Growing and going full tilt No Till

[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.

[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]

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

[Paracelsus]

[Paracelsus]

[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.

[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'!

[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]

This is what seems most likely to me heat and being too close to the light. Like I said after the transplant when I initially lowered the light and remove the crates the plants all four of them looked spectacular well perky and pointed upward or at least horizontal spread. Now this plant is not drooping but it isn’t elevated at all either. So right now since I’m not in a hurry to flip all the plants are six or 7 inches from the T fives where as before they were 2 inches. Maybe a little patience and time will help the plants adjust to the change in environment. I think I’m going to go to 18/6 light schedule starting tonight with 4 hours of darkness.

[Paracelsus]

Deadhead91 since all of the plants are in the same soil mix with no change since the beginning of the grow other than the addition of worms and worm castings I can’t understand how it could be nute burn. However this is the only plant out of the four that is this dark green. About possible wind burn that won’t be a problem for a week or so now my fan stopped working lol

[Paracelsus]

Tika unfortunately I don’t do pH at all, I don’t have the pH meter even. I have been flying without instruments since the beginning of the grow. I began on a very tight budget and bought everything seconds hand or I improvised DIY.
I am supposedly able to just use straight water and I use the knuckle deep method to decide when they need watering which I do mostly once a day in the 3 gallon pot with about 16 oz of aged tap water that I keep in a barrel. That amount just gives me a smidgen of run off. Other than what is in the soil I mulch feed the worms once a week with a changing variety of mint, cilantro, malted barley powder, oats, and farina with a top dress that keeps the top of the soil damp underneath it but works as an IPM too. During the day every 6 hours I moisten the soil surface with a spray bottle. Additionally I soak and wring out towels and make a tent around my wine bar incubator to keep the humidity hi during these dry winter months with centralized heat constantly running. If I didn’t keep the window open the ambient temperature would be in the high 80s with very dry air. Besides the towels I keep a five gallon pot on the stove simmering low my fan is close by dispersing the vapor throughout the Grow room. I know it’s all very unorthodox but it has a certain rhythm that has worked well so far.

[Deadhead91]

Or what about wind burn possibly?

[Deadhead91]

It really looks like it’s heavy on the n the leaves look extremely dark green and mine cupped a little up when it got heavy on the n

[GreenhouseEffect]

According to the Fiming tutorial, it will cause the initial new growth to be kinda weird at first. The cupping looks a lot like a bit to much heat. I think you mentioned the T-5 being really close for a while? I have caused light burn on mine before when they grew to pretty much touching the bulb, I wonder if it burned the leaf, and caused some cupping? Just a couple thoughts I had, not saying that's definitely it though.

Soil PH range is 6-7, if you have a good microbe hurd, with plenty of organic matter, it should adjust the PH for you in soil, definitely can't hurt to check it just to make sure though!

[Tika]

Since I don't do soil I can't advise. I do t think the brief dark period didn't hurt anything at all.
Straight water is pHed? For soil = what? I know soil is different which is one reason I don't do soil. Too hard to Figure pH ( for my dim bulb). What is your feeding schedule? For your soil?