The perpetual 3x3 grow

[Gator]

She's doing ok,a little bit of vertical growth, but nothing else, maybe a little transplant shock

this is what she looked like a few days ago

 

[ductwizard2]

I like how they started out bushy, usually i have a hard time with seedlings starting off too stretchy which prob leads to less weed off each plant

 

[Gator]

Not always, transplant a little bit deeper, grow roots

 

[Gator]

I.p.m. fungus gnats hate them lol

 

[ductwizard2]

I wonder if the ones that grow wild in my yard have the same effect on them

 

[Gator]

Absolutely, anything in the onion family works,even garlic

 

[Gator]

I adjusted the heat and humidity and brought the vpd up to 1.0, apparently it was to low,I had it around.5-.6 we'll see what happens over the next few days

 

[Gator]

So it's been 10 days since I ordered from build a soil, the stuff arrived at the local post office this morning and I'm still waiting, their website says it's going to be here tomorrow, which is 11 days from the day that I ordered, probably won't order anything from them again

 

[Orggrwr]

Hey gator, don't make the same mistake i did and mix fresh biochar in soil and plant right away. Biochar needs to be charged first or it will suck nutes out of the soil for a couple of weeks and plants will show deficiencies . I put a couple gallons in every compost pile I make and use the compost in my soil mix but there are many recipes online to charge it. Read a book on biochar years ago, fascinating stuff. Fun fact, because of the lattice like structure a piece of biochar the size of a grain of rice has the surface area a football field. Hard to believe but the author swore it was true, i need to try to find that book now

 

[Gator]

Orggrwrthe soil is in the tub in the basement,I added the biochar to that and wet the mix with a little help from my friend

 

[golfnrl]

That cichlid is king of his world...lol.

 

[Gator]

When I clean the tanks I change some of the water and I add some hydrogaurd, it really helps keep the waste in check, I'm going to be using the water that I remove to water the plant, tomorrow is tank cleaning day 😁

 

[Gator]

Looking good this morning 😊

 

[Smallgrow]

Ha!
Took me a second to realize what was going on the with the onions
Take that fungus gnats

 

[Gator]

It's a cheap way to keep them out of the grow, they bounce right back in a few days, and I get to harvest them whenever I need to,I only snip a few leaves off,I don't take the whole onion

 

[Gator]

Finally got the stuff from build a soil

 

[Gator]

Brewing up a compost tea for the little lady, this should really get things going

 

[Gator]

I top dressed and added a " mulch layer" this should work well enough until I figure something else out

 

[ductwizard2]

Why the "mulch layer"? bug deterant or am I missing something?

 

[Gator]

It's to keep the worm castings moist, they're not cheap and it takes forever to get it