OldSmokie76
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Nemos..... Live thru a soil recycle? Will they survive adding fresh amendments and cooking of soil mix?nematodes bro for fungus gnat control try anything in the order of this genus. Heterorhabditis indica
Bee keepers use them to combat fungus gnats and other critters in their hives believe it or not!!!!
Here is a great supply house for live nematodes. And yes they work. Since incorporating nematodes I haven't seen a fugus gnat in years. I take that back. I see em in peoples grows that don't use em.!!!!!! :D
https://www.arbico-organics.com/category/beneficial-nematodes
While cooking or while in grow container?Do you take temps of your soil mix guys?
What is a nice temp for cannabis in your experience?
I just ammended my soil for the next grow, 2 days ago, it is at 28C and ambient temp is about 20C.
Cooking mix
30L Light-Mix
25L Bat-mix
Some Coco-Mix (5L maybe)
8 cup homeblend (bat guano, wormcastings, neem meal, GK complete organics)
1 1/2 cup spirulina
1 cup ground nettle seeds
2 cups diatomaceous earth
2 1/2 cups of activated carbon (charged with alfalfa, banana and something i call “reveg” fpe, biobizz alg-a-mic, bloom, topmax, epsom salt)
(the biobizz products is because i already had it from prior grows, so no need to waste it, probably not going to spend any money on bottled products anymore)
Pumice
Zeolite
Lavastones
Perlite
Thanks P. I am actually thinking that maybe there is too much EWC type material. I have kind of.confused things and now I don't know.if I have 200 gal of.soil or 200 gal of.compost. I did 50% compost and 50% peat (+ aeration and ammendments) but a lot of worms have been in there working the lot.of.it for several months. The weak young plants look potassium deficient (claws and dead spotting). I'll add store bought EWC to the top of one of them and see what that does. Thanks for the tip.I'd try giving them a good topdress of EWC (maybe even a few aloe foliars) and see if that don't snap out of it.
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Hello All. New to the forum. Very good information int his thread. I have grown Cannabis in soil for 8 years now. In the past I have used fox farm and other "middle shelf" potting soils but about 6 months ago I went "all in" with a 200 gal smart pot. I built a typical "coot's" soil mix: equal parts spaghnum peat moss and composted cow manure/lobster compost (I live in New England). For aeration I added 1/2 part lava rock. For amendments, neem cake, kelp meal, crustacean meal, alfalfa meal, rock dusts etc just like the man said. I added a thousand wigglers. night crawlers to the mix and let it set. I have had this monstrosity in my basement on a pallet with a tarp over it.
I run a perpetual grow and my flower tent is set up so that I harvest a plant every 2 or so weeks and add a vegged up replacement. I have 4 cobs, a blurple led 350 watt, and an all- red ufo. I grow a white widow that I culled out of a Nirvana seeds 10 pack 8 years ago, a GSC cut that I got from a friend which I am sure is not real GSC, but is great herb.
After letting the mix "cook" for 3 months, and adding the waste from my grow to the top layer with malted barley, and the sludge from teas, etc., I began taking the bottom layer of this soil, adding 1/4 part Rice hulls and sticking plants in it.
I do starts in solo cups in a small rooting chamber with a couple of household led bulbs 24/0. I then transfer to chamber 2 and transplant to (room for 4) 1 gal plastic pots and 8 household leds. Then Chamber 3 has my 20 gal smart pots (room for 2). This system has evolved over the years. The plants are in chamber 2 for +/- 8 weeks in the 1 gal, and then in chamber 3 for 2 weeks in their big pots.
Eventually I am thinking of turning the flower room into a bed, but for now it is 20 gal fabric pots. I cover crop with scarlet clover and malted barley that sprouts. But so far my results have been a little mixed:
When transplanting from 1 gal to the big fabric pots (fox farm 1 gal into my soil @ 20 gal) the plants take off. I water only through flower and have had good results. However when I transplant my solos to 1 gal of my soil, the leaves get yellow and brown spots, the tips die back and growth is stunted. The leaves claw up and do not come back.
Am I burning these young plants? Do i need to dilute the mix with more peat moss for the little ones? I have sent out a soil test to logan labs and will share the results.
Anyway, thanks for the great forum and info.
Sorry, no, Future, thank you,I only add water. No amendments or topdress or etc. I am trying to get soil dialed in to take me right through. My question succinctly is 200 gal of compost + peat + amendments + aeration+ worms + 6 months. Does it = 200 gal compost that needs to be cooled down with more peat or soil to plant into directly. Again, respect for your consideration.When you say you water only through flower are you saying you let your 20 gallon pots run dry? If so peat is incredibly hydrophobic. If you arent watering it in over several hours or even days with some sort of saponins only a small portion of your soil will be used.
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