The true 'earth juice' tutorial 2011!!!!

Well so far so good,here is a brief update and a few pic's..

Day 24 flowering for the S.Kush
Day 24 flowering for the Midnight Kush
Day 24 flowering for the Re-vegg'd Blue Diesel

Day 15 flowerring for the Pineapple Ex

Lots of tops and a full box with only 3 plants i had to remove the PE and put her under the 250 by herself but i will finish her under the 600 as she is behind the others..

O'k if i still have anyone following the Thread here let me give you a lil update!

This is day 32 of 12/12 on three of the lovely ladies i have in the flowering room The Midnight Kush the Headband or Sour Kush and the personal project of mine the Re-veg of one of my Blue Diesel plants from last harvest..

I have just stopped useing the complete lineup of EJ and i am now strickly feeding them with just Bloom and the Catalyst from here on out i only fed them in flowering three times so far and that was as follow:

First feeding Grow, Bloom,Micro,Catalyst and Mollasses as a tea brewed for 36hours i think..

Second Feeding: Grow, Bloom, and Catalyst

Third feeding: Grow, Bloom, and Catalyst

So that brings us to now tommorrow i will be watering them when the lights come on and it will be just with the Bloom and the Catalyst from here on out unless i see something i need from then to harvest i love the fact that i have lots of greenery all over very lil yellowing so plenty of foilage to carry the nutes to the buds for the finish..
And just for kicks i must say that i have great respect for this line of nutes so far lets see how they finish and then get all giddy!!

These are:

1) Midnight Kush
2) Headband (Sour Kush)
3) Sk
4) Mk

The Pineapple Ex i forgot to mention is the last two pic's and she is somewhere around 10 to 12 days behind in flowering so she should be a beast i was not ready for the stretch on this girl if she fills in good i should be a happy pappy!!

Here it is the re-veg of one of my earlier very nice phenos Blue Diesel i re did her with new soil and useing Earth Juice as its nute solution this time and she is doing great so far..

Looking great, stinkbud! using catalyst myself, works great!

Right on man are you useing the whole line or just the Catalyst along with something else..

I have wondered about the earthjuice line for a while. Looks like to be a contender for sure!

Ponicengineer said:

I have wondered about the earthjuice line for a while. Looks like to be a contender for sure!

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Thanks for stopping by and yea it is more then doing the job for me still waiting to see how they finish but so far so good with the Juice..

Whats up all? Just wanted to give everyone the heads up to what will be going on with me for the unforseen future! To make it simple i'm going through a lil relationship trouble here at the ponderosa and i think i need to take a substancial break to allow cooler heads to take place so i will be out of comission for a while not sure how long but until this is resolved one way or the other so over the next few days i will be posting what i can for you all and by the time this grow is complete i hope to have a full report and pictures of it if i can last that long here to the finish..lol you all know i will be dropping in from time to time to check in with you all and your grows so keep it growing and keep it real..Peace

Sorry about the relationship troubles, we all deal with them from time to time. Peace, bro!!

Hope things have smoothed out. I look forward to seeing an update, stay up!

Earth Juice PH UP and DOWN DOES NOT effect the beneficial bacteria,microbes or fungi in the medium, this is FALSE.

Hello there again,

I have finally set-up everything and I'm about 5 days away from beginning my first EJ grow. By 5 days I mean I will begin seed germination then. It took way more time to construct the new rooms than I thought it would, and I'm anal so that took another month.

I'll let you know what I'm doing and I just want to get some feedback from you, it won't be as redundant and general as my original reply to you but I still have a few questions.

My soil-less mix will be 40% Sunshine Pro/40% perlite/10% vermiculite/10% worm castings, or around those percentages. I also have dolomite lime to help with soil pH being stable and will add between 1/2 and 1 cup per 5 gallon pot.

I plan to plant 6 germinated seeds(paper towel method) each in 16oz solo cups. Keep under 2-25watt T5 lights for about 5-7 days, then move to 1 gallon for most or half of veg, than to 5 gallon. I didn't want to transplant twice but I've been reading up and it seems to get best root mass it would be better to transplant gradually rather than from 16 oz to 5 gal, so I threw in the 1 gal as my middle man.

For seedlings I'll just use 50/50 sunshine/perlite and no ferts.

Now for 1 gallon I will mix same percentage soils as my 5 gallons will have, I want to just do the Alaskan 5-1-1 fish ferts from about days 8-20, before I start EJ cycle. Is this OK? And should I do the soil pre-soak of fish ferts with molasses for both 1 gal and 5 gal transplants or just one of those?

So for seedlings(Days 1-7) Just water
1 Gallon Buckets(Days 8-20)Fish ferts 5-1-1
1 Gallon Buckets(Days 21-until 20-24")EJ GROW/bloom cycle with one or two feedings of microblast and catalyst before flower.

My original question was why would I want or need
Blood meal -------?
Bone Meal-------?
Worm casting
Bat guanno-----?
dolomite Lime
Perlite

in my soil if I'm going to be feeding it with EJ? Can I just go with my planned soil mixes and ferts or should I actually add things like blood and bone meal and bat guano? Doesn't EJ already have this stuff in it?

Either way I'm diving in so I hope I can get your feedback before i get to that point. Peace.

Sorry to hear about this issue. Well, hopefully almost 2 months later your situation is resolved to some degree. Take Care. And I hope to see you back on here as I will be doing a full journal of my first real EJ grow and I would love to get your feedback along the way. Peace

Any of you try out ej's rainbow mix as a base for compost tea? im dropping a few spoon fulls into a bucket of bubbles and molasses for a few days and thats what im using every watering.

wakebakeworksleep said:

Earth Juice PH UP and DOWN DOES NOT effect the beneficial bacteria,microbes or fungi in the medium, this is FALSE.

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they show no bias towards organic ph up/down vs synthetic. your beneficial bacteria are affected by the PH of the MEDIUM.

wakebakeworksleep said:

My original question was why would I want or need
Blood meal -------?
Bone Meal-------?
Worm casting
Bat guanno-----?
dolomite Lime
Perlite

in my soil if I'm going to be feeding it with EJ? Can I just go with my planned soil mixes and ferts or should I actually add things like blood and bone meal and bat guano? Doesn't EJ already have this stuff in it?

Either way I'm diving in so I hope I can get your feedback before i get to that point. Peace.

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Amend the soil AND use EJ. Works like a champ!

Get some kelp meal to add with that other stuff.

Wet

sharpshoota said:

they show no bias towards organic ph up/down vs synthetic. your beneficial bacteria are affected by the PH of the MEDIUM.

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Excuse me? So you are saying that if I ph my water after adding my organic nutes including beneficials that says clearly not to ph, it will be the mediums ph that affects them, not the fact that they are dead already? YOu have a link to that info?

lbezphil2005 said:

Excuse me? So you are saying that if I ph my water after adding my organic nutes including beneficials that says clearly not to ph, it will be the mediums ph that affects them, not the fact that they are dead already? YOu have a link to that info?

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The ph of the medium is directly related to the ph of the water added so yes you want to make sure the water is at the correct ph before you add beneficial's... not sure what your asking...

sharpshoota said:

The ph of the medium is directly related to the ph of the water added so yes you want to make sure the water is at the correct ph before you add beneficial's... not sure what your asking...

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I used earth juice for a year and while bubbling or changing the ph with earth juice's natural up/down, i found out that it works best to not touch the ph at all. For me just mixing the stuff and feeding it works best. No bubbling, no ph adjustments.