Mikedin’s Living Soil Adventure and Living Soil discussion topic

[Mikedin]

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Hell yeah! So at least I know I’m looking at the right equipment lol

Thanks for the info!

 

[Week4Bytch]

That’s the goal! I do want large plants but not too large, I was having great success running the 12’s and being able to fill a 4x4 space per plant that’s all I’m looking for, not massive but large.


Positions is my question as well, I don’t want them at the bottom, but probably have the tip in the bottom 1/3 of the pot. I’ll have the WH51’s on the top layer so it’ll be interesting to see how they dry top to bottom bottom to top etc I have this topic going but was thinking about starting a living soil topic

where are these deep sensors at, you have me searching, they look the same..or??

 

[Week4Bytch]

Pasteurized (not sterlizized) some straw I had to kill off any seeds / bugs 165-175f held for 1.5 hours on the stove then drained and cooled and applied now we just wait for cover crop to pop up and the worms to show up!

No shit... If you boil the straw it will kill the seeds .. interesting. I bypassed the straw this round. Might add some just because. I got lazy this round ...

 

[Mikedin]

No shit... If you boil the straw it will kill the seeds .. interesting. I bypassed the straw this round. Might add some just because. I got lazy this round ...

Seeds supposedly die after being exposed to heat over 140f for over 30 minutes, being as it is 165-170f for 1.5 hours they should all be effectively sterlile seeds now, I did rinse and drain it A few times before boiling chopped it mostly into 4-5” pieces and removed any heads that immediately stuck out to me there’s a few in there still but cover crop is coming up! I covered them with a 1/2” of soil and I can see the soil pushed up all over so I should see a bunch more tomorrow morning

I am running 24 hour light at the moment in these tents about 150w per light the the 4x4 has about 100w currently also on 24 hour light

Should start lookin a bit different in a Few days

 

[Mikedin]

Clones are doing well, the bottom right frostte is kinda funky not wanting to perk up but I am at 25% rh

But she’s got a few small nubs the others are all showing new nubs on the stems so we should see roots pop outta nowhere quick now, in case another clone of any is needed I do have the mothers still held heathy, I may even flower out some of them this spring and maybe take cuttings of the indoor plants to replace the mothers before I flip em we’ll see

This tent is a 2x2x36” tent with a Phlizon PL1000 at about 50% great little setup can run clones or flower out mini scrogs

Mother tent is a 2x4x5 running a Spiderfarmer SF600 both of these tents are vented together, inlet bottom right of the 2x4 vents through the side into the 2x2, exhaust on the 2x2 pulls out the top nice little side of the bedroom setup lol

 

[Mikedin]

where are these deep sensors at, you have me searching, they look the same..or??

WH51 is the top sensor (green)
WH51L deep sensor is white, the one with a solid probe stick is a tempature probe, the moisture detector has a wire with the probe off the end you bury the wire with the probe as deep as you want

 

[Mikedin]

Might get high CFM bars for the tent to use as mounting points for scrog nets

Might mount the sensor on that on each side or just on the back corner poles or center back pole, I’ll be monitoring those with the normal moisture meters through the phone anyways so don’t really need to see em

 

[Natep]

two 20g pots in a 4x2 and do about the same with the top dressing. Near harvest is when I'll top dress for the next round. Do you wait couple weeks before starting another run in the same pots?

I amend at harvest. Then dry right above my pots. That way it gets two weeks between cycles.

 

[Natep]

That’s the goal! I do want large plants but not too large, I was having great success running the 12’s and being able to fill a 4x4 space per plant that’s all I’m looking for, not massive but large.


Positions is my question as well, I don’t want them at the bottom, but probably have the tip in the bottom 1/3 of the pot. I’ll have the WH51’s on the top layer so it’ll be interesting to see how they dry top to bottom bottom to top etc I have this topic going but was thinking about starting a living soil topic

I’m not sure people understand what living soil is. People are going to chime in with fox farms nutrients. lol

 

[Week4Bytch]

I’m not sure people understand what living soil is. People are going to chime in with fox farms nutrients. lol

Its hard for me to not respond to comments regarding "organic" then again so easy. Took me a year to understand it. Watching a Mr Grow It episode last night listening to Chris talk about his first go at it and his experience reminded me of myself. Just throw some amendments top soil and add water and done. It dives a little deeper than that.

 

[Mikedin]

I’m not sure people understand what living soil is. People are going to chime in with fox farms nutrients. lol

Give ‘em some cal mag!

 

[Mikedin]

Its hard for me to not respond to comments regarding "organic" then again so easy. Took me a year to understand it. Watching a Mr Grow It episode last night listening to Chris talk about his first go at it and his experience reminded me of myself. Just throw some amendments top soil and add water and done. It dives a little deeper than that.

That’s why I like the build a soil 10x10 series he gives you options you can do weekly or not, extras if you want etc

Super hard to find good info on true living soil care

I did the Gaia green route before with the 12 gallon pots and also did it blended with fox farm neut line, it all works, but this moving to the organic was a huge difference in my opinion, enough so that I started looking into the difference between majority of growers version of “organic” over to living soil

Gald I got you guys here to help! Great to have people to bounce shit off of

 

[BearWater]

Super hard to find good info on true living soil care

Is it just not out there? Or is because of what you were explaining above?

 

[Natep]

That’s why I like the build a soil 10x10 series he gives you options you can do weekly or not, extras if you want etc

Super hard to find good info on true living soil care

I did the Gaia green route before with the 12 gallon pots and also did it blended with fox farm neut line, it all works, but this moving to the organic was a huge difference in my opinion, enough so that I started looking into the difference between majority of growers version of “organic” over to living soil

Gald I got you guys here to help! Great to have people to bounce shit off of

Jeremy Silva has the best info you are going to find.

 

[Mikedin]

Is it just not out there? Or is because of what you were explaining above?

Just like I was saying above. Looking up like no till or living soil etc gives many less articles, I think is just due to being buried in the search results as it’s a much less commonly used term or method.

 

[Natep]

Just like I was saying above. Looking up like no till or living soil etc gives many less articles, I think is just due to being buried in the search results as it’s a much less commonly used term or method.

Its true. When I got into my buddy kept telling to do it this way. He finally told I’m going to bring you a pot ready to go. All I had to do was add water. It had build a soil take and bake recipe in it. Now all three of my tent are growing the build a soil way.

 

[Mikedin]

Its true. When I got into my buddy kept telling to do it this way. He finally told I’m going to bring you a pot ready to go. All I had to do was add water. It had build a soil take and bake recipe in it. Now all three of my tent are growing the build a soil way.

Newest additions have arrived! 30ish 33.3 100 split between the 3 into each pot

 

[uzi4u]

A+ on the setup dude! I’m running the duke blend & 3.0 in a 50/50 ratio in 10 galllon pots and my gals seem to like it.

 

[Natep]

Newest additions have arrived! 30ish 33.3 100 split between the 3 into each pot

When you transplanting in to the pots?

 

[Mikedin]

When you transplanting in to the pots?

Plan is to get the clones rooted just seeing first roots on them now in the cloner, get them into 3” mini pots and let them go in the mini pots in light recipe for a week till they root up a 3” pot then get em in asap, clover is coming up quick now so should have some good cover crop going

The WH51’s showed up today, tomorrow the gateway and WH51L’s should be here and I can start getting moisture readings but it’ll be late gotta work in the truck tomorrow, another wheel bearing and whee speed sensor lol should be here by the time I get back home

Any last minute thoughts before I get ready to put them in?