And this is way later! ...
Cap-N-Krunch, kudos for reading and referring to my "other posts", good work! I probably wouldn't have dug this up after so long if you hadn't gone to such trouble. Though, I might have.
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I'm working out of a closet. Can I do this in a closet? Just one ginormous tub o' stuff?
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You could do it anywhere. A closet sounds great. So long as you have, say 7.5" of soil in there, yjust make it as big as possible.
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Also, how do you flush your plants at the end of flowering? Do you have some sort of an overfill drainage system or something?
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Nope. I have no drainage whatsoever. After a while you get a pretty good handle on the volume of water the thing takes (15-22L/week), and I also recently got a moisture meter - very handy.
I also don't "flush" at the end of flowering. Though the compost teas get more diluted towards the end, and perhaps the final watering might be just water. Bottom line is, if you are growing 100% deep organic, there's nothing to wash out; the soil is a storehouse of *potential* nutrition, not a "medium filled with nutrients". When the plants don't need any more stuff, they'll stop asking the soil for it (i.e. stop sending complex sugar messages to the soil bacteria).
Anyway, the taste is so good, I'm not about to start messing with that.
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That's about 50 gallons or so? How many plants do you grow in there and how big of a space is that? Thanks for your help!
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Size-wise, my flower bed is just over three feet, by two and a half. Number of plants depends on how long you veg them. The first time around, I had six plants in there, the recent harvest (last night!) was just three plants, but the screen was well filled - they had been vegging for almost six weeks.
You could put a dozen smaller plants in there easily, or fill the screen with just one plant. Everything I do is timed around harvesting for the correct Moon phase, so I judge the number of plants to put in there, by how long before I switch them to flower. My next batch will go ten weeks in flower, so I'm looking to switch them at the next new moon. But as that's less than 11 days away, I'll likely plant only two or three plants, and let them veg for five weeks, catch the next new moon.
If I was in a hurry, I could drop six clones in there tomorrow, veg them for 9 days, and then go 12/12 on the 11th, but I'm not.
-mu