707 Scrog Grow With Blackdog

[Homesteader]

My room is about an 8'x8' sealed room and I flower under a 5'x5' double stacked scrog frame.I will be flowering four 707 Headband in 30 gallon bags and growing out a few others to clone (Lemon Headband Kush, Blue Dream, Lemon Garlic OG) as well.

I am vegging under an 800w Blackdog LED lamp and an 8 lamp 4’ t5. My room has hepa and a carbon filter as well as a small mitsu mini split (Wish I could afford more) and a dehu. My temps in veg will run from 80 degrees at night and 90 in the day and my RH will be around 55-65%. My CO2 is created from my soil microbes due to the high amounts of carbon in my soil mix. I feed very little to my soil other than fish, sugars and forest microbes from a 100 year old oak on my property using Dr Chos methods.

Not sure how this will go but I welcome all comments, questions, suggestions or insults.

This is my second grow in the soils that are in there now.

Homemade Soil Mix

17 gallons Coco coir
5 gallons Earth Worm Castings
5 gallons sphagnum peat moss
5 gallons rice hulls
3 cups gypsum
2 Cups Menafee Humates
3 cups crab meal
3 cups kelp meal
3 cup soybean meal
3 cups bone char (NOT MEAL)
1 ½ cups dolomitic lime
2 cups food grade Diatomaceous Earth
2 cups pine wood shavings

 

[Homesteader]

Using half cooked white rice, I harvested the microbes from a healthy 100 year old oak on my property. To do this I first dug a small diameter hole about a foot or two down at the base of the tree and placed a rice filled stocking and buried it for about two weeks at the end of the summer. I also took the rice and used it in a traditional method, by placing the rice in a box at the base of the tree and cover it with leaf litter.
Once harvested, the microbes/rice and leaf litter are put into a bucket with water and stirred regularly. The smell will be of bread slightly sour and you will see movement from microbes and burping of gases. After a month of monitoring this, add 1:1 sugar.....I used brown. This will stop their reproduction and preserve them for about 6-12 months if I am not mistaken.

From this point, it is used as an innoculant for my garden and plants as well as soil building.

 

[Freshone]

Will you flower under the same lights?never seen the rice method before,very interesting.what size is your Mr slim?there very good units.
Soil should just keep getting better the next few runs.

 

[Homesteader]

Will you flower under the same lights?never seen the rice method before,very interesting.what size is your Mr slim?there very good units.
Soil should just keep getting better the next few runs.

I will flower with just the blackdog I think, the footprint in flower on the 800 is 5'x5'. I can only run the t5 in veg or else it just seems to throw off my temps too much but maybe during winter??? I have the 9000 and it does just fine with the LED alone but if I add anything else its hard to keep it under 85. I put it in myself and it was my first hvac job. A little scary at first but it works.
Yeah the soil would definitely keep going and growing but the CO2 is slowing down a bit, and I want to try a new soil mix with local inputs and no coco but this soil will probably be growing my cukes or squash next summer pretty well. Thanks for stopping in @Freshone.

 

[Homesteader]

Natural Farming Manuals
https://ilcasia.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/chos-global-natural-farming-sarra.pdf



http://www.reap-canada.com/online_library/IntDev/id_bokashi/Bokashi Nature Farming Manual (2006).pdf

http://naturalfarminghawaii.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Oriental-Herbal-NutrientOHN.pdf

http://www.apnan.org/APNAN Manual.pdf

http://olalafarms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/indigenousmicrogrow.pdf



Masanobu Fukuoka/One Straw Revolution



http://www.rivendellvillage.org/Natural-Way-Of-Farming-Masanobu-Fukuoka-Green-Philosophy.pdf

 

[Homesteader]

Working on developing more bud sites quicker by defoliating the inside fan leaves that cover any nodes/sights and using heavy copper wire that stake in the ground and pull the branches down.

 

[Homesteader]

This is how my room is able to achieve 1000-1400 ppm for free depending on soil mositure and temperature. My plants supply the oxygen and the soil microbes turn it into CO2. Harmony loop. By the way, if anyone in Maine wants to buy a tank and a regulator, pm me, I have no use for mine.

"Microbial soil respiration and its dependency on carbon inputs, soil temperature and moisture"


Lab 5: Soil and The Carbon Cycle
http://serc.carleton.edu/eslabs/carbon/5a.html

 

[Homesteader]

New Veg room in progress. Greenboard on bottom. $.99/ 18"square tile. Kilz primer.

 

[Homesteader]

These bud sites will be sprayed once a week for the first two or three weeks with liquid calcium (charred egg shell and vinegar 1000:1/water) along with liquid kelp and humic/fulvic complex at 10% to 5%, as well as a light Media feed of fish and molasses until the third week.

 

[Homesteader]

3rd and final defoliation.
HSO 707 clones taken from fem seed mother. 60% tucked 40% plucked.....Nothing on perimeter taken,mostly from inside middle section....Almost 2nd week of flower (11 days)....Last time plants will be touched..To be continued.... 1 inch grid line target on back wall, three inch holes, 5'x5' frame.

 

[Moto]

3rd and final defoliation.
HSO 707 clones taken from fem seed mother. 60% tucked 40% plucked.....Nothing on perimeter taken,mostly from inside middle section....Almost 2nd week of flower (11 days)....Last time plants will be touched..To be continued.... 1 inch grid line target on back wall, three inch holes, 5'x5' frame. View attachment 653365 View attachment 653366 View attachment 653364

Everything is looking great for you friend. Nice job! :D

 

[Homesteader]

three weeks into flower

 

[justiceman]

Using half cooked white rice, I harvested the microbes from a healthy 100 year old oak on my property. To do this I first dug a small diameter hole about a foot or two down at the base of the tree and placed a rice filled stocking and buried it for about two weeks at the end of the summer. I also took the rice and used it in a traditional method, by placing the rice in a box at the base of the tree and cover it with leaf litter.
Once harvested, the microbes/rice and leaf litter are put into a bucket with water and stirred regularly. The smell will be of bread slightly sour and you will see movement from microbes and burping of gases. After a month of monitoring this, add 1:1 sugar.....I used brown. This will stop their reproduction and preserve them for about 6-12 months if I am not mistaken.

From this point, it is used as an innoculant for my garden and plants as well as soil building.

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That is really cool I must say.

 

[Homesteader]

Yeah I think I will experiment more next summer. I found it pretty cool myself, now I want to try different tree species and using hosts to capture myco at the bases of the trees

 

[Homesteader]

23 days from flip.

 

[Homesteader]

Day 25

 

[Gherb]

Homesteader can we get an update? You got me very interested and I am curious about the final results.

Pretty cool grow.

 

[Homesteader]

Thanks @Gherb. The 707 was disappointing but in the last run in terms of quality, I found the Lemon Kush Headband as a massive keeper however which I have in veg now trying to hold off for two more weeks before flipping. Also running a few new strains for me this run. Sleestack, Critical 2.0, Tangie Kosher and Amnesia.
Been working on my new Osram/Cree DIY lights and I think Ill post a journal soon.

Ill refrain on the hate for Blackdog but I would advise anyone to look elsewhere. I will be stripping this build down and putting in new emitters this summer.

 

[Freshone]

Funny I just found this thread last night and I thought such a nice clean setup to be limiting himself with that light.You will kill bro with proper lighting,good job!