In Through the OutDoors

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mchappy

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Hey y'all .

Been reading around here for a while thought Id show you guys what I'm doin for change. This is my first shot going big outdoors and Ill tell ya its been a lot of work! Moving 100 yards of soil is no small task even with a tractor...

Anyhow Ive got 48 girls all in 6x6x1.5 cedar raised beds. Thats about 400 gallons of soil in each. Just some of the strains i can think off the top of my head: Master Kush, Bubba Kush, Purple Urkel, Purple Trainwreck, Blue Dream, OG Kush, Grape Ape , Willy Wreck, Hindu Kush, Black Betty , KC Jones, Pre 98 Chili. Might be one more im spacing on

Feel free to ask questions or comment! I should be on here to update a couple time a week . I tried to put these in chronological order from the day you put em outside. Its been about one monthView attachment 2254637View attachment 2254629View attachment 2254630View attachment 2254631View attachment 2254632View attachment 2254638View attachment 2254633View attachment 2254636View attachment 2254634View attachment 2254635View attachment 2254653View attachment 2254643View attachment 2254642View attachment 2254644View attachment 2254645View attachment 2254646View attachment 2254648View attachment 2254649View attachment 2254651View attachment 2254652View attachment 2254641View attachment 2254640
 
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we made a nice hot soil mix and feed using AACTs and foliar with EWC teas, just letting those microbes do their thing. Honestly conventional nutes would be way to expensive for this scale IMO
 
drolove

drolove

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still pretty new to hot soil mixes and ewc teas. if you got time and dont mind could you elaborate on your feeding a little? very interested in growing some large healthy out door plants next year yours are looking very good.
 
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mchappy

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Yeah no problem. Im not an expert by any means.

For your soil you want to start of with a nice base of garden soil mix. You can get bags of it, something like roots organics works great. We ended up ordering it from our local forest products place because a hundred yards worth in bags is a shit ton of bags. Then its on to the amendments. You want to get some quality compost and earthworm casting at the very least .Mix it at about 25 lbs per yard. Next you want to add mycorrhizae. you really cant add to much but we did about 1 cup per yard of soil. Then on to other good stuff , Bloodmeal ,Bonemeal,Feathermeal,Fishmeal,oyster shells and Kelp meal. These all break down over time in the soil and release nutrients with help of your hopfully thriving bacteria that live in your soil. Some are heavier on nitrogen and some are heavier on P and K. When your buying your stuff the should have the ratios listed. Then you want some perlite for drainage. We used perlite, coco fiber and green sand.

As far as the compost teas go...We have a 500 gallon res we brew them in. couple cups of compost,EWC ,Bokashi, fish emulsion plenty of airstones and unsulphured molasses. The molasses feeds the bacteria and allows them to multiply in your tea. This is the most important part in my opinion..The bacteria. With this method youre trying to feed the bacteria more than youre feeding the plants. As your bacteria thrive they break down your soil to usable forms of N-P-K
 
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mchappy

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The only real problem has been some branches breaking..didnt get my trellis netting up early enough. Not a good thing. Its a lot harder the to put on the bigger they get. Got most of em done today though
 
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mchappy

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Sorry didnt mean the cup like measurment:wall: I use close to 4 gallons worth. and other things to. Been making it real strong lately
 
drolove

drolove

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very nice man! good work and beautiful plants! should start budding soon if they havent alreaddy started.
 
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