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Nope, we don't want runoff. A small wet/dry shopvac may come in handy though. I really dislike perpetual harvest systems because they can be difficult to manage if a pest problem arises. Wheeling beds around is extra labor. The casters will also shave off 2-4" of flowering height. In my mind there shouldn't be enough room to wheel them around anyways. The flowering spaces should be packed with beds and have just enough room for aisles. Kinda like this.Yup, I'm right with you.
We don't water til run off in these do we? So a bottom with a drain is unnecessary?
Having two rooms does seem like a benefit. If I end up with a total of four raised beds ( with casters so I can move them ) and keep a separate veg room I could be cloning and vegging in one and wheel them out into the flower room when ready to flip. The three in the flower room would end up on a perpetual harvest program. I assume that rooted clones would be planted directly into the beds too?
I never transplant a root bound plant into the beds either...it can take weeks for them to recover from the shock. I try to time the transplant within a week from the veg plant needing water daily. For some reason smaller plants always seem to do better with no transplant shock.
Afaik, Blue or Bluejay or Mountain Organics brought the no-till revolution indoors. For all I know, it may have been me that began to popularize large raised beds. 4 or 5 years ago I built a small 150g bed. Seemed like a beast at the time.Thanks RD for sharing with us,i can tell you have been at this awhile.Some peeps doing no till(or whatever you want to call it)are almost Nazi like in their beleifs of how it should be done and are not open to learn because they think they know already.People worship coot as some kind of genius but he would laugh at them,what he is is someone who has put in the time to develop his way(like RD) but there are lots of ways to skin this cat.
Also if you have never had pests you just told me you have not been growing very long at all,lol,especially with organics,you should refrain from giving advice and get a little more time under your belt!
I was just having fun, but without a doubt you gotta understand they don't magically appear! Who's fault would it be in a grow room that's controlled by you!?He is simply pointing out the obvious.
When faced with a new pest, what to do?
Until you go through it, the first response is to thrash about a bit.
You can look forward to that.
It makes me aggravated when you blame the farmer for having pests.
Pests are a persistent threat.
They want our flowers more that we do.
Try it skipping the veg outside of the final container. No stress, to you but there is... no way around this, look at your process.. how could that not stress... just something to think aboutGot my small farm, I do let my veg plants get a little root bound.
I veg in 4x4x8 squares.
Veg for about 3-8 weeks depending.
When time I “loosen” up the rootball,
I make a vertical slice down the root ball if the roots are circleing bad.
Toss some kelp into the notill hole
In goes the plant.
No stress no mess.
A factor could be I use leds to bloom not hps.
Farm with fun
You got this, things will come to you from the time you spent growing! Get on TWN!I started reading TWM, but now I am going to back up and start with TWF. TW nutrients sound like the one that might kick my ass. Chemistry absolutely confuses the shit out of me. Hated it scholastically, I was a reader and writer!
But I'll try to stumble through...:)
I find it exhausting how you constantly choose to blame the growers ignorance in all your advise.I was just having fun, but without a doubt you gotta understand they don't magically appear! Who's fault would it be in a grow room that's controlled by you!?
You manage everything indoors, correct?
What do outdoor growers when pest are are persistent threat even know it's different pest
Ok answer this, no pest in grow room and now there is.. why?I find it exhausting how you constantly choose to blame the growers ignorance in all your advise.
It's almost as bad as telling a struggling farmer to "use the search button".
Just think on this before "going there" next time.
You must think it makes you sound informed.
It does not.
Ok answer this, no pest in grow room and now there is.. why?
Answer this.. why do we grow inside? To control?
Trust me bro, I'd hate to go back and forth... but I'll lay it out and no more from me about this.There are any number of reasons that brings a pest into a grow room. Since most of use negative pressure, drafts are a very common point of entry. I used 3 cases of caulk to try to prevent this. Whenever I open my grow room door unfiltered air rushes in, possibly containing pests. I'm sure this happens in your room too... there is lil anyone can do to "control" this.
It's a completely false and rather arrogant stance to believe that you can control every facet of your grow room. Mother nature is the driving force in all of our grows. If she wants to bring pests into your grow you will not stop her. A wise grower will simply use the tools she gave us to drive them away.
We grow cannabis indoors because the federal government began flying helicopters in the early 1980's. This took place after an armed shootout where agents were trapped by growers that dropped trees across the road. It took place on the Trinity/Humboldt line near Mad River, CA. I worked on that very same road a few years back. Gnarly place. Other than that cannabis would be grown outside where it belongs, just like every other crop.
RD
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