Hecno's on going organics

[WildBill]

Ok , all is going well . Day 12 of 12/12 , water with 1 dose with insect frass tea and molasses , Height 37cm . I ended up with 3 females out of the 5 seeds of the MHxZ99 . Happy with that . I have stopped the main trimming and it will only be shade leaf's if needed . Most of the training is done as well . View attachment 1623643View attachment 1623644View attachment 1623645View attachment 1623646View attachment 1623647View attachment 1623648View attachment 1623649
Now the CKMTxCKMT . This girl is behind showing sex by about a week , What I have done here is trimmed pretty hard as I only want the top colas .
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It is Sunday here and the rain has stopped so I am back in the yard , have heaps of repotting to do , and I might even cut some tress down , depends how stoned I get as I don't want another misshape Plus the wife is going to work , so I can play the music up loud.

I see some good structure in some damn good training!

I'm introducing a few new things and some different methods utilizing my current ingredients. I broke down and got some insect grass. With the results I've seen with the fermented insect frass, I thought it would be a good idea to incorporate the dried milk materials. I went ahead and ordered the fermented insect frass separately, but it will be the last time i do that. I'll just buy the frass itself and ferment it with Teraganix EM1.
Compost teas are gonna get a little bit more intricate. While I have it in my current tote that is cooking, I feel the levels are a bit conservative. I have a product that is called HumiChar, a micronized product 50/50 humic acid and biochar. I think that product will work quite well with the dried insect frass and with a little bit of the high quality soy based amino acids mixed in.

In the last run, i mainly used the fermented insect frass as a for the immune response of the plant. I've looked further into the insect frass from Black Soldier Fly Larvae.

Insect Frass naturally contains the nutrition plants require, beneficial micro-organisms, and the only immediately plant-available source of chitin (pronounced “Kite-inâ€). Chitin fortifies a plant from the inside out, causing an "auto-immune" response that signals a plant to produce natural toxins which fend off its natural enemies like pests and fungal pathogens. The EPA says that chitin and chitosan (see FAQ's) defend against botrytis (grey mold), powdery mildew, early and late blight, fungal pathogens in the root zone (root rot) and root-feeding nematodes. Insect Frass does NOT cause a plant to kill beneficial insects or beneficial nematodes.

I think this is a good step and taking my grow to next level.

Healthy roots my friend and I've also started to use insect frass from this year, probably because of your posts, don't know, stoner hehe...
I've bought it in a pelletized form though (Frazor), which is what I could get where I'm at. It's for professional growers, so the amounts you have to use are low enough validating the purchase of the product. Don't know if it aids in production, but I do know the worms love it. So if they are happy, my soil is happy and the rest comes all by itself

See if those pellets will dissolve in water. If it easily dissolves, put that in your next compost tea and Brew with your other stuff. Throw a little bit of quality aminos in there while you're brewing too. I'll be using that along with this product I've used in the yard called humichar. Humic acid and biochar in a micronized form. It goes into solution so easy! Brewing in the compost tea will charge the biochar and we're off to running

 

[hecno]

Building soil is such fun , I love seeing the results as we progress in our understanding of soil . We all have our different ways we build - BUT - we are on the same path and learning from each other @WildBill I have not heard of Humichar . but will be looking into it for sure . Do we make mistakes - yes we do - but that is a part of learning also .

 

[WildBill]

Building soil is such fun , I love seeing the results as we progress in our understanding of soil . We all have our different ways we build - BUT - we are on the same path and learning from each other @WildBill I have not heard of Humichar . but will be looking into it for sure . Do we make mistakes - yes we do - but that is a part of learning also .

Yeah man, I like figuring things out and seeing if those thoughts workout.
Success in the early 90s meant a federal guy trying to get in contact with you to ask you, "Why and how is your pasture still dark green and everyone else in this county is burnt up ?"
And naturally, putting high quality food on the table for your family. That goes without saying.

Success today means a pretty plant and people saying "Damn! That's some good weed!".......... As they stagger from the rush!

It's fun, entertaining, mentally stimulating, challenging and a multitude of others but most importantly, it gives job satisfaction.
I've had great paying jobs that had very poor job satisfaction. Always try to look for it where I could, but my fallback was always my garden and farm. It never failed to come through.
Growing canna now is a way of getting a little bit of my garden back.
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[hecno]

@WildBill Humichar here in Australia is $325 for 1kg , Which is 50% Humic acid and 50% fine biochar , But I can get fine biochar for $15 and fine Humic acid for $40 , so if I go 50/50 it would have to be the same ? any thoughts on this .

 

[WildBill]

@WildBill Humichar here in Australia is $325 for 1kg , Which is 50% Humic acid and 50% fine biochar , But I can get fine biochar for $15 and fine Humic acid for $40 , so if I go 50/50 it would have to be the same ? any thoughts on this .

