crimsonecho
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Thanks man. I am glad you enjoyed it.Great stuff here CrimsonE! Thanks for the data and very interesting about the molasses comparison.
Great follow.
Thanks man. I am glad you enjoyed it.
Molasses will be my regular from now on. Living organic soil goes great with molasses.
I suspect the lack of terpenes is partly because i took it down a bit early. But then again, i have been noticing a lack of smell and delayed or “sub-par” ripening process from the first day i flipped and it never got any better. The explanation of the science between molasses and terpenes may need more research on my part but this chart is pretty clear that molasses is a great fertilizer, especially considering the price.
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Yeah it definitely helps a lot but besides sugars feeding the micro-herd it has good deal of potassium and other macro-micro nutes too. I am sure you will see the benefits of it.It’s those sugars that get everything going in the LOS. I’ve been studying LOS a lot and pretty much sold for my next run. And molasses will definitely be in the mix throughout.
Dinachems fattened up pretty good. Branches bending (which happened after molasses, beer and banana fpe), smell is great, fade is setting in nicely, i think i will take them down before another weekly update but we will see. That potassium boost at the very end served me well.
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Thanks man, i am really happy about how they turned out.Those are gorgeous, man.
Thanks man, i am really happy about how they turned out.
Your solution seems nice, i have done a water only grow so tried to get zero runoff. Also mulching the soil kept it incredibly loose so the water distrubition and absorption was very good. When there was any runoff, i just let it evoporate as you said.I see you're using smartpots and I'm planning on doing the same (plastic pots suuuuck), so I was wondering about your solution to drainage. I noticed the expanded clay underneath, is there a grate below them and a sump, or do you let the moisture evaporate while keeping them out of the water with the pellets?
I've been mulling over this problem for some time and my best idea so far was a raised shower pan (used under tile showers for slope) that drains into a container. Then a float activated fountain pump siphons out from the container.
The solution i came up with before going with the pebbles was, raising the the tray underneath, just a tad, maybe couple of inches (more is better if you have headspace) and drilling a hole in the middle, and let the water drain into another tray from that hole. Which you can empty by the means you choose (heavylifting or a pump).
The objects you use should have good surface area to support the upper tray. Also you don’t need to put a tray underneath, you can hook up a hose and seal it with silicone or something and let the runoff flow into a little bucket thru the hose. The only drawback is that hose have to stay higher than the bucket but lower than the upper tray i guess.
Never tried this idea, just seems like it could work and it is a passive solution, no electricity.
Yeah man, nice touch, i am not that good at engineering :)I like smartpots because I purposefully overwater every feeding to flush and cycle the nutes. Works well on my big outdoor girls. I'll need to be running a lot of water through my indoor girls to do the same thing.
I've still got time to think about it as I save money for my growroom. Your silicon idea is good. I think I can improve on it using pipe fittings with a rubber compression seal (some drain plugs are built that way). Thanks man.
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