Thai Fox
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Thanks for the video. Will go find their channel and have a further look. Definitely inline with the 5% at each watering advice that has come up in my research so far.Thought this may be of interest to you ….
Watering amount & frequency in living soil
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Thai Fox
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Well now I understand what you mean regarding sips, since you mentioned it I've spent alot of research across various threads. The sip one in the organic section I'm about 70 odd pages in so far. Really appreciate you and the other members chiming in, I've since made some changes to my set-up now, trialling is going well plus I've got another idea I may trial on one of the plants if current system isn't good enough. Cheers.
Thai Fox
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Did you have a pic of your wick system?
Thai Fox
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Feed is labs?
the native
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What a crack up
Tilt_no_guilt
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I’m not sure what you’re asking.
Thai Fox
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You mentioned on 'non feed days' I was just curious what you're feeding? I assumed you meant adding/feeding with labs/em1?
Tilt_no_guilt
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I’ll give it some seabird guano, bonemeal, little kelp, molasses. I do EM1, Ful power, and SLF100 once a week. Non feed days it’s straight water. Sometimes a top dressing if strains need extra. What is labs? Haven’t heard that term
Tilt_no_guilt
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Good to know.
I’ve been top dressing every 2 weeks till week 6ish but that’s because I had to stop with no-till because of HLV cuts for a few months.. will go back to teas shortly.
Tilt_no_guilt
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Well if I can just figure out the right top dressing I’ll stick with that. Had an issue with N too late in flower a couple runs but getting it figure out.
Much easier then the old teas, had like 15 ingredients. And the anaerobic tea
Much easier then the old teas, had like 15 ingredients. And the anaerobic teaTilt_no_guilt
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Out of habit I throw the stones in. I haven’t heard about not adding them but that makes sense. I’m starting to brew the EM1 to stretch it. See how that goes. Only using a cup for 40gl barrel so would be nice to get it multiplying and add more cheaply
Thai Fox
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I also have one in each tank at the moment but will look into it a bit more if going to add em1. I seen hyroot, greensthumb and various other members mention about the airstones.
Thai Fox
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Hi,
I would like to give another little update as a thanks to all those that commented on this post which helped steer me in the right direction a couple weeks ago
Fuck I've been busy reading I tell ya haha
After going through all of your replies a couple of times I ended up making my way over to the organic section and went down the sip, swick, wick, hempy, intainer build design rabbit holes and managed to get through quite a few very long and short detailed threads. It appears the posts are not as active over the last couple years and looks like several of the old school members that were providing solid information hadn't commented in many years either but still the information is all right there to browse. I think I took about 100 or so screenshots to go back over to help let it sink in. I did notice though that many profile names that offered me advice on here I also seen throughout the different posts I was reading. One thing I really liked reading over there was how everyone is super diy and actually helping each other out on their different projects.
Anyway, I appreciate all the help ladies and gents! I think the system I've put together here looks okay for now, more than likely will tinker with it as I go along but I'm pretty happy to leave it as is and jump straight into growing once I get back home. I'd have changed many things about my design to be honest if I knew what I do now after reading for what seemed like an eternity on those posts haha but all good, we are always reusing and repurposing stuff on different jobs around the house.
So here's what I've come up with before shutting shop and disappearing for a few months. I decided I'd try out two different set-ups, both seem to be working great over the last week. Have a look, see what you think. Cheers.
This is 1 of the prototypes that's incorporating a plant stand sitting on top of a pot saucer (pretty similar method to one of hash hound's designs) Underneath is a cut up smart pot and under that some rope which wicks the water to the bottom of the grow bag sitting on top. Here it is here.
This below is the other style, same thing but I've removed the plant stand and added a netpot setup that's lined with weed mat and filled with 50/50 pumice/coco and a couple inch pumice bed for pot to sit on. The bottom tank allows a bit over 7 gallons with a 1" airgap to underside of pot saucer. I've set up some lines making things easy to fill or drain and also hooked up a little airstone for each tank.
I then decided to see how I'd go getting some fungi going as I can't source any Gro-kashi. I mixed up my own top dressing with some crab meal, neem cake, barley wheat, bio-char & some tricoderma. Covered with garbage bag and checked a day later and everything looks to be coming along perfectly. I then gave a drink with some labs that just finished fermenting.
