BuildASoil: THOUGHTS ON 70% AMBER // BLACK FRIDAY // HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN GROWING (Season 5, FAQ 7)
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2024
- FAQ 7, Season 5:
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Home remedy for gnats, slice potatoes over soil wait a few days flip potatoes over. After about a week throw potatoes away. The larva go to the potato slices. It won’t get rid of all of them but it decimates the numbers.
Just use mosquito bits in the water you water the plants with.
Or just add some hyper-mites too. You can get some free ones in Colorado worm company's casting usually. If you have bad fungus gnats out of control, the populations of hyper mites will naturally explode from the castings and take care of them. It takes a while, but the soil will eventually balance itself out. Definitely use some hanging sticky traps and card sticky traps to catch the adult flyers and monitor the levels. I also do a routine IPM system every 2 weeks. I rotate through sprays like em5 and capatins jacks and mammoth cannacontrol. I am definitely going to be trying that potato method. Thanks for the information!
A nice layer over the whole top of container works too or mix it with neem cake gnats here hate neem cake I mix half neem and Karanja works great otherwise just stay soapnut wet agent
Soapnut spray is the only thing I use for pests other then homemade neem sprays I just get a panty hoe in a half gal milk jug cut the bottom off and scoop a 1/4 cup neem Karanja cake ground up in it and run water through it and you get some potent spray then let it sit on the plants and give it a good stream spray to wash off any residue dead spider mites powder mildews it’s good stuff aswell
@@Mrjboomseedco I started using neem cake pellets and had my worse infestation of gnats ever! SO, now I'm putting the pellets on as a top dress to see if that helps (well, until I need to top dress with nutrients).
YO! Shout out to BAS support team and Zach Branson. Man went above and beyond replying to my email today. Thank you so much!!!
Zach is a great guy! He's helped me many times.
Build a soil does have great customer service and support facts
This series makes you all immortal. It the best resource for a home grower who uses an organic living soil period. Out of respect I will buy everything from y'all that is feasible. Respect 🙏
preach! thats what ive been saying. people bitch about prices & such but dont take into account all the knowledge they spread, step by step for free
Have already been doing this for almost 5 years now.
Timestamps:
0:00 Hello and Welcome!
0:35 Trichomes at Harvest - What ratio of Amber vs Milky do you harvest at?
3:13 Local Sourcing for Soil - Can I use Humus Compost and Black Gypsum to build soil?
5:50 Hops Viroid & other mosaic viroid - Do you test for it and is it wise to reuse soil since the virus can stay in the roots?
8:58 Fungus Gnats - How do I fight the Gnats without ruining the soil / plant?
11:46 Temperature in the tent vs ambient - how can it be cooler in the tent vs outside if you're not using an air conditioner?
12:46 Is "Filtered Water" already pH balanced? Do you need to pH balance water when using Living Soil?
15:18 How long did you vege the plants for in Season 5?
16:22 Curing - My buds are sticky / wet after a week in the jar, did I jar too early? Should I burp more/less?
18:23 How long have you been growing for?
19:32 Does drying the soil out near harvest affect the terpene production?
20:55 How many white soil mites would be in an infestation?
22:21 Can you fix bricked-up soil that won't drain?
23:31 Are you going to have a Black Friday sale?
24:23 Closing comment from Jeremy
doin' the lord's work
V important comments, idk if you do this on all the uploads, I’d not you should. Keep it up g
Very helpful, thank you, for taking the time to put the timestamps together. AWESOME!!
@@machiavelligaming9755ya that took some work homeboy put his work in on dissss my add adhd I would have stopped like 2 times stamp’s in well I am being honest just saying
I know several people who prefer autos due to the ability to perpetually harvest in a single space. Any more work y'all can do on autos would be welcomed with open arms. Thanks for what y'all do ✌️
Just legalized my state of OH I’ll be growing DEC 7 LEGAL!!!! Thanks for all your info
Good advice for any and all new growers: don't use jewelers loups. Save yourself the trouble, and go find yourself a digital microscope. Amazon has'em, if you dont want to give amazon money, find one elsewhere. You can basically buy them as kids toys these days, the tech has come far enough. I have a 2k resolution digital microscope, works with an app on my phone, it was a $17 kids toy. Set your phone down, hold a branch on your plant steady in one hand and aim the scope with the other at a top bud. You can't NOT get a clear view at trics this way. Check top buds, check middle buds, check bottom buds. In my experience, top cola trics mature the fastest.
