Michigan Growers Tell Your Plans for This Year

TDM

TDM

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Yeah...love it here Hammer...lots of Black Bear and Coyote's across river...State record Balck Bear was taken in 2003, we have one now trashing my bird feeders, made the mistake of hanging suet. He's proably waking up now to come and trash my s... again.
 
hammer6913

hammer6913

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TDM said:
Yeah...love it here Hammer...lots of Black Bear and Coyote's across river...State record Balck Bear was taken in 2003, we have one now trashing my bird feeders, made the mistake of hanging suet. He's proably waking up now to come and trash my s... again.
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lol u know it they can smell that suet foir miles. i can hear the coyotes here once in a while. i love bein in the forest. i used to live in the shitty but cant handle it anymore, must be old age lol. watch out for the bears man.
 
dankshizzle

dankshizzle

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So your adding metal to your soil waiting for it to rust? It doesn't put off any toxic chemicals? I know copper will kill your roots. Makes me leary of other metals that are a man made item.
 
Mary I Wanna

Mary I Wanna

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So your adding metal to your soil waiting for it to rust? It doesn't put off any toxic chemicals? I know copper will kill your roots. Makes me leary of other metals that are a man made item.
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I've done some research on this, I just didnt start dumping metals into my soil... Zinc & Iron are two trace elements your plants need to survive... Zinc plays a big role in how well your plants yeild... Farmers often treat their feilds with zinc chloride to improve their yeilds.. Zinc chloride is also used to slow down the oxidation of steel. Zinc in high level can be toxic to plants, but so can any other element.. I mixed my first batch two months ago now, My ph is still stable between 6.0-7.0.. The BB's took about 3 weeks to start rusting, and they are oxidizing at a slow rate.. Each BB weighs under a 10th of a gram. They are made of mostly steel, Im guessing that under a 1/4 of the BB's total weight is zinc. Taking that into concideration, Im adding aprox 1500 bb's (150 grams of BB'S)per 15 gallons of soil... That means Im adding no more then 37 grams of zinc, and 113 grams of iron per 15 gallons of soil.. You also have to factor in the slow release rate, Im not adding 37 grams at once.. Thats 37 grams that will be break down over the course of the next 6 months.. So im releasing about 6 grams of zinc per month into the mix, and about 18 grams of iron per month.. Also the reason why coper is toxic to plants is because it prevents the uptake of zinc.. The same tissue in the plant stores zinc & coper. Coper is easier for the plant to absorb, so it will take it in over the zinc. Leaving no place for the plant to store the zinc it needs..



  • Most soil zinc is in a form unavailable to plants. The amount of zinc that plants need, however, is fairly modest. According to the University of Wisconsin extension, crop plants take up a mere 0.5 pounds per acre of zinc. Nonetheless, if the amount of exchangeable zinc is insufficient to meet the plants' needs, crop growth may suffer accordingly.


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  • Plants use zinc as part of the process that forms chlorophyll, the pigment they use for photosynthesis. Zinc is also important in activating various enzymes important in plant growth



Read more: Zinc in Soils & Plants | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/facts_7691378_zinc-soils-plants.html#ixzz1JzubRj1t

**EDIT** After thinking about this a little more, I have forgotten to factor the weight of the carbon contained in the steel.. My estimates for the zinc contents are accurate, but my estimates for the iron are wrong.. Steel is manufactured by blending carbon and iron in a specified ratio, the normal percentage of carbon ranges from 1.0%-2.15% of the total weight... That means the total weight of iron im adding is roughly 85 grams over the 6 months.. Thats also if the BB's decompse fully, which they will not..​
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hic

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Mary - thanks for that info. I am too waiting to see your results. I would not try it with all your plant, so that you may observe your reaction with the test soil.

outdoejoe - keep your greenhouse above the ground. It will have more surface area of sunlight = warmer temp inside the greenhouse. Remember outdoejoe ya gotta let that greenhouse air out sometimes. Do this on the hot days.

I del, the M's have been waiting for your return it is time. This is the year when the M's become M and M becomes something.
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Mary I Wanna

Mary I Wanna

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Mary - thanks for that info. I am too waiting to see your results. I would not try it with all your plant, so that you may observe your reaction with the test soil.
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hic,
I've been thinking about that also.. I think Im gonna mix up some top soil, compost, cow shit, and sand. Then when my clones root I'll place half in my mix, and half in the other.. Just incase my mix turns out to be leathal or something as time progresses.. It will also give me something to compare the plants grown in it with.. Like the mythbusters say, Failure is always an option..
 
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hic

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Failure is an option however I do not keep the option of option on the table when it comes to me. ha ha I have fuking failed enough, I already did my time so to speak.... did you know marijuana does well with diluted dymatap " the grape medicine" talk about carbs and reactions. see my friend I have tried alot. You may also try smashed strawbeeries the seed turn the soil slightly acidic now you wanna talk about improving color and taste

After all my trials and errors I found the key to reach certain cryteria live in the bloodline of the plant. You can tweek you can even change the tatse completly and change it's color. I can turn any strain into a completley diffrent strain if I so choose with those 2 methods.

much to learn grasshopers much to learn. One more thing add a herijuana clone to the outside mix. BW is gonna bang her ya know.
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Mary I Wanna

Mary I Wanna

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Failure is an option however I do not keep the option of option on the table when it comes to me. ha ha I have fuking failed enough, I already did my time so to speak.... did you know marijuana does well with diluted dymatap " the grape medicine" talk about carbs and reactions. see my friend I have tried alot. You may also try smashed strawbeeries the seed turn the soil slightly acidic now you wanna talk about improving color and taste

After all my trials and errors I found the key to reach certain cryteria live in the bloodline of the plant. You can tweek you can even change the tatse completly and change it's color. I can turn any strain into a completley diffrent strain if I so choose with those 2 methods.
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Thats the kinda shit I wish to learn.. Anyone can plant a seed in good soil under the sun, and grow a marijuana plant that produces buds.. I dont wanna be an anybody though.. I wanna know the shit your average hobbyist grower dose not.. I wanna master the art of fine marijuana growing.. I want to understand what my plants need to thrive, When they need it, why they need it, and the best way to give it to them.. I wish to be able to manipulate strains in the manners you speak of, to take a strain everyone knows and turn it into a monster they've never seen before... I think outside the box, and I learn by trial and error.. Some of my methods may seem wacky, but I do everything for a reason.. If everybody always used tried and true methods for everything, inovation would not exsist...
 
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