That's kind of what I was afraid of, that it would be extremely cost prohibitive. I just looked up the price of it. It's now available at Home Depot! Well, it's gone up here! It's now$90.88 for 40 pounds.
I doubt very seriously if the product that you can get there locally would be able to do my envision in utilizing it in the compost tea and then being able to be sprayed on to the top of your pots.
Humichar that I use is in a micronized and pelletized form. The pelletization is purely for ease of application, like in a fertilizer spreader. It's very small pellets. The moment one of these pellets hits water, you see it immediately dissolves. Pretty cool to watch. It won't clog up your sprayer.

Now that doesn't mean what you have locally, you can't utilize it. But I think you're just gonna have to use it when you make up your mix of media like any other amendment.
That's what I'm currently doing in my 50 in my 40 gallon totes. I brewed my compost tea with my normal ingredients, compost, earthworm castings and molasses. The last four hours of the brew, I added recharge and the high quality soy aminos. After draining and filtering the compost tea I also added soluble micos. I then amended and then wetted in 10 gallon layers move then thoroughly mixed before the next layer. That's just how I had my amendments figured out in 10 gallon increments.
The top layer was amended with the amendments just lightly mixed in the top. I talked everything off with a light layer of organic chicken laying crumble. I wetted all that down and then applied some bokashi. I just wanted to see some crazy Mycelium bloom
I must have had one hellacious bloom in the compost tea! The tote fired up ridiculously quick and at a very decent temperature.

Now, my biochar is now charged with microbes and nutrients.

I'm still on the fence about how much nutrients the biochar will actually 'suck up' ,so to speak. It's sort of like if you try to incorporate what raw wood into your soil . It's gonna tie up nutrients. I'm not really super worried about it. It's organics. It's not that exact, but to cover my bases, I added 1/4 cup to my normal two cups of BAS Craft Blend per 10 gallons.

You can't really go wrong with the biochar. All life here on earth is based on carbon! Biochar is an excellent source....... plain and simple.
Just the moisture retention aspects of it is worth the effort in my opinion. Given the massive microscopic surface area, is the excellent place to house your microbes.
There will be no housing shortage with biochar!

Now the actual growing aspect I had in mind with me using my product in the compost tea is based on the following.
While it can be utilized anytime during the grow, I think the most efficient and effective would be at the time of top dressing. I always top dress when the plant needs to be watered. This way the amendments get flushed through the straw layer so it won't get crusty and help distribute the amendments to the top layers of your soil where your feeder roots should be.
Not only are you incorporating the amendments in the top layer of your soil, you're blasting it with life. You have little store houses of microbes and the biochar will help maintain the moisture level in the most active layer of your soil.

I think you should be able to see a marked improvement just utilizing what you have locally when you're cooking your soil. My additional step with the compost tea is a logical experiment to see whether the activity in the upper soil level can be elevated. I think it's worthwhile experiment. I'm pretty sure the results will be interpretive with no really scientific results, since I'm not gonna do a side by side. I just don't have the space. I might later do it in a photo run and take clones.

Check this guy out here. This is just a video of him explaining charging the biochar and how to harvest. He has other videos on how to make biochar that you might wanna look into.


I've made biochar way back when I first bought my farm. The results were well delayed since I didn't know about the charging aspect. I went back to compost as my major carbon source. Just the scale that I would have to go to to make a significant improvement to my garden, just wasn't something I was willing to do. It would have been way too labor intensive. While composting is also extremely labor intensive, I had tractor with a lift and bucket on the front and a 300 gallon water tank and pump in the back and a dump truck!
I get to make compost and play with my big boy toys!

edit................JESUS! I forgot one of the most important reasons for utilizing biochar and then utilizing it the way I will with the compost tea............. It increases the cation exchange!!!!

 

[hecno]

@WildBill Thank you , I know now how I will use it , I will incorporate it in the soil , So what I will do first is do a 27ltr pot worth with the soil I am building now so the next grow I will be able to have a side by side to have a idea of how it works .

 

[WildBill]

@WildBill Thank you , I know now how I will use it , I will incorporate it in the soil , So what I will do first is do a 27ltr pot worth with the soil I am building now so the next grow I will be able to have a side by side to have a idea of how it works .

Sounds like a winner

 

[hecno]

G'Day trend setters , Here we are at day 54 and 19 days at 12/12 . Still just cruising along , This week they have had pond water - Frass - little wee bit of Bat Guano , and Kelp ' They are drinking 1 1/2 to 2 ltr a day at the moment , room temp 24c and humidity still at 55 , and just a little bit of leaf removal .
MHxZ99 I definitely can see the Mango Haze influence in them

Next CKMT x CKMT

 

[WildBill]

Nice structure and training on that MHxZ99! Man, she's gonna stack them like crazy! Looks like you're gonna have some nice colas on her!

 

[smokeyfromau]

@hecno hey m8, I am back, and always love seeing what you got growing and hearing of your soil. Interesting i saw insect frazz at Aqua gardening, where i got some amendments. I let my soil go, so will need a 1month to get it right again, but did have big worms in it, and other funny looking critters.

Plants are looking super