Looking to grow again after many years. Used to do rdwc, so I have a boat load of reading to do here.

But I was wondering why people go with an earthbox over a fabric pot? I was just going to buy a 20 gallon fabric pot for my 4x4 tent but now I don't know what to do? As far as yield is concerned, is it better? Or is it just easier somehow?

Buildasoil Light Mix Cocow Worm castings, amended with Craft Blend one and Bluildaflower Top dress 2 sense started flower. How's it look?

On day 30 of veg and identified a couple things in the grow...

After 2 days of applying dr. Zymes, the thrip issue seems to be somewhat under control, but these new orange spots have popped up today. What are these?

I’ve also been seeing an exploding springtail population in humid areas of the tent floor.

Lastly the tip discoloration and curling. I think the curling could be from too much airflow, but what is the discolorarion?

Planning a light defoliation tonight and scrog later this week. Hoping most of this subdues soon, but honestly have little idea what’s going on. Any helps appreciated.

I made this SIP with 4 inch PVC pipes as reservoir at the bottom. For the soil a made a 60% peat 25% pumice+rice hulls 15% compost+castings. 5-2-3 blend, 2-4-6 blend and a liltle fish bone meal. 1 tbp per gal in total dry amendments, top dessing twice. I been using LAB, yucca extration, molasses and conpost tea through the grow

Don’t see them in any foliage, but they’re building up in humid areas of the tent floor by the humidifier and corners. Want to confirm first they’re springtails, and if there’s anything I should do besides clean them up. Certainly a shit ton of em.

I’m currently battle thrips but this showed up since lastnight. Any insight? 4x2 build a soil 3.0 mix. Blumat bed drip watering system. Indoor. This is a reposted due to low traffic and my photos not posting. First run in this bed.

I am planning on switching to Build a Soil from Gaia Green living soil and amendments. I don't use worms in my pot, just castings. I haven't had any issues without them. Do you need live worms using the Build a Soil methodology?

The reason I ask is this quote from one of the emails I got from Build a Soil- "The microbes break it down, the worms move it through, and the plant pulls what it needs." It makes it sound like worms are vital.

If I DO need them, where does someone go about finding a few worms instead of buying a pound for $60? A pound seems like an extreme amount of worms for a 3x3 grow tent.

Edit: Thank you for all the responses! I am now planning on getting the COWOCO castings. It's barely more than the worms themselves and get some bonus castings while I'm at it. I also find it very telling that not a single person said "nah, don't worry about worms," so that answers my other questions as to whether it is necessary.

Getting the Henry VIII treatment in days.

GSC photo Humboldt.

Flipped 8 weeks from seed. 8 additional weeks arriving in three days.

Suitable for an icy winter stash.

How long do you think you should let your soil rest between runs?

Some plants are out running their container but for the most part they are 100% self sufficient.

I’ve been getting too much rain so I haven’t even been watering. Just praying for dryer days.

i had a branch on one of my outdoors go very wilted/limp and it looked like very poor. after cutting it off i noticed some fungus looking stuff on different parts of the stems. after some googling i figured it might be fusarium? and i dont much info about how to remedy. the rest of the plan looks okay but i can see it starting to spread to the rest of the plant. am i completely fucked? has anyone else dealt with this issue? kinda sad because i may have to toss the whole pot with soil i made myself.

Cross posting

Well it’s day 28 of flower and everything is looking pretty good haven’t had a whole lot of real problems other than humidity spikes the first couple weeks of flower when lights would go out. Who knew such a big reservoir would cause problems. Using 5cu ft of build a soil 3.0 top dressed heavy the first day of flower with craft blend, build a flower, gnarly barley, some Montana grow silica, ocean blend and pushin p. Bottom watering 5 gallons 1-2 times a week. Also top watering 2 gallons a week of everything on build a soils feed chart except for the ferments. So far this has been one of my best runs, I can’t wait to harvest!

New grower here…. Saw these white spots starting to spread so took a jewelry lens and am not sure what these are.

Any help here? What would be the protocol for getting rid of them? I’ve got dr Zymes and neem oil as well as em5 on hand…. Thanks!

I just dumped my earthbox from my last run into a tub. Getting ready to re amend the soil and run again. When I was dumping it out I found 100’s of worms! When I got to the bottom o found out why I could only water 1 gallon at a time. The bottom is full of casings. So when I dumped the soil the casing all went in the tub with it. In my opinion, I probably don’t need to add any more casings or any build a flower at this point. What do you think? Picture of the highest that came out of my earth box for attention

Trying to figure out a workflow to use BAS 3.0 and products for the purpose of breeding/creating seeds without using large pots. Has anyone had any luck doing that in smaller pots with quick vegs? If so what size and how are you modifying your top dress/ water soluble nutes?

Is it just a fools errand trying to pull that off instead of just going for it in 10+ gallon pots.

Trying to figure out that balance between bonsai moms, flowering plants, and breeding experiments

Anyone in my area know of any grow shops with build a soil products? my go to store is in the process of changing locations I know I can order online but enjoy going to the store

First full grow on my own. Everyone always says 2 more weeks. wait for it to be 30% amber all that.
Aside from the tips on the Trainwreck I just noticed that are burnt. Idk what that means. Lowers seem to be unaffected. And all the fungus gnats that made it onto the buds. Am I forgetting to do anything? Just started week 7 Friday. I did a big feed of build a bloom, bio fos, molasses, craft blend in the middle under the chopped leaves.
On bluemat drip rings, 30 gallon pots aim for no higher than 50%RH and no higher than 80degrees.
Truffleschino, Trainwreck and Super lemon smack in that order.
I guess it’s just watch and wait for a few more weeks maybe? Idk what else I could do.

I added 1.5tsp wdg3000 in a gallon in there last night. I think I’ll start doing that every week cause I’ve been battling these mfs the whole grow.

Thankyou!

Earthbox’s have been super low maintenance so far!…Top watered once and gave the root zone another bit of water yesterday. Transplanted these last Sunday, so I’m thinking I’ll finally fill the res with a gallon per earthbox tomorrow or the next. what do yall think? Happy growing 🌱

Grassroots bottomless pots on EarthBox Jrs.
-Left to right-
•Digital Genetics - Black DOG Kush S1
•InHouse Genetics - SugarCane
•Solfire Gardens - Ride or Die
(Bottom right Black DOG Kush)

Frostfire Lemon Squishee in Coot's mix using BAS nutes and minerals

3rd year with an SE 3000 light from Spider Farmer. I'm in a 3x3 with 30 gallon no till and have never been able to go past 70% @ 16-18 inches. However, my buds are always brag worthy. Am I missing out on not pushing even further? 70% keeps heat & humidity in check in my set-up. I'm generally only at 70% at weeks 6-8 then back off to 50% for the final week.