I spread chicken shit in the winter and add cow manure. I have to put cages around everything or the critters dig up everything looking for worms.
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- Thread starter Old Piney
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xtsho
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It worked. Just a box and some aluminum foil. It got close to 200°F. There are pretty neat designs that get between 300° and 400°. It didn't have the time to build one of those. I plan on making a better one and roasting a chicken. It's just something I'm playing around with.
mudballs
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I made split bamboo fishing rods, and we use a diy oven to dry our rods after glue-up. They vary but mine i laid on a bench, uninsulated, with a really good heat gun i got way above 400
laszlokovacs
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Yeah thanks mudballs, just a minor hiccup nothing to worry about I dont think. I hit each plant with approx 1oz ammonium sulfate a few days before these showed up on maybe 25% of my plants. These got put in at 4-5 nodes and I'm trying to size up quickly so I'm very aggressive with the fertilizer.
This is exactly what I want to see, light burn then back off the synthetic N fert. I could be wrong but I think if Ca/B/P levels were more optimal it wouldnt have really happened. I threw down some more organic amendments yesterday, guess I'll see how they respond.
Composted chicken manure pellets can be used but I wouldn't go over 25 lbs per 1000 square feet rate or else risking burn. They work great for some quick release N plus some slow release. I have switched to the Dave Thompson's Healthy grow by Pearl Valley Farms which is chicken manure, feather meal, and potash to make a 3-3-3 which has less burn potential I think .
Thought about using chicken manure next weekend with the cottonseed meal, but with the plants at 4 ft tall and as close as they are together may be hard to get the rate even with the spreader. They're doing fine with no deficiencies so far, going to just feed with heavy rate cottonseed meal 6-2-1 fertilizer which is ALL slow release with no burn potential. 2.5 lbs per 50 feet is the rate on the espoma bag, the other brand high yield recommends lower rate, but the high rate is fine. I don't want to use chicken manure and potentially burn before flowering kicks in in a couple weeks. Cottonseed meal once a month seemed to do well last year after using chicken manure and cottonseed meal top dressing once in June.
Thought about using chicken manure next weekend with the cottonseed meal, but with the plants at 4 ft tall and as close as they are together may be hard to get the rate even with the spreader. They're doing fine with no deficiencies so far, going to just feed with heavy rate cottonseed meal 6-2-1 fertilizer which is ALL slow release with no burn potential. 2.5 lbs per 50 feet is the rate on the espoma bag, the other brand high yield recommends lower rate, but the high rate is fine. I don't want to use chicken manure and potentially burn before flowering kicks in in a couple weeks. Cottonseed meal once a month seemed to do well last year after using chicken manure and cottonseed meal top dressing once in June.
Old Piney
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I agree in my case that includes my chickens. I've also found no matter what you work in the ground raccoons will dig every thing up just because, it best to do this early
Thinned the garden today. Starting to find males! Going to be full canopy this year! 
Pulled a few plants, took out the smaller unproductive males and selected the good ones. Took out smaller plants that were shaded out and couldn't compete, so here's what we ended up with. Will thin a bit more in the next couple weeks after more males are culled but its much better airflow and light! Internode length was 8 inches on some plants!
Trying to keep as many as we can. Have several around the edge I can just lean out so they don't compete for space anymore.
Good luck! Hope all turns out well
Question: how to deal with yellow jackets? Theyve set up shop in the corner of my grow and they finally got me last night when i was top dressing. So now its war.
mudballs
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Either one works, mix 1oz +/- to 1gal water and put in spray bottle on stream setting...they go down, kills great
Would those be safe to spray around my plants? Ive kept everything organic so far and would like to stay that way but im not gonna let them keep chasing me into the house lol
mudballs
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It's pyrethrium(sp) based, i can sign off on plant contact during veg...if you're in flower then cover them with an old sheet or plastic to avoid overspray drifting.
Nice! Ill check them out then, thanks for the advice!
