Recent content by melaninTonic

I've done well with just pouring boiling water over coco to sterilise, and using that for substrate. The mycelium has enough food from the already colonised rice grains to fruit a couple of flushes. But I do agree with @pahpah-cee : probably not worth the risk. When mould does strike, not only...

Hehe, well I'm for giving them some slack in choosing their own formulations and pitching them to us as the Solution. But where I draw the line is where one company's Veg formula is exactly the same NPK as another's Bloom formula. Biobizz Grow and Iguana Juice Organic Bloom are both 4-3-6, for...

Amen to forum appreciation. From years of living in places where it wasn't tolerated, I adopted the wisdom that it's best if literally nobody knows about your grow. Not usually possible in practice, but an ideal to aspire to... So I thought you might be kidding about guinea pigs and it turns...

No landrace here that I know of!

Yes, I'm doing this. Lucky you, having a cellar: sounds like ideal temps and should stay somewhat stable year round. Our single tub is in our downstairs bathroom: there's just two of us so one bathroom really is enough, so the downstairs bathroom is becoming a bit of a utility space until we...

The thing about the sea weed here is it isn't your lovely luscious kelp variety seaweed. It's sort of like long strands of moss growing off rocks like hair. I wonder if that has the same good stuff kelp has... Ahem! Yup, well we haven't gotten around to slaughtering the local rabbits, but...

Don't worry, I'm tinkering with ALL of it. :)

Thanks for the input @ComputerSaysNo, @MidnightSun72. I think I have to trust my direct experience: those plants were in a small washroom with a pilot light putting out 2.5 pounds of co2 per day. I very much liked what I saw, and would like to try to replicate it. My guess is there was a lot...

Hey, so has anyone used a smart sensor and smart hub to control co2? Any recommendations for a zigbee sensor that works well?

Hey, old thread, but wanted to share my very limited experience with co2, that seems to contradict that everything else needs to be perfectly dialled in for it to have any effect at all. I didn't plan it this way, but a few years back I did a grow in a tent that was placed in the washroom...

Hey! So I take it "worm castings + dirt != soil". What's missing is that organic material from decomposing vegetative matter (as opposed to worm-digested matter)? I suppose this will just be more motivation to get our compost piles going ASAP. Until then, we'll see what grows from the...

Hey so... I'm not a noooob when it comes to grows, at least not a complete one. But I haven't given much attention to soil, and only cursory attention to nutes. I had a good run with Biobizz nutes for my last few grows. But now we're starting down a sustainable living path, and we've got a...

Thanks so much for the reply. The dirt from the field certainly doesn't look great, but it is as local as it gets so I think I'll continue using it in conjunction with other things. We live on a fairly arid island, so it might mean waiting to have our own composting heap once our veggie growing...

Hey so... I'm not a noooob when it comes to grows, at least not a complete one. But I haven't given much attention to soil, and only cursory attention to nutes. I had a good run with Biobizz nutes for my last few grows. But now we're starting down a sustainable living path, and we've got a...

The US has a lot to answer for, but you are clearly not even within sight of objectivity. Putin has been in Ukraine territory for years now. His demands to prevent a full Russian invasion are completely irrational, and are so by design. Like so many other despots, he cannot abide self...