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There used to be a couple of really informative groups you could gain access to via google docs run by (IMO) some of America’s top breeders. After a bunch of stupid politics and strain jacking following major legalization, one was wiped clean and the other disabled shortly after.
Fwiw 99% of good info you would find online can be found in this book anyway - just try this and don’t take advice from strangers who are ‘experts’.
https://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Horticulture-Outdoor-Medical-Growers/dp/187882323X
Absolutely! Check out r/SavageGarden, as well as The Savage Garden by Peter D’Amato of California Carnivores (which is also an excellent resource for purchasing carnivorous plants).
If you’re looking for outdoor carnivores, Venus flytraps are excellent beginner plants! As are many Sarracenia (the North American pitcher plants), particularly Sarracenia purpurea. They all need dormancy, and you can keep them outdoors year round in most of the U.S.
As for windowsill plants, some of the Mexican Pinguicula or the tropical sundews (Drosera)—particularly Drosera capensis—are very easy keepers! The Pinguicula are very cool because they’re succulents during their winter dormancy, which is triggered by drier substrate, and sundews don’t require any dormancy at all.
Wait! Don't trash them (yet). Your contaminants appear to be bacterial or less likely yeasts and there is away around them.
Cut a slab of agar out of a clean plate and cover your mycelium entirely with it. The mycelium can tunnel through and can easily emerge on top, sweet and clean. The bacteria or yeast will remain trapped beneath. Source: Paul Stamets
That's him. And I've been informed it's 10 years since I set this garden up using his book.
Cut a slab of agar out of a clean plate and cover that mycelium entirely with it. The mycelium can tunnel through and can easily emerge on top, sweet and clean. The bacteria or yeast will remain trapped beneath. Source: Paul Stamets
If something that looks like that occurs right next to some promising looking mycelium there's away around the problem. For one thing the mycelium can grow into large colonies and you can do a transfer from a leading edge away from the contaminants.
Also, there is this. Cut a slab of agar out of a clean plate and cover the mycelium and contams entirely with it. The mycelium can tunnel through and can easily emerge on top, sweet and clean. The bacteria or yeast will remain trapped beneath. Source: Paul Stamets
r/microgrowery has links to some great resources as well as r/spacebuckets (sidebars). You just have to do a little digging. I ordered a really good used book on Amazon, Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible https://www.amazon.com/dp/187882323X/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_eOgXxb6RFX3V4, it included everything from germinating seeds to extracts and edibles. I got lucky and found a used copy for about $6. There are a lot of other great books out there as well. I spoke with the owner of a major grow op in Alaska and he told me that it is better to know how to grow one plant well than it is to know how to grow a lot of plants in a small space. However, commercial grow ops are going to have their own unique challenges. Things like dealing with government regulations and keeping everything extremely clean, to avoid losing whole crops. These are million dollar operations taken very seriously. Good luck my friend. May you find what you are looking for, both today and in the years ahead.
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I mean, I guess there are books out there on it, but I haven't read any. Apart from that tip where you need to know a bit about mushroom lifecycle to understand, I guess the rest is common sense really. Knowing that the mushroom is 90% water and so needs water to grow helps my brain work, and visually seeing if it is dry and misting as needed etc.
Sound like you could use a good book to help you, you should check out one of the “weed bibles”. This is the one I have https://www.amazon.ca/dp/187882323X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=marijuana+growing+book&language=en_US&ie=UTF8&sr=8-1&linkCode=gs2&linkId=0b3e048071f135fa63b2aee0b43968f1&tag=heavycom07-20
Well worth it
I would recommend keeping the humidifier outside of the tent to humidify the room, rather than the tent (assuming you are pulling fresh air into the tent from the room). I also recommend getting THIS BOOK. It really helped me understand a lot more when I was starting out.
There is a way around bacterial contamination. Cut a slab of agar out of a clean plate and cover that entirely with it. The mycelium can tunnel through and can easily emerge on top, sweet and clean. The bacteria or yeast will remain trapped beneath. Source: Paul Stamets
There are some good sources out there.
Some quick getting started reading : https://www.shroomery.org/forums/postlist.php/Board/83
This book has loads of information from one of the myco masters: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Gourmet-Medicinal-Mushrooms-Stamets/dp/1580081754/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=paul+stamets&qid=1629757558&sprefix=paul+stameys&sr=8-3
Disregard the title, everything in there applies to magic kind too.
Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible https://www.amazon.com/dp/187882323X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_3C15YFT5DEMWYVK2NJAS
Buy a book and read that.
