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lolryn: No clue what I'm doing, but stuff is growing thread
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I just made up a batch of soil sunday. I used a slightly modified LC Mix #2 (growstone instead of perlite) with a slightly modified dank.franks recommended amendment mix.
I used this per ~3cf:
1c alfalfa meal
1 3/4c kelp meal
1 3/4c blood meal
1 3/4c bone meal
1c BioLive
1c seabird guano
4tbsp Sul-Po-Mg
1c azomite
3/4c dolomite
3/4c gypsum
3/4c oyster shell flour
1/2tbsp of local made biology that I found to work really well. figured the more the merrier!
mixed it all up, and wet it with molasses and aerated water.
Already got a lot of activity and heat coming off of it. I'm excited to try this mix!
I used this per ~3cf:
1c alfalfa meal
1 3/4c kelp meal
1 3/4c blood meal
1 3/4c bone meal
1c BioLive
1c seabird guano
4tbsp Sul-Po-Mg
1c azomite
3/4c dolomite
3/4c gypsum
3/4c oyster shell flour
1/2tbsp of local made biology that I found to work really well. figured the more the merrier!
mixed it all up, and wet it with molasses and aerated water.
Already got a lot of activity and heat coming off of it. I'm excited to try this mix!
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what did you use for soil? I thought the #2 mix was mostly ffof for nutrients? didn't realize you were actually suppose to add to that. I thought you were supposed to do that with the #1 mix which was just peat perlite ewc base. I'm just using the #2 mix with some water and teas and they are doing great I however want to put in big soil beds so buying ffof for that amount is a bit redunkulous. was going to use the guano mix in the soil instead and use teas and stuff for additional food but really let the nutrients in the soil do their thing. what have you used or recommend? 
I however want to put in big soil beds so buying ffof for that amount is a bit redunkulous. was going to use the guano mix in the soil instead and use teas and stuff for additional food but really let the nutrients in the soil do their thing. what have you used or recommend? I'm using Promix HP, growstone instead of perlite, and EWC as a base.
3 cubic feet of the above at a ratio of 60/20/20 respectively I am adding the amendments listed. This is for a mostly water-only style of growing so I don't need to use teas or top dressing as much/if ever.
what you are following is perfectly fine. it may involve more work on your end, but you'll have a much better control over your soil/grow. I'm basically giving it a buffet of stuff to eat, and letting it do its own thing. I like the water-only method of things, it best suits my lifestyle. I can't make teas very often, so I can't really have a constant tea brewing like some methods require.
Best thing I can suggest is choose a style of feeding that best fits your lifestyle and then tinker with it till you get results you are pleased with.
Sorry for not being able to give you a direct answer, but you know how this is... we're always trying new things.
3 cubic feet of the above at a ratio of 60/20/20 respectively I am adding the amendments listed. This is for a mostly water-only style of growing so I don't need to use teas or top dressing as much/if ever.
what you are following is perfectly fine. it may involve more work on your end, but you'll have a much better control over your soil/grow. I'm basically giving it a buffet of stuff to eat, and letting it do its own thing. I like the water-only method of things, it best suits my lifestyle. I can't make teas very often, so I can't really have a constant tea brewing like some methods require.
Best thing I can suggest is choose a style of feeding that best fits your lifestyle and then tinker with it till you get results you are pleased with.
Sorry for not being able to give you a direct answer, but you know how this is... we're always trying new things.
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I got some. Just gotta spread the love
What did you modify from dank frank and why? Just curious.
What did you modify from dank frank and why? Just curious.
I got some. Just gotta spread the love
What did you modify from dank frank and why? Just curious.
the only two I got were both female... the other was great as well, but not as dense as this one I kept. I wish I could have made F2's of it.
the main thing I modified was the Bio-Live that I added. I cut back 1/4 cup on the alfalfa, kelp, blood, bone meal and added a cup of Bio-Live.
