catapult is going to be doing a repro on these with seeds Sebring sent but not till fall so they will end up in next years spring box.
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Great! Thank you @DougDawson!
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DD speaks true, w a little luck weāll get the milk flowing come spring time!!
Nice thread u got here @Greasy !! Some tasty looking ladies up above. Donāt mean to crash your MM plans, if you do decide to run em, we could always share pollens:)
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No worries. I figured if they hadnāt been reproduced I would go ahead and do so to share. I wouldnāt have been doing a co-op run, just make seeds to pass out myself.
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I was eyeing those BLR F5ās for a while too
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Thank you @greasy for the link!
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Seedlings are coming along inside and out.
Inside:
|Good Old Days|Loompaās HB x TK|
|Sun Ra |Sherbert x Wedding Cake|
Outside:
|Goji F2|BB Muffin x Vintage BB F2|
|Goji F2|Sherbert x Wedding Cake|
|Goji F2|Sun Ra|
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Looking good @greasy! I like your choices for this run! Have you grown Sun Ra before?
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Thank you! I havenāt grown Sun Ra before. These are actually the first Bodhi F1ās Iāve grown generously donated by @syzygy. Iām hoping to find a lot of therapeutic, clear headed, good feeling daytime smoke from this summers grow. Spent so many years chasing Indica dom hybrids that make you dumb, so trying to explore some alternatives and see what else I like. I think early harvested dispensary sativas made sativa a bad word in my house for a long time.
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Iāll definitely be following along! Sun Ra is at the top of my list, along with like 30 other strains. Ha!
Space Monkey was one that the wife and I loved! Soaring, clear headed, magic carpet ride; good for day or night! I have all these strains, but I keep thinking about that Monkey.
Aloha @Greasy!
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Oh man, I love my outdoor sativas! Canāt get enough of them! I saw you were talking about the munchies and the GDP. Yep. I grew a strawberry diesel one year that was the worst. I swear you would clear the fridge. Kinda nervous about the sour diesel I have going this year. Hope the munchie thing isnāt a typical diesel thing lol
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Started a batch of fresh EWC compost tea last night, and had a couple questions I would ask other tea makers. How much do you dilute your teas, and do you use them for foliar sprays at all? I havenāt foliared tea before, but it seems like another good way to stretch it. Iāve only got some much fresh castings in reserve so Iām trying to spread it as much as possible, while still packing a good nutrient punch.
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I personally use full strength teas but being mainly about the microbes and not a true nutritional feed Iād assume you could dilute it by 50 to 75 percent and still have it be effective as they are still getting to the plants I havenāt used as a foliar but I assume it would be similar to doing a āimoā spray
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Probably too late for this, but I also use full-strength teas. If the plants need more water afterwards, Iāll just use fresh water.
I foliared with a tea once, didnāt like the way the plants looked afterwards, but I dunno if that had anything to do with the tea. People swear by it, Iām sure it doesnāt hurt them or anything. I wouldnāt dilute it if I was foliaring with it, either. Iām brewing one right now, actually thought about using some as a foliar when itās ready tomorrow, but I doubt thereāll be enough left over after the drench.
This is a good read, if you havenāt read it yet: http://microbeorganics.com/
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Yes. Foliar is best for compost tea. I put mine in my hose end sprayer, put on highest volume to water and go to town. I spray my whole back yard. Foliar and soil drench. Every plant out there lol
But yes, you must dilute it. About a cup per 5 gallons of water
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Full strength for me as well unless the plants are less than 3 weeks old. If so, then I dilute in half with fresh water.
Iāve never fed my plants with foliar teas but I make labs and do foliar sprays with those weekly in veg for outdoor and just do a EWC tea for soil drench. That schedule worked well for me last year but there are a hundred ways to get to the goal I suppose. Got to do what works best for your garden and time schedule.
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Thanks for the responses @DesertHeartGardens , @minitiger , @Meesh , @NorthNorthNugs! It sounds like the consensus is for a full strength drench!
This batch I wanted to use for my veggies and young MJ plants so I cut it down to 50%. In general I had always been using full strength myself, but had come across this BAS article: How to make compost tea in 3 easy steps ā BuildASoil which said you could dilute all the way down to 10% and still see the benefits.
Yeah, that is a good read! Thank you for sharing! According to this article, my little aquarium pump set up probably isnāt very effective at making tea. Iāve seen the one heās designed, think BAS is selling it, and it for sure is heavy duty! Iāve been using this aquarium pump for a few years now to make tea, and the plants seem to like it, but I believe all the testing heās done. Someday Iāll have to get a larger pump.
This is good to know! I will definitely put aside some of my next batch for a foliar, and dilute heavily. Thank you for sharing!
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Yeah, apparently the amount of dissolved oxygen is pretty important, but before I got my pump and setup, I used those aquarium things for other types of teas, not compost teas, and it seemed to work fine. I dunno if Iād try to make a straight compost tea with one. You could probably put like five of those air stones in there and maybe get equivalent results haha. Might be cheaper at that point to just buy the brewer.
Iām fairly certain you could make one yourself for like half the price that BAS sells theirs for. All it is is an air pump (canāt remember the rating offhand), which I think only costs about twenty bucks, a little pvc and an air hose thing. Iām lazy, though, so I just spent the eighty dollars and bought mine. I love it, though. I usually only do two compost teas every grow, once in veg and once early in flower, but Iām thinking about maybe doing one every two weeks for the duration of flower this time.
Just to see what happensā¦ haha.
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I transplanted my inside girls into 3 gallon pots today. Seeing some good growth in the past week, and didnāt want to suffer the fate of my last run and let my plants get rootbound. I transplanted them into pure compost with some additional perlite added in. Since perlite swims to the top of itās medium, I can basically just scoop off straight perlite from the top of my compost bin, which is pretty cool! Iāve had this bin going for 4 years now, and I think itās really starting to put out some high quality compost. This was the first time Iāve noticed a high concentration of worms in the raw material. Mid veg still seems to be the most challenging time for me in my grows, where I experience the most hiccups, usually relating to the soil mix being too hot, or transplanting too late, so hopefully covered those bases by transplanting a bit early, and into pure compost. I figure Iāll just top dress BAS craft blend as the plants give me signs through veg. Iāve been growing in 3 gallon containers, vegging for around two months, but Iām thinking about vegging a little longer this time, and maybe upping them to 5 gallons right before flowering. My yields are pretty modest in 3 gallons, usually about an oz a plant, which meets my needs, but would be fun to maximize a bit if possible.
|Good Old Days|Loompaās HB x TK|
|Sun Ra |Sherbert x Wedding Cake|
Fresh compost (I know dirt isnāt that exciting, but Iām proud of it!)
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Outdoor plants in their final pots. I was scrolling through my journal and looking at my outdoor plants and they sure were a lot bigger this time last year! Theyāve got about 5 weeks of veg now before theyāll transition to flower. I do have height restrictions, so maybe itāll be a blessing in disguise if the gojis have a 3x stretch.
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