farm hippie
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These are auto flowers. They are litteraly eight weeks old from a seed. I usually average about two plus oz a plant depending on strain. This is my first soil grow with these.
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farm hippie
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And I just keep a 20/4 light schedule
farm hippie
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Down in the lower left corner you see a couple full moon sativas starting plus a mystery plant. They will get transplanted next week when this grow is done and put on twelve and twelve for the grueling 14-16 week flower period. Hope they are worth it. These will go into the complete from the farm soil I made which will begin the rols for me
DonTesla
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Sweet reply! Looking forward to the pics! Feel free to post in The Dons Organic Garden or inbox anytime, bra!Hey thank you bro, i went for a pump that pumps 250 litre an hour, it has a shutter so u can adjust the flow though, as for the diagram i have changed the setup a bit.
All 4 pots now have a micro tap, i went and got 8mm and 10mm clear tubing but screwed it up and kept it aside cause it was too thick to build pressure, went for thinner back tubing cause apparently clear tubing cud build algae, ill take a picture of the setup later when lights come on so u can have a better look, i have to tweak the flow rates tonight and get things sorted cause tomorrow im leaving possibly till monday, i also have to tweak the level of the bucket id say just below where the pipes are is chilled or u could play around to see what u prefer, no doubt if u keep the bucket above it will siphon all the water and flood your pots lol, i did find that out while building, i thought the pump might of had a back pressure valve or sumthing but i was wrong although i could just buy one i guess. Peace Don !
farm hippie
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Btw autos just need a strong start. Give em a chance to build a good root system up front and your good to go.
I grow them because I have to stay four plants or less and I can usually get about eight to twelve oz every nine to ten weeks.
Although I do like to grow a " normal" photo period grow from time to time. Depending on the strain some autos are on par in potency with regs.
a senile fungus
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I'm so happy I chose to go organic!
Water only so far, a couple plants have gotten top dressed with alfalfa and kelp meal as needed. They've just been transplanted to 5gal pots from 1gal.
The two in the 1gal pots are stunted and probably will get tossed, I haven't the heart to cull them yet. I'm keeping the two runts in the 1gal pots and I top dressed with a heavily amended soil to see what happens...
I'll be flipping to flower in about a week, although I'd love to veg them for a couple more weeks.
Any questions just ask! My neighbors who grow are blown away at my 'water only' technique.
Water only so far, a couple plants have gotten top dressed with alfalfa and kelp meal as needed. They've just been transplanted to 5gal pots from 1gal.
The two in the 1gal pots are stunted and probably will get tossed, I haven't the heart to cull them yet. I'm keeping the two runts in the 1gal pots and I top dressed with a heavily amended soil to see what happens...
I'll be flipping to flower in about a week, although I'd love to veg them for a couple more weeks.
Any questions just ask! My neighbors who grow are blown away at my 'water only' technique.
DonPetro
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What was the best auto you've grown in terms of overall quality?(potency, taste, smell)
farm hippie
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Auto Maria 2 was really sweet piney smell. Decent yield about three oz. high was one of those creepers that sneaks up on you with a happy hammer and makes you say" powder my balls with pixie dust and fly me like a kite" good one two toke weed. The other was fast bud. Litteral sixty day from seed to cut. Yield was about an oz and half per so not great but talk about smelling like candy and nice mellow high. Giddy but not racey with a mellow come down.
Just tried a sample of the auto pounder with cheese. It's premature and dried two days by woodstove but high is happy and it does taste green for sure but hints of cheese are there. I think it will be a good candidate.
a senile fungus
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I've tried Think Different and I liked it so much that I ordered some seeds!
