I love living on land away from the madness, we have plenty of space here and so much organic material that someone could easily make their garden beds and run their garden for free by just using the materials around here. If money is not an issue then you could substitute coir for peat and then buy all your mushroom composts/manures/dry nutes and you would have a banging no til garden.
Living soil material sourcing EU
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janiking
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I was just thinking , because Bagged pure poeat moss is just not available , theres 3l bags for like 15 euro of still live sphagnum moss, Wouldnt promix do just fine? Thats ment to be few types of peat and some wormcastings only as far as I know
You can buy mushroom compost, sea compost, make your own, buy worm castings tho them damn things are expensive, sheep manure is a lot cheaper. As far as manures go, rabbit droppings is the best manure, it has better values then chicken, cattle, goat, horse and even sheep, but it may be harder to get a hold of.
janiking
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I just had a read and apparentally theres public farms here that let you take compost up to a cubic meter for free
but i guess noit all compost is made the same , Wormcastings here seem pretty cheap 40l bag for 15 euro from bbizz, and a quick search threw me some premium castings for double the price, so not overly expensive here. As far as minerals go what do you guys use?
McShnutz
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Both ewc and compost.
70% coco
15% compost
10% ewc
05% drainage
Dry amendments of your choice.
janiking
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Thank you sir , Ive just looked through your journal or thread w/e you wish to identify it as , regardless you do some nice work i see , those plants looking really nice and its clear you have an educated understanding of the whole biology of things, Id like to pick your brain a little if you would be so kind . Im in about 4th week of an auto grow with biobizz line , im wondering if SST`s would be beneficial here at all?
Community compost systems are wonderful, if you can get involved in that you should.. It would provide you with plenty of compost, depending on who they have in control of it may determine the quality, but usually community compost systems are good.. Out here Im just composting all the leaves, grass, veggies ect from my land and I got the go ahead to do it on my neighbors which adds another 90 acres to source some organic materials.I just had a read and apparentally theres public farms here that let you take compost up to a cubic meter for free
McShnutz
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I just made some a couple days ago from corn. Gave the girls some in the tent, but it was really made for being fermented. I'm in week 5 of true flower, week 7 of 12/12. To be honest it can't hurt, mine are pushing out side clusters of new white pistils. Getting real chunky. Not your typical symetrical looking colas. They're not foxtailing tho so I'd attribute the spurt of new growth to the SST. Only took 1 day to respond to it, it was a success.
You could benefit from it, auto or photo. I'd probably not use it past week 6 of true flower. It may delay ripening, OR may just be a waste as the plant is reaching its end.
janiking
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okay sir , although watering was today , ill give my 2 post stretch ones a shot to see how it goes, would it be ok if i posted a pic or 2 , im having some problems rn , I havent been checking or adjusting pH, and my meter that was ment to arrive today got damaged in shipping so tomorrow I'm getting the replacement, I suspect low pH caused nute lockout, last 2 feedings I gave minimum just grow and bloom at half dose , i did this because i think all the bottle's have dramatically dropped my pH and surely i started getting praying and clawing leaves, which to me suggests that ph went in the correct range and now too much N is available. I know my starting pH is around 7.5 with very mild water
McShnutz
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Ph and possible accumulated salts. Are your plants still a nice shade of green?
Pics are always welcome
janiking
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1is and one not , although they are same genetics , one is a waaay stretchier pheno and is one thats yellowing pretty bad but still building flower, i will get some pics later when im at home
janiking
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So heres the ladies, the one that is fat i just included to show how they have been ending with using biobizz after swapping from coco, I also got my ph meter and ive been feeding between 6.5 and 6.8, which seems ok to me,a tad high but soil life should be able to drop0.3 points no? Also there a pic with full tent , the 2 in the front is what the plants looked like 2.5 weeks ago. 
My environment could probably use some more looking into but temps at most are 27c and humidity is low under 50%, unfortunately i cant change this too much , I have dimmed my 2 120 watt lm281b qbs to about 3/4rd of the way, The nutes im using are grow,bloom,activera,topmax,cal mag, at half recommended dose for all mix soil. Im in Lightmix but Bbizz suggest going with all mix scheduele when growing autos.
These images are mostly of the healthier plant , I will be making another post with the stretchier more problematic one because I can only post 10 pics.
My environment could probably use some more looking into but temps at most are 27c and humidity is low under 50%, unfortunately i cant change this too much , I have dimmed my 2 120 watt lm281b qbs to about 3/4rd of the way, The nutes im using are grow,bloom,activera,topmax,cal mag, at half recommended dose for all mix soil. Im in Lightmix but Bbizz suggest going with all mix scheduele when growing autos.
These images are mostly of the healthier plant , I will be making another post with the stretchier more problematic one because I can only post 10 pics.
janiking
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Heres plant number 2 , These auto euforia from DP. both in 15L pots.
I just wanted to add that I havent been blindly following the scheduele , This second plant was showing dark green before stretch and clawing , I backed off a little on the N and things went fine , actually bit too well in stretch so I had to tie her down immensely to keep canopy height similar, She had a little overwatering but I fixed that before stretch began , I did go up to 3/4 feeding for 2 feedings because I was suspecting deficiencies but seemed like that didnt fix the problem , I needed to water about every 3 days feeding with every watering,
As mentioned I dimmed my lights and now I got an extra day it seems like because they were way to saturated today to be watered on previous schedule. Or they are just slowing down a bit for bud production , either way they drank less since light dimmage.
So please if anything sticks out on the images or in the info , id appreciate input.
Also a sidenote, Can LEDs cause purple stem , only where light hits the stems they turn purple , underside is green and healthy looking, also in shaded spots.
I just wanted to add that I havent been blindly following the scheduele , This second plant was showing dark green before stretch and clawing , I backed off a little on the N and things went fine , actually bit too well in stretch so I had to tie her down immensely to keep canopy height similar, She had a little overwatering but I fixed that before stretch began , I did go up to 3/4 feeding for 2 feedings because I was suspecting deficiencies but seemed like that didnt fix the problem , I needed to water about every 3 days feeding with every watering,
As mentioned I dimmed my lights and now I got an extra day it seems like because they were way to saturated today to be watered on previous schedule. Or they are just slowing down a bit for bud production , either way they drank less since light dimmage.
So please if anything sticks out on the images or in the info , id appreciate input.
Also a sidenote, Can LEDs cause purple stem , only where light hits the stems they turn purple , underside is green and healthy looking, also in shaded spots.
janiking
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got the images up
McShnutz
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Looks like p deficiency. And K
janiking
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so next feed a bit more bloom then , those bottom leaves that went full yellow hadme thinking Ndef
