All About the Microbes - Fertilizer free, 100% water only outdoor

Hello all. Been a while. Ill save the craziness and jump to where its currently at. I'm back and I'm legal

Soil - 50% castings, 25% unfertilized clay soil from the yard, 25% cheap peat (no trichoderma please)

Current lights, 500 watt Shineknot Inductions, Blues.

Pots until June 1st, 6.5 gallon white fabric (almost all transplanted)

Plant numbers - 36.

Location 45th degree latitude.

Strains: AMS, Lemon Garlic OG, Blue Widow, White Strawberry Skunk, Sour Diesel, Bubba's Gift, Friskan Dew, Hollands Hope, Critical Widow, Black Berry OG, Banana Split, Blueberry Gum (possibly a couple more)

Fertilizer - lol I'm not an idiot though used to be

Current status - getting vandalized atrium ready for April 1st.

Final field - Heavily secured 15 to 20 foot on center spaced, 30,000 lbs of 3 year old castings, straw and possibly geotextile fabric?

Notes - Just getting over thrips. Thanks thripex

Total phosphorus ever added / adding - ZERO

Got a question? - PM me

Have a polite question you think everyone will benefit from knowing? - Feel free to PM me and Ill post it with an answer or send you all the knowledge you wish via PM. In other words please don't tag my thread to say hi or well done. I love you all though I'm trying to document how things should be and for the ease of readers I would ask that it stay educational and on topic.

Why no trichoderma? Trichoderma, which is in every mycorrhizae inoculant of the powdered form, which is not found in Alaskan humus, is a parasitic fungi that kills all fungi which is activated in conditions of high humic acid that is found in the soils of high microbial activity and health. Cannabis is a slightly later successional plant who like a pH of 6.2 though in a healthy soil there is every pH. pH has to do with many things though I would like to draw attention to the fact that fungal dominated soils have a slightly lower pH due in part to the oxalic acid production which, under the soil, is used to attract nutrients extracted by the enzymes of the microbes. On the leaves it forms a invisible sweater, unless viewed under a scanning electron microscope after plating with nano gold, which naturally repels pests as it irritates the membranes in between the plates of pests with exoskeletons. Fungal dominated soils give plants a higher ammonium nitrogen balance as opposed to nitrates which are used with early successional plants such as weeds or grasses.

Should I add humic acid? Not from a grow shop. However possible to produce with AACT, lignin and brown mold people do not. The store products are derived from lenodrite which is an old coal. There is a slightly less toxic source though its another form of old coal found in Alberta Canada. It is hit with a heavy acid and base to knock out the humic acid and fulvic. With it comes heavy metals and other contaminants. If you want quality humates you need quality soil. Compost and castings are available sources and come with many other benefits. Compost can be just as diverse as casting though it needs to be heated to 165, properly turned and have proper ratios of green to brown. Castings is the only manure which is so diverse in terms of microbial species it is impossible for parasites to live in it. In a healthy gram of soil there are 80,000 species of microbes. Microbes are much like slugs in that they die in the presence of salts. Fertilizers are ions which are basically salts. Over 50ppm built up in the soil means your plants will not grow with out fertilizers unless the soil regains its health. Some ions are worse then others like phosphorus which was introduce just before the dust bowls. It destroys microbes and so ensures fertilizer sales. It is highly caustic due to its elemental balance and is one of the major sources of pollution. Such land polluted from phosphorus are known as "dead zones". In any healthy forest soil the phosphorus levels are .001ppm. These forests have no issue growing. It was originally a military surplus and there are many reasons it was given out though none of them were good.

No soil consisting of sand, silt or, my favorite, clay, is deficient of nutrients, only deficient of life.

Is humic acid from the stores good for anything?

Yes in some cases however limiting some may need to use it. Those people will have city water supplies. In some cities they have moved from chlorine, which we all know we can bubble out for 24 hours before use (ideally with out air stone though if they are used soak in hydrogen peroxide between uses to rid of biofilm that can manifest anaerobic bacteria). The thing is some water treatment plants found this to be "not strong enough" and now use some thing known as chlorin. This can not be bubbled out. This should not be drank either though many bottled waters should not be either. At least you don't live in Flint if this is the case or the rapidly expanded areas of polluted waters. It can be complexed with humic acid or with vitamin c filters. For people high amounts of vitamin c can cause anemia as it actually depletes the system lower then it was before and restricts iron absorption. To microbes it can act as a preservative, killing some and putting others in a cyst or spore stage. To add humic just tint the water a slight shade of brown with the humic and you should be okay.

Trying to keep these contained the next couple of weeks until the atrium is functionable. Still some trip damaged leaves though they were not blocking any light.

Hour 14. Not enough hours in the day. Atrium panels should be complete tomorrow. Sealing it up with novaflex after the snow. It's a mess, I know, I barely have time to cook let alone eat though. Next week is cleaning time, maybe? Making progress slowly but surely.

Neex's a couple days of cleaning still though they needed the sun. Thripex is working slow, if working so I'm ordering pirate bugs.

Started the sulfur burner last night. I saw some powdery mildew on some plants along with the mites when I returned from Central America. Not taking any chances. The first couple hours I could smell it though I dont even notice it anymore. Im going to leave it burning.

Finally have the room back up and sealed off. Still needs a couple more tweaks though for the most part it should be leak proof again. Still needs a bit of work on the inside though its getting there.

Pirate bugs are here

5000 Earth worm helpers came to process some of my leaves in an old 33 gallon with some soil for substrait. Im thinking of putting some out on transplant with the transplant and through out the year. Maybe fill the tank up with diluted coffee and spray the soil? If I knew the potential poisons in powdered eggs I would try that too should there not be any. I can get good eggs though I need chickens and they never seem to grow which I guess yields other benefits.

Took down the plastic

Early and chilly though looks like the color of growth again. Going to need more spacing in a couple of days

Took down some plastic today. Was not expecting that level in heat rise. Still easy enough to cool with out opening up the sides.

Testing out some new pots. Close ones are 10 gallon. Rear ones are 6.5 gallon

Time to let them grow a bit. Still much work to be done

Lights off. 5000 watts. They should turn on soon. I likely only need a half hour in the middle of the night though I'm tuning in some semi autos looking for a pheno I can clone and auto from the master c99. Next comes the outdoors PM resistance trial.

Lights on.... for 4.5 hours I think. Still a bit sleepy and droopy. They look dead after a few hours of sleep. WAKE UP

Over the next couple days I'm going to tweak them to only come on for 45 minutes around midnight. I'm spent today. It's been a 14 hour work day

Im starting to thin out the plants. Not so much the amherst sour or diesel dipped cookies as they will be to large yet though most others. I killed 6 of the larger ones this morning due to PM on the base of the stem which is systemic. Not worth the headache later on. Oddly enough they were my anti mold strains. 3 AMS (anti mold strand), 3 blue widow and a frisken dew. Okay so maybe I killed 7? The rest are looking perfect and have more flavor any how. I can smell the bubba gift as I trim it. That one was so delicious. The lemon garlic og is looking good too. Luckily I have about 150 on reserve just in case.

Just dissected on of the 7 I chopped this morning to see the root structure. Had some PM stem growth on some blue widows, AMS and a friskan dew which is odd as they are my anti mold strains. bubba's gift and lemon garlic og looking strong. There was a semi solid root mass on the bottom half of the pots though not super strong just yet. Maybe Ill put a pick up of it though I made a video before I knew I could not upload it. Maybe Ill try setting up a youtube account for such things?