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  1. lakesidegrower

    Replacing Blood meal with Alfalfa meal in a soil mix

    No! Lol don’t do that 1:1:1 peat/perlite (or rice hulls, or pumice) /humus (compost or castings) Set yourself up for success brotha
  2. lakesidegrower

    Help: Organic grow this is week 2 critical purple

    These are healthy seedlings - the small rounded leaves are cotyledon leaves and they will naturally yellow and drop, sometimes they hang on for a while, sometimes not. I would just let them ride, don’t feed anytime else for a bit, let the soil around the seedlings dry a bit before adding water...
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    Replacing Blood meal with Alfalfa meal in a soil mix

    Yea some people do just that - I’d toss something else in there - either kelp or insect frass I’m looking through my notes.. can’t find what my NPK target was, but I did the math on determining what my overall NPK would be with different amount of different supplements and added half and cup of...
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    Replacing Blood meal with Alfalfa meal in a soil mix

    Lots of people do use exactly that, but they just aren’t on here talking about it. It also doesn’t come in a fancy package with marketing behind it lol @Northwood knows what he’s talking about, it’s great advice to keep it simple with your soil build and focus on sources of N and K like frass...
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    Insulated tent? Let’s take it below freezing!

    This seems like something basic over never considered… jacked up temps in my room recently and my white widows are loving it, but my blueberrys are showing some head/light stress - indicas should prefer the cooler temps, or am I out to lunch? So just for comparison - my outdoor temps we 14C...
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    AC Infinity Controller 67 users?

    This kind of data is what I like - my only critique would me that it would nice to be able to change the setting to take readings every 10 seconds or so - the data points on the chart go to 1 minute intervals when you look at the Hour view. My fan comes on and runs for less than a minute so even...
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    AC Infinity Controller 67 users?

    This is why my chart looks like for the last 24 hours - I’m good with it lol
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    Insulated tent? Let’s take it below freezing!

    How cold will it get outside the tent? I have a grow room in an unheated, unattached garage. So I control the whole climate within - but rely on an oil heater to keep temps up in the winter. I run in a T6, as well as inkbirds for my temp/Rh/CO2. If you are able to draw warm air into the tent...
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    First organic grow, couple questions.

    Right on, well there’s no hurt in using it and seeing how it does - taking a closer look at the ingredients, there’s nothing in there that would be a problem, you just might find the odd deficiency during the run and need to supplement, but that’s not the end of the world Don’t use vermiculite...
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    My first "Organic Soil mix" have a question ❓

    Right on, sounds good to me
  11. lakesidegrower

    Anyone used indoorgrowingcanada.com.?

    I’ve ordered through them, about $500, no issues. Their pricing on some stuff is decent but nothing crazy. I liked they carried a bunch of organic amendments I wanted for lower prices.
  12. lakesidegrower

    First organic grow, couple questions.

    Hey welcome to organics my friend I’ve never used either of the above, but give them a go - tough to say how the girls will perform, there will probably be something that is needed that isn’t already in the soil and that amendment. Organic dry amendments are cheap - I’d run in the soil you...
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    My first "Organic Soil mix" have a question ❓

    No matter what you use specifically, make sure it’s 1 part water retainer (like peat), 1 part high quality compost or ewc, 1 part drainage (perlite, pumice). Don’t swap the perlite for vermiculite / they are totally different / perlite creates pore space in the soil to promote oxygenation while...
  14. lakesidegrower

    Light burn? Heat stress? Root problems?

    Pick out the centipedes - they are too dominant a predator typically, and will go after beneficials as well
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    Light burn? Heat stress? Root problems?

    Vpdchart.com - just play around with the numbers and you’ll get an idea of where you’d like to be, it’s nice because you can change things around to suit you enviro. Understanding vpd actually brings a lot of flexibility to your grow once you get the hang of it. That’s a great thing! Spring...
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    AC Infinity Controller 67 users?

    That’s great that you have a choice of intake air temps - you’ll have to just try them both and see what works best. I’d lean towards the cooler air tho, gives you more to work with. Id leave the inkbird to control humidity independently basically, and then set the ac infinity controller to...
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    Light burn? Heat stress? Root problems?

    I agree with the previous poster that you need to check out what VPD you are running - really helps to dial in a room. I’d guess ur leaf temps are 4 degrees shy of ambient temp, so check out this chart with your room specs… You’re running a VPD around 2, which I’d be freaking about lol This is...
  18. lakesidegrower

    Official Gaia Green Grow Method

    Sounds/looks like you’re off to a great start I agree that there shouldn’t be any need to ph the water with a living soil grow, but I had ph issue in my first run with new soil (which had been cooked for a couple months first) - so I just like to know what I’m putting in, so I still ph for my...
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    AC Infinity Controller 67 users?

    I’ve have my ac fan set to kick in when the temps hit 87, my CO2 tank is in a regular connected to an Inkbird CO2 controller - the fan runs for a handful of seconds every 10 mins or so to bring the temps back down, it only pulls down the CO2 to 1100 or so, I Mai rain between 1100-1500 PPMs...
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    AC Infinity Controller 67 users?

    Yup I am aware that if I exhaust the air in the room the CO2 goes with it.. Right now I’m running sealed during the day, exhaust fan set to only trigger during times when light are off. Someone got it in my head that even in a sealed CO2 enriched room I should be changing out the air every...
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