At this point in the year don’t worry about the rain on your buds they will dry out just fine, maybe be worried if you have like a week of overcast and rain and the plants are not naturally drying off then you just want to spray with a nice safe natural pesticide like big time exterminator or plant therapy.
www.growweedeasy.com is a good place to start but I would also recommend getting a book. This book is what really helped me understand a lot when I started growing https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0932551467/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_search\_asin\_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Also, you best bet would be to spend $25 on amazon and order a copy of the Indoor Outdoor Growers Bible. Will update with a link.
Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible https://www.amazon.com/dp/187882323X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_wMIOybDHH81NB
Either bacterial or yeast which one doesn't matter much, but you've got some mycelium. There's a way to get clean mycelium out of that plate.
Cut a slab of agar out of a clean plate and cover your mycelium entirely with it. The mycelium can easily "tunnel through" and emerge on top, clean and pure. The bacteria/yeast will remain trapped beneath. Source: Paul Stamets
The bacterial colonies will just slowly get bigger, they can't spread like hell the way molds do. There is a workaround for this situation.
Cut a slab of agar out of a clean plate and cover some of your mycelium entirely with it. The mycelium can easily emerge clean on top. The bacteria will remain trapped beneath. Source: Paul Stamets
The great news is your goals and dreams are super realistic. Even a home on the smallest amount of land can be turned into a farm.
There are lots of good books on the subject, but check this one out.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0865717656/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_P6xlFbG6FJHFF
Personally, I've turned my small lot into raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and grapes. All super low maintenance and all super rewarding with how much they produce.
There's a reason it's called weed. The stuff grows itself. Every grow you'll get a little better, get a better yield, learn some lessons. I've only been growing for 2 1/2 years and my harvests are top quality already.
I don't know your nutes so won't comment there. Re: lights, the plants are AF so they'll let you know when they're ready to make buds. When you see the prebuds, flip the light. Easy peasy.
Highly recommend you pick up this book; it has helped me tremendously.
Before I started growing some moons back, I read George Cervantes indoor bible front to back and back again, I spent about 3 months on that book to make sure I understood the very basics at least. The book is an absolute must for the novice grower imo https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marijuana-Horticulture-outdoor-Medical-Growers/dp/187882323X
Marijuana Horticulture by Jorge Cervantes. Good book. Booook
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marijuana-Horticulture-outdoor-Medical-Growers/dp/187882323X?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=e4036748-a40d-4163-a387-04ed1b990c59 This is my bible. And I urge anyone with an interest in cannabis to read it. It's packed with facts.
If you want to grow weed, I'd recommend buying this book.
I've bought many growing books. This is the one I actually reference and keep around and doesn't just sit I'm my bookshelf. Too many others read like text books and don't have good pictures.
Hey there! So the broad fork is a tool used by a lot of organic and no-till/low-till to avoid conventional tilling and more destructive practices. After a few seasons of broad forking and proper compost amendments a lot of growers find the soil structure has improved so much they can retire the broad fork. The broad forks loosens the soil to about 8-9inches, but it doesn’t churn or turn it. Doesn’t destroy soil organisms and doesn’t expose underground carbon to the air, thus stopping the soils ability to sequester carbon.
I highly recommend doing some reading into the broad fork, or grelinette as it’s originally known as. Definitely check out The Market Gardner by Jean-Martin Fortier, a well known organic no-till farmer from Quebec. And The Living Soil Handbook by Jesse Frost, a well-known no-till farmer from Kentucky, he is also the host of the No-Till Market Garden podcast and YouTube channel.
Both sources talk about no-till/low-till and how the broad fork/grelinette fits in to those systems.
My personal background is in organic/sustainable production horticulture and ag.
https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook/d9z5gkf1bbnhu0w5xxb3trngiqhwgo
I also recommend this book by George Cervantes it’s a great read and will help you with every problem known to weed.
I haven’t done serious (hobbies) growing in ten years but a great resource is Paul Stamets book https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Gourmet-Medicinal-Mushrooms-Stamets/dp/1580081754
A fast run down of what I used to do.
I’d soak then pressure cook 10 32oz wide mouth jars of rye berries. There’s a specific process getting their moisture right. It shouldn’t be too much or too little. It’s in the book. Rye berries are not too difficult to find. They’re often in 5lb bags or in bulk grain areas.
I’d then inoculate them with my purchased culture syringe. I’d let them cultivate shaking close to finish, and shaking when finished, to help the mycelium be broken up.
I’d then pressure cook 10 more jars of berries. I’d split one jar ten ways into those jars and wait for them to cultivate, one again shaking as described.
Once fully cultivated, I’d then pressure cook filter patch bags of substrate that varied depending on what I was growing. Id use half of a second gen grain jars per bag.
Once the bag was fully cultivated, I’d move them into my fruiting chamber. Light is only needed as a fruiting trigger, it helps the mycelium know it’s at the surface and should fruit, same with fresh air.
Then I’d eat some mushrooms.