That's about it really, I liked the idea of using round containers as they're much stronger than the rectangular ones I have used for other projects in the past, but mainly I like the ability to be able to rotate the top on top of the bottom tank to acces all sides of the plant without needing to move the water tank around. I also like the top saucer completely covers lip on bottom tank stopping evaporation and stuff falling down inside.
*Sorry but would anyone also be able to have a quick look over my rough temp/humidity/vpd/ppfd starting points please.
I decided to have a quick play around running the tent yesterday afternoon as it's my first grow indoors and everything is new to me. I had a crack at 3 different settings, all within good VPD range I believe. First for the seedling stage I set around 220ppfd, 26°c & 75%rh. For the veg stage I went about 700ppfd, 27°c & 65%rh. For flower I was 850ppfd, 28°c & 55%rh. I will try get under 50%rh for end of flower but that's about where I thought I should aim for. I will use the photone app and vpd graph to try keep things lined up the best I can, along with recording things if I remember. Basically looking to aim for that 78-80f I see mentioned alot when running led and then just making my way from 75%rh in prop to 50% by end of flower.
I would like to give another little update as a thanks to all those that commented on this post which helped steer me in the right direction a couple weeks ago
Fuck I've been busy reading I tell ya hahaAfter going through all of your replies a couple of times I ended up making my way over to the organic section and went down the sip, swick, wick, hempy, intainer build design rabbit holes and managed to get through quite a few very long and short detailed threads. It appears the posts are not as active over the last couple years and looks like several of the old school members that were providing solid information hadn't commented in many years either but still the information is all right there to browse. I think I took about 100 or so screenshots to go back over to help let it sink in. I did notice though that many profile names that offered me advice on here I also seen throughout the different posts I was reading. One thing I really liked reading over there was how everyone is super diy and actually helping each other out on their different projects.
Anyway, I appreciate all the help ladies and gents! I think the system I've put together here looks okay for now, more than likely will tinker with it as I go along but I'm pretty happy to leave it as is and jump straight into growing once I get back home. I'd have changed many things about my design to be honest if I knew what I do now after reading for what seemed like an eternity on those posts haha but all good, we are always reusing and repurposing stuff on different jobs around the house.
So here's what I've come up with before shutting shop and disappearing for a few months. I decided I'd try out two different set-ups, both seem to be working great over the last week. Have a look, see what you think. Cheers.
This is 1 of the prototypes that's incorporating a plant stand sitting on top of a pot saucer (pretty similar method to one of hash hound's designs) Underneath is a cut up smart pot and under that some rope which wicks the water to the bottom of the grow bag sitting on top. Here it is here.
This below is the other style, same thing but I've removed the plant stand and added a netpot setup that's lined with weed mat and filled with 50/50 pumice/coco and a couple inch pumice bed for pot to sit on. The bottom tank allows a bit over 7 gallons with a 1" airgap to underside of pot saucer. I've set up some lines making things easy to fill or drain and also hooked up a little airstone for each tank.
I then decided to see how I'd go getting some fungi going as I can't source any Gro-kashi. I mixed up my own top dressing with some crab meal, neem cake, barley wheat, bio-char & some tricoderma. Covered with garbage bag and checked a day later and everything looks to be coming along perfectly. I then gave a drink with some labs that just finished fermenting.
That's about it really, I liked the idea of using round containers as they're much stronger than the rectangular ones I have used for other projects in the past, but mainly I like the ability to be able to rotate the top on top of the bottom tank to acces all sides of the plant without needing to move the water tank around. I also like the top saucer completely covers lip on bottom tank stopping evaporation and stuff falling down inside.
*Sorry but would anyone also be able to have a quick look over my rough temp/humidity/vpd/ppfd starting points please.
I decided to have a quick play around running the tent yesterday afternoon as it's my first grow indoors and everything is new to me. I had a crack at 3 different settings, all within good VPD range I believe. First for the seedling stage I set around 220ppfd, 26°c & 75%rh. For the veg stage I went about 700ppfd, 27°c & 65%rh. For flower I was 850ppfd, 28°c & 55%rh. I will try get under 50%rh for end of flower but that's about where I thought I should aim for. I will use the photone app and vpd graph to try keep things lined up the best I can, along with recording things if I remember. Basically looking to aim for that 78-80f I see mentioned alot when running led and then just making my way from 75%rh in prop to 50% by end of flower.