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BearWater

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Also my daughter went out 2 weeks ago and pulled every weed out of every planting hole in the whole garden without me even asking this year, she’s on it!
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That’s awesome! My littles want to water! Every day! Only water! Hahaha! We’re getting there though. The 7 year old has a school project growing on the counter under a led. He’s pretty into : ) we’re going to put it in a smoothie (wheat grass) at some point. And the four year old knows not to pick any of the green strawberries, so we’re making progress there also! Hahahaha! Gardening with kids is hella fun though! So much to teach and they are in awe of the simplest things : )
 
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That’s awesome! My littles want to water! Every day! Only water! Hahaha! We’re getting there though. The 7 year old has a school project growing on the counter under a led. He’s pretty into : ) we’re going to put it in a smoothie (wheat grass) at some point. And the four year old knows not to pick any of the green strawberries, so we’re making progress there also! Hahahaha! Gardening with kids is hella fun though! So much to teach and they are in awe of the simplest things : )
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Mine aren’t little. I got a 23,20,18,17,and 13. I don’t let the young one help but the others for sure.
 
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No product has every single organisms that can live near the rhizosphere. There's more in your backyard times 1000.

Diversity:
Naturally occurring soil bacteria are more diverse and adaptable than bottled strains.
Long-term benefits:
Establishing a healthy soil microbiome through natural processes is more sustainable and beneficial for long-term soil health.
Cost and ease of use:
Bottled bacteria products can be more convenient and quicker to use, but may require more frequent applications.
Environmental factors:
The effectiveness of both bottled and natural bacteria can be influenced by environmental factors like temperature, moisture, and soil pH.
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Thanks! Perhaps I should have said the most complete formula Ive seen in powdered microorganisms, Im not a biologist and I have no idea nor a list in my mind of all the microorganisms that can live in the rhizosphere hahaha I guess I was too high to think straight.
I do add worm castings which will probably have more of the same but also different microorganisms but my plants stay in the pots for 3-4 months so powdered microorganisms work for me, I feed them suggars so they dont die on me and they also have all the organic matter that they need. I dont do more than 2 applications of great white per grow and the second one is only because Im paranoid because Im pretty sure I keep them fuckers well fed hahaha they have suggars, organic ammendments and liquid organic fertilizers. Like, for real, theyre telling you to use it every month so you buy more theres really no need. From what Ive seen in profesessional indoors growers, they apply on the roots after the transplant and thats it, there's also no need to use expensive microorganisms in veg, I have a cheaper brand for veg that only contains a couple bacillus and a couple mycorrizaes with not much else, plus the worm castings.
Many times I fail to think that not everyone is growing indoors like me.
 
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Mikedin said:
Updatessss

Lots of stuff goin on


Indoor we got the clones and seedlings up potted

Got A&B x okie 1 &2
Project 4516 x okie

Frostette #6 clone
Kahuna #3 clone

All up potted and ready for the season got the e mothers and a backup clone of each that will be given away soon once I see new growth on the clones and I know we’re fully rollin

Got the new long berry bed mulched took 30 bags of mulch

Got the 15 x 15 4 berry patch mulched

Chopped and dropped cover crop in the new raspberry beds

Found a new hitch hiker, cenetered her in an opening once I finished chopping the cover crop, complete mystery no idea what she is but I’ll let her roll and see what it is, no idea what coulda got in there I don’t dump fresh failed seeds out here or anything, so this came up on its own, had to be from my compost bed from an old grow? Maybe one of the buds I had that was getting old had a random seed inside it that I had thrown in the compost pile, we’ll see!

Found a funny rock my daughter painted out in the rock garden, she got it from Pinterest 🤣

Seeing a bit of peach leaf curl on the nectarine and peach trees, apple trees look clean so far, grabbed some neem I’ll put in the sprayer and hit em after it rains and dries outside, we’ll see if any fruits stay, I see pollinated flowers so maybe I’ll get something, hopefully
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Man your garden is great. Im not sure Ive seen it before, probably but my memory is quite bad. Thats what I aspire to have some day, perhaps not in such a nice location hahaha but with space for a nice organic garden.
 
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Fuck... I just remembered about my lactobacillus culture because of the natural microorganisms talk and because I saw some korean organic farming and I went to check on it... stinks as hell, it was suposed to be 2 weeks and its been more than a month hahahaha. Good thing is I only need a bit of milk, water from washing rice and patience.
Thats the only major one that I see mentioned that is not inside of great white premium and I had a liquid supplement that had it but its expensive and not worth it. Just molasses, thiamine and lactobacillus, I use plenty of kelp so thiamine is not something Im short on.
EDIT: Triacontanol sorry, but still also present in kelp.
 
