Light warrior mold

AllenHaze said:

Ok. Gotcha. I do try and take as much of the eggs and worms out as I can before brewing the aact but I have found survivors at the end of a brew. I feel like the eggs are important to save because you can get several baby worms out of each of them, I have literally sat there for hours picking out hundreds of eggs. I'll def check out what Pattahabi has to say, but could I ask what your methods for the sst are as well?

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of course, I get about two cups of sunflower seeds (usually the cheapest) make sure they are RAW, no salt, no nothing, soak them over night, I like to stir them up, as you'll see the water darken, you soak them to remove growth inhibitors (i'm repeating others here), then I throw them in my tea bucket with 3 gallons and I aerate them with my air pump, in about 24-48 hrs they sprout, then I strain the seeds, saving the water for later, and mash the seeds all up, add them back to the water, aerate for another hr or so, (it'll froth a lot), then I strain again, and use the tea diluted 1/1 (just to be safe, couldn't find info on the strength). I've only done this a couple times, but it seems to really help on transpants, and vege to flower changes. It could entirely be in my head, though... My grow doesn't usually show any problems, so it's hard to tell the difference. One thing I have noticed a difference in, is fresh aloe foliar sprays, the plants physically respond to the spray, it's kinda amazing.
Oh, and your wormbin will LOVE the minced up seeds.

greasemonkeymann said:

of course, I get about two cups of sunflower seeds (usually the cheapest) make sure they are RAW, no salt, no nothing, soak them over night, I like to stir them up, as you'll see the water darken, you soak them to remove growth inhibitors (i'm repeating others here), then I throw them in my tea bucket with 3 gallons and I aerate them with my air pump, in about 24-48 hrs they sprout, then I strain the seeds, saving the water for later, and mash the seeds all up, add them back to the water, aerate for another hr or so, (it'll froth a lot), then I strain again, and use the tea diluted 1/1 (just to be safe, couldn't find info on the strength). I've only done this a couple times, but it seems to really help on transpants, and vege to flower changes. It could entirely be in my head, though... My grow doesn't usually show any problems, so it's hard to tell the difference. One thing I have noticed a difference in, is fresh aloe foliar sprays, the plants physically respond to the spray, it's kinda amazing.
Oh, and your wormbin will LOVE the minced up seeds.

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Thanks. That's great.

greasemonkeymann said:

I can't say im too into the veganics... but I am slightly curious as to try, considering the bulk of the strains I grow, are the same that I've been growing for years, so I KNOW exactly what they are capable of... taste, scent, the high and yields, so on. I really LOVE me some rabbit/alpaca manure... so veganics is an obstacle, since the manure and fish bone meal are staples in my mixes, not to mention if you truly are "vegan" how can you use worm castings? Honestly i'm sorta annoyed at the whole thing.... Reminds me of an ex girlfriend I had, she was SO against any animal products, except for the ones she liked..... leather is ok, milk and cheese is ok, animal byproducts in health products were ok, it was all just a gigantic contradiction to me.
But hey, I like me some BBQ'd animals... needless to say we didn't last too long..

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Yep!

Minimize detrimental impact = good.
Complete refrain from using readily available animal-energy resources = bad.

They've already been grown, killed and butchered, and processed into a useful resource for a specific purpose. To refuse it "because it's animals," disregards the fact that you would then be "wasting the animal," because it was already processed.

If you want to get into the whole "should we continue processing animals into resources?" topic, then i'll say we should minimize the detriment we cause to any life form, which includes not quite eliminating excess animal use.

Just minimize potential harm to your environment; you don't need a label like "veganics" in order to have a garden worthy of praise, because it's more about minimizing negative environmental impacts, and producing the cleanest and safest possible produce, than anything else.

Living things need other living things to die, in order for the whole-earth food-web to function correctly. We all feed off the energies of others, and perpetually transform matter to energy, and energy to effects upon our environments. Just be conscious of from where you derive, and upon where/how you exert energy. That's enough, IMO. No need to freak out over using animal products, really... except in the case where they are "unsafe" for any particular reason.

AllenHaze said:

Thanks. That's great.

