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Team Microbe's Nose Dive into No-till (2nd cycle)
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Have you considered renting a mixer? Might be easier to return it 
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It's hard to explain, I feel like everyone has a different technique too. I don't see anyone using my technique as of yet, it's basically a big experiment. I try different things and use the 60x currency scope to see how pure the results are from each sift. After weeks of sifting you begin to dial in a method that works best for you.
I pretty much throw everything down and lightly spread it out, trying to avoid pushing any green material through the 140u. Once all of the heads fall through to the 73u I begin carding with my parchment paper-wrapped iTunes card lightly and collecting resin on the one side of the card. So I'll spread the pile with the weight of my hand and no more - then brush the card's contaminant back onto the screen. After this I'll take a 2nd brush and brush the pure gland heads on the other side of the card onto another surface.
Then repeat - I'll spread lightly, collect, then scrape the remaining heads that fell to the floor of the 73u screen. Heads always fall to the bottom of the screen, and contaminant floats to the top of it all pretty much. l'll repeat this process until my scope tells me I've got little to no heads left on the screen, then I'll clean it off with a brush. I'll dump the collected resin heads back onto the 73u for another round of cleaning using the same process, until there is no more contaminant left. It usually only takes 1 or 2 runs for me to get where I want though (90%+)
If you watch D420K's YT vids on static tech you'll have great success - that's where I learned how to do everything I'm doing now
Thats kool about the sifting, hopefully will be in a position to pick your brain about the outcome of your experiences one day.
Till then; Did you use a buildAflower top dress kit when you flipped your last grow? How long do you expect the rice hulls to hold up before they break down? I'm getting together the ingredients for the 18 cubic foot bed and am considering all my options. Lava rock is up there but am curious about using hydroton clay pellets as well.
I will be adding worms and i believe they will be breaking down things like rice and buckwheat hulls pretty fast. Currently looking into pumice as well.
Till then; Did you use a buildAflower top dress kit when you flipped your last grow? How long do you expect the rice hulls to hold up before they break down? I'm getting together the ingredients for the 18 cubic foot bed and am considering all my options. Lava rock is up there but am curious about using hydroton clay pellets as well.
I will be adding worms and i believe they will be breaking down things like rice and buckwheat hulls pretty fast. Currently looking into pumice as well.
Update
Update
This is a future Blueberry Headband mother in one of the 10 gal pots that I harvested from this month. Just EWC, kelp, karanja meal, and a small handful of cover crop beans to get this cycle started again
The 25 gallon geo's came this week! I threw a gallon of lava rock in the base of these for drainage purposes, the only thing I'm waiting on now is the humus. This is when I wish I started a compost pile 2 years ago!
A Cheese Candy clone about to go into her beer cup to root out - I like to brew up an EWC slurry right around this time and cover the hole/roots in mycorrhizae upon transplant. The only things used to root these out was 5ml Agsil16H, 15 ml FulPower (fulvic acids), and 1/4 tsp aloe vera 200x powder
This is a 200x shot through the scope of Rocky Mtn EWC
I'll leave you all some wisdom from the man himself lol
Update
This is a future Blueberry Headband mother in one of the 10 gal pots that I harvested from this month. Just EWC, kelp, karanja meal, and a small handful of cover crop beans to get this cycle started again
The 25 gallon geo's came this week! I threw a gallon of lava rock in the base of these for drainage purposes, the only thing I'm waiting on now is the humus. This is when I wish I started a compost pile 2 years ago!
A Cheese Candy clone about to go into her beer cup to root out - I like to brew up an EWC slurry right around this time and cover the hole/roots in mycorrhizae upon transplant. The only things used to root these out was 5ml Agsil16H, 15 ml FulPower (fulvic acids), and 1/4 tsp aloe vera 200x powder
This is a 200x shot through the scope of Rocky Mtn EWC
I'll leave you all some wisdom from the man himself lol
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Does trimming your cover crop destroy it? My barley grass is probably about 8" long. I have read you're not supposed to trim clover. Right now my 10 gals look like chia pets and I'm still waiting to transplant!