Jewellers loop held to your iPhone camera with enough patience and focus works amazing. You can 2x on your phone with a 30x and my phone will focus at least if I’m patient and steady enough. Take a quick picture and you can see all of them.
@@TheOnlyKontrol yeah, i've done the loup+phone camera trick too with my note9, but a digital microscope gave me a superior look at the tric heads.
Good Cell Phone picture, zoom in on picture. Be supersized on what you do and can see... Happy Growing
I'm really surprised and almost disappointed that he didn't mention nematodes for gnats. Especially living soil, use them you won't have a problem again for multiple runs
Would Nemasys throw off the intended balance of soil biology? I wouldnt' think so.
@@MontanaWind8084 no
Cheers
Hi Jeremy mad respect from Scotland 🏴 bro 😊hope you and the wife are all doing fine and staying sade 🙏
You're the best and boldest cannabis grower I've ever seen and I'm an OG of ten years from Connecticut. good job man! thanks for teaching!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on here and and BAS and the Families
Love the content!! Gnats are a pain here in Nebraska, I sat a mason jar with water, apple cider vinegar and a drop of dish soap in the tent and it reduced them significantly,
Always enjoy getting a suprise video !! Season 6 idea . A pheno hunt of some mixed cannabinoid cannabis plants , plant that are known to produce 1to1 ratios of 10%-15% of each thc/cbd !! I think growing a real medicinal cross will be very informative for the community to see tht there are amazimg crosses out there tht have loud terps and lots of resin and have real medicinal value and the potential to change their lifes !!!! Lets go season 6 excited to wht goes down !! The answers on the Q@A where great masterfully articulated!!! Cheers !!!
I absolutely love listening to you talk about growing, feeding, chopping, and drying over and over again. Your knowledge and experience have built up my confidence before I've even started collecting stuff to grow. Thank you for helping me out with this cant wait to pop my first seeds. Us handicap people truly appreciate you breaking things down so we can understand what we are getting into before we start. This can be so intimidating as if our physical limitations aren't enough. Jeremy, you are the man!!! One day, you are going to come face to face with Mike Praniewski Praniewski, and I'm going to shake your hand
Thank you, my friend
Just commenting to boost the algorithm love the vids!
Jeremy!! You've taught me too well brother!! I used to get sooo excited to see new videos and learned soooo much from each one of them. Now, I'm not learning anything new for the most part. And it makes me sad 😂 I miss that thrill!! But, I guess that's the "newbie thrill" and I'm not of the newbie mindset anymore .....mostly thanks to you!! Keep on keepin on brother!!
I live in Scotland where our tap water is quite good and ive learned alot from watching Jeremy, one those things was the fact that you don't have to ph in a organic grow which is great as there is no more pissing about calibrating ph pens
I think this should honestly be the biggest takeaway for most people. If you have municipal water supply (in USA at least) chances are your water is perfect as is! I haven’t adjusted pH in almost two years now, loving every minute!
The uk is supposed to be some of the best tap water around. I’m in the East Midlands myself and not checked ph since moving from hydroponics to organic soil. I sometimes dechlorinate or leave the water standing for a day or two, no chloramine in our area.
