The Dons' Organic Garden
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DonTesla
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Big mama is smelling SUPER SWEET..unlike her sisters generation past.. A new phenomenon I mean pheno! Chernobyl Citrus Haze...? Agh its too early yet lol.. It's week two or three or something only. .
Just gonna wait til she's fat and frosty then ill reallynstart watching the trix..but @DonPetro is gonna go inna dee trance when he smell her he been on a job girls miss him
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ive got holy grail from dna beans....og 18 x kosher I believe...so far 4 out of 4 keeper...prob next beans to be popped again cause all 4 had potency and legs...flavor not my concern...im all about the ride....
DonTesla
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I hear dat mon.. weh Dons Love the ride too.. I bet that og18 gives her a nice twist..our foxtailing Vortex bubba has a right beauuuuuuuuuuutiful lift (despite her less than beautiful flavour..) But it's worth it every time mon taste is for seconds the ride lasts up to hours hahahahahahahaha
DonTesla
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What's ur fav Nowww, bro!? Haven't seen u since u brought those nuggets home hahahahahahaha. Just buggin ya dawg.. I just blazed a bowl of ace outta clean glass and wow she almost knocked me out .. Surprisingly potent but now that I think about it, it was the colas lower side nug .. Not only is she more loaded there, it's more narcotic too mon, she's matured
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DonPetro
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Been dealing with some major shit. Nothing personal dawg.
DonTesla
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Question: How much water would a pail of marijuana, wanna hold on ta, if a pail of marijuana did wanna hold on ta water? Ie. say you got a plant in a 10Gal Pot of soil medium.. how much tea/microbe booster juice would a brotha wanna make.. and how much water for his water days? any thoughts or rough ideas, gents? lets assume its been transplanted and we are talking about heavy waterings not a water logging of course but a good solid root drench with a little bit of run off, just as needed (from a point lower drought stress, even, as a max).. and with that being said is there a frequency u prefer to water? how often u go to lower drought stress (LDS) vs say Zero Drought Stress (ZDS)? Fyi I'm rocking 3 and 5 gallos now (both plastic and smart, as u know) but using 10gallon so its easy to ratio for others after! including me, lol @DonPetro @stowandgrow Hope this one is a challenge for my savvy bredgrens who make everything-mary look easy all dee time.. haha.
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DonTesla
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major? Like smoke reports? jk u must mean like serious major,.. lemme know if u want or need help brotha.. not that i don't take smoke reports serious, haha
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DonTesla
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ORGANIC ACT "TEA" 101" aka "Microbial Extrapolation" via Aerated "tea" or Airlift Bioreacting as MicrobeMan calls it…the following is paraphrased and summarized in portion with all rights and respects going to Tim his site is LogicalGardener.org and he is a boss for breaking it down the way he did, i recommend his site, its a great read, here is merely an intro for those getting into it or those curious how the Dons roll.. microbe wise his work is the best I've found yet, his farm is NO JOKE..)
*TEAS! TELL ME Why?
Stimulates growth mon! feeds soil..and then plants.. being a Microbe Multiplier..
(Essentially the rhizosphere is inoculated with millions of Microbes, whose own processes use only ~40% of their own energy, the rest on the energy is ionically passed onto the plants when the microbes expire, making massive nutrients bioavailable to the plant in a form they can easily transport up stem)
*OK. SO HOW we do dis, den, mon!!?
(There's a HUGE variety of different "tea" recipes out there). I wanted to sift thru the myths and go with data-backed, documented results since we rocking some super beautifully amended living soil RIGHT next to some 5 gallon, mained for 8, humus rich, EWC and Coir (basic) soil (using perlite for aeration/microbe stations). The following recipes will be 100% all natural, and organic as always. Minimal or zero teas on the left (thanks to @DonPetro) and max organic feeding on the right. Thanks to StowandGrow, (big up!), this is adopted from Microbe Man's Website (LogicalGardender.org) where Tims wicked extensive research bun dem myths..his farm trials were monitored via microscope so they can see micro-beasty reactions on an hour by hour basis..these are the results and final conclusions of their hundreds of massive farm experiments.
So WHATS da MOST basic yet MOST effective way!!??
Tims go-to tea or "Microbial Extrapolation", after hundreds and hundreds of trials, most the time, surprisingly…has only 3 ingredients!
1. Good Water free of Chlorine and Chloramine
2. Vermicompost (VC, or EWC)
3. Organic BlackStrap Molasses (BSM, unsulphured*!)
*in a ratio of
-Amount of Water you use
~40:1 Water to Vermicompost (or 2.38% of total) (42:1 is exact ratio he reps)
200:1 Water to Molasses (or 0.5% of total)
SO HOW MUCH FOR ME DEN!!?? TELL ME BOUT DA SCOOP!
