Minions of the Dark

[X_man]

Wassup fellow minions.



Took a few pics and realized just how much my pic skills suck. Oh well, here's some just before tea drench. They are 2nd week so thought I'd give the soil some juice.



mixed about a tsp. of each with 1/2 gal. of Spring water. (EWC, buffaloam compost, molasses)



plus 1/2 cup of coconut water. added 1/2 gal. of straight water to dilute 50% after bubbling 24 hr.

Usually all I need is 1 gal. to water. COB

Hope this shit works.

1st pic should be GoblinGirl
then 2 of Nocturnal
and one of my small noct.

 

[SG1]

Looking better there X.
Look to be tuning your grow in well.
Good work.

 

[Buzzed]

Wassup fellow minions.



Took a few pics and realized just how much my pic skills suck. Oh well, here's some just before tea drench. They are 2nd week so thought I'd give the soil some juice.



mixed about a tsp. of each with 1/2 gal. of Spring water. (EWC, buffaloam compost, molasses)



plus 1/2 cup of coconut water. added 1/2 gal. of straight water to dilute 50% after bubbling 24 hr.

Usually all I need is 1 gal. to water. COB

Hope this shit works.

1st pic should be GoblinGirl
then 2 of Nocturnal
and one of my small noct.

Nice 420. Cant wait to see em in bout seven weeks. Keep up the fine work and pics look good bro. Howdy SG. Hope all is well. I saw the weather up. Brrrrrrr. Extra blanket Pop.

 

[Pepe le skunk]

There are a whole lot of bugs that are necessary for organic growing. They're as small as protozoa and nematodes and get bigger when you're including the arthropods.

I'm ok with most of them such as nematodes, not ok with thrips, mites or fungus gnats. The top three pests.

In organics, and supersoil, you are trying to build a living soil. The micro biology in the soil is what breaks down amendments and compost into useable plant food. These microbes then from a symbiotic relationship with your plants roots increasing the roots ability to uptake food and oxygen. So if you stick the soil in the oven you will kill or greatly harm your micro population which was what you have been trying to build by "cooking" it in the first place. Your not making extra food, you making the food you put into the soil useable. The act of cooking it in a trash can or under a dark colored tarp heats up and kills most bugs anyways but I deal with bugs once I notice them and I have not had a problem with my soils having bugs.

For 30 gallons of soil re-amending, based on your base soil, I would mix 1 cup kelp meal, 1 cups All in one fert such as a "Dr. Earth", 2 cups alfalfa meal and a whole 30-40 lb bag of worm castings and a 1cu ft bag of composed chicken manure.

Then rake up the leaves in your yard and add a layer of leaves to it. The leaves from the yard introduce a lot of local microbes into your soil thus making them more used too your particular region and its native soil. You always want some compostable materials in various stages of decay in your soil.

Mix thoroughly and let cook turning soil over once a week for min 3week, 6 weeks is optimum. You can add a couple compost teas during the cook time to speed up the cook time and increase the micro herd. But they aren't necessary.

Remember in organics you don't feed plants, you feed the soil. Your soil does the rest.

The soil had thrips last year and were destroyed but you never know if the eggs might still be intact that is why I was thinking of oven firing them to avoid reinfestation. But I like the recipe for the re-ammending of the soil. That is great. Chicken manure? Really?
I'll try it as it will save money on new soil.

Thanks for the recipe and mixing quantities. This should help a ton.

 

[Darktimes]

Hello everyone another update..this is my room at week 4..i will post some close up of my best strains/phenos on my next post.. the purple wreck sucked big time.. 3 out of 5.also very small n doesnt produce many bud spots. wouldnt recommend it.

 

[Darktimes]

These are my two halos and my ravnus..the ravnus is startin week 5.. n the halos are startin their 4th(ravnus is the last pic.)

 

[Darktimes]

Last but not least my girl scout cookies.. i have 3 good lookin phenos.. but probrably will only keep one.. and its down to one of these two. Also there is 2 WW x big bud that i am thinkin of keepin for its yield..they are stacking pretty nicely..pic 1/2 are the GSC.. the 3rd is WW X BB.

 

[Seaf0ur]

lookin good dark.... describe the smell of yer Halo...

 

[Darktimes]

lookin good dark.... describe the smell of yer Halo...

