New Grower Wasting time

[LaoWhoo]

Check. I revisited their site and they advise to apply it as a flush w/o nutes, and that if you go further, as in top off w/ tea every 5-7 days, do so w/ maybe half the usual nute level before and behind it. Their recommended dose is 1:10, but other reading I've done says use as little as a cup per gallon, or 1:16. I'm confident I know where I messed up the 1st time and have remade the rings/drip system, and all lines are black now. Best thing for me is to not panic and jump on this as a root rot preventative--but let good practices dictate for that, and just acquaint myself with the beneficials very conservatively.

edit: This tea isn't what I thought so I'll give it to our son for his garden. Doesn't have the microbials but is more of an organic fert. The schedules/doses for the microbial bennies are similar, but even more conservative unless you're actively fighting an early onset of the slime/snot, in wh/ case it's pretty similar. One cup/gal initially, then 1 cup total every 3 days (average microbe life expectancy) until slime is gone. Afterwards, 1 cup/10 gal once a week will keep you in good stead.

 

[baked in the bluegrass]

No tag for your old pal baked?

 

[Frenjamin Banklin]

No tag for your old pal baked?

Sorry bud

I wasn’t really starting s journal, this was just fiddling around until some beans popped. Just tagged that fella cuz I didn’t want to clutter his post with all my crap about my duty water.

I have a terrible time clicking the follow post button or tagging folks in. Most of those around know I make my way through almost every post out there daily. Make sure I always like those pics to let you know I’m lurking.

Fingers crossed we have strong seedlings and I’ll tag you in that journal. Promise. I’m always watching but the alerts for following just cause to much clutter.

First day back to school for my kids today

 

[LaoWhoo]

We moved our daughter into school yesterday. Well I'm glad for your help there so thx. Think you just sorta dropped "molasses" there and that had me scramblin to know more. Got our blackstrap yesterday.

And cuz I neglected to fully answer baseadinho's Q, my other contributing factor (wh/ wouldn't apply to his Kratky method), was lack of O2 to the water. I had only half the air stones needed, and now we'll have the roiling water you see in Frenjamin's res.

 

[Frenjamin Banklin]

Go lite

I use a quart mason jar ( I think)and put about 1/4” in the bottom. Fill it up with hot water and shake. Let it cool and add that to four plants once a week that are in 6-7 gallons of water. Some use all the way through and depending on medium it is used differently. I just use when they hit flower till two weeks before chop.

Soil growers use from the get go because of the soil biology benefits the whole way through. I use in hydro to feed the beneficial bacteria once the plants are in full swing. Helps with conversion and uptake. Or at least that’s what it has convinced me it does by reading the inter web.

A lot of hydro grower run a sterile res with synthetic nutrients. I’m almost tempted to give that a try one day to see the difference from my muddy water. But it’s just so easy.

Store that molasses well once it is opened or it can get moldy. If you bought a gallon it should last several years

 

[LaoWhoo]

Well 2 things you can correct me on. First is that I figured I'd never put molasses in the res. It's only to go into the brewing tea to feed the blooming microbe biome before that gets put in. And it's only about a tablespoon/gallon of tea. As for runnin sterile, seems to me like that's a bit of a tight rope balancing act wh/ could never be as forgiving as having 30,000 types of bacteria and thousands of fungi types that will find their own balance/niche in the res environment and even adapt to what the plants are doin/making in their own rhizosphere. Not to mention the particular difficulties that H2O2 presents to plant metabolism according to some.

 

[Frenjamin Banklin]

We have sprouts but I’m not going to jinx it yet by starting a journal yet. Give them a few more days.

But really happy with the way the Ripleys is stacking up. Been super healthy so far. They get extra silica on top of what’s in MC but these Mephisto girls always get heavy on those branches. Fingers crossed they hold up.

And her little sister almost caught up in size now. Might end up a few inches shorter. Feel like 7-10 days behind.

 

[LaoWhoo]

We have sprouts but I’m not going to jinx it yet by starting a journal yet. Give them a few more days.

Make that 7 things I did to cause the slime.

 

[LaoWhoo]

Just re-read your whole thread more carefully and best thing about it for me is all the experimenting you're doin and how you sorta throw the book/conventions out the window. Seems like the way to really learn this stuff for the long haul. Good to have in the back of my mind while I get all anal over my tiny grow, and good cuzz I couldn't have the ability to try everything you're doin.

Since you dropped the molasses bomb on my journal, and I went lookin for root rot preventatives, I've been readin True Living Organics and The Cannabis Grow Bible. Realizing I don't understand any of what I'm doin, but am in it for the long haul and only way to become a good grower is learn the plant and the things it likes. Pretty much what you seem to be doin. Right on.

 

[LaoWhoo]

Yo.. I have read that you had issues with the root of your plants. Do you know what is/was the water's temperature? I watched a video where some people were saying that the pump can throw cold air and mess up every thing. I did an experiment a couple of different Basil's following the Kratky method and I had good results. Soon I will start a new project with Northern Light Automatic but I think will stick with the Kratky method.

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Apologies Frenjamin for posting again, but feel I gotta better respond to baseadinho. I'm pretty sure that a major contribution to the growth of my slime, and to the probable lockout I was seeing, was a serious lack of O2. Recommended that the absolute minimum air for DWC is 1 Watt per gallon air, and we had half that. Have doubled it since, but now we're gonna go 1.5x that. Have 11 W goin into our 5 gal seedling res but will have 16 W goin into our main 10 gal res when we move them. BTW, have also read that Kratky works for things like lettuce that don't require aeration, but not for cannabis.