Greasemonkey's Compost Pile

DonBrennon

DonBrennon

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Gotta give some respect to @greasemonkeymann , been growing a long time and I've never seen healthier plants than this and the growth is faster than I've seen since I ran hydro. My soil has gone through a few cycles now, but the BIG difference is 'Grease's' compost..............

Indica dom = Mystery bodhi...................Ind/Sat 50/50 = Hazeman Fat purple..................Sat dom = GGG afghan haze bastard
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Edit.........all my tent's are fooked, the calender at the bottom is to 'try' to block light leaks...........I hate tents!!!
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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DonBrennon said:
Gotta give some respect to @greasemonkeymann , been growing a long time and I've never seen healthier plants than this and the growth is faster than I've seen since I ran hydro. My soil has gone through a few cycles now, but the BIG difference is 'Grease's' compost..............

Indica dom = Mystery bodhi...................Ind/Sat 50/50 = Hazeman Fat purple..................Sat dom = GGG afghan haze bastard
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Edit.........all my tent's are fooked, the calender at the bottom is to 'try' to block light leaks...........I hate tents!!!
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wish I could double like that post man!
and my experience as well, they grow faster with a fresh compost then any hydro I ever did (keep in mind hydro wasn't my thang)
And I take ZERO credit for this too, the compost is an age-old concept, all I did was try and replicate nature, annnnnd whowouldathunk that nature had it alllll figured out already!
haha
I am SO glad you are having good success, that's literally the only reason I am on this site, to simply share my experience with compost and natural growing.
Very rarely is the cheapest and easiest, the most effective.
Good shit man!
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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DonBrennon said:
Gotta give some respect to @greasemonkeymann , been growing a long time and I've never seen healthier plants than this and the growth is faster than I've seen since I ran hydro. My soil has gone through a few cycles now, but the BIG difference is 'Grease's' compost..............

Indica dom = Mystery bodhi...................Ind/Sat 50/50 = Hazeman Fat purple..................Sat dom = GGG afghan haze bastard
View attachment 3787142 View attachment 3787143 View attachment 3787144 View attachment 3787145 View attachment 3787146

Edit.........all my tent's are fooked, the calender at the bottom is to 'try' to block light leaks...........I hate tents!!!
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what kind of light is that?
a LED panel?
the color of the light looks like a HPS, but I don't see one in there.
I love the look of that tall sativa
may need a speck of nitrogen to help her a lil
beautiful plants!
 
DonBrennon

DonBrennon

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greasemonkeymann said:
what kind of light is that?
a LED panel?
the color of the light looks like a HPS, but I don't see one in there.
I love the look of that tall sativa
may need a speck of nitrogen to help her a lil
beautiful plants!
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The light is a 400W Diy cob fixture, it's a prototype ot the lights for my main tent, which are also 400W each. I've never had any doubt's about LED's being the future of horti-lighting, it was just a matter of time before the right tech, for the intensity, came along. My other lights are all built(and slightly more elaborate) IMG_5185.JPG and I'm just in the process of designing/building the power/control panel.
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Not quite finished yet, I need a 10 amp breaker to protect it all and another time switch to control the infra red(lights out) circuit
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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DonBrennon said:
The light is a 400W Diy cob fixture, it's a prototype ot the lights for my main tent, which are also 400W each. I've never had any doubt's about LED's being the future of horti-lighting, it was just a matter of time before the right tech, for the intensity, came along. My other lights are all built(and slightly more elaborate) View attachment 3787212 and I'm just in the process of designing/building the power/control panel.
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Not quite finished yet, I need a 10 amp breaker to protect it all and another time switch to control the infra red(lights out) circuit
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annnnd once again I wish I could double-like
I am SO close to getting the stuff for a nice 6 cob 3590 setup, I wanna replace my vege lights, and in the future my flowering ones as well.
I have pipedreams of putting an led panel in each corner vertically, while using two 600 for the top lights, one MH and one HPS.
sorta a vertical AND horizontal grow.
 
MustangStudFarm

MustangStudFarm

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greasemonkeymann said:
annnnd once again I wish I could double-like
I am SO close to getting the stuff for a nice 6 cob 3590 setup, I wanna replace my vege lights, and in the future my flowering ones as well.
I have pipedreams of putting an led panel in each corner vertically, while using two 600 for the top lights, one MH and one HPS.
sorta a vertical AND horizontal grow.
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Since we are talking about lights, I couldnt get my new Hortilux e-start MH to fire on my 240v Lumatek?
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MustangStudFarm