Basically volume is better than weight cause water is heavy. Converted for us medicinal home growers I have broke it down a bit:
23.8mL of VermiCompost or EWC per 1000mL of water/tea
1.5Tbsp per Litre
6.5 Tbsp per 1 Gallon batch
2 Cups per 5 Gallon Batch
and
5 mL of B.StrapMolasses per 1000 ML =
1 tsp per Litre =
4 tsp per 1 Gallon =
~6.5Tbsp per 5 Gallon Batch
(where Tbsp = Tablespoons =15ml and tsp = teaspoon = 5ml, and gallons rounded to 4L cause there are two measurements for gallons, a US gallon has 3.78 litres where UK gallons have 4.54 litres, i like litres they have 1000 mls in em but i have friends in both so heres to us all haha)
JAHJAH! So HOW LONG, boi?
For best results and maximum amounts of all three microbial populations aim for these temps and times although success has been found in other areas to, just not quite as much.
***36 hours - 42 hours ideal, no less than 24
… yall can knock a good 12-18 hours off your activation time with a BSM Spray on your VC, with a lil wheat bran soak, see Microbe Mans link below))
HOW HOT, mon!?
Ambient temps of your grow is best .. or 18-22*C or 65-72*F but extremes have been successful
HOW OFTEN?!
At the proper strength (nice and weak), it is hard to harm ur plants with this.. every watering is ok until microbial populations are at a max, according to Microbe Man.. took him bout 9 years to
get his farm perfect now the microbes take care of themselves)
HOW MUCH to DILUTE?
No need surprisingly, at these sweet scientific ratios, mon. Water spreads the microbial populations out and is just a carrier. in MicrobeMans experience, he applies the "tea" in undiluted form and waters more that day "only if necessary".. his explanations are here, great page:
https://logicalgardener.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=41&sid=15a026b3c1395f92e3a41685e38d5e9a
IS an AQUARIUM PUMP good to aerate a 5 GALLON BREW?
NO. U want a certain flow of air and certain level of dissolved Oxygen (D.o2). You want 0.08CFM / gallon of water and 6+PPM (trust, son) so an aquarium pump will should do 2 gallon fairly well and for sure good for a 1 gallon (or less). Too much O2 is hard to achieve so don't worry. I.e. you would need to be violently spilling. get glass fused airstone after you clog ur cheap one, it will last. Best to soak stone before and after tea as well.
TELL ME BOUT DA STRAINERS!!??
400 micron is the sweet spot but no need unless your foliar spraying, but we're not big on that since we smoke this fruit.
But you may more various reasons so nylon paint strainers will tide you over for a while.. its better than panty hose.. one of the microbeasties can't get thru it.
TELL ME BOUT DA TKO!!
ALSO! if feeding via a spout, try not to have a 90* angle in it, its like Knocking out or crashing all your micro life into a brick wall before dropping them onto the canvas (soil bed)
Happy Brewing, Bredgrens! Advanced teas covered next, where lots of ingredients have good and counter-effects as well!! So we will sift thru the shitt, and come up with some GOLD!
Again thanks to @DonPetro and @stowandgrow for dee kickstart, and the MicrobeMan of course!! BIGUP!
*TEAS! TELL ME Why?
Stimulates growth mon! feeds soil..and then plants.. being a Microbe Multiplier..
(Essentially the rhizosphere is inoculated with millions of Microbes, whose own processes use only ~40% of their own energy, the rest on the energy is ionically passed onto the plants when the microbes expire, making massive nutrients bioavailable to the plant in a form they can easily transport up stem)
*OK. SO HOW we do dis, den, mon!!?
(There's a HUGE variety of different "tea" recipes out there). I wanted to sift thru the myths and go with data-backed, documented results since we rocking some super beautifully amended living soil RIGHT next to some 5 gallon, mained for 8, humus rich, EWC and Coir (basic) soil (using perlite for aeration/microbe stations). The following recipes will be 100% all natural, and organic as always. Minimal or zero teas on the left (thanks to @DonPetro) and max organic feeding on the right. Thanks to StowandGrow, (big up!), this is adopted from Microbe Man's Website (LogicalGardender.org) where Tims wicked extensive research bun dem myths..his farm trials were monitored via microscope so they can see micro-beasty reactions on an hour by hour basis..these are the results and final conclusions of their hundreds of massive farm experiments.
So WHATS da MOST basic yet MOST effective way!!??
Tims go-to tea or "Microbial Extrapolation", after hundreds and hundreds of trials, most the time, surprisingly…has only 3 ingredients!
1. Good Water free of Chlorine and Chloramine
2. Vermicompost (VC, or EWC)
3. Organic BlackStrap Molasses (BSM, unsulphured*!)
*in a ratio of
-Amount of Water you use
~40:1 Water to Vermicompost (or 2.38% of total) (42:1 is exact ratio he reps)
200:1 Water to Molasses (or 0.5% of total)
SO HOW MUCH FOR ME DEN!!?? TELL ME BOUT DA SCOOP!
