I haven’t decided yet. Ideally I will mount the driver where the ballast for the CMH is.
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I drove hubby nuts measuring.
Nice tutorial!
A couple of shots of the Durban Poison with the lights off and a flash.
The girl on the left is showing lots of purple already.
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Looking great @ReikoX. Textbook SolStix rack design, simple, sturdy and clean.
-b420
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Just a random shot of the perpetual. Up front is the last run for Jilly Bean #4 at 8 weeks. She’s not as good as the Jilly Bean #2 phenotype. Maybe a better yielder, but the effect and taste are better with the other. The mother has been culled. In the middle is the Zak Haze. The older and more mature this clone gets, the more she seems to express her NLD genetics. I’m tempted to get it tested again. When they first gave the clones, the tests were 21% THC and about 1% CBG. That CBG really is a mind eraser. Last batch seemed more psychoactive and less forgetful. The last time I got some from the dispensary it was tested at 25% THC (no mention of CBG). CBG is an intermediate that is usually transformed into THC or CBD by the plant. Finally int he back is Delicious Candy. This plant is on the chopping block so to speak. If she keeps doing as well as she is here, I will probably keep her around. The best freebie I’ve grown to date.
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Great looking plants.
The vertical racks serve you well.
A freebie keeper? What do you know?
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I’m mixing up a couple of cubic feet of soil (15 gallons). This is a basic no-till recipe. First I got together my base mix: 5 gallons of hydrated sphangum peat moss, 5 gallons compost, and 5 gallons of aeration. The compost consists of 2 gallons of Malibu biodynamic compost and 3 gallons homemade vermicompost with worms. The aeration consists of 4 gallons scoria lava rock and 1 gallon of rice hulls.
First, I dumped out the compost and mixed in my ammendments. I added 1 cup of kelp meal, 1 cup of neem meal, 1 cup of shrimp meal, and 2 cups malted barley powder (not shown). This was then mixed well.
Next I add my minerals to the amended compost. I added 2 cups gypsum, 2 cups oyster shell flour, 2 cups glacial rock dust, 2 cups basalt, and 1 gallon (16 cups) of biochar. Again this was mixed well.
Finally I added the hydrated sphangum peat moss and the aeration. This was all mixed well one final time.
The soil was split evenly into four #5 fabric pots, then a cover crop of clover was sprinkled on the soil and covered with barley straw.
Everything in the recipe brings something to the table. I would like to take the time to provide a brief description of each item and it’s purpose(s). Feel free to skip the rest of this post if youre not interested. @G-paS, @Thegrowguyapple, and @miyagi may find this interesting.
Let’s start with the single most important component of the recipe, compost. Compost brings beneficial microbes as well as providing some nutrition. Compost also provides disease, pathogen, and pest supression. Vermicompost brings everything in compost with even more beneficial microbes as well as calcium carbonate.
The sphangum peat moss brings microbes, water retention, carbon, and a high cation exchange capacity (CEC). This is the source of organic matter that will support the soil food web.
The aeration is what provides the roots with oxygen. The rice hulls provide short term aeration as well as a long term source of silica. And the lava rock is mainly just aeration and a minor source of minerals.
Next we move on to the ammendments. Kelp contains macro and micro nutrients, as well as chelating substances. The neem offers macro nutrients as well as pest suppression. The shrimp provides macro nutrients, calcium carbonate, and chitan. The malted barley powder provides a lot of different enzymes such as phosphatase, chitanase, urease, and amylase.
Finally the mineral mix provides, obviously minerals, but also improves soil texture. The gypsum provides calcium and sulphur. The oyster shell flower provides calcium carbonate and helps balance pH. And the glacial and basalt provide an array of micro nutrients and minerals. The biochar provides a lot of surface area for microbes and increases CEC.
Finally the mulch layer also serves a purpose. The clover are nitrogen fixers, they will absorb nitrogen from the air which when later chopped returns to the soil. The clover will also loosen the soil as the roots begin to grow deeper. The straw mulch keeps the soil moist and provides a home for soil life.
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WOW! Thank you for taking the time to post this. I will now research what some of this stuff is.
I was just going to use goat and turkey poop with hay and wheat straw. I was also wondering if the “water” in the manure pit would make a tea 
Which kind of clover do you plant.
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Its a 12 clover mix from Build a Soil.
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3.75g of bud = 0.2g of wax
1gram of wax is the equivalent to 18.75g of bud i think…
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ReikoX definitely thank you so much for the time you put into that great read . So where do you source everything needed
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Lucky you man! Mine got seized by the goverment. And i don’t think i am getting repos. Seven packs that was…
Best of luck with those seeds man!
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Hey that’s a kick a$$ recipe my friend!
I’d like to try it but I was thinking of replacing the malted barley with oat flower.(I have a lot of oat flower lol)
I love the down to earth products too and am a faithful user of their biolive amendment.
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Yeah, that’s the trim. I was getting 15% returns on the same bud.
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yeah baby! I’m loving this thread, let’s get into the DIRT and get some DIRT under our fingernails. 
I’m a big fan of DTE products as well.
I’ve never seen the lava rock before, so it’s the brown stuff. How much does it weigh - is it light like Perlite or heavier? I like your watering can too - is it five gallons? So you take the lid off to fill it each time? Good point about the rice hulls containing silica, I’ve got a couple bags here I should be using.
Does the peat come with wetting agent or how do you deal that ? Does the pre-watering take care of it. How does the tarp work for you - do you roll it around, how do get the ingredients to blend.
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Dirt under the fingernails indeed! Here’s more dirt on my dirt. 
The lava rock is just the plain lava rock you can buy for landscaping. It is much heavier than perlite or pumice, but I don’t plan on moving these pots very often.
The concrete sprayer us 3.5 gallons. Yes the lid unscrews to fill. I love it for watering. I can water my entire garden with 5 gallons of water, so I only have to refill it once. I also use the fogger tip to spray my IPM. The best investment I’ve made in my garden so far. 
I’m using Canadian Sphangum Peat from a compressed bale. This has been cut out, compressed and packaged right there. Peat like Pro Mix has been dehydrated, fluffed, and limed. I did, however, use a wetting agent: yucca FPE. Aloe works too.
The tarp works great, makes cleanup a little easier. To mix I like to get in there with my hands and spread it thin. Then I push it all to one side, mixing with my hands. Usually I’ll push it back to the other side in a similar manner. I don’t really use the tarp to mix with this small amount. If I were to mix more at once, I would do it outside and use a shovel.
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interesting, so the tarp is just a work surface, I thought you were wrapping it up & rolling it like a burrito. I tried to buy plain peat as base before and use yucca juice. I like the idea of total control over what goes into the mix. You need access to good quality coarse peat, the cheaper stuff is more like dust.
gotta check into that watering can, I need the wand action to save my back
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I got mine from Home de Pot. Free store shipping.
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Good shit my friend! I am excited to see how your soil comes out! Loved that recent post btw! I need to use tarps, next time i do it. I bought a heavy metal trash can, and tumble it, then toss it into a large plastic bin, and then back to the metal can until use. I seen that sub and his crew built their “super soil” that way too. I don’t know why i haven’t bothered to do it yet. My back will be a lot less sore the next day.
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Thanks for that recipe book download! Great score! I have mad several of these recipes, but I’m scrambling to find the recipes from different posts. This is great! Also love the crafty ways you have come up with to maximize your space!