Not Las Vegas water is crapECms 1.0 out the tap
@@tuckerluke80 don't really need to check ph while growing organically as the soil is a great buffer
@@KPrent82I’m still fairly new to organic growing so that’s good information that makes sense. Especially as I use 56l pots now. Thanks
I have had fungus gnats go through the little holes on the bottom of my pots and had the outbreak down there as well. What I have found that works well for me, is all the things Jeremy mentioned, plus in addition when I water my plants (I use a moisture meter to truly tell if the soil really is dry) I will dig a small but fairly deep hole in the top of my soil and SLOW water only through the hole. I also do not water until it pours out the bottom. Once I am confident that the soil is saturated enough, I fill the hole back in and then compress it with my hand to keep the gnats from finding and burrowing in that single spot. When I do top water (to get my top dressing to soak in) I brush any mulch aside then I place a small fan on high aiming at the surface to accelerate the drying, the gnats can't fly through the high wind and they have a tough time crawling Then I replace any mulch. I also discovered that growing a cover crop of alfalfa seems to work very well at keeping gnats away. I have had them infest the pots without the alfalfa and not even touch the ones with alfalfa, despite being right next to it. Found this out by sheer accident
This was a great FAQ and a great season 5 as well. Today I was also re-watching the Jay Plantspeaker interview you did awhile back, and went to order some for Black Friday and I noticed there is no mention of him on the packaging. I hope all is well with him and BAS...
Jeremy, thanks for 5 seasons of valuable information on organic cannabis growing. This is my 3rd year and the only year that has been very successful. Going completely organic and embracing the living soil concept was definitely the turning point. Your videos are fantastic and I do wish you would do a small grow outdoors, as mine are totaly ourtdoors (Massachusetts). Keep Smoking 😀😀😀
I also learned that when in flower around week 4 I’ll drop the light to 11/13 and the12-13 weekers will finish in 11 weeks with no lose of yield
Let's Go BuildASoil!
Love your content!!! I grow hydro but still have a lot of questions as a new grower, you answer something I can translate over almost every video.
I am learning the curing part too. I trimmed and put in jars too soon this crop as well. 9 days of drying and the outside was crispy. Was concerned it would all crumble away lol. It's been a week now and turned out to be best I've ever grown. Alot of burping jars tho
Really excited about the soil and compost testing content!
70% Wow! No problem. You smoke that an hour before you go to bed and I promise, NO insomnia!
Cheers, big up 🍯
Thanks for the pre-feast drop 🙏🏻☮️💚🔥✊🤙🏼🤛🏻
Thank you BAS!
Just placed another order. Best in the world.
Awesome content thank you! Can’t wait for season 6
Another killer FAQ! It's impossible not to learn something new with every episode, especially with these FAQs. Put my order in for the Black Friday sale the other day. Thanks for everything Jeremy and the BAS crew! 🤙🤙
Happy Thanksgiving BAS crew you guys rock.
For fungus gnats this has worked for me 100%
More airflow at soil level
Sticky traps near soil level
Bacillus Thuringiensis aka mosquito dunks
Hit them at every stage of life!
Your exactly right about hovering over trying to see tricomes haha
Thank You great help for the new grower here. Just got part of my order today! HappyThanksgiving !
Love the Q&As! peace and love from Ohio!
Ordered that same shirt with points, super stoked
Sticky traps are useful at helping with Gnats as well!
Something I do with houseplants is get the yellow sticky traps and cut them to fit on top of the soil STICKY SIDE DOWN. It would be a pain with living soil but you don't have to keep them there long. The flying adults fly straight into the sticky traps. Also Mozzie dunks for ponds disloved in whatever you are watering with helps heaps. Mozzie dunks have a living thing in them that eat the larvae of the fungus gnats. Nz seems to have a lot of fungus gnats.
T-drops are the bomb. I’ve been using them since I started growing and have no gnats. Love that stuff. You will too
great info about the gnats, i had it and neem was good for me but the watering from the bottem is the best and ad new soil on top.
love the video's man!💯
I've used Mosquito Dunks in a 5 gallon bucket feeding my Blumats, using an aquarium micron filter bag for the mosquito dunk and tying it off. It tends to keep fungus gnats away from the beginning, but I still add predatory soil mites and some beneficial nematodes also.
Happy Thanksgiving BAS team & thanks for another awesome sale!!!
Growing is awesome!
I always learn something from these FAQs. Appreciate you guys ✌
I learn something super useful everytime inwatch one of these. You know how much ive been struggling hovering over my plants tryin to see tri colors
What's up! Thanks for the diversity of knowledge Jeremy. I have a question I'm hoping you can answer, can I use African night crawlers in my living soil bed or is red Wiggler's better?
