⚠︎ Brother OneHitDone Goes Organic ⚠︎ #Grean Bicycles Growing

Day 70 and it was time to take these girls down. Could have squeaked out another few days but the patients are getting antsy.


Got my amendments together and blended them with a couple qt's of Bu's Blend Compost to cut the dust down before adding to the bed.



Bed all reset and ready for the next round

Sweet Black Angel seedlings are coming along nicely. Will be time to take some clones and flower these girls out pretty soon

Looking great bro! You're doing no-till in the beds now right? You just shake the root balls off and then re-amend? I have to do some reading back through the thread and catch up. I haven't been getting notifications of all these updates!

vitalsine said:

Looking great bro! You're doing no-till in the beds now right? You just shake the root balls off and then re-amend? I have to do some reading back through the thread and catch up. I haven't been getting notifications of all these updates!

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I am doing Organic Recyled soil. I turn over the top layer and mix the amendments in where as No-Tillars loose their shit if you disturb anything and it seems a fuzzy cover crop is a requirement

I am trying to do Turn and Burn Organics

Do you top dress with anything during the grow?

myke said:

Do you top dress with anything during the grow?

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No. I was doing the tea thing but that get's old quick so working on just amending enough into the soil upfront.
Plants are only in the beds for the duration of the flower cycle. No vegging in beds

New Starter / Clone / Veg mix I am experimenting with

Nice! Just switching over from hydro.My clone mix is basic base,1 cup kelp, 1.5 cup Gaia 4-4-4.4 cups rock dust per 7.5 gallon. Cook 30 days. I just transplanted some in fingers crossed.So use to the hydro coco deal,time will tell i guess.

myke said:

Nice! Just switching over from hydro.My clone mix is basic base,1 cup kelp, 1.5 cup Gaia 4-4-4.4 cups rock dust per 7.5 gallon. Cook 30 days. I just transplanted some in fingers crossed.So use to the hydro coco deal,time will tell i guess.

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Do you have a journal going where we can follow your progress with the organic mixes?

OneHitDone said:

Do you have a journal going where we can follow your progress with the organic mixes?

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No,still reading learning etc..Enjoy reading yours though.

@OneHitDone just read through this. a great way to spend a saturday afternoon watching someone do & accomplish what me & most others dream of. keep going strong brother.

OneHitDone said:

Helping some family out with their first grow. This is my first attempt at scratch mixing soil without using anything pre blended such as Sunshine #4.
Ingredients that went into the mix were:
Peat
Perlite
Dolomite Lime
Gypsum
Greensand
Earthworm Castings
Grean Bicycles Ocean Bounty amendment

Has been water only and all I can say is WOW!

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I tried using peat a number of years ago, found it way to salty. When I make a soil mix for my house plants I add coco instead of peat.
I have also doubled up on earthworm castings. Can't wait to do an organic soil grow, what is your usual yield from your 4x4?

OneHitDone said:

Have plans for a worm bed but with all of the Honey Do's around the house it is taking longer than planned to get to it. Definitely on the list and will be a great way to minimize inputs.

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OHD, Look at the plans for the OSCR Jr. from the Oregon Soil Conservation group. It is a stackable worm bin. https://ucanr.edu/sites/EDC_Master_Gardeners/files/306167.pdf
I built around 50 of these when I was in NorCal, to sell vermicompost and also make vermicompost tea that I also sold at farmers markets around the area.
When I left California I went to both Boy and Girl Scout troops taught them how to maintain the bins and gave all of the the kids. I kept my Can-O-Worms to bring back to Texas and I lost them the first winter to a big freeze.

OneHitDone said:

Note that I have ditched the Blumat system.
Wasn't fully happy with the performance.
Had one overwatering issue and the nail in the coffin was inspection of my soil after harvest. The water distribution along the BluSoak hose was not anywhere close to as uniform as I would have liked. Dry pocket right next to a constantly damp patch.
Back to hand water with a wand. Besides, it's only like every 3 days with beds

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I tried the also and lost the entire run, went out of town and came back to a full rez and a dead tent.

gr865 said:

I tried using peat a number of years ago, found it way to salty. When I make a soil mix for my house plants I add coco instead of peat.
I have also doubled up on earthworm castings. Can't wait to do an organic soil grow, what is your usual yield from your 4x4?

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1.5-2

It all looks great the OHD, can't wait to see this grows yield numbers.

Quick garden update:
Side A is rocking and rolling! Flowering this run under Hortilux Blue Metal Halide. Wanna see if I can hit similar yield to previous 2 runs under HPS.




Side B was harvested and reset.
Running out a 10 Pack of the Sweet Black Angel to look for a keeper, A Ringo's Gift, and a bunch of fresh out of rooting Cherry Pie.
Should be an interesting shit show

Quick update from the garden. Things seem to be going Ape Shit under the Blue Metal Halide.

Side A





Side B
The Sweet Black Angel testers with the Ringo's Gift and all of the Cherry Pies are starting to shape up into a workable canopy

Time for a quick garden update.

Things are looking very nice all the way around under True "Full Spectrum" Light
Blood Diamond





Sweet Black Angel / Cherry Pie

Quick garden update.
Just coming into week 6 on the Blood Diamonds





Sweet Black Angel / Cherry Pie