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It was time to get better soil for my ladies, gathered a few ingredients, made a 180L batch that's "cooking" for my next batch. Thinking of going no till as I am basically creating a living garden bed here and I don't like worms in small pots. they need space. I don't really wana take from these pots after this, but I'll have to empty them out into smaller pots for my indoor grows and I don't wana disturb what I have created now. got a bunch of red wrigglers, started a worm tower to collect some castings for teas and top dressing in future. added 150g of worms to the tower and devided another 150g up between a 100L pot and a 80L pot. roughly went for a ratio of 30% spent soil (ff premium classic) 30% medical grade peat moss and 30% leca hydrorocks. the last 10% as amendments. garden math, I love it. the peat - also using this 50/50 with perlite for clones, works nice. Here is a photo of the soil underneath the layer of mulch - I used hay as I have a ton for the mushroom stuff, but it's only for the time being. I have 12 different cover crop sown, will discuss that, but I'll thin out the mulch after a couple days for cover crop to come through. in future I'll be using alfalfa as mulch. I moved the hay a little for the pgohoto and the very first spot I open you can see a worm bro working the soil. added a bag of elemental blend to each pot along with kelp flakes, insect frass and diatomaceous earth. the first batch of SST and LABS I made was way too much, whole garden got treated as I didn't wana keep the stuff so both these pots got soaked with it. The way I made the treatment was 18L tap water, aerated for 12hrs to get rid of the chlorine just so it doesn't hurt the microbes (I know cannabis plants need minute amount if chlorine, but just cause I am adding microbes to this batch, I want the worst of it out), I added about 5grams of biocult - which is almost overkill, it's surely more than enough - I add about 1L of the SST juice and 300ml LABS. as soon as I add the stuff to the aerating water it foams up over the top of the bucket. just walked around the garden soaking everything with it. made about 6 batches of it, which came out to be about 120L already busy with the next batch. who's making these? SST day 1 - soak. I use dechlorinated water all the way when working with microbes, and I know I am after enzymes here, but just keep reading.... I used red speckled beans, corn, pearl barley and malted barley Day 2 - pour off water, let it stand in the jars. (I start the barley a day later, because they usually sprout quicker) Day 3 - Sprouts on the beans and corn, barley will have sprouts by tomorrow then they get blended up with 50/50 sprouts/dechlorinated tap water. - don't want sprouts to get too long, I am after the enzymes which are at their most prolific right when the seed pops and first sign of root shows. will update process LABS - I don't know if my first batch came out right, but since it's cheap as shit I'm gona keep trying so I can better understand it all. If anyone knows how to make the mozarella from the curd, let's talk? I had tastic, so I used tastic, rice wash for 15min with dechlorinated tap water. Pour the water off, feed the rice to the worms. Let the rice wash water stand untill it smells sweet... this is where I am at right now. will update process 12 cover crops, come to think of it, it's 14 now. as we all know when it comes to cover crops, diversity is key. here is my list (everything the grow shop had) Sweet Basil, Chamomile, Coriander, Dill, Sunflower, Marigold, White Clover, Red Clover, Nasturtium, Chrysanthemum, Borage, Lucerne then I also added a little bit of Barley and some Sorghum I had laying around. Worm tower - bedding - spent soil + hay. top bin got grass clippings, green grass and wild foliage from our local area. topped with dried bush twigs and leaves and more hay. the dried leaves have quite a bit of IMO on it, other than that, kitchen scraps, dried garden clippings, green garden clippings. I also feed mycelium grain cultures than I don't used and I have dumped a few liquid cultures in there aswell that I was unsure of mycelium landscape liquid cultures mycelium clouds mycelium metabolics here is an interesting one, I was told that there is some contamination present and the mycelium is trying to get away from it by reproducing. so what I have here is a tiny mushroom fruiting inside of a agar "petri dish", and yes, that's a cubensis hahah. last photo shows outer edge of the mycelial growth on the agar turning blue, not trichoderma, that is blue from bruising. mycelium from most psilocybin species, just like the mushroom fruit body itself, turn blue when stressed or bruised. so I think maybe some kinda environmental issue as I obviously haven't touched these. a day or two after I saw the tiny mushroom cobweb mold took over and now it's fucked. I am about to toss it into the worm bin, hope the worms enjoy it anyway, I probably left out a lot, but already feel like I am saying too much I am new to all this so if there's any do's or don'ts you guys know of, any secrets, I would love to hear some! have a lekker slow and steady sunday all!

Crazy Haze (flower day 7) doing...a bit better, I think. I'm leaning towards overwatering and/or pH having been too low, ..bit of underfeeding maybe, not exactly sure. I'll take slightly healthier to the bank though. I defoliated again after taking these pics. I think I need to work on my impulse control for the next grow. FF green bag users: Anyone else feed at 5.5pH as per their instructions? Thinking about trying closer to 6.0, though the other plants haven't really had any major problems.

Just from Alibaba, without shipping and customs it cost about R2400 from them. My last import I paid about R1100 shipping and tax. You can save a few bucks if you want to go that route but them being here gives people the ease of mind. Also looking at the Nanolux 630w feature which is 13k seen it for about 10k on sale aswell. Their prices are not bad I thought it would just be abit better but everyone needs to eat!

Let's see them links, King! Show us the guys importing for less, why you holding out on us bruh?

I would of thought the prices would be abit better seeing as lots of guys importing them for less. Prices seem very similar to the local market.

Yep, I'm still using GHE Micro+Bloom, and FF recommends 5.5pH on their website. I usually start with conservative levels of nutes near to the end of veg. This time I'm trying higher levels than I ever have before, closer to the Lucas formula for Coco, 6ml Micro / 12ml Bloom per gallon (3.785l), though my mixing bottle is 5l, so still a bit weaker.. I'll also mix 3ml/6ml into 2l if I need less. Def considering Biobizz, but want to be competent using the GHE before moving on.

This Plant is Beautiful. Cannot wait to flower it outdoors next year

You know what you are doing... just are you prepared to completely fall in love with Autos?

Was a bit busy.. playing with clones these days. Trying another stupid idea to increase yield ^^ But right now the aim is quality. Have 3 strains dried to 64% and will dress them over the weekend. Liked the result very much, just could be more. I let one main stem supply only the FIM version of the main, rest is radically chopped away. Looks a bit scary when i flip em , is not much left of those clones. Pictures of the Ginger Tea before dressing