Growing and going full tilt No Till

[oldjarhead100]

Paracelsus the one plant could have had just a little to hot soil if it doesn't get worse you should be ok so I built the vortec tea maker everything went well and I wanted to try it out but alas I ran into a problem I couldn't overcome . yes that grey thing on top is the air stone LOL I laughed like hell when I saw it WHO Knew so its off to hydro store today lol

[Paracelsus]

Damn look at you, that is so cool. Did you glue the pieces together though is that red or brown stuff to attach the parts together? I will I’m not sure

[oldjarhead100]

I did glue it all together but the brown pipe is from my Garden outside I ran out of new pipe so I grabbed one of my solar light stands the cleaner was purple and the glue blue and that shit dont come off I used turpentine and borax figured the borax is like 80 grit sand paper lol

[Paracelsus]

That concerns me oldjarhead100. Most of the designs and I’ve looked at many different ones are designed to be broken down for cleaning of all organic matter to prevent it from going anaerobic and contaiminating your brew. The easier it is to take apart and put together again the better the design.
For example this commercially available Posiden AACT Brewer. https://youtu.be/zWS2zBtKu8Q

[GreenhouseEffect]

If the leaves were really pointed up a lot during the light being close, that could have been an early sign of too much light as well, they can point almost straight up if they are getting to much light.
I think your right about giving them some patience and time next, plants do need a good amount of just doing there thing as well, as growers, we always want to be DOING things to help them, so hard to just be patient sometimes, at least for me, Lol!

Wonder if they need another transplant soon though,?!? Needing water everyday is pretty frequent for plants in soil, especially if your keeping the humidity up.

Took a note from Jorge yesterday, and side dressed my vedged plants yesterday with some manure, seemed to LOVE it, also watering with worm tea now, might try to quit using the Botanicare now. Had really good super soil in my beds, but was pretty depleted from the last grow, time to give my soil some lovin'!

[Paracelsus]

Thanks for your considerate response, you are so right. So I top dressed some fresh soil and worm compost mix around 12 noon I went to my Community garden and work till around four. Just before I left I pulled some watercress parsley cilantro washed it took off the roots chopped it up and lathat on top as mulch, a green much as IPM on all four plants.
We must be doing something lol. I upped the water this morning. Good reaction then I dressed it with a good inch of soil/worm compost

I think the worst leaf ate itself.

[Paracelsus]

[Paracelsus]

[GreenhouseEffect]

Last pictures are looking quite happy. So what is the idea behind the green mulch? Is it just replenishing organic matter, and feeding your soil and beneficials? Seems like it could be a really great tool during summer, when I need to cool off my garden and shade the soil.

[Paracelsus]

Exactly and the green mulch turns to brown mulch, cilantro and mint are good IPM in foler and as a mulch plus any mulch helps keep the top of the plant damp which is very important in living soil for microbial life, Frank like it too, keeps him out of the light when he has the munchies.

[oldjarhead100]

hey Paracelsus would you do me a favor would you go outside and take a picture of nice weather it freaking snowed again last night lol .
when the top dressing breaks down it doesn't get hot does it ? IPM ??? it took me forever to figure out what IDK meant lol

[Paracelsus]

Integrated Pest Management IPM. Using folier sprays and amendments ie Neem oil, herbs ie mint family or even beneficial bacteria, fungi, etc. and other things like worms, lady bugs. Your new tea brewer will be great for creating these witches brews.

[Paracelsus]

What is Humis ?
Here's a pretty good synopsis, I think:
ORGANIC MATTER, HUMUS, HUMATE, HUMIC ACID, FULVIC ACID AND HUMIN: THEIR IMPORTANCE IN SOIL FERTILITY AND PLANT HEALTH

https://humates.com/pdf/ORGANICMATTERPettit.pdf

[Paracelsus]

oldjarhead100 here you go
Genesis Community Garden with a little sunlight.

[GreenhouseEffect]

I saw a really good IPM/ organic technique I want to try, while looking through Jorge Cervantes Youtube channel. He brewed up a big batch of compost tea with beneficial microbes added to it, and just sprayed the shit out of all his plants, especially under the leaves. Said it acts like a barrier of good life forms, that help prevent pests. Mold, disease, insects, have a much harder time taking a foothold when your leaves and soil are already loaded with the good stuff.
I have read about mushroom growers doing the same thing, once the medium is colonised by the fungi strain you want, there just isn't room for the undesirable molds and such, idea seems to make a lot of sense, so I want to give her a try, I already have the vermicompost tea, thanks to inspiration from this thread Paracelsus!

[Paracelsus]

I’m going to give you the master thread on grass city from Mountain Organics and Clackamas Coot (Agnesdawg on this thread)

https://forum.grasscity.com/threads/no-till-gardening-revisited.1400505/

[GreenhouseEffect]

That's a really good thread, thank you for posting it!!
I've been learning to garden organically since I was a little kid, and it has always struck a cord with me, now the more I learn about it later in life, and now that I grow Cannabis, the more it all is making sense to me, especially with the no till concept.
It's really about changing the way we see the universe and the world we live in, people have been looking at living things, as singular, when they really are all more of a composite organism, a community, kind of like lichen, for instance, interdependent. Trees don't become trees without symbiotic Fungi, and earth worms can't digest there food without the bacteria in there gut. The whole thing works beautifully when it is in balance with all its parts intact, and can work the way it was designed to.
Cool stuff, keep posting!

[Paracelsus]

[Paracelsus]

FYI Building living organic soil for optimum cannabis growing
A presentation from TAD HUSSEY of KIS
wild crafted nutrients, natural amendments & mycorrhiza
I also highly recommend the KIS SCIENCE PODCAST’s

[Paracelsus]

Lapping up the morning Sun I’m going to give them there drink a little latter than usual

[Paracelsus]

It looks much better it actually look very good this morning much improved but the damage to the leaves is there and there isn’t much new growth. I am concerned there is not much more I can do at the moment so I will wait till I can get some amendments and maybe a ph pen. I’m giving all of them six hours of total darkness now and 18 lights on. Going lighter on the water but more often and I punch some holes in the bottom of the pot In case it’s a drainage issue.
Another major concern is the new growth is very strange looking. I am worried mostly that the new growth looks stunted and gnarly at the place I FIM’d it last week.

[Deadhead91]

Maybe it’s possible you filmed it too low could you post a few more pics of it to get an overall look at it.

[Paracelsus]

Maybe tomorrow, I put them back on to the lake for the day I don’t want to move them up and down too much it disturbs him but they did enjoy the sunshine all morning till noon

[Paracelsus]

Genesis 1:12 ESV

Thoughts for a Sunday morning
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good

[GreenhouseEffect]

I think god would see that your plants are good right now. Those leaves look like they are rejoicing.

[GreenhouseEffect]

I finally got some pictures of that new worm bin, and my greenhouse posted, if you want to check it out. I named my thread "Sitting on some Organic Fertilizer, or "my plants have my back"

[Paracelsus]

I’ll take a look, check out my latest FYI THREAD
it may interest you!

[Paracelsus]

There goes the neighborhood and most of my view, peace and quiet will be a thing of the past as they ready the foundation of another new 15 story low income housing building.

[Paracelsus]

Thank you Tika
tickle my fancy but for the life of me idk what VBG means

[Tika]

Very Big Grin = VBG
Also- fimming can often produce squirllie leaf shapes. I had several strange when fimmed. Now I top..And top again😊

[Paracelsus]

Tika do you think I should top of the unhealthy fan levels and squally growth and top back to the 3rd node again? Or maybe strip the big fan leaves
Picture below