Most beneficial Improvements to Your Grow

Discussion in 'Growing Organic Marijuana' started by Distrex, Feb 14, 2015.

  1. #1 Distrex, Feb 14, 2015
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    Hey everybody,
    I'm about half way through my first grow. I have 2 photo period NL's and added in 1 Heavyweights 2 Fast 2 Vast auto flower. So far everything has been going fairly well. I did have a little issue with over watering, but have since added in a a bucket sip setup that has drastically improved the plants. I've already gotten a little list going of the few things that I will try to incorporate into my next grow. These are all things I've seen around here that people have had nothing but good things to say about. Here is my list so far:
    • Transplant into smaller pot first - This is mostly due to the fact that it is easier for a beginner to over water a small plant in a large pot. I doubt I would keep this methodology far into the future
    • Adding in Coconut Water
    • Adding in Aloe Vera (either powder or liquid)
    • Adding In silica
    • Setting up a little skirt for the sip buckets to keep the light from the perlite
    • Getting rid of the stand up oscillating fan I have and getting a smaller clip on one to increase my floor space
    • Trying to find one large sip bucket that will cover my entire floor foot print
    • Utilizing mulching - Either live mulch (clover?) or just wood mulch
    • Getting a fan speed controller
    That's a fairly large list, and I wouldn't add them all the my grow at once, but I'll start working on some of them.

    I'm wondering what you guys have added to your organic grows that have had some of the largest impacts. What did you change that made you go "WOW!"?

    If you're curious how my grow has been going, I'm always happy for the company.

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  2. Tailor your amendment mix to include specific N and P additions during veg and flower phases. Your base mix in the soil should be all purpose. I use additional seabird guano during veg/pre-flower and bone meal mid-late flower for bigger buds.
     
    Use mycorrhizae in some form (research the difference between soluble and granular!) it will boost your root growth and overall plant resistance.
     
  3. What made me go wow?
    Switching to No-Till gardening and using barley/Fulpower/agsil teas.

    Light movers were also the best investment in my veg room. This kept every plant at identical heights, and really bushes them all out.

    Bham


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  4. what made me go "WOW"  ditching hydroponics and getting what i wanted without the bottled nutes.  
     
    thanks grasscity
     
  5.  
    I'm not exactly sure what you mean.  Do you mean to go specific to the strain that you are growing or just get a more diverse mix of additions into the soil so that there is more sources of the macro/micro nutrients?  Or are you referring to adding in different materials in tea or top dress form during each phase?
     
    Soil inoculations are definitely something I would like to add. I just need to do some more research to find out which brands are best.  I've heard hit or miss things on some of the different types.
     
     
    Luckily for me, I jumped straight into the organic, TLO, super soils.  I'm not ready to go full no-till yet but it will be something I'd like to pursue further down the road.  For now, I plan on  dumping all of my soil after this grow and re-amending everything.  It'll be a little bit more work, but I think it'll work well for me for the next little while.
     
    What made you go with light movers as opposed to just adding in more light?
     
     
    readying around and seeing some of the problems and all the extra work that using bottled nutrients requires was one of the reasons I decided to go with an organic soil mix.  It just seems like a lot more head aches without having a return.  I'd much rather enjoy my time spent gardening then spent mixing up chemicals, checking PH, run offs, etc.
     
    That's great so far guys, keep the ideas coming :D
     
  6. Easy, more light penetration without the added electric bill. I run 9000 watts at the moment in flower, I KNOW I could get the same weight with 6 lights and an Agra-mover I just don't have the $$$ to drop on it right now. But in all seriousness the light mover in veg removes hot spots and I never EVER have to rotate a plant or top them to get awesome side ranching early on. This simply saves me work.

    Bham.


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  7. Ahh, that makes perfect sense. How big was your grow when you first used the light movers?
     
  8. My first grow I bought one. I grew in a closet using a 1000w. Got 1.5 pounds on a single light with the lightrail 3 (or whatever it's called). Now my buddy uses the mover in his room, in exchange for cuts whenever I need them. I'm all about lightening my load haha!

    Bham


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  9. Gro-Kashi! :metal:
     
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  10. Wow. That is a nice result. One thing I wish is I had someone around here that was into growing as well. Having someone you can share with like that must be nice.

    Is this something you use as opposed to a mycorrhizae inoculation or would you use this in addition to that?
     
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    No this doesnt replace mycorrhizae, its bokashi bran. Its fermented wheat bran inoculated with Lactobacillus and other wild yeasts. You add it to your soil mix, top dress and make anaerobic teas/ferments with it. its truly awesome stuff! You can make it yourself by culturing some lacto and fermenting some kind of grain or even sawdust/newspaper and dry it out.
     
    If you arent familiar with EM then I would suggest you look into and buy a bottle of the Teraganix EM-1, stuff is fantastic.
     
  12. Oh ok. I didn't realize it was bokashi. I've seen that mentioned more than a few times when people are referring to their compost heaps and stuff like that. I didn't realize that you coukd use it as a foliar spray or just straight in the pot.

    I will add this to the giant list of things I need to look into. Haha. Thanks for the tip. :D
     
  13. Neem meal. Went without it for a couple grows and what a dumb move on my part!
     
  14. What was it's biggest impact on your grow? Did it it just help for soil bugs and diseases or most just benefited as a nutrient ammendment?
     
  15. It seemed to give the microbes steroids, as well as the much needed insect repellant ability.
     
  16. Malted barley grains with ful-power fulvic acid and aloe vera juice 😍
     
  17. Sorry if I wasn't clear, I'm always blazed :smoking: ...
    What I have is a basic mix of tomato tone, kelp meal, etc. This is all purpose and mixed into the soil initially. Late in veg, early in flower, I top dress or mix a tea with seabird guano (high N and P for stretch and bud development). Mid flower, I top dress or mix a tea with bone meal. About 4-6 weeks into flower to allow the amendments to cycle into late flower. Molasses is always good during flower, the soil critters love the sugar. Hope this makes more sense!
     
  18. Gotcha! Much more clear now. Any particular reason you don't mix in any kelp meal along the way?
     
  19. The base mix has kelp meal and so does the compost. The base soil with an occasional molasses boost is good enough to last through veg. Top dress with base mix and seabird guano right before flowering will last until the last top dress with bone meal.
     
  20. Sounds like a fantastic mix. I definitely need to give mine a little more work this time around too. I just used some of the more basic blends. It's off season up here in Oregon so it's slim pickings at the gardening stores I've been too.

    I'm going to order some red wiggles tonight to start making my own ewc. Both for my indoor garden and the veggies I'm going to be planting here soon. I think this will be a huge improvement as well.
     

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