Happy Thanksgiving BAS!
Question for the next FAQ: Can you update the BAS Feed Schedule to include GNAR-BAR, Mustard Seed Meal and THRIVE (or any other new products you feel should be listed in the update)? What phases of growth & how much to apply? When to stop? BIG THANKS!!
The seed meals are slow release Nitrogen. Use according.
“Hummus… I like hummus!” Love you Jeremy! ❤
All you have to do is keep the Tea drops in the fridge, add a few drops to a gallon( I add brown sugar as well) then agitate and drench the soil. You will have to use other parameters of IPM to kill an infestation 😅
Damn that local worm castings knat fly problem sounds tough.
For the next season I'd love to see you try some of the crazy new mutant strains like ABC and Freakshow! They really show how crazy things can get in the world and how far you can push genetics
Another easy way to inspect trichomes is with a macro lens. A lot of phones have them and cheap point and shoot cameras work really well. I have an old Nikon CoolPix and its macro is terrific. It'll do as close as 6mm and lets you admire all the beautiful trichomes. Also bud will get you high anywhere from 0-100% amber. Just slightly different. A little more narcotic on the 100% side. Speedy on the other side. ❤
High, been following for a little while because of your love of organics/living soil. Are any of your Buildasoil products available in the UK and if not are there any plans to bring them to the UK? Havent got the time to sit and go through all the old seasons, looking forward to the new season so i can follow from the start.👌
I love these videos! So many answers to stuff I have questions to but kinda just think about, dealing with some fungus nats now so this helped me a lot! Thanks man and community!!
Thank you J ... for taking the time to share your knowledge.. 😊 Quick question .... have you tried or do you have an opinion on the 'Gas lantern' ..or 12/1 light cycle ?
Great season ❤can’t wait for the next run 😊
40 years growing and still gaining knowledge.
I used to think WAY too much about scoping the trichomes. The past grow, I just let the plant go and let the flowers do their thing, I probably let that plant go a week and a half longer than I normally would have. The flower was the best I've ever grown, just absolutely frosty and delicious, and strong. I've been harvesting too early and you might be too, just experiment with a part of a plant, let it go a week longer and see how it turns out. Also, follow the 60/60 for drying that Jeremy recommends, absolutely works great (that also probably affected the finished bud), i just punched a bunch of holes in a big cardboard box, and covered some holes up until I reached my desired humidity.
Hi great vids. As for fungus gnats if you can bottom feed get rid of the mulsch and put a 1 inch layer of garden sand all over your surface and hang up some fly papers your problem will go. I speak from experience I have used this more than once
Diatomaceous earth works as well but sand is prob cheaper - will def try this, thanks!
Thanks 🙏 Jeremy respect for the information brother love from the UK
70% amber is insane
Great info🔥🔥
I'm super excited to hear about you guys working on a BTi product!
Food grade diatomaceous earth for fungus gnats? After I water the top i put a thin layer on top of the mulch and wiggle it in then another thin layer on top of the mulch.. after a week they're almost all gone.. i also like dust the diatomaceous earth around the tent a lil bit
Seems like every run I magically have a lady bug arrive in my tent to help control my fungus gnats
I have two questions for you, Jeremy and the BAS community as a beginner organic grower.
I'm about to do my first run in a 3x3 grassroots bed (indoor, 4x4 tent) and was wondering how many transplants you'd recommend when im starting in a rooting cube.
The second question is regarding using the same bed for other crops.
Can this be done viably with reamending etc, and are there certain crops to stay clear from (with consideration to the main crop).
Nothing but respect and appreciation to your channel/team 💚 🇦🇺
Thank you 👊💚🇬🇧
Great Q&A .Do you add isopods to you soil ? Thank you
Thanks so much for taking the time to produce these videos. They've helped me several times, but my slow growth is causing me concern. New bagged local soil by Roots Organics, Gaia Green amendments, Use your Q-20% regularly, and add Bulletproof Si silica. My plants have vegged for 60 days and are surprisingly small in my mind. Exotic Genetix Bangarang from seed with 100% germination. Any ideas what my slow growth may be attributed to? Thanks a million Jeremy, hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday! Cheers!
