LEDs, Water Only Soil, Worm Bins, Pretty Plants

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Colorado Chem - Ethos

 

[Big Sparks]

Nice pics!

 

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Inzane in the membrane - Ethos

 

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Starfighter IBL - Led_seedz

 

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Custom built Cree led array, 5 gallon pots, recycled living soil, top dressed with a custom blend of amendments 1-2 tbsp ever week, plain water with occasional worm compost extract

 

[Big Sparks]

Love the set-up and organic soil style of growing. Throw in some cobs and "voala!" Frosty buds as far as the eye can see!

 

[improvise]

Eye candy nice one. regards

 

[Stretchtastic]

Here's some pics of a different pheno of the Colorado Chem that came down a couple weeks ago.

 

[Orlando Scout]

Such beautiful pics!!! The Colorado Chem has some lovely color to it.

 

[Stretchtastic]

The soil mix was originally promix amended with crushed oyster shells and rice hulls. The process is pretty much as follows:
Original mix -> plant/harvest (5gallons) -> used soil goes into the worm bin for processing, waste greens like leaves and processed flowers are dried/powderized/and also fed to the worms, stems and stalks get turned into biochar which gets added to the worm bin and mixed into the topdress mix -> worm bin gets sifted as soil is needed -> sifted soil gets reamended with crushed oyster shell and rice hulls and the cycle repeats itself.

Stay tuned for my topdress mix I use.

 

[Ennui]

The soil mix was originally promix amended with crushed oyster shells and rice hulls. The process is pretty much as follows:
Original mix -> plant/harvest (5gallons) -> used soil goes into the worm bin for processing, waste greens like leaves and processed flowers are dried/powderized/and also fed to the worms, stems and stalks get turned into biochar which gets added to the worm bin and mixed into the topdress mix -> worm bin gets sifted as soil is needed -> sifted soil gets reamended with crushed oyster shell and rice hulls and the cycle repeats itself.

Stay tuned for my topdress mix I use.

How does one go about becoming one of your worms? Is there an application process? I want in!

Seriously though, are you doing anything special like air/water temps to make the purple pop? I've got a Royal Purple Kush going at the moment so I'd be interested to hear.

Those are some sweet looking nugs.

 

[NoobyMacDooby]

Well now as a grower who loves pretty plants himself, I can say this is an aptly named journal

 

[Stretchtastic]

How does one go about becoming one of your worms? Is there an application process? I want in!

Seriously though, are you doing anything special like air/water temps to make the purple pop? I've got a Royal Purple Kush going at the moment so I'd be interested to hear.

Those are some sweet looking nugs.

Nothing special. My temps run 82-84 lights on and 70-72 lights off. I just make sure they're always watered. When they're sad I give them a worm compost extract and they bounce right back. I keep my soil life booming and my plants stay happy and healthy.

 

[Stretchtastic]

My main base amendment mix is:
4 tbsp kelp meal
2 tbsp powderized bio-char
2 tbsp alfalfa meal
2 tbsp neem meal
2 tbsp oyster shell flower
2 tbsp insect frass
2 tbsp malted barley powder
1 tbsp powderized seabird guano
1 tbsp fish bone meal
1 tbsp basalt (paramagnetic rock dust)

I recently made a "cakes and cookies" mix that I'm trying with the base mix at a 3:1 base to sweets ratio. I've only used it on the current flowering plants for about three weeks so I'm unsure of its effect as of yet, but I'm hoping it enhances the flavor profiles of what it's used on. The ratios for this mix are in bulk since they aren't normally used by gardeners.

2lbs. Spirulina
1lbs nutritional yeast
1lbs cacao powder
1/2lbs goji berry powder
1/2lbs Acai Berry powder
1/2lbs bee pollen
1/2lbs dehydrated honey
1/2lbs coconut water

 

[improvise]

Do u get mushrooms sprouting up during lights out? I did kinda similar thing fewer ingredients. same base mix+cow and horse manure+fresh mole hills+perlite to off set the weight of the mix holding in water rather than air. regards

 

[Stretchtastic]

No mushrooms sorry lol. I did when I was running a no till pot tho.

 

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Here's some final pics of the girls before they got chopped.

Colorado chem

 

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Starfighter IBL

 

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Inzane in the membrane

 

[Amadeus Forzin]

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