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Eledin said:
Man your garden is great. Im not sure Ive seen it before, probably but my memory is quite bad. Thats what I aspire to have some day, perhaps not in such a nice location hahaha but with space for a nice organic garden.
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All organic out there everything I do

The wife really wants me to start. Closing in the yard and covering all the lawn possible with the plastic and mulch and have the whole yard a garden, fruit trees and bushes, veggies, herbs, i now plan to run long cinder block raised planters down in rows in the center of the yard, and along the opposite fence I’ll put the grave vines, can do about 100’ if I do a single row then about 50’ across the back so 150 linear feet or I can double row it

We’ll see lol but raised beds are a go now that the mulched beds are in, just gotta get the veggie garden on lock once it’s all put in ground and I get my trellises up I can start making new beds after I do the deck and finish painting the house 🤣
 
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Eledin said:
Fuck... I just remembered about my lactobacillus culture because of the natural microorganisms talk and because I saw some korean organic farming and I went to check on it... stinks as hell, it was suposed to be 2 weeks and its been more than a month hahahaha. Good thing is I only need a bit of milk, water from washing rice and patience.
Thats the only major one that I see mentioned that is not inside of great white premium and I had a liquid supplement that had it but its expensive and not worth it. Just molasses, thiamine and lactobacillus, I use plenty of kelp so thiamine is not something Im short on.
EDIT: Triacontanol sorry, but still also present in kelp.
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Sorry, I had you for the other team..haha, didn't even notice your Avatar... my bad bro... my bad. That LAB is some cool shit. I need to make a little. How do you mix your lab, teaspoon to a gallon? Once every 14 days?
 
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Week4Bytch said:
Not The Momma!! Wow... mine are just beginning to get HINTS of that nice purple hue... Nice job.
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Thank you! She did great this run the kahuna 2 looks great as well; less purple but overall did very well, larger colas, but 3 is the keeper I’m glad I kept her, 2 is running one more time in the 3x3 at week 4 I belive? Frostette is week 6 in the 4x4
 
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Week4Bytch said:
Sorry, I had you for the other team..haha, didn't even notice your Avatar... my bad bro... my bad. That LAB is some cool shit. I need to make a little. How do you mix your lab, teaspoon to a gallon? Once every 14 days?
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No need to apologize, you were right, I dont know why I said that great white contains ALL the microorganisms that can live in the rhizosphere, I should have said that its the most complete formula that Ive seen, you can certainly include more like LAB and others that I dont even know exist because I only look at the composition of microorganisms in bottled or powdered products so anything that they dont include I dont know about it except LAB.

I use 2ml/L but the recommended dosage is 1ml/L like @Natep said. I add them 2 or 3 times per grow. Contrary to what some might think, they dont eat only lactose, they eat a wider variety of suggars which include fructose and glucose (some strains prefeer them over lactose) which are both contained in sweet betroot juice or suggar cane molasses. Before flower I feed sweet betroot juice and suggar cane molasses in a ratio of 1:1 and I save the expensive suggars from Bud Candy for fattening the buds in flower.
Atami organic has sweet betroot juice, but you need to consider that sweet betroot juice, or betroot molasses is high in potassium, more than sugar cane molasses, which is also farily high in potassium. Thats why I like Bud Candy over other carbs to fatten buds, it just has the suggars that the plant needs the most for fattening, nothing else, so I can push more suggars without risking too much potassium unlike with molasses. I still use them in flower, but I lower the dose to make more room for Bud Candy.
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ATA Organics Flavor​

Flavor is a flavor enhancer from the Atami brand , part of the ATA Organics branch . It's made from beet molasses, which will enhance the density, aroma, and flavor of the crop.

How to use Flavor?​

We will use a dosage of 0.5 to 1 ml per liter of irrigation water.

Composition​

  • 8.83% Potassium
  • 2.28% Calcium
  • 2.01% Sodium
  • 0.28% Nitrogen
  • 0.20% Magnesium
  • 0.4% Sulfur
  • 0.009% Iron
  • 0.004% Manganese
  • 0.005% Zinc
  • 0.001% Boron
 
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Mikedin said:
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Today ends week 8 for the kahunas 😁
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They look fantastic! They keep getting more colorful. How long until harvest you think? In the trichome pic I can see a lot of milky but I cant see much amber on the leaves yet, or perhaps not enough for my poor vision to detect hahaha.
 
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