r/NoTillGrowery

Does anyone know what this is ?any help would be appreciated?
Located and sourced materials from Phoenix Arizona

No till / regenerative farming practices/jadam/KNF

'Hells gold' view from up on a ladder/this jadam and KNF

Stuff I been doing has made a huge difference!!other than that just a once a month top dressing ,JLF and FPJ and I'm making fish amino and a calcium fertilizer...

Been growing for 3 years. I’ve had decent crops but i am really starting to understand how to effectively prune. Tell me what you see.

The last two months have been a rough patch. After my last harvest, I was in the process of reamending my new bed. I unintentionally introduced aphids and whiteflies, likely from outdoors in preparation of my garden.

I was able to eliminate them with a rotation of Beauveria Bassiana, horticultural oil, and Castile soap. I scout daily and haven’t seen a trace of them in 4 weeks.

Fast forward to 2 weeks ago roughly, I see my plant leaves being chewed up!! It happened quick within a matter of a day or two. Came here, someone recommended BT for caterpillars. Took care of that problem quickly. Haven’t seen anymore damage.

Fast forward to yesterday!! Crazy distorted new growth (see pics). What is wild is the plants are still showing some nice growth. They’ve almost tripled in size over the last few weeks. Stems and leaves (minus distorted new growth) looking pretty good imo.

Everything I’m reading is pointing me to broad mites or physiological stress - maybe something with the roots?

Some other good info - I just gave a nice spray down on Sunday with sulfur and Castile soap. This makes me think maybe not broad mites, but I’ve never dealt with them before so I could be very wrong. I had to get a better microscope so I can inspect up to 60x. Planning to do some scouting tonight on the new growth to see if I can find any traces of mites.

Temp is steady around 73-74, humidity is stable between 65-68%. I water every 2-3 days. The water is RO, comes out at 7.0. I add mikrobs once a week to water, otherwise it’s just straight RO water unless I make a compost tea. Last compost tea was last Friday, had some bloom nutes mixed in as I was prepping to flip this week. Holding off on flip till I figure this out.

Let me know what you think. I’m open to feedback, criticism and everything. I’ve learned a lot the last two months so I welcome these rough patches. Last 3 pics are from 3-4 days ago.

was gonna put this in an earthbox. can I bury the stem deep like halfway?

Days 35 and 28. These containers with this soil as Jeremy would put it, is a lot of horsepower. Plants reacted to some nitrogen toxicity but they're pushing through nicely. They are a little droopy bc it's 30 minutes to lights out. The garden is smelling wonderfully already! I have some basil and cilantro that are smelling great

7 different strains growing in the same wicking bed. Topped on day 20, flipped on day 26. I made my on soil mix and it’s growing really good. I made it with a higher proportion of peat than compost+worm castings for wicking purpouse. I use a local organic blend for dry amendments. Veg 5-2-3 Flower 2-4-6 and a little of fish bone meal 4-17-0. I also been using compost tea and LAB

Just some LST progress pics, will update soon once they fill out even more. Bumped ppfd, tied photos down lower than the autos, and they're rocking hard in there. Beds a sponge already, thriving ecosystem already with amazing fungal growth, thousands of worms, roves, dozens of stone centipedes, and lots more.

All plants getting some intense-ish LST (at least 20+ tie down spots lol) and so far the Chiroptera Marmalade, the Zion's Marmalade, and one of the Autoflower Apple Fritterz were topped, and that'll be it for now. The rest are fine as is with how strong they're all growing in there at this point lol

Covers were chopped for the 4th time recently, will be chopping them again soon as they're growing strong still and doing WORK in there getting the microbial communities active enough to support a strong grow. To be able to break things down fast enough, use less fertilizer, less work, I want as diverse and active of microbial communities as possible and that's what's going on currently.

Will have some microscope pics (real microscope) soon from the actual soil itself (potting mix), and if anyone wants to learn about the Soil Microbiology aspect such as what we want to see, what we don't want to see, etc? I'm glad to do a live viewing on Discord or wherever and we can scope it together and go over everything!

16 days since above ground.

Left: Old school Blues
Middle: Freebie ({Fantasmo Express x Sundae Thumper} x Northern Cheese Haze)
Right: Hubbabubbahaze

List of everything I used: https://gist.github.com/12esolve/60a65e6bc0a639bb5178f583293da66c
I only used half the amount of malted barley, shrimp meal and neem meal so far because I was scared of nutrient burn. I plan to top dress the rest when they are about a month old.

The left one is a bit behind and has wrinkled leaves, I think it might be heat stress (we had a 10 day heatwave) and/or maybe overwatering because of the rainstorms.

I think they look pretty good considering the environment I had. Just posting for some input and advice. Especially interested in the stunted one, my plan to top dress later, and possibly training or not?

The medium was created using organic matter, such as food scraps, dried leaves and grass clippings. Of course synthetic fertiliser is applied. Furthermore, this is the medium's second plant, with no tillage in between plantings. (I transplanted the seedling in a vertical hole made with a stick)

I am thinking of doubling the stake and see how double the growth produces.

Loving my lil jungle. Day 28 for the 3 biggest plants and 21 days for my lil stunt but she's starting to push now.

In coots blend of soil

Love growing. Always learning. As you can see i need to learn heavier defoliation. One tent in early flower, one mid veg. Don't mind the hot mess. Cant even see my two 30 gallon pots under the coverage. But I make it work. Def not my first rodeo.