So...Today I harvested two more girls. Which totals the harvest at five beautiful ladies with cola's thicker then a jar of Bactrex. What's left over now are the two seed mothers and that one lady that didn't wanna finish...
Oh and today was delivery day...
My Bokashi kit arrived, as did the root riot cubes and clonex gel. An hour later DPD delivered the P9 pots and the N, P, K organic nutes. And this afternoon another delivery guy came by with the replacement for the orgatrex as this was as good as gone...Adding some form of carbs to feed the bennies in the soil is key to keeping your soil healthy and productive.
These rooting cubes will be used in the project after this one...Where I'll be dipping my tow in...photo's...
AHH, IEEEEUW....He said the dirty word...LOL
These P9 pots will do nicely inside my tent. 36 pieces should be able to fit inside my tray.
I even found an organic slow release nutrient with the same NPK ratio as the tabs have. It's also got "beneficial bacteria added for a healthy soil", hehe, but is formulated for lawns. We'll see if it gives me the same results...
Out of respect to Karel, I'm not sharing which brand it is in this thread, but if you are short on cash and wanna know, send me a dm and I'll reply... Nutrient wise I spent about 78€ for all the products...which means I have the equivalent of 500 tabs, 10L of molasses with added minerals and alfalfa meal added. And enough N, P & K organic nutrients to brew up that +1000L of soil I have laying around in the greenhouse for years to come...
To get a massive benny and myco colony, I've used all the bennies and myco I had stocked up in my closet and mixed it in a soup of worm castings (without the worms this time), 1L of the molasses and 500ml of lukewarm dechlorinated water, this got bubbled (don't use a stone as this creates loads of foam, but rather the airtube alone) for day and then poured over the pee drenched biochar. This will now sit for some time until I can't smell any ammonia being emitted from the bag, which means the organics have been feeding and doing their job colonizing the biochar.
For this season I've got about two buckets worth (approx. 20L / 5gallon) of pellet sized pieced of biochar. By volume this amount will not come close to the amounts used in terra preta, but then again it's a start and like the years before I reuse all my soil, rebuild it in the fall and use it the next season. If I keep making the biochar, which is a filthy and messy occupation, I can get that biochar at a acceptable level as the carbon doesn't decompose and will actually remove carbon from the atmosphere. Just read up on the whole "Terra Preta" idea. And, please don't use plain charcoal as this isn't the same as biochar...It's got to do with the way how the charcoal is cooled down. With biochar you use water, as when this comes into contact with the red hot coals, creates massive amounts of steam that blow out the microscopic pores inside the charcoal even more, removing leftover tar and other pollutants.
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do...
To end this post in a positive manner...I present you the first seedlings that came up. To protect them from the dry arid environment inside the tent, I chose to keep the lids on, even for taking pictures. Humidity is at 50-51% right now and this would be to great a shock for those who surfaced...I won't take any chances you guys
Regards,
Bob