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no problem, my friend. Anything I can do to help.
Check the recycled soil/no till thread, there is some good info on soil health.
My next thing to "nerd-up" on, is using comfrey, stinging nettles, daffodil, and such.
My outdoor plants are almost done, and I have some veging girls to put in the outdoor smartpots when the others are done, I've had the best results from that, some people like to "age" the soil after re-amending, but I've found that I don't need to do that every run, but I have some light feeders.
Just yank the stem and some of the root ball to make room for the next gen, and you are done. During vege time I topdress with mostly my own EWC mixed with TINY amounts (like a half palmful) of food. depending on the strain I add either bat guano, or rabbit/alpaca manure (good shit). From there it's only aacts, and maybe one or two compost/food teas.
I only "feed" them maybe at the most, maybe three times a grow season, but the soil is very amended and the topdress is a good slow release of a even food, (I guesstimate it's roughly a 5-6-5) depends on what I use, but the EWC is awesome stuff, and it works amazing with a lil rabbit/alpaca manure mixed in with it.

reasonevangelist said:

Yep!

Minimize detrimental impact = good.
Complete refrain from using readily available animal-energy resources = bad.

They've already been grown, killed and butchered, and processed into a useful resource for a specific purpose. To refuse it "because it's animals," disregards the fact that you would then be "wasting the animal," because it was already processed.

If you want to get into the whole "should we continue processing animals into resources?" topic, then i'll say we should minimize the detriment we cause to any life form, which includes not quite eliminating excess animal use.

Just minimize potential harm to your environment; you don't need a label like "veganics" in order to have a garden worthy of praise, because it's more about minimizing negative environmental impacts, and producing the cleanest and safest possible produce, than anything else.

Living things need other living things to die, in order for the whole-earth food-web to function correctly. We all feed off the energies of others, and perpetually transform matter to energy, and energy to effects upon our environments. Just be conscious of from where you derive, and upon where/how you exert energy. That's enough, IMO. No need to freak out over using animal products, really... except in the case where they are "unsafe" for any particular reason.

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yup. I agree, plus i'm sorta freaked out by the madcow thing... sure it's mostly paranoia, but blood meal, and bone meal (in particular as mad cow is transmitted through spinal and brain parts) can have some nasty stuff in there.
scary shit... and it takes like 20-30 years for any prion disease to show itself. Compound that with the fact that post-mortem studies have revealed that JK disease is identical in appearance to alzheimers'. Meaning that we could already have an epidemic and not know it. After all, alzheimers is eventually fatal, just like madcow, and it has similar "incubation" times, they both don't effect the young.
Some people in fact think that Jacobs krutchfields disease is already everywhere. I know I spelled that wrong....
Google it, if you want to be freaked out.
Fish bone meal for me, I use nothing from a cow.

To clarify, I'm not a vegan. lol. I'm not a fan of big industry destroying the environment to collect a product though. Where excess is concerned, I see no issue unless more excess is intentionally being produced at the expense of the environment and or it's inhabitants. Like, IDK carbon credits for example. (a different story but the two share their similarities). I mean, I still have like 10 lbs of guano, so I'm not going to just throw it out.

AllenHaze said:

To clarify, I'm not a vegan. lol. I'm not a fan of big industry destroying the environment to collect a product though. Where excess is concerned, I see no issue unless more excess is intentionally being produced at the expense of the environment and or it's inhabitants. Like, IDK carbon credits for example. (a different story but the two share their similarities). I mean, I still have like 10 lbs of guano, so I'm not going to just throw it out.

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oh I got ya, I still have a box of sul-po-mag from yrs ago, three types of bat-guano that I don't use much, cottonseed meal, so on. Luckily if you keep them dry they last probably indefinitely.
One of my favorite things is rabbit and alpaca manure, I have an experimental thing with alpaca manure in a wormbin, they seem to love the stuff. Literally eating shit.... but my theory is that along with some azomite and some rock dusts the worms make like supercharged worm castings.
wormbins are simply the coolest side-hobby accompanying pot-growing. No doubt, and plus you have less garbage, I think everybody should have a wormbin, pot-growers AND non-pot-growers. Hell i'm tempted to dig a ginormous vermicomposting hole and really go to town, make them a worm-paradise.