Hawaii Growers

Waiakeauka

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Has anyone tried using Limu to fertilize their plants? Since they are making kelp fertilizer, why not use Limu. With so many different types of Limu in Hawaii I am sure at least a few of them should be beneficial to pakalolo.
 

SurfdOut

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Hey Waiakea-
I used to take the limu Gracilaria and rinse it good and let it sit down by the fishpond until it got alot lighter to carry, then usually just took it and added it to my compost pile for a bit, then used the compost to make teas with.... I did take it and use it in the mauka lois but was very careful the invasive limu was dead(usually waited over a month) and then closely monitored the near shore waters...I heard you can make a good liquid fert too with Gracilaria, but that's my only experience with it and not sure what your area has to offer....
 

SurfdOut

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Nice plants Coot, think that SH gonna rip yer head off....I did notice Sub put up a new super soil recipe(he always tweaks it a little) yesterday........I'll go look
 

SurfdOut

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http://www.cannabase.com/cl/bcga/bcg.htm

Super Soil Mix

Original recipe - as it was given to me
1 Bale sunshine mix #2 or promix
2 L Bone Meal - phosphorus source
1L Blood Meal - nitrogen source
1 1/3 cups Epsom salts - magnesium source
3-4 cups dolmite lime -calcium source & pH buffering
1 tsp fritted trace elements
1/2 - 1 bag chicken manure (steer, mushroom, etc) - nitrogen & trace elements

- Mix thoroughly, moisten, and let sit 1-2 weeks before use.


Revised recipe - after several failures due to bad manure sources, I now use the following recipe. Results have been excellent and the clones seem to take off right away instead of having a slow growing settling in period.

1 Bale sunshine mix #2 or promix (3.8 cu ft)
8 cups Bone Meal - phosphorus source
4 cups Blood Meal - nitrogen source
1 1/3 cups Epsom salts - magnesium source
3-4 cups dolmite lime -calcium source & pH buffering
1 tsp fritted trace elements
4 cups kelp meal.
9kg (25 lbs) bag pure worm castings

- Mix thoroughly, moisten, and let sit 1-2 weeks before use.



Substitutions
- The original recipe was a success, but I simply needed to experiment. In addition, sometimes not all ingredients were always available. Therefore, here are some possible additions and/or substitutions. Descriptions to follow
Blood & Bone Meal - when trying to cut costs

Kelp Meal - contains over 62 trace minerals. Good supplement for manure or for reducing the manure content to speed up availability of soil.

Worm castings - excellent source of micro nutrients
Bat guano - excellent for top dressing a week into flowering
Seabird guano

Vic was My Mentor BTW

Sub
 

SurfdOut

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Yep, got to sign for the Attitude gifts now and sign your address, I had to sign for the Alien seed shop too, but that's because I think i picked the wrong shipping offer and the order was here in less than a week......
 

Sheckster

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I'm having problems with green caterpillars.... Using soap and Neem. Any suggestions
Are you talking about the ones no bigger than a grain of rice (and sometimes as small as an eyelash)
they eat the fleshy part of the leaf, and then lay silk down inside your bud and they make a cocoon.... dropping little shits on your buds in the process?
They excrete something acidic that eats my Og plant up (I have a local strain that completely resists them)..
Also when you try to pull them out of the bud, they will drop down on a string of thread to escape... later climbing that thread to after the threat is gone...

Never saw these caterpillars prior to 8 months ago... But they are a menace :)
 

Puna Bud

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I'm having problems with green caterpillars.... Using soap and Neem. Any suggestions
absolutely go with what Waiakeauka said. It's actually called BT Wormer,and it's really the only effective things against these little pest that can destroy your crop in no time at all! Spray your plants once a week with it,and you'll make it through the entire season. Don't wait until you see the bastards either..
 

Cru3l

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Sup Team Hawaii! I'm always looking to save $$ on electricity, so I'll be swapping my 600W for 12- 32W T8s.

I've had alot of success with my HPS, but its time to try something new. Check it out.
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Mahalo...
 

DelSlow

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Looking good guys! I gotta step my game up, you guys are making me look bad.

But that's why I love this thread, great info all around :leaf:
 

Waiakeauka

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http://www.cannabase.com/cl/bcga/bcg.htm

Super Soil Mix

Original recipe - as it was given to me
1 Bale sunshine mix #2 or promix
2 L Bone Meal - phosphorus source
1L Blood Meal - nitrogen source
1 1/3 cups Epsom salts - magnesium source
3-4 cups dolmite lime -calcium source & pH buffering
1 tsp fritted trace elements
1/2 - 1 bag chicken manure (steer, mushroom, etc) - nitrogen & trace elements

- Mix thoroughly, moisten, and let sit 1-2 weeks before use.


Revised recipe - after several failures due to bad manure sources, I now use the following recipe. Results have been excellent and the clones seem to take off right away instead of having a slow growing settling in period.

1 Bale sunshine mix #2 or promix (3.8 cu ft)
8 cups Bone Meal - phosphorus source
4 cups Blood Meal - nitrogen source
1 1/3 cups Epsom salts - magnesium source
3-4 cups dolmite lime -calcium source & pH buffering
1 tsp fritted trace elements
4 cups kelp meal.
9kg (25 lbs) bag pure worm castings

- Mix thoroughly, moisten, and let sit 1-2 weeks before use.



Substitutions
- The original recipe was a success, but I simply needed to experiment. In addition, sometimes not all ingredients were always available. Therefore, here are some possible additions and/or substitutions. Descriptions to follow
Blood & Bone Meal - when trying to cut costs

Kelp Meal - contains over 62 trace minerals. Good supplement for manure or for reducing the manure content to speed up availability of soil.

Worm castings - excellent source of micro nutrients
Bat guano - excellent for top dressing a week into flowering
Seabird guano

Vic was My Mentor BTW

Sub
SurfdOut,

Are you sure that this is Subcool Supersoil recipe? He used to use Promix or Sunshine Mix as his base but his newer recipe is using Roots Organic or Biobizz. His latest recipe that I have seen he is now using 6 bags of Roots Organic and 2 bags of Happy Frog. I maybe wrong but I just wanted to make sure that I have Subcool most recent Supersoil recipe.
 
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