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Hey yall just experimental DIY hobbyist grower in Humboldt county ca. 4th run in this soil never tilled once only top dressing minerals and amendments, compost teas and foliar spraying. The light set up I designed and built myself only thing I didn't make myself was PCBs but that is something I plan to do in near future. Vegged for only one month and now on 4weeks and 5 days of flower. Yes I didn't defoliate this grow but will next grow. This grow I wanted to balance the 730nm IR with 450nm, 540nm, 630nm 660nm creating a more uniform canopy while reducing shadow avoidance symptoms as much as possible and thus finally accelerating phytochrome process in flower with 730nm keeping short internodal distances created by 450nm in veg.

Not completely on topic for this sub but I don't have a better place to talk about my experiment. I got into bokashi composting to help speed up my composting process and today was transferring. As I was emptying my bucket I realized I never bothered to fully dump out one of my grow bags from last year and decided to see what happens if I dug out the bag some, added a nice core of bokashi about half way down, mixed in some fresh compost and returned the dirt to bag, and I'm going to let it sit until February which is about when it's safe to put plants in the ground where I'm at. I have a super hearty sprout inside that was originally going to be my greenhouse experiment but a wind stormed ruined that so that'll be what goes in probably.

Well aware this isn't the typical approach here or even "correct" bokashi, but was curious if other shad advice or experience with something like this.

Panama x Malawi on the left, Super Panama Hazes front and right. Cover crop goin ham. 100 gallon pot is setup on 5" of perlite in a tray and they're chuggin freely from the reservoir now so we'll see what the stretch brings.... Been under 14/10 light schedule and just switched to 11/13.

I use the water soluable microbes from npk industries and was wondering if I could add microbial mass As well for some extra microbial activity. Thanks growmies! Any advice appreciated

Would adding all of your leaves from defoliating to your mulch layer throw N out of balance in a soil test? Curious as to if I can throw everything into the mulch layer or if I need to dispose of foliage through other means as well. Like a worm bin. Thanks!

Hey, everyone, first post here, looking for some advice!

I have a huge pot here, >100 liters of living soil, but due to some problems, it was sort of abandoned for a while, and I plan on growing cannabis in it again, so I started to water it regurlaly again, and been trying to get my cover crop to sprout, but the soil is having a hard time absorbing water.

I seen some recipes online to use wetting agents to get my soil to absorb more water, but I would love some advice from more experienced no till growers.

Side note: please ignore any typos or grammar mistakes, english is my second language

5x5 tent with 3x3 light coverage. I’m in a 30 gallon filled with bas 3.0. 1 plant. Fem from dominion. Currently on week 3 of flower. I defoliated before the flip and added a trellis. Everything seems to be fine as far as growth and color shy of a slight burn to tips due to fluctuating levels of moisture. Been seeing herms below the trellis since defoliating. Everything light touches seems to be fine. My guess is stress due to insufficient lighting? My lights about a foot away from my plant around 900PPFD at the top of the main cola. I went ahead and defoliated some more at week 3 of flower to open her up some more. Got rid of anything covering buds sites as well as lower branches that won’t produce. Also added a second trellis so I could continue to open her up as she starts stacking. Would love some input as I’m real confused seeing everything points to good health. Thanks! Happy Thanksgiving to you all.

I have built living soil with Gia green amendments, worm castings, promixhp, and microbes. I have alfalfa in a couple of the pots too. I am feeding a humeic +amino acid + microbes once every two weeks and they are happy. I have a bloom ferment I made and was wondering if I can use it with these amendments. I am not top dressing anything other then gypsum and I plan on one time rock phosphate on week 4 Wich I think is activated with the humeic. Anyone with insight plz lmk! Thanks growmies!

I'm about a couple weeks from harvest and would like to have my soil ready as soon as possible. Is it ok to take a soil sample while I have plants growing in there? I'm on the nicest run I've done and worried about the effects of damaging the root system.

Dipping my toes into the JADAM/KNF style ferments for making liquid fertilizers. I have read that a healthy plant, if rendered into a JADAM liquid fertilizer, contains all the necessary nutrients to feed a plant of the same species.

Following this logic, I want to grow a cannabis plant in order to make a liquid fertilizer for the following season. What stage of growth should I harvest this plant in in order to make the most effective liquid fertilizer?

Would I want to harvest it in the vegetative stage, or would I want to harvest it when it is growing healthy buds? Or should I do both, and use one as a vegetative fertilizer, and one as a fertilizer to supplement flowering, respectively?

Let me know your thoughts!