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    Homesteader's rabbit powered indoor grow

    Downsizing the grow rooms for this run and working at moving the grow room to a container by this summer but for the time being I am going to run about 6 plants indoors and grow them with ONLY rabbit poop and rabbit urine (as well as gypsum and native dirt). Rabbit manure is a cold manure which...
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    Lao landrace LED/Living Soil.

    I was sent a batch of new seed stock from Lao courtesy of the Real Seed Company and wasn't planning on running them now because I have some of my own crossed seed stock to run but I have extra room this winter and don't want to let them sit for a year. So here it is. 13 in the paper towel...
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    Homesteader's DIY indoor living soil grow

    Hello farmers My name is Sean but feel free to call me whatever you like. I live and grow up on a small farm in the great state of Maine. We raise mostly rabbit, kids (of human type) and chicken but I also grow a lot of fruit trees and vegetables as well. Nothing for market. Not into it for...
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    Custom light build DIY osram

    I am lacking a few lights for my room and decided I would share how I did it. Normally I make the entire enclosure out of metal but I am going to use some red oak this time and hope that it is a little easier to work with and look a bit nicer. I kind have the basic design and plan in my head but...
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    Bone dry herb/white ash preference

    Does anyone else prefer dry as a bone crispy herb over humid controlled smelly stank? I find most of the herb that others cure or dry is way too wet for my liking. Am I alone? What is the benefit to keeping herb slightly humid? I genuinely don't know. I like monster hits and white ash. Is it...
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    Mini split AC clean down

    How often do you all clean your AC unit? I have been doing it about every year or so but the fan gets nasty and Im thinking I should probably do it between every cycle. Also is simple green going to hurt my unit in the long term? The AC unit cleaner seems ridiculously overpriced. I'm cheap but...
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    Homesteader’s homegrow diary for '21

    Hello fellow farmers. My name is Sean and I live up in Maine with my four kids and wife on our small 5 acre farm. We don’t sell much of anything from our farm and I’m not really interested in any of that BS but when you have four kids, raising your own protein (eggs, chicken and rabbits) helps...
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    Homesteader's Diary

    So I’m going to be restarting my rooms this week and figured I’ll try my hand at a diary for THCfarmer while I am at it and see how it goes. My family has a small farm here in Maine where we grow much of our food for the freezer but also sell cut flowers and fruit & nut trees as well as a few...
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    Hemp Cultivation

    Just wanted to drop a great informational video on growing hemp for anyone interested.
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    Leaf Twist

    I've been growing this strain now for about a year. It is a Blue Dream x Holy Grail Kush and was bred by a woman here in Maine I believe. I love the strain but it does this weird twist in its fan leaves (which can be 10"+). I was thinking that it was due to the color of my lights so I grew it...
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    Homesteaders Organic 660nm Led Grow

    Soil mix has been improved on over the past few years to decrease the price and discard anything unnecessary. I start with a 5 gallon bucket each of hydrated peat, coco coir and add another 5 gallon bucket of rice hull and this is my soil mix base. From that base I add: 1 cup of crabshell 1...
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    Heavy Metals In Soil And Amendments

    I have been doing some digging through and figured I would share it. It seems to me as a cannabis smoker cadmium is our most concern as a heavy metal due to its uptake from plants being much greater than lead and arsenic etc. but as a soil maker lead is a great concern as well when mixing and...
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    Diy- High Powered Smds

    Here is how to build a nice light using a cheap griddle and some high tech SMDs. Any slop is then taken care of with solder wick and alcohol once your finished but its best to use only as much paste as will be needed. Ensure you have ventilation, flux is nasty to breathe in. Heat the MCPCB up...
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    Photosynthesis

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    Understanding Ph

    As an organic farmer, I prefer to adjust my pH with my amendments in my mix to get the batch to around 6.3pH. The plant will naturally make the soil more acidic and the liming agents (crab/lobster) I use seem to become neutralized by them, because I seldom see ANY rise from day one on the mix...
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    Harvesting Microbes

    This oak tree on my property is around 120 years old in my estimation and I chose it also because of the overall health is very high and the ground below is soft and rich (as soft and rich as Maine soil can be). So I took this 2x4 box which has hardware cloth on the bottom (I use it to sift...
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    New Color

    Loving the new color in black but is there any way to make the bold lettering look bold? I have a hard time seeing the difference in threads I have viewed and ones I have not though. I imagine you are limited to what you can do.
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    Reflow Soldering Xp-e And Xp-g3 To Mcpcbs

    Using a $20 Presto electric griddle and a heat gun I tried this tonight for the first time using 7 emitter MCPCBs from this site. I put the solder paste on all the pads and both contacts. I then warmed up the griddle slightly and put the emitters (4000k and 660 photo reds) on with the + going...
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    Understanding Micronutrients

    Micronutrients Boron Zinc Manganese Iron
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    Understanding Phosphorus In Soil

    Here are some video that I found to be helpful to understanding. Bray vs Olsen Phosphorus tests My other love Bone char (now if I can just get an oven like that)
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