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My Biggest Most Coveted Grow Secret

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My Biggest Most Coveted Grow Secret

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when doing out doors organics of corse... you get pvc that you post into the ground so its sticking straight up. before yuo put tyhe post in the ground you drill it like swiss cheese and you lay the pipe as discribed in circler rows with even spacing starting 6in from the base of the stem .. its for oxigen in in the ground plants you can do it with 250 gallon or small air pots to put sand and a bit of gravel at teh bottom 4 in and be sure you use my layering tech of and this is from top to bottom the order and i dont know any one world wide that does this....


....large rock slabs or big gravel....
..... crab meal.....
...the mix i recommend in the indoor(40% cocoi, 40% pro mix organic, 20% soil) with the amendments ....
.... sand with out salt!...
...big rock gravel.... {2.5-4.3ft deep here...}


put the swiss cheese drilled pvc in first and have it go 4in deeper then the rock base as many holes as you can get while keeping you 1/2in to 1in pipe structually sound... bamboo can be used there are more steps and you can reuse and it decomposes bring mold and stuff pests... put your pipes in in the speard as floows every 6 in in a circle is a pipe going arond till you have a circle and come out 7in each circle ring.. oxidenates the roots mad and heps in wet climates.. there is another secret... but it is pricy and you need caps and eletricty and sergical hoses and air pumps and you run the air tube to the bottom above the last 4in an in and have a hole in the cap f the pvc you force air in... not necessary its like the extra mile... but eh you can try if you like no i wont post pics... i know every tree i see and maybe you do to so if you notice a leaf and live here you might rip and we dont want that.
 
#2
Seems like a lot of work, and no real pay off. I would imagine drying out your soil then re-wetting the soil will bring in 10x the amount of oxygen to the soil. Where I grow, it's 90+ all summer long, and my plants eat up 20-40 gallons of water a day. That means they are pulling in tons of oxygen.

Are you talking about fertilizer spikes? Kind of hard to understand 100% of everything you wrote, must be my reading comprehension skills, sorry.
 
#3
@Bulldog11 -- 20-40gals/day? For all you're growing, or per plant? We've gotta talk about cover crops.
 

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No crap huh Seamaiden, I needed a cover crop this season bad. I was growing in 400 gal smart pots with no mulch, so water was escaping very fast.

Yes, 20-40 gal of water per full season plant per day. My greenhouse can get up to 110f for weeks on end, requires lots of water but the plants LOVE IT!

Link for a thread on cover crops?
 
#5
<jaw drops>

I haven't done a thread on it to this point, just discussed it in other threads. I think I see raised beds in your future, for sure. Whew!
 
#6
OP ... I have a similar tecnique but I use it for slow release watering. 2-4 PVC pipes that are 24" long. Drill small holes into the bottom 4" of the pipes as well as just below where the soil level would be. Fill with water or fertilizer. As the soil drys out it pulls water from the tube using a capillary effect which helps with oxygen. I'm using 4" and 6" pipes that will hold 2gallons each so a total of 6-8gallons per plant plus weekly watering and polymers. I'm also adding two 1gallon jugs hung next to my plants with ¼" lines to top off the pipes as they empty.

Was taught this technique from an old guerrilla grower ... but I've tweaked it since to adapt to my needs
 
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I use old wine bottles .... fill them with water or tea and turn them upside down & drive the neck 4-5 inches into the soil. As the soil dries the water drains from the bottle but only enough for the soil to moisten up again, then the water stops getting pulled from the bottle .......

or if your near a stream outdoor, dig a hole until you hit water and drop one end of some rope into the hole. then run the rest of the rope around in circles in a 55 gallon container as its being filled with your organic mix. the plant will never dry up and if you cook up some organics does not need much / visits except some tea ......
 
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SpiderK said:
I use old wine bottles .... fill them with water or tea and turn them upside down & drive the neck 4-5 inches into the soil. As the soil dries the water drains from the bottle but only enough for the soil to moisten up again, then the water stops getting pulled from the bottle .......

or if your near a stream outdoor, dig a hole until you hit water and drop one end of some rope into the hole. then run the rest of the rope around in circles in a 55 gallon container as its being filled with your organic mix. the plant will never dry up and if you cook up some organics does not need much / visits except some tea ......
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the wicking method at full force right there! great tips man, if u cant dig to hit water, a reservoir will do the trick as well.
 
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if you find a little stream in the forest at some point it breaks apart and forms little islands along the way. the area's will flood but if you use a air pot / wire mesh cage wrapped in landscaping material no bottom. i then drove four post around the outside squaring it off. i then tied off the wire cage making up my pot with the stake's so when it did flood the pot never moved. i only dug down two feet below the pot & filled it with some rocks and the rope about one foot then soil on top of that .....

i ran a one inch green fence over the top four green post also ......
 
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@Seamaiden - Why do you say 5 species is best? :)
 
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A minimum of five species is where you're starting to build a guild, and as we all know by now, biodiversity gives the whole 'thing' balance and resilience. Based on my reading, the more species you introduce, the more will come and set up shop, the more balanced the soil (can) become, and so on, and so on. I like to think of it as filling niches. :)
 
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