Medi's Perpetual Organic Tent

[sour.b]

Hey Medi, great set-up and sounds like a great supersoil, I've myself looked into it, but for the size of my grow it doesnt seem efficient enough. If you don't mind I will pull a chair here, and take some notes.
SuperOrganic Karma your way:gthumb:

 

[medi]

Thanks Sour B, and I don't mind at all. You might be surprised that in the long run it is actually more efficient to grow this way, because you can continually reuse your soil with only slight amending. When you add to that all you're doing is watering and an occasional aerated tea the time you save starts to add up quickly. Just food for thought, if another consideration is cost or complexity those are definitely separate issues :Sharing One:

 

[sour.b]

Thanks Sour B, and I don't mind at all. You might be surprised that in the long run it is actually more efficient to grow this way, because you can continually reuse your soil with only slight amending. When you add to that all you're doing is watering and an occasional aerated tea the time you save starts to add up quickly. Just food for thought, if another consideration is cost or complexity those are definitely separate issues :Sharing One:

I hear you man, and I wish I could.
It's more of a space issue for me, the all mixing of things, needs space to do this (correct me if I am wrong) but my flat is not the biggest I also don't have the capacity to get it cooking outside for a month (? maybe I dont have too).

If my grow space was bigger (2-3 x 15L pot only ATM) I would use an entire batch a the time and wouldn't have to store bags of mix around. I am already struggling with my used light mix in Ikea bags + the new 50L under the bed... I was actually thinking about recycling my used light mix, I guess that would be a good start..

I will be watching closely man.

 

[elsamurai]

the pic's look excellent . glad to hear you got your ro system lined out.

 

[cowboy]

Guys sorry to jump in but your on the topic and I want to know is the benefit of using RO water worth it? Im at .4 ec tap water. Cleaner water will just be cleaner, or the plant actually grows better? Thanks in advance.

 

[pop22]

​I've been waiting to get a few things out of the way before making a new thread and although one of those things should have been getting over the plague my daughter gave me I'm not expecting to see my health back for a while so here we go.

note: This will be a revolving garden so that I don't have to make a bunch of new posts every time I want to update.

In my tent currently are 1 X Black Stone, 2 X Moonstone as well as 3 X Blurp that I'm still deciding how to utilize. I have recently purchased a new RO system, but it came with a 1/2" feed splitter and I need a 3/8 so I'm going to look around for one and get it(Lowes was no joy as per usual). Also I have standardized my TLO recipe as well as my layering/spiking. I make the soil 20 gallons at a time now and maintain two containers, one that was recently re-amended and recycled, and the other is 90+ days old at this point and actually it's getting pretty low, but we won't worry about that for now. Ingredients list below.

Soil recipe

Base of 50/50 composted cow manure to fresh EWC
Perlite at 1 part per 2 parts of soil
Blood meal
Bone meal
Rock Phosphate
Dolomite lime
alfalfa meal
granular humic acid
oyster shell
crab shell
azomite
Roots Naturally Endo Myco
Bokashi
Fish Emulsion

Layers

Blood meal, EWC, High N Bat Guano, oyster shell

Spikes

Jobes Organics container spikes(3-5-6)



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Wonderful! Your ready to really rock them! I'll be following as I'll be doing some Blackstone soon myself. :Sharing One:

 

[pop22]

Thanks Sour B, and I don't mind at all. You might be surprised that in the long run it is actually more efficient to grow this way, because you can continually reuse your soil with only slight amending. When you add to that all you're doing is watering and an occasional aerated tea the time you save starts to add up quickly. Just food for thought, if another consideration is cost or complexity those are definitely separate issues :Sharing One:

All you need is a worm farm now...lol!

 

[medi]

All you need is a worm farm now...lol!

I've had the worm farm since around June/July time frame

 

[medi]

Guys sorry to jump in but your on the topic and I want to know is the benefit of using RO water worth it? Im at .4 ec tap water. Cleaner water will just be cleaner, or the plant actually grows better? Thanks in advance.

I'm not an expert on water so I'm not sure how EC relates to TDS but .4 definitely sounds like great water. Someone else might be able to answer better but in my case my tap water is just really bad so I had to use an alternative source.

I hear you man, and I wish I could.
It's more of a space issue for me, the all mixing of things, needs space to do this (correct me if I am wrong) but my flat is not the biggest I also don't have the capacity to get it cooking outside for a month (? maybe I dont have too).
If my grow space was bigger (2-3 x 15L pot only ATM) I would use an entire batch a the time and wouldn't have to store bags of mix around. I am already struggling with my used light mix in Ikea bags + the new 50L under the bed... I was actually thinking about recycling my used light mix, I guess that would be a good start..

I will be watching closely man.

You need some space to store stuff, I have a little 3 shelf tool cabinet I store mine in for ease more than anything. As far as mixing it, I just make batches into my 18 gallon Tupperware container which stores in the same closet my tent as well as my worm farm are in. I'd say just hold what you got, eventually you might want to take something else on and you'll be ready, ambitious, and probably in a better position to take on the challenge!!

 

[cowboy]

Its 200 ppm700 the water... I hear thats mid grade