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[VanIslandConnoisseur]

Another silly question . What is EWC? In the kelp recipe? Sorry. This is my first time growing. And am I best to get the stuff from my Hydro shop? I’m in Ontario Canada if that matters. Or amazon ?

earth worm castings, hydro shop or local garden centre preferrably, could get tommorow

 

[DezmondG]

I better go measure the pots. So I know for sure

 

[VanIslandConnoisseur]

radius of pot in inches squared( x itself)
multiy x 3.14
muliply that by depth

divide by 231 (cubic inches in a gallon)

this gives you actual volume in gallons

 

[VanIslandConnoisseur]

also killer avatar/ profile pic lol, pretty funny ha @DezmondG

 

[DezmondG]

Radius is 7
7 x 2 = 14
Depth of pot is 12
14 x 12 = 168
168 / 231 = .73 gallons. Does that make sense?

 

[DezmondG]

also killer avatar/ profile pic lol, pretty funny ha @DezmondG

Thanks. I got a few more for rainy days

 

[VanIslandConnoisseur]

Radius is 7
7 x 2 = 14
Depth of pot is 12
14 x 12 = 168
168 / 231 = .73 gallons. Does that make sense?

haha oops sorry bro do that but multiply radius squared and multiply it by pie(3.14) then proceed haha

 

[VanIslandConnoisseur]

its radius squared
x3.14
x depth
divide by 231

left out the pizza pie!! sounds like yoi have a 9 or 10g

 

[DezmondG]

Hahahahahhaha. Ok so it should be 7.996 which is 8. So 8 gallon pots. How much water should I be feeding those pots then? And when I do the tea thingy do I do the same amount of tea? So I do get proper runoff and stuff as well?

By the looks of it now, I think I am under watering them? Since I am only giving each plant 1.5 litres per feeding. Boy do I suck

 

[VanIslandConnoisseur]

bro so sorry, i just had triple wammy of mixed dribk, joint, and smoke before i started typing haha

 

[DezmondG]

earth worm castings, hydro shop or local garden centre preferrably, could get tommorow

Sorry. Should of known that. Been a long day.

 

[VanIslandConnoisseur]

Hahahahahhaha. Ok so it should be 7.996 which is 8. So 8 gallon pots. How much water should I be feeding those pots then? And when I do the tea thingy do I do the same amount of tea? So I do get proper runoff and stuff as well?

By the looks of it now, I think I am under watering them? Since I am only giving each plant 1.5 litres per feeding. Boy do I suck

yea bro sounds about right and yes you probably are under but thats ok, maybe not though, depends on the amount of retention. regardless, do as we discussed, and yea i like to feed with tea full amount of water. get alot in there and be consistently/evenly distributed

 

[DezmondG]

bro so sorry, i just had triple wammy of mixed dribk, joint, and smoke before i started typing haha

All good.

 

[DezmondG]

yea bro sounds about right and yes you probably are under but thats ok, maybe not though, depends on the amount of retention. regardless, do as we discussed, and yea i like to feed with tea full amount of water. get alot in there and be consistently/evenly distributed

Just finished making my setup to brew some tea... Pics coming shortly

 

[DezmondG]

K So I went out today to get supplies needed to make up a tea to try and help my babies out. As per all your great advice and help. here is what I did. Hope all looks good and I get the approval from you guys

Had EWC still so grabbed that, some curtain from the wife a bucket and some zipties.

Made 5 tea bags of EWC. Figured this would be the best way to keep the water fairly clean...

 

[DezmondG]

Next 16 Litres of water. Used springwater today. I don't have RO and didn't want to wait for the tap water to sit for 24 hours and get out the chlorine. Picked up some Kelp from Reno (I hear its pretty good) and mixed 20ml of kelp to the 16L of water.

While that was sitting in the bottles, I got my 5 Gallon bucket cleaned it out and started to figure out how to hook up a pump and stuff.... Picked these up at the local pet store.

Drilled some holes in the side of the bucket to attach the manifold, hooked up the air lines and stones and placed them on the bottom of the bucket. Then I stacked the teabags on top of the stones but left the stones exposed so the could air well.

 

[DezmondG]

Last steps. I filled it up with the Kelp water, hooked up the pump, plugged it in and woot woot!!!! it is bubbling and I hope it is brewing

I will let it go for 24 hours and then give the babies a nice loooong feed. Make sure the soil is well saturated this time

Many thanks again everyone for your help with this. I will keep you all posted how things are going.

 

[VanIslandConnoisseur]

nice bro perfect!!!

 

[VanIslandConnoisseur]

feed plants in your yard too! enjoy meter your teas, dont worry about ph ing your teas unless its way off. add ph adjuster just before you water. microbes in the castings, live in ph 6-8 mainly and 7 is ideal( neutral)