Basically volume is better than weight cause water is heavy. Converted for us medicinal home growers I have broke it down a bit:
23.8mL of VermiCompost or EWC per 1000mL of water/tea
1.5Tbsp per Litre
6.5 Tbsp per 1 Gallon batch
2 Cups per 5 Gallon Batch
and
5 mL of B.StrapMolasses per 1000 ML =
1 tsp per Litre =
4 tsp per 1 Gallon =
~6.5Tbsp per 5 Gallon Batch
(where Tbsp = Tablespoons =15ml and tsp = teaspoon = 5ml, and gallons rounded to 4L cause there are two measurements for gallons, a US gallon has 3.78 litres where UK gallons have 4.54 litres, i like litres they have 1000 mls in em but i have friends in both so heres to us all haha)
JAHJAH! So HOW LONG, boi?
For best results and maximum amounts of all three microbial populations aim for these temps and times although success has been found in other areas to, just not quite as much.
***36 hours - 42 hours ideal, no less than 24
… yall can knock a good 12-18 hours off your activation time with a BSM Spray on your VC, with a lil wheat bran soak, see Microbe Mans link below))
HOW HOT, mon!?
Ambient temps of your grow is best .. or 18-22*C or 65-72*F but extremes have been successful
HOW OFTEN?!
At the proper strength (nice and weak), it is hard to harm ur plants with this.. every watering is ok until microbial populations are at a max, according to Microbe Man.. took him bout 9 years to
get his farm perfect now the microbes take care of themselves)
HOW MUCH to DILUTE?
No need surprisingly, at these sweet scientific ratios, mon. Water spreads the microbial populations out and is just a carrier. in MicrobeMans experience, he applies the "tea" in undiluted form and waters more that day "only if necessary".. his explanations are here, great page:
https://logicalgardener.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=41&sid=15a026b3c1395f92e3a41685e38d5e9a
IS an AQUARIUM PUMP good to aerate a 5 GALLON BREW?
NO. U want a certain flow of air and certain level of dissolved Oxygen (D.o2). You want 0.08CFM / gallon of water and 6+PPM (trust, son) so an aquarium pump will should do 2 gallon fairly well and for sure good for a 1 gallon (or less). Too much O2 is hard to achieve so don't worry. I.e. you would need to be violently spilling. get glass fused airstone after you clog ur cheap one, it will last. Best to soak stone before and after tea as well.
TELL ME BOUT DA STRAINERS!!??
400 micron is the sweet spot but no need unless your foliar spraying, but we're not big on that since we smoke this fruit.
But you may more various reasons so nylon paint strainers will tide you over for a while.. its better than panty hose.. one of the microbeasties can't get thru it.TELL ME BOUT DA TKO!!
ALSO! if feeding via a spout, try not to have a 90* angle in it, its like Knocking out or crashing all your micro life into a brick wall before dropping them onto the canvas (soil bed)
Happy Brewing, Bredgrens! Advanced teas covered next, where lots of ingredients have good and counter-effects as well!! So we will sift thru the shitt, and come up with some GOLD!
Again thanks to @DonPetro and @stowandgrow for dee kickstart, and the MicrobeMan of course!! BIGUP!
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in terms of watering into 10 gallon...depends on plant size/root development. are these final size for transplant or is clone/seedling going direct to 10 gallon...makes mucho difference. I always water two or three times on my water days spread few hours apart. I like to start in small containers and transplant from 1 to 3 to 7. root ball always very established before transplant as well as fluffy soil so difficult to over water. by the time mine hit 7 gallons and are flowering Im giving um 2 gallons every 3 days. sometimes runoff first water but let it sit for a while and second water stays in usually. then third water gets some runoff.....every root in a very developed root mass getting a drink....if ever a sighn of drought stress on bottom I water asap. my soil gots to be little moist as I am anti tea myself....microbes need moisture so I don't do big dry downs. been at for more than a while now and for me....its my way to skin the cat
DonTesla
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Nice bro. I LIKE. 1 to 3 to 7 sounds about my style but my pots haven't come in mail yet.. so.. These ones are going from a super-well developed 1 gallon intelligent pot that have been chilling under 4 T5s for about 3 months while i waited for my 10 week strains to finish (started same time, some were gonna go elsewhere but didn't).. now they've been under the 400W Full Spectrum and T5s for a GOOD couple weeks.. and into their 5 gallon pot for a good week. There root balls were solid as hell to the tap. and its more like a 4 gallon cause 1/2 gallon of drainage in the bottom and 1/2 gallon of mulch on top (a good 1.5 inches each).. so about a Liter per gallon of soil every three days, with a triple staggered watering.. great, thanks for the input, bruh, big up.. doing every 3 days isn't a prob for the topsoil? u rocking plastic pots then or?
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yep...hard plastic round ones.....in the end of my trials I liked um best overall....I pickup my pots to move and rotate on the regs...big ass plants ( 5 to 7 ft with 20+ tops) sturdy ass pots a must not to reek havoc on soil structure....but as mentioned before dense root balls help combat compaction looks like we be of like mind
also T, watering every 3 days heavy isn't a prob for my plants due to well developed root mass and loamy soil....as long as it doesn't compact easily it works...if a freshly transplanted girl is having N issues though, probably too moist as too moist a medium seems to prohibit N uptake