Simply put, I put it in for variety.
I added the BioLive because it is a premix of the alfalfa, kelp and bone that his mix is based around, but it also has myco, humates, Langbeinite, and a bunch of other little things that I thought help improve the soil overall... time will tell.
I also modified his fungi/bacteria. He uses BioVAM and BioAg VAM... I had never heard of this, and the local nursery was out of what I normally get so I bought a bag of Mykos. Owner of the nursery called me a few days after I bought the mykos and told me he found one last tub of their locally sourced myco that's got a guaranteed analysis that blows away all the big name products I've seen on the market.
so I used Mykos and that locally sourced stuff, just for more variety.
I hope I was clear in why I made the decisions I made and it all makes sense... hell, if my logic is way off, tell me now before I use the soil and battle deficiencies!
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I would follow dank frank's recipe exactly for water only or you may find you will need to supplement in flower which wouldn't be a big deal but it's not what you wanted. I'm asking you cause I'm unsure too! The recipes I've made or gotten from unreliable sources are now garbage basically and I have garbage cans full that I'm just gonna dump on the garden. This time I want an exact recipe from someone experienced. I've had decent luck using the guano mix suggested as water only but I'm not sure if guano and kelp provides everything I need and shouldn't I be adding azomite or calcium, magnesium or sulphur? The sul po mag is something I wanted to incorporate into the mix so I'm kinda shopping around before I mix. Thanks lolryn! I think those were great answers.
I agree, I should. but I was looking at what dank.frank's got in his more "dialed in" recipe. he lists the ingredients, but not the exact quantities... all the ingredients in bio-live are ingredients that are in the dialed in recipe. I figured I'd try a light supplement and go from there.
I have personally gone the guano/kelp route with great success. I then lost resources to some of my stuff and started subbing stuff out... and I finally got to a point where I think you may be at right now, no real reliable recipe and a batch of soil with an ass backwards ecosystem... it works, but not as well as it could/should, and deficiencies here and there.
I hope I don't regret this now
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You could always top mulch the stuff you didn't add back into the soil if it's not working and then use that info for next time.
looks good to me.
Thank you very much for the compliments
it is definitely one of the densest plant's I've grown. smells of berry and skunk. with one of the best knockout feelings I've ever smoked. puts me right to sleep which is what I need most, most of the time.
So I ran into way too many hermie problems with the RKU. I've decided to cull the 3 in flower and all the clones I had taken... It's a shame, the smoke was pretty good regardless. I've decided to pop 3 more tranq eles and 3 Lotus Larry. the Lotus Larry was by a friends request.
Shitty that it happened... but one thing I've learned is if things start to go very badly during early flower, then cull. Don't sit around and hope it fixes itself, hope you can fix it, or think it'll be okay. just cull, and start over asap so you don't skip a beat. I was lucky I had a 707 headband in the mix so it's not a complete loss.
Shitty that it happened... but one thing I've learned is if things start to go very badly during early flower, then cull. Don't sit around and hope it fixes itself, hope you can fix it, or think it'll be okay. just cull, and start over asap so you don't skip a beat. I was lucky I had a 707 headband in the mix so it's not a complete loss.
Thats shitty to hear lolryn. It sucks to have the hard work and the time be a waste but its the game we play in this lottery of seed popping. The Blue Tara x Purple Dream sounds like a deadly cross and the PD nugs look delicious. Still no purple on mine as of yet at 6 weeks in.
It really is a shame, but it wasn't meant to be. just means more new strains to pop!
I am having high hopes for the BTxPD. I'm hoping for large, dense, colorful and fruity buds, with a really nice knockout effect for sleep! The one thing I'm wondering about is the lineage of ken's GDP... I thought I read somewhere that the GDP was really a ripoff of B's Snow Lotus? I'm just wondering because then these lineages shouldn't be THAT far off.
Give your purple dream another week and I'm sure she'll start turning.
Good luck!
