Mikedin’s Living Soil Adventure and Living Soil discussion topic

[Mikedin]

Girls on cruise control now, 2 more days and they lose another hour of light, got another order on the way from build a soil, eating to heat back from Spiderfarmer about the new setup, and got the new Mars Hydro FC-E4800 delivered yesterday, I just gotta get her into the 4x4 and adjust the carbon filter position a bit to make the light fit in the 4x4

 

[Natep]

Girls on cruise control now, 2 more days and they lose another hour of light, got another order on the way from build a soil, eating to heat back from Spiderfarmer about the new setup, and got the new Mars Hydro FC-E4800 delivered yesterday, I just gotta get her into the 4x4 and adjust the carbon filter position a bit to make the light fit in the 4x4

holy shit bro. I guess you’re committed now.

 

[Mikedin]

holy shit bro. I guess you’re committed now.

Yeah that’s the go big or go home thing my wife talks about

I like to halve stuff on hand, prices increase, money gets tighter etc etc, life haha, so I like to be on top of things the best I can plus it means not having to wait when I need it, plus with a 3x3 a 4x4 and a 4x8 all flowering at once it’s gunna be a crazy time, what I’m really thinking is I’ll do cycles on the tents, I’ll pick up another PL1000 eventually and I’ll run the 4x8 and do a cover crop run in the 2x 4x4’s then swap and do a run in the other pots while cover cropping the other pots and use the a PL1000 over each 30 gallon for the cover cropping

Then I also have the mothers in the 2x4, the 2x2 is empty till I need to clone again

With so much availability of space i figure why kill myself on electricity when I can really take care of the soil and run all out in the other room at the same time

 

[Mikedin]

 

[closettrapper217]

Mikedin you’re the man. You really go big or go home and I fuckin love to see it Haha

Everything looks great!

I wanna do all organic for my outdoor run this year imma need a recipe lol

 

[Mikedin]

Mikedin you’re the man. You really go big or go home and I fuckin love to see it Haha

Everything looks great!

I wanna do all organic for my outdoor run this year imma need a recipe lol

I suggest the Gaia green base method unless you wanna drop a quick buck like I did lol! At least cost wise the gaia green runs I did were excellent, hell I may even add in my gaia with the rest of this bag of light recipe with a bunch of peat to make up the rest of the pot for the 3x3, this was a hell of a venture to get into and took me years before I pulled the trigger, the initial work and cost is a lot but now I’m kinda in observation mode haha, You’ll want to get the plots goin asap though so the organics get time to start breaking down into the soil,

 

[closettrapper217]

I suggest the Gaia green base method unless you wanna drop a quick buck like I did lol! At least cost wise the gaia green runs I did were excellent, hell I may even add in my gaia with the rest of this bag of light recipe with a bunch of peat to make up the rest of the pot for the 3x3, this was a hell of a venture to get into and took me years before I pulled the trigger, the initial work and cost is a lot but now I’m kinda in observation mode haha, You’ll want to get the plots goin asap though so the organics get time to start breaking down into the soil,

Exactly the plan haha I’ll look into the gaia green. I know I see a lot of people run it for sure.

 

[Mikedin]

Exactly the plan haha I’ll look into the gaia green. I know I see a lot of people run it for sure.

I’ll still pick that stuff up anytime, still have a can of both 4-4-4 and 2-8-4

I like to use that with

Azomite
Earthworm castings
Epsom
Gypsum
Fish bone meal
Kelp meal

Few other additions depending on what’s on hand

 

[RGWD0202]

Exactly the plan haha I’ll look into the gaia green. I know I see a lot of people run it for sure.

I like the craft Blend over the Gaia Green 444 mostly because the Gaia contains green sand, it takes over a year for the green sand to start to break down. Gaia is a little bit cheaper but I think the craft blend has more benefits. Here are the differences in the 2
Gaia Green 444
Fishbone meal, feather meal, alfalfa meal, phosphate rock, sulfate of potash, insect frass, soy protein hydrolysate, gypsum, seaweed meal (Ascophyllum nodosum), oyster shell, greensand.

Craft blend
Thorvin Premium Kelp Meal, Black Soldier Fly Insect Frass,
Alfalfa meal, Organic High P Bran,
Camelina meal Crustacean Meal, Fish Meal & Fish Bone Meal, Organic NON-GMO Food grade Soy bean Mean Sul-Po-Mag (K-Mag or Langbeinite, Organic Malted Volcanic Tuff & Micronized Basalt, Blue Ridge Gypsum & Oyster Flour

 

[RGWD0202]

I’ve been on vacation for 8 days, get back tomorrow with nothing but the blumat drippers for my watering. I’m kind of nervous what I’m walking into tomorrow night, will be day 63 when I get to them. Longest I’ve gone without opening the tent…

 

[Mikedin]

I’ve been on vacation for 8 days, get back tomorrow with nothing but the blumat drippers for my watering. I’m kind of nervous what I’m walking into tomorrow night, will be day 63 when I get to them. Longest I’ve gone without opening the tent…

Hope they’re ok!

And with that I introduce the FC-E4800, moved into the 4x4 PPFD readings taken at 45” and 20”, crazy par out of this light, I think the room is now complete might tweak here and there gotta set up the filter still on the 4x4 but besides that everything is rockin, really pleased with how it looks

Also, left to right 1-2-3 which mother gets to go into the new spiderfarmer 3x3

 

[Mikedin]

Well let’s upload todays adventures in the tents!


Vegetable Seed order should be here Monday as well

 

[Mikedin]

Hit that 4x8 time lapse

 

[Natep]

Looking good. What do you think? Easiest grow you’ve done?

 

[Mikedin]

Looking good. What do you think? Easiest grow you’ve done?

oh for sure, the feeding is damn near random, like tonight i just watered saw i haven't given the FPF in a week so dropped some in, i'm finding the deep meters around 50-60% and shallow meters around 30-40% is their happiest point

also dropped the light to 17/7 in the 4x8, the 4x4 is still at 18/6

 

[Mikedin]

Hope everyone’s having a great Sunday and jamin out with some great smoke!

Ordered a sack of rice hulls this morning and 4 new stretchy nets

Once I get those I think it’s chop and drop time we’re about a week and a half hour from hitting 12/12 at the current hour per 3 day reduction I’ll get some build a bloom going, I’ll top dress with build a flower, mix in craft blend and gnarly barley, hit em with big 6 and mulch with the rice hulls is the current plan going into flower

 

[RGWD0202]

Day 64, I’m pretty impressed with these blumat drippers with my raised bed. I went 9 days and I never opened the tent. One plant has got fox tail I don’t care for.

 

[Mikedin]

Day 64, I’m pretty impressed with these blumat drippers with my raised bed. I went 9 days and I never opened the tent. One plant has got fox tail I don’t care for.

Damn they look great fam! Nice fat colas, I like those stacked cylax appearance colas, like mini foxtails but not complete runaways
How far you think you’ll take em?

 

[RGWD0202]

Damn they look great fam! Nice fat colas, I like those stacked cylax appearance colas, like mini foxtails but not complete runaways
How far you think you’ll take em?

Im not sure, the one is still pushing white pistils, but the smaller one, front left has a few amber. I’m guessing another 2 weeks for the one. Have to harvest all together unfortunately

 

[Mikedin]

Im not sure, the one is still pushing white pistils, but the smaller one, front left has a few amber. I’m guessing another 2 weeks for the one. Have to harvest all together unfortunately

I’d give em the extra time personally I like to harvest all at once as well to use the tent as the dry tent