Second shot at organic growing! transitioning to notill:)

[Mikell]

Damn, I missed the end of this.

You appear to have a camera and ability to use it on par with the lovely flower you have grown, lotus.

Cheers

 

[Tri_Cho_Me]

I think the hardest thing for you to do with your first organic run would be to simply leave them to their own devices. Be sure to not over love them and smother them to death. With organics the ease of growing can't be beaten I personally believe. I don't even feed them bottled organic nutes anymore so I'm not fooling around with how many table spoons of this and teaspoons of that per gallon to water in. I just top dress some dry organic nutes and water it in. I dot that maybe 3 times during flowering, if not just 2.

Do you top dress with anything else during flower? Or, other than those 3 times you're just using distilled water?

Just starting no-till myself and trying to understand the top dressing, teas, soil, etc. a little better. Do you ever water with neem leaves powder or aloe vera powder? Thoughts?

Tri_Cho_Me

 

[who dat is]

Do you top dress with anything else during flower? Or, other than those 3 times you're just using distilled water?

Just starting no-till myself and trying to understand the top dressing, teas, soil, etc. a little better. Do you ever water with neem leaves powder or aloe vera powder? Thoughts?

Tri_Cho_Me

I didn't use much extra stuff this round on my Dank Zappas other than those 2 or 3 top dressings. I will occasionally use coconut water extract and aloe vera extract in waterings but I don't think I did this round. I use those more in foliar sprays. I noticed that they were in need of more calcium but I think that would be strain dependent anyways. I'll know to give them more of that next round.

 

[lotus710]

I didn't use much extra stuff this round on my Dank Zappas other than those 2 or 3 top dressings. I will occasionally use coconut water extract and aloe vera extract in waterings but I don't think I did this round. I use those more in foliar sprays. I noticed that they were in need of more calcium but I think that would be strain dependent anyways. I'll know to give them more of that next round.

bro i had calcium probs on my second cycle but not on my first. running shining silver haze so im thinking since its a sativa there was too much of something and caused a lockout. been sprinkling pwdered egg shell for the calcium next round

 

[jonhova]

first time growing in a 30 gallonrubbermaid

first time growing in a 30 gallonrubbermaid

I have 2 bags of ecoscraps compost, 1 bag of G&B organics vermicompost, 1 bag of kelp meal, and kellogs organic potting plus. I have lava rock rice hulls and perlite for aeration.

I want to make 2x3 gallon smart pots worth of mix for 2 clones that outgrowing their solo cups and very sick.

If i buy some MBP, liquid neem, and crab shells will that be fine for a starting mix? Can i get tm7, agisil, aloe powder and coconut powder later? im low on funds and want to transplant my clones before they get root bound.

 

[lotus710]

I have 2 bags of ecoscraps compost, 1 bag of G&B organics vermicompost, 1 bag of kelp meal, and kellogs organic potting plus. I have lava rock rice hulls and perlite for aeration.

I want to make 2x3 gallon smart pots worth of mix for 2 clones that outgrowing their solo cups and very sick.

If i buy some MBP, liquid neem, and crab shells will that be fine for a starting mix? Can i get tm7, agisil, aloe powder and coconut powder later? im low on funds and want to transplant my clones before they get root bound.

quick fix with what you have? amend the vermi compost with kelp at 1-2cups per cuft then mix that with lava rock and the potting soil at a 1:1:1 ratio. then make kelp teas for waterings. you could pull it all off only using kelp

 

[jonhova]

thanks lotus. great thread you have here. Your grows really are a thing to behold.

Happy new year!