Sea4 i got a stuck nose atm..i tried smelling but cant destinct between all the smells i have in that room..tom i will try again n will try to describe it for you

 

[Seaf0ur]

all I can come up with is exotic unnameable fruit tree

 

[Darktimes]

Seafour what you think bout roots organic uprising line and their extreme serene? I have been usin that

 

[Seaf0ur]

uprising foundation
Ingredients: Fish bone meal, oyster shell flour, kelp meal, greensand, soybean meal, glacial rock dust, alfalfa meal, feather meal, bat guano, langbeinite, rock phosphate and leonardite.


uprising grow
Ingredients: Bat guano, worm castings, fish bone meal, kelp meal, greensand, soybean meal, glacial rock dust, alfalfa meal, feather meal, langbeinite, fish meal, dolomite, montmorillonite, composted chicken manure, crab meal, blood meal and nettle leaf.


uprising bloom
Ingredients: Fish bone meal, oyster shell flour, kelp meal, greensand, soybean meal, glacial rock dust, alfalfa meal, feather meal, bat guano, langbeinite, rock phosphate, leonardite and hop flowers.


extreme serene
Ingredients: Kelp Extract (Ascophyllum nodosum) and Soapbark (Quillaja saponaria).

Overall, they seem like fine items with some considerations

guano's are harvested in a destructive manner generally, and the same benefits can be found elsewhere

Soy is almost entirely genetically modified at this point

Blood meal is a byproduct of hog and steer slaughterhouses... those animals are fed GMO's and pumped full of steroids and antibiotics


but still, if those arent major concerns, the first 3 seem fine....
extreme serene however.... is kelp... and soapbark just for some saponins....

I'd think you'd be better off and it'd be cheaper to just get KELP.... and mix in aloe for saponins.... that just seems like a 10000% markup on some simple kelp....

 

[Gold Hill Ganja]

I like roots. I used there line 2 years ago with great success. It's like c4 said, the ingredients are good, but are marked up by 10,000%. Go get ya some bags of kelp alfalfa and worm castings and you can make your own food for nothing and they will be way more potent will have more mirco activity and be way WAY cheaper. I would not use the "grow" one because it had blood meal and bat guano in it. I don't know why but these two amendments attract a litany of pests. Dogs, cats, raccoons, opossums, golphers they all love them some blood meal. Also the super high N in blood and bat guano are not that needed in super soil. There are some many other sources of N its over kill, and not worth all the critters trying to eat my roots to get the "steak" dinner they smell down there.

And yes, i use chicken poop, it works great and if cheap and everywhere.

 

[SG1]

These are my two halos and my ravnus..the ravnus is startin week 5.. n the halos are startin their 4th(ravnus is the last pic.)

Very healthy girls Dark!
You've come far in the last year.

Halo will impress you.

 

[Darktimes]

Overall, they seem like fine items with some considerations

guano's are harvested in a destructive manner generally, and the same benefits can be found elsewhere

Soy is almost entirely genetically modified at this point

Blood meal is a byproduct of hog and steer slaughterhouses... those animals are fed GMO's and pumped full of steroids and antibiotics


but still, if those arent major concerns, the first 3 seem fine....
extreme serene however.... is kelp... and soapbark just for some saponins....

I'd think you'd be better off and it'd be cheaper to just get KELP.... and mix in aloe for saponins.... that just seems like a 10000% markup on some simple kelp....

The house i live in is rather small..my space is confined to my two "rooms" n my room.?i cant mix any soil outside till spring is here..or it do look sketchy.. i will do some research here on this theard. I have seen a few posts of your recipe.. will try to have something fully organic to use for my next next run.

 

[Darktimes]

Very healthy girls Dark!
You've come far in the last year.

Halo will impress you.

Thanks master.. i have been learnin alot from this theard even tho i sit in "the shadows"sometimes..i am always here.

 

[Darktimes]

I like roots. I used there line 2 years ago with great success. It's like c4 said, the ingredients are good, but are marked up by 10,000%. Go get ya some bags of kelp alfalfa and worm castings and you can make your own food for nothing and they will be way more potent will have more mirco activity and be way WAY cheaper. I would not use the "grow" one because it had blood meal and bat guano in it. I don't know why but these two amendments attract a litany of pests. Dogs, cats, raccoons, opossums, golphers they all love them some blood meal. Also the super high N in blood and bat guano are not that needed in super soil. There are some many other sources of N its over kill, and not worth all the critters trying to eat my roots to get the "steak" dinner they smell down there.

And yes, i use chicken poop, it works great and if cheap and everywhere.

I like chicken manure..in my country most non commerical farmers use chicken manure only n they grow any kind of plant. My problem is the space.. i hope this spring i can start going fully organic.

 

[Buzzed]

Good day all. Made me a 5 gal tea bucket last night and anxious to fire it up. I have been impatient before and had issues with unset adhesives. All the tea recipes has me wanting to bubble eveything. I will post a couple of pics when all is dry

 

[Buzzed]

 

[Seaf0ur]

Sooo... of my 4 seeds... 1 failed to germ.... 1 was eaten by worms, and one seems to have tied itself into a knot LOL.... guess I'll have to get a few more beans a'crackin

shoulda let the tails get longer before i buried em.... haste and waste and whatnot