[unclefishstick]

So is that because you keep purchasing them, or your calculations tell you that....
They can double in population approximately every 60 to 90 days

that's how many i've bought...

 

[Lester Beans]

Are the worms just feeding on the soil amendments or are you feeding food scraps or wet newspaper?

I just laid moist cardboard in the garden and two days later the bottom is a worm orgy. Good stuff!