I have more questions than answers.
So I've done 8 runs same soil.. I do almost everything you do with some minor changes. I went from 30 gallon pots.. down to the earthboxs. I tried both and in end earthbox wins. For a few reasons.
But my question is how long can I go with no soil tests.. I'm very good at feeding my bugs worms and roves. And I try to keep my npk feedings to 2.5.2 and just 2.0.2 in veg. I made my own craft blend and have organics I use like banana worm casting (home made) and alfalfa meal
It's just odd that I don't ever seem to have any issues am I that good lol ? Or is organic really this easy ?
Thanks for answering my questions I really appreciate it starting week 7 flower on master kush in 2x4 1 10 gallon pot😮😊
I think its important to check the top AND bottom nugs for trichome color. If you just look at the very top, you will see amber but the lower nugs will still have ALOT of clear trichomes at the bottom... depending how much you lollipop the plant. But Ive learned not to just look at the very top of the colas, I also check the bottom nugs and make sure they at least have a good amount of MILKY trichomes too
Forsure. I've even cut down too half plant left bottom half for another 3 weeks. Pistols were still white everywhere n empty trich heads. Worked great 2 harvest too less work at once
@@PopeDPG I dry in the same tent I grow in tho. So I don't have space to do that. But I have heard of people doing this
@@ewreck944 no doubt Rickki.
Question to Jeremy. From Ron.
My living soil set-up is 2x 40G thick grow bags, with 2x plants each. Is it possible to use the Blumat Tensiometers for accurate moisture levels without using the drip system until I feel confident with self-watering?
Bottom watering mixed with a diatomaceous top dress and fungus gnats are a thing of the past for me. Hope this helps somebody. You even get a silica boost from all the microscopic-organisms. Win-Win.
I've tried using DE mixed throughout my soil AND as a top dress, but it didn't help. Maybe my fungus gnats are immune to the basics. Even Need/soap mixtures won't kill them! So I use a lot of sticky traps but might try a top dress of sand the next time.
Have gud information thanks thanks. Learn so much listening to u. Have one small hobby and I just did 12 12 entering flower. Excited and glad I found ur channel.
When using mustard seed meal from Build a soil, does it hurt the beneficial bugs . I know when you use it it stinks.
Question 2,
the tea you were telling everybody about does that hurt the good bugs
Learning how to use live in soil has changed everything. I appreciate the Videos I keep going back to the old ones as they are awesome
Question: Several times I have experienced situation in which super sticky resinous buds at weeks 5-7 from flipping started loosing their stickiness and skunky smell overtime, even tho they were not ready yet. They became drier to the touch, didnt make fingers sticky at all or very little sticky at best. I chopped them earlier than the breeder suggested because I thought something was going wrong. I had an impression of the buds shrinking in size along with the previous issue but I assume its just subconscious mind playing tricks on me due to the stickiness loss issue. I thought they were maybe already going old and receding in size and potency but they were still before schedule. They turned out fine but I wonder if Im missing here something or is it normal.
I would love to know some information about foliar sprays I recently purchased your pure protein dry. My main question is in regards to when to spray amino or EM-5 , is there a time during lights on to do such? Also what about during 1-4 week of flower ? Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks again ✌️❤️🔥🌲
Jermey! You’re a huge advocate for EarthBoxes but I feel like you haven’t left clear instructions for those of us relying on your official feeding schedule. The schedule tells us the proper ratios per gallon of water, but how does that get fed to the plant, (the reservoir? Top watered? And just as importantly, how much? My plants are doing pretty good, but I don’t feel like they’re thriving. I’m definitely missing a piece of the puzzle. Def showing signs of deficiency and it’s sad because it’s a situation that could be easily remedied with simple guidance.
The best ive had was when i went into the flower closet and the whole plants look amber.
They might have less thc but I've learned it's not the thc that counts.
It is THC that counts.