MustangStudFarm

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greasemonkeymann said:
hmm, that's weird...
you try different cords/hood?
I've gotten a MH bulb that had the socket a lil cock-eyed, did it screw in alright?
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Actually, the bulb was really fat and it did have the socket a little stressed. I put the HPS back in with no problem. It might get cool enough to try out those parabolic reflectors soon, I am using Sunlight's 6'' Blazer air cooled hood. It was a very tight fit, I probably shouldnt have even tried to screw it in! I didnt think that it would keep it from firing up though?
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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MustangStudFarm said:
Actually, the bulb was really fat and it did have the socket a little stressed. I put the HPS back in with no problem. It might get cool enough to try out those parabolic reflectors soon, I am using Sunlight's 6'' Blazer air cooled hood. It was a very tight fit, I probably shouldnt have even tried to screw it in! I didnt think that it would keep it from firing up though?
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it shouldn't keep it from firing, but I've had a bulb that did, sorta just hummed a bit..
hmmm... it is possible its a bad bulb, do you have a reg MH ballast?
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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MustangStudFarm said:
Actually, the bulb was really fat and it did have the socket a little stressed. I put the HPS back in with no problem. It might get cool enough to try out those parabolic reflectors soon, I am using Sunlight's 6'' Blazer air cooled hood. It was a very tight fit, I probably shouldnt have even tried to screw it in! I didnt think that it would keep it from firing up though?
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where'd ya go man?
startin to worry a lil, you didn't try and stick your cock in there, to test for voltage supply did ya??
you crazy oklahomans and your abnormal electrical diagnostics... keep tell ya a DVOM will work better..
heh..
sorry i'm bored..
and I am tryin to be patient.. but it's Friday.. and I'm half checked out already
 
norcal mmj

norcal mmj

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Hey guys @MustangStudFarm @greasemonkeymann, got a question. 2 of my plants have leaves that look like this. image.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpeg They are the same strain from seed. I have been thinking a magnesium problem but can correct it. They will finish the season no problem but I would like to ID my problem.

My soil mix is lacking, it's half my own mix based of subs super soil and half crap for a gardening store. I have been top dressing all year with bio live, kelp, alfalfa, bat guano. I use compost and casting teas. In flower I've been using me bs green trees, molasses, earth juice bloom and make sure my ph is over 5.8.

Thanks in advance for any input.
 
MustangStudFarm

MustangStudFarm

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norcal mmj said:
Hey guys @MustangStudFarm @greasemonkeymann, got a question. 2 of my plants have leaves that look like this. View attachment 3788987View attachment 3788988View attachment 3788991 They are the same strain from seed. I have been thinking a magnesium problem but can correct it. They will finish the season no problem but I would like to ID my problem.

My soil mix is lacking, it's half my own mix based of subs super soil and half crap for a gardening store. I have been top dressing all year with bio live, kelp, alfalfa, bat guano. I use compost and casting teas. In flower I've been using me bs green trees, molasses, earth juice bloom and make sure my ph is over 5.8.

Thanks in advance for any input.
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Shit man, Grease is way better at this than I am! If I was to guess, and it is a guess, I would say that your PH is off. I think that is about the only time that I have seen spots that were not caused by bugs. Really, your stuff does not look that bad either!!!

Do you have any compost or worm castings? They seem to help with just about any problem in soil!
 
norcal mmj

norcal mmj

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MustangStudFarm said:
Shit man, Grease is way better at this than I am! If I was to guess, and it is a guess, I would say that your PH is off. I think that is about the only time that I have seen spots that were not caused by bugs. Really, your stuff does not look that bad either!!!

Do you have any compost or worm castings? They seem to help with just about any problem in soil!
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Ran out of both of them. I water my whole garden the same, so I would think they would all be unhappy...but who knows. Thanks I'm hoping for a good harvest this year.
 
MeJuana

MeJuana

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Here's my latest compost pile. I meant to take photos the entire way through but I tweaked my back on the first 50 pound bag of stuff.
Leaves + Grass layers. 10 pounds fish bone meal, 7 pounds fish meal and alfalfa meal, 5 pounds of shrimp+crab meal, 25 lbs alfalfa meal, 4 cups Oyster Shell Flour, 2 cups Gypsum, 2 cups epsom salt, 25 pounds of Phosphorus bat guano and glacial rock. 5 pounds soft rock phosphates. 4 pounds Dr.Earth Flower Girl that I had extra. Going to add a couple more things as my budget recovers. Besides that list of stuff I also added months of veg/fruit kitchen waste, so many banana peals that's why I added the guano. (compost bin is 2 feet deep, by 6 feet wide by 4 feet long)
Before:
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After:
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P.S. norcal mmj see what you think about Potassium deficiency
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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norcal mmj said:
Hey guys @MustangStudFarm @greasemonkeymann, got a question. 2 of my plants have leaves that look like this. View attachment 3788987View attachment 3788988View attachment 3788991 They are the same strain from seed. I have been thinking a magnesium problem but can correct it. They will finish the season no problem but I would like to ID my problem.

My soil mix is lacking, it's half my own mix based of subs super soil and half crap for a gardening store. I have been top dressing all year with bio live, kelp, alfalfa, bat guano. I use compost and casting teas. In flower I've been using me bs green trees, molasses, earth juice bloom and make sure my ph is over 5.8.

Thanks in advance for any input.
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hmmm..
well..
to be honest it's hard to say, it's possible it may actually be a magnesium toxicity issue rather than a def, almost all the inputs you are using will have mag in it, and that can in turn lock out calcium, which is what i'd be leaning to.
I've had leaves go like that when I used too much BSM.
being this far into flowering what i'd do is give them a "chill-out" time, like a week or so with nothing but water, or perhaps a AACT with minimal molasses used.
But bio-live, kelp, BSM, alfalfa, and guano should cover damn near anything.
Probably not much you can do to remedy that, this late in the game, but it won't hurt her too much, and from the looks it looks llike it'll be down in mid October or so anyways
 
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