The Dons' Organic Garden

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HeadyYonder

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Your stuff always looks super fire man,that's why I ask. Oh and hps kills the electric bill :p
DonTesla said:
I forgot to mention I'm putting a mini rooftop garden on the bunny hi rise for seedlings and sprouts, mostly food for the bunny, like frass radish and clover,
Oh yeah, and a lil hinged door

@HeadyYonder

This is just one measurement and not my preffered stat, but I'm in the 1-1.2 GPW range, on my 120 watt 4000k's, depending on :

strain, veg time, if i add myco, push my water and baby my heights and rotations, and give them good room and fresh air, and a staggered Harvey if not cola Dom

And with the 3500k 4cob beast I can pull a pound in a 2x3 bed, and its like 250w so guess lil closer to 2

Veg times:

Usually veg smaller plants/new strains for a month or less then flip

Bigger plants/normal sativas/Third genners for bout 55 -60 days ideally, give or take 10

And land race sativas for 75, no less!

As for gravy its a rare terp profile and a visually strong one at that, and yea it was a pheno hunt, like 38 seeds we popped and one one was the gravy but the breeder we know specializes in this strain and just dies to get this kind of quality and smell in his SLCh phenos..
It's something that is about 1:50 to 1:100 rare and has an easier time expressing itself under DIYLeD in a soil-fed organic custom build, now why do u ask bra!?
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DonTesla

DonTesla

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HeadyYonder said:
Your stuff always looks super fire man,that's why I ask. Oh and hps kills the electric bill :p
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Thanks, yonder!

I hear you about the hps, bruh,
It's like almost 20$ a month per 1000w but with the led setup I have the whole grow on a few amps (not to mention healthier plants with happier metabolisms) and the whole thing costs me like 5 bucks a month to run, including fans and filters, its crazy.
I need less inlines per room, less venting, and less air conditioning
Plus no buying $50 bulbs every hundred days to keep efficiency from dropping off

Plus the lights stay so cool that you can push your heights to get crazy fat nugs that are dense. Some strains can take it, I ran my chocolate at ten to 12 inches, and got several fat, fresh, resinous 100g nuggets like this:
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DANKSWAG

DANKSWAG

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DANKSWAG said:
Hi DT,

Thanks for the reply. Trying to praise KISS in my organic aka natural grow. Trying to source all my soil components locally, that is what I can borrow from nature that is all around free for taking.

Once I figure out Coot`s barely tea I'll start doing a side by side test.
1. Control plant - no foliar spray - soil feed only
2. Standard EWC tea foliar spray
3. Coot's enzyme tea foliar spray
4. Combo of EWC & foliar spray

I'll take 4 clones to document and post results of that.
Building a vortex brewer to replace non vortex, see if that helps too.

I've heard through the grapevine that wear the green sand mining pit is, that it shut down and then green sand will be no more? Have you any info on that?

I also picked up some microbe Catalyst do you know anything about how best to use this?

Also could you point me to the link where you wrote about how to use coconut for propagation?
I just bought a coconut at the grocery store I should be able to open that up and use the water in it correct?

Also for germinating seeds can I just soak seeds in it as well and for how long?

I wish I had more time to visit this site and read up more sorry to be asking for directions to think you've probably already written about?

Have a Danktastic Weekend

DankSwag
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Hi All,

I just wanted to update some personal observations of using worm leachate recently in my base seedling soil. I spend enough time creating my own living soil for vegging and flowering that I depend on Black Gold natural & organic potting soil with worm castings as my seedling soil that I plant my cuttings in for propagation. I've posted on how effective it was to use Aloe Vera as a natural rooting stimulant and have show side by side comparisons on how it out performed CloneX cuttings taken from same plants at same time.

Well I probably haven't stumbled across anything new here, and I've had decent success with cuttings rooting well within 7-10 days. But recently I am seeing rooting and new shoots taking place within 72 to 96 hours after transplant. The only thing that has changed is that I have been recently adding moisture back to this potting soil using a 1:10 ration with rain water. I've got 2 to 3 new shoots per cutting. Top leaf set praying along with good lower leaf fullness. So anywise I just want to confirm that for me using worm leachate is significant and has made a big difference in time to root and overall health. I tend to propagate a couple of extra cuttings in case one or two didn't take. Well, that is no longer a need. This is the second set, a more difficult strain to root and it took quickly. I am frigging stoked. Been looking data to confirm on web no luck, but as I said I am sure I am not the first to report, but I can confirm its amazing the difference I have seen.

PS still trying to source my organic barely straw, if anyone knows a source in Pacific Northwest area let me know.

Dank Swagging it...
 
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DonTesla

DonTesla

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DANKSWAG said:
.. I am seeing rooting and new shoots taking place within 72 to 96 hours after transplant. The only thing that has changed is that I have been recently adding moisture back to this potting soil using a 1:10 ration with rain water.

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Killer times, bro

So real aloe is the shit hey, not to mention leachate and rain water..

I'm gonna try that a bit since I have both avail

Much love to all those posting findings here..

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Organic Kosher from seed, so tasty its not funny
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Vnsmkr said:
No ones putting anything out yet I would throw money at, even if I had it ;). @ttystikk had a custom set of COB's built to spec
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...and I would not recommend that approach to others.

Being a little closer to the LED industry than others may be, I respectfully disagree with the above assessment;

IMHO, COB LED is already better and cheaper in terms of life cycle costs than any HID lighting options, including DE HPS and 315W CMH lights.

Efficiency is the highlight, but spectrum and longevity are just as impressive. There are lots of good choices in the market. Do your homework.
 
Vnsmkr

Vnsmkr

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ttystikk said:
...and I would not recommend that approach to others.

Being a little closer to the LED industry than others may be, I respectfully disagree with the above assessment;

IMHO, COB LED is already better and cheaper in terms of life cycle costs than any HID lighting options, including DE HPS and 315W CMH lights.

Efficiency is the highlight, but spectrum and longevity are just as impressive. There are lots of good choices in the market. Do your homework.
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Well, the question still remains Ttystikk. What are the good choices then?
 
DonTesla

DonTesla

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Cobs are the best choice for every reason except one:

- they aren't readily available at over 99% local stores - lol

But that's where this thread comes in handy, thanks @Vnsmkr
For being persistent and feeling at home here

Thanks @ttystikk for poppin by and chiming in
This is one area worth doing homework in, I guess its time to leave the kitchen for a bit..

@DonPetro if you have time to build i have organic glue worth misplacing lol

here's your SourD bagseed cured up 100 days and still lookin mighty pristine, i just have to post it up!
This speary 3rd gen was done via our cobs and 2nd latest soil, and she under the macro here

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Cave of bulbous trichs

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