True Living Organics - The Ultimate Guide to Growing All-Natural Marijuana Indoors (2012)

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½ cup high N bat/bird guano ½ cup feather meal ½ cup kelp meal 1 tablespoon ground oyster shell (optional) SPIKE #2 ALL-PURPOSE/FLOWERING 1 cup feather meal ¼ cup bulb food with N-P-K ratio of 3-8-8 ¼ cup soft rock phosphate ½ cup steamed bone meal ½ cup high N bat/bird guano 1 cup kelp meal 1 tablespoon ground oyster shell 1 tablespoon Azomite powder (optional) These are basically just custom dry blends for filling up spiked/poked holes in the container mix. This is done during a transplant so that the microlife has time to colonize the nutrient-rich spikes before the roots arrive. Don’t do this once a plant has put roots throughout the container. Spikes can go top to bottom in length, or they can be shallower. It’s totally up to you and your needs. In a typical 1-gallon container for vegetative stage plants, I would make 4 spike holes, and I would fill 2 of the holes with some earthworm castings, and 1 with the veg spike recipe and 1 with the flowering spike recipe. Alternately, I would use the flowering spikes and the vegetative spikes in equal numbers—like 2 of each for example—even in a vegetative growing stage; plants always prefer some balance to their nutrients, just like your own body does.
This is a filled spike hole in a 2 gallon container Avoid using lime (of any kind) in spikes. I have consistently experienced bad results when adding dolomite lime to spikes. I prefer to use ground oyster shell, and things like bulb food and steamed bone meal to balance the pH of my spikes to some degree, keeping them from experiencing a drop in pH from things like guanos, blood meal, and any raw organic matter like kelp or alfalfa meal. Layers take on two basic meanings in TLO growing. You can layer with either an actual, specially mixed soil mix used at some level of the container, like the custom steer manure bottom layer mix, or you can create a layer of pure nutrients. Both of these can be very beneficial to your TLO grow. Any time I am filling a container larger than ½ gallon I will use layers out of habit. The steer manure layer on the bottom is standard TLO practice for me, and I will also very often mix in extra earthworm castings for the top couple of inches of the soil mix—just under the bark mulch layer on the very top. However, layering with pure nutrients is something I also do regularly. I really love the two granular dry nutrients for usage here by Botanicare called “Pure,” and they come in both grow and bloom versions. I will often use a tablespoon of these nutrients at various levels as I am filling my containers during a transplant, and on the “floor” of the containers before I ever add a soil mix of any kind. Typically in, say, a 1-gallon container, in the vegetative state, I would use something like blood meal, or bird/bat guano (high-nitrogen type) on the floor along with the Botanicare Pure, before adding the soil mix. If I didn’t have any Botanicare Pure, I would use another good, all-purpose style dry nutrient in its place, with fairly even N-P-K numbers, such as 5-5-5. I would then use the Pure or all purpose again at least once at some level, as I filled the container up, after I had placed the root ball in. This would give a horizontal plane in the container surrounding the root ball with an extra tablespoon worth of all-purpose dry nutrients of some type. This concentrates the nutrients so the roots can choose to avoid it or dive in if they wish. This avoids frying your plants, by using spikes and layers, rather than just goosing up the nutrient additions globally in the whole mix, which will frequently kill or stunt your plants. You can get carried away with the practice of layering, so start out easy and tune it up slowly as
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True Living Organics The Ultimate G
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To my soul mate, Maureen, in gratit
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Foreword If I have seen further it
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CHAPTER 1 What Is True Living Organ
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So what exactly is True Living Orga
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In TLO growing, the soil mix we use
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shelf marijuana that you will ever
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CHAPTER 2 Preparing Your Grow Room
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Lighting Options for TLO Indoors Al
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LEDs can be a great choice if you h
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There are almost as many ways to cl
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Temperature and Humidity are always
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efore turning to TLO, so I know the
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understand what true organics means
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A Hot Shot No-Pest strip is dangero
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common pastime for mold spores and
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CHAPTER 3 Starting Your TLO Grow
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Germinating flats and keg party cup
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REV’S TIP Don’t go too cheap wi
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This is pretty straightforward, so
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These little sprouts are so cute! I
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The seeds you can see in this gorge
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Page 52 and 53: SOIL MIX ADDITIONS: QUICK REFERENCE
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Page 71 and 72: Blood meal is a great soil addition
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Page 119 and 120: General Organics CaMg+ works great
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CHAPTER 9 Building a TLO Container
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This is exactly how I build my cont
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good to add and roots will love it!
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2.1 Soil Mix I usually cut this wit
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This practice has come full circle
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Recycling set ups needn’t be expe
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TLO roots in a recycled soil mix ar
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EASY FIXES FOR NUTRIENT PROBLEMS Wh
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What Is A TLO Tea? TLO teas are typ
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the castings, then you can assume w
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This opaque customized Rev tea bubb
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To strain your finished tea, get a
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Types Of TLO Teas You can alter you
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Strain, dilute and apply the tea ab
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dry nutrient additions. Any 1-day t
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THE KEY TO A PERFECT TLO LIVING TEA
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CHAPTER 12 Troubleshooting
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TLO grown running perfect pH! If ch
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TDS meters are inexpensive and hand
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fungus if possible). Then add about
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often 10°F or more, higher than th
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Pure, perfectly grown TLO bud is pa
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Botanicare Any of their liquid prod
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An Actively Aerating TLO tea Teas a
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This flowering TLO plant has been o
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This shows some salty cannabis issu
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powdery mildew and ran my humidity
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RESOURCES FOR BUYING TLO ADDITIONS
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I get several of my really exotic t
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several things from there myself. I
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Store your soft rock phosphate in a
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Look at these beauties! Live worms
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Make use of every space when growin
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dry additives, 100-110 earthworm ca
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organic acids, 110-11 organic growi
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troubleshooting, 198 temperature, 2
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