I want to see how the autos do outside in Michigan. It would be nice to have an outdoor crop finished and harvested by the time that the photo plants are just starting to flower....
farm hippie
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know what you mean. Tried growing outside but a cow got loose and ate it about week or so from harvest. Was sick over that. So I stick to indoors. Plus too many deer and wild boar out here
SouthernSoil*
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Awe! thank you bro, ill try my best to take a shot or two then follow up with u on the weekend, ive been pumping water into clear sandwich baggies adjusting the micro taps, things are looking very promising, only thing im not sure about is if i should apply mulch then lay down the irrigation rings, it seems it would be way better seeing as i can slightly bury the rings in between the mulch ! would you say its cool to lay down alfalfa as mulch or too strong ? I havent fed yet and im about a week into flower. Thank you Bro ! Much respect.
DonTesla
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Sounds like you're making good progress, SS.. As for the water placement, I'd maybe put it about 80% deep into that mulch so there's a thin buffer..I like to keep the fungal mulch a bit dry so its more effective, an advantage most guys cant enjoy, but its also nice to have a bit of coverage for the topsoil, both for micro life protection and for soil aeration .. As for alfalfa I'd say make a tea it's perfect time for some of its reduced nodal spacing-effects but she too hot to do it raw, bra
Check you this wknd,
DT
Bueno Time
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I added two gallons of homemade vermicompost to my soil batch for next run. First harvest of homemade castings so Im real curious to see how much better this works, everything in the soil mix is the same as this run Im finishing up now except I added that extra 2 gallons of VC to make ~20 gallons of mix total for this batch but I also added for the first time ~5% biochar that I innoculated with a shitload of fish hydrolysate, fish emulsion, some leftover ACT, a little molasses and lacto b serum and a handful of native dirt (which is shit here lol).
Anyone using biochar in their mix? You notice much difference? Its supposed to have the most dramatic resultst in less fertile soils but works well at keeping even fertile soils more fertile and for longer.
Im using it first time in this batch and adding some to the current soil batch I have plants finishing up in ~1-2 weeks from harvest. Then after the next run with the homemade VC/biochar mix Im going to add the two batches together into a 40+ gallon no till in my 2x3 tent. It will be awesome to just plug clones in each cycle and top dress/mulch comfrey (bought 6 of em and planted em a week or so ago), vermicompost, dry amendments, living mulches, etc. And do some real proper organic gardening.
Anyway Im pretty baked and started rambling on about my own stuff but really I came here to ask who is using biochar.
Anyone using biochar in their mix? You notice much difference? Its supposed to have the most dramatic resultst in less fertile soils but works well at keeping even fertile soils more fertile and for longer.
Im using it first time in this batch and adding some to the current soil batch I have plants finishing up in ~1-2 weeks from harvest. Then after the next run with the homemade VC/biochar mix Im going to add the two batches together into a 40+ gallon no till in my 2x3 tent. It will be awesome to just plug clones in each cycle and top dress/mulch comfrey (bought 6 of em and planted em a week or so ago), vermicompost, dry amendments, living mulches, etc. And do some real proper organic gardening.
Anyway Im pretty baked and started rambling on about my own stuff but really I came here to ask who is using biochar.
a senile fungus
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I used biochar but it's my first soil mix so I've no idea if it does anything or not...
SouthernSoil*
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Like you said u like autoflower cause how fast it is, dope though dude ! We all got our different needs : )
Hey bro, all ended up cool with the rings all of them were flowing but i only layed them 20% deep for now so i could monitor their flow, i layed down the alfalfa but it was very dry as i kept it open in its bag for 3 months, i didnt add alot but do u mean its too hot to add it as mulch or too hot to compost raw bro ? Bro i set my timer to go on 10:00 am Sunday and off at 10:02 sunday i got paranoid thinking this will run for a week lol i take it im wrong ? Otherwise my plants are going to get a bit over a gallon of water split between them and a ceased pump, shit i was so late and in a rush i didnt test it or take pics for you. Peace bro thank you for the help
SouthernSoil*
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Hey thank you bro i have some river sand apparently triple washed but i can make that quadruple, although i already added the alfalfa bro
SouthernSoil*
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One heads up ! Only buy earthed submersible pumps ! Apparently illegal and its dangerous to buy unearthed pumps
st0wandgrow
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Round two for this batch of soil. C-99 calling this bucket home