You smoke Hemp, brah?
For the fungus gnats question - try some diatomaceous earth (make sure its food grade)
Could you put something on the stem of plants that bugs won't climb past? I used grease on an aquaponics tank in Costa Rica and bugs from the ground weren't a problem. Maybe you could put some essential oil or a natural grease or something else on the stalks of plants so mites and stuff don't infest from the soil. Maybe you need to make a product for sale that does it. Vaseline would probably do the trick but it's obviously not organic. It's just a crazy idea I just had.
As always another amazing show bro thank u for all ur time and info we truly appreciate it 🙏
I will never cut a piece of bud and look at that but I will use a loop and look all over the plant not just the top of my plant. Top colas and some in the middle. Once I see enough cloudy with alittle amber ON THE BUDS to make me happy I will chop
Had the same problem with gnats and their larva. What I did was almost every week added neem seed meal and water it in. You can see all the larva come up and die its gross lol. Then, a couple of days later, I added nematodes and on top of that ordered rove beetles. Fully got rid of them. Hope it helps.
Jeremy do you know anything about the heavy metal content of flue gas desulfurization gypsum which is a by-product of sulfur scrubbers from coal fired power plants? It is not mined like normal gypsum. I keep seeing it in big box stores but you really have to read carefully to see if it says if it's mined gypsum or this new crap from power plants.
Have you seen the compostable hemp trellis netting available from Amazon, eBay etc. I love the idea, but I'm a bit nervous about the potential chemicals left over in the hemp. What do you think? Does the hemp industry use a lot of chemicals? I'de love to have zero waste.
Ay Jeremy Thanks for everything you do and share! Your the man! I keep reading about using silica to help build cell walls and make stems strong no longer needing a trellis and grow bigger buds. Wondering if this is something that can be used in living soil and would love to hear your opinion about silica. Thanks man much love✌️
Can you pop some of the seeds you made for the next run I really want to see them profiles
Hi BAS guys, I had some terrible mistake and the complete harvest was ruined by moldew, I was chopping the nugs to toss them in the compost pile but they were so sticky that I deciede to ask if is possible to make something with them, thats because it was my only supply for next months and maybe I was thinking on some extract or something, I read that is bad to smoke or even to make edibles. thanks in advance for your help.
Im almost done with my first organic grow.. i only used rainwater. When testing its 7.0 pH at 30 PPM. I think it really depends on the tap water. My tap water comes out of the tap at around 8.5pH and 360 PPM. If the PPMs werent so high, it might be easier for the soil to buffer the pH. But as for using the rainwater, I did not pH unless I had to add some ArmorSi (silica) which raises the pH quite a bit. I wouldnt use any pH down over and over.. because it will build-up inside the soil. I did it once every 2 weeks. But again, this is my first organic run. Im more familiar with synthetic nutes in coco coir. But I went with NOT pH'ing 95% with rainwater. If the PPMs are low, the soil should be able to buffer the pH/water with ease. I cant wait to start my next organic run. I made my own soil with unbuffered coco coir, perlite, worm castings and Earth Dust dry amendments. Messed up on feeding once or twice but nothing a nice compost tea didnt correct. About 1 - 2 more weeks till harvest! She looks amazing and stupid frosted. ETHOS Early Lemon Berry RBx1 💪
Want to get some new auto seeds from Dan @ night owl next to see how good they are. Especially when i hear that they are on par with the Mephisto genetics autoflowers
I think less moisture makes for higher brix and better taste. A flush right at the end before harvest lowers the brix. If one must flush give enough time for plant to dry out and increase brix for taste.
Yooo! First off thanks to Jeremy and the whole BAS team for all the knowledge and great vibez. Not a growing question as I've seen all the vids and you guys have made me a better steward to the plant. I always here cool familiar music in the reels and shorts, what's some of your favorite bands, producers, dj? Senind love from Chico - Big E
I found that some of the gnats also find the holes at the bottom and they breed in them,but I heard mosquito dunks works well
Need that re-veg video!
Would you consider using an olla (a buried terracotta water vessel) in the next round?