BTW, I know its already covered a million bajillion times, but EWC and compost teas are a god-send. Once I stopped 'feeding my plant' and started replenishing my soil's life I haven't had any problems with PH or burn. Something as simple as a cover crop improves the soil texture vastly, no more loose dirt bags and bagged soil mixes with fear of the borg or gnats, instead it's like a living breathing puck of green goodness.
25 gals are going to do you well man! You killed it in 7gals, the next run is going to be lush.
BTW, I know its already covered a million bajillion times, but EWC and compost teas are a god-send. Once I stopped 'feeding my plant' and started replenishing my soil's life I haven't had any problems with PH or burn. Something as simple as a cover crop improves the soil texture vastly, no more loose dirt bags and bagged soil mixes with fear of the borg or gnats, instead it's like a living breathing puck of green goodness.
25 gals are going to do you well man! You killed it in 7gals, the next run is going to be lush.
You can trim back the barley grass, that's the only thing that needs it for the most part. If anything is gettin near the plant I'll chop and drop that as well. I got out my hedge clippers this week to save some time with the barley... it worked surprisingly well and I had a grin on my face the whole time
Thanks for the kind words brother, I hope so! I'm ordering compost this week so the container build should begin shortly...
Down on the farm they grow "small grains," Oats, Wheat, Barley, Rye. Commonly they let them get about 6" high, then they graze cattle on it. Lush high quality forage, and the cattle love it. Oats is their favorite cause its the sweetest. Anyway, the cattle graze it down pretty short, they pull them off, and it branches and regrows. So yes, you can cut the Barley back, but not really short. Cut it back to something like 3." Good luck. -granger
My sister used to mow lawns for a living when she was a teenager, and said the same thing pretty much Granger - "You can't cut it back too short or it won't grow back well". So that makes a lot of sense
Notill
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This is my first go at notillsoil , I'm a little over 2 weeks into flower and starting noticing some issues. Trying to figure this out, root aphids ? Magnesium deficency? they are growing in 10 and 15 gallon fabric pots. One thing I do notice is bottom of the pots the soil is wet but the top part tends to dry out so I do water a small amount on top daily to get even saturation until the bottoms need water again. Here's pic and maybe someone here has had this happen to them.. Thanks
Notill
This is my first go at notillsoil , I'm a little over 2 weeks into flower and starting noticing some issues. Trying to figure this out, root aphids ? Magnesium deficency? they are growing in 10 and 15 gallon fabric pots. One thing I do notice is bottom of the pots the soil is wet but the top part tends to dry out so I do water a small amount on top daily to get even saturation until the bottoms need water again. Here's pic and maybe someone here has had this happen to them.. Thanks
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Popped some beans today, the Jack Diesel will be ran indoors while the rest will be ran outdoors this May
I took some Jack Diesel macros before they hit the germination station... thought these were pretty cool looking
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You need mulch to keep your soil moist more evenly. The top few inches are where all the action is. When your soil dries out you need to reinnoculate with EWC tea. As far as your plant, I wouldn't worry much. The spots look like a bronze gold color where it's not quite orange or yellow. I'm pretty sure that's ph and your leaves look a little wrinkled in between veins. If that gets any worse, it could be a calcium issue where you got too much or not enough lime. I'd post a thread to find out or ask about it in Organics for Beginners thread. Good helpful folks!
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I bought pineapple chunk but my seeds dampened off because I watered too much when I first started. I love almost all chunks. Those are some pretty seeds too!
very nice assortment of beans...i havent seen a pack of kc brains gear in years..cant wait for the show!
Thanks for the response, yeah I just top dressed with some wood chips and bark until I get some barley straw mulch. Next run going to plant some clover cover crop blend.. Reduce pot to 7 gallon. size and increase plant count. Yeah got a batch of EWC brewing at the moment. digging the transfer from rock wool drain to waste with synthetic nutes I've done for so many years, to this the notill approach which I will improve over the years. Thanks again for taking the time to respond .. Cheers.
I still do that these days, the beer cups feel so dry and light that I'll add water a day too early and lose some bc of it. It's hard maintaining a constant moisture content in those things, maybe 1/2 gallon pots would be easier to manage? Or even treating them like clones and keeping humidity levels high inside a propagation tray/dome
