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Finally caught up! I spent a few hours last night and this morning reading through the thread so far.
Y’all were talking animal rights and psychs AND lifting without me? Ok, who’s gonna bring up progressive metal LOL.
It all ties together (the first three). I inched toward my personal choice to go vegetarian last year through a handful of revelatory trips making it increasingly difficult to keep consuming what I was. Even while purchasing most meats from local butchers and local farms. I was exposed to the PETA style slaughterhouse exposè videos at an early age, like 8-10, by my older step-sister, and I lived with that cognitive dissonance for decades before I realized that the dopamine burst in my brain from a big reverse-seared New York strip wasn’t worth that cow’s life. I’m also in chicken country, and the big trucks going 80mph through freezing rain with hundreds of suffering birds in uncovered cages...those caused me a few serious attacks of overwhelming guilt and deep, black sadness.
I’m a perpetual novice lifter, so I don’t have anything to add that anyone else wouldn’t already know about that. I used to make sure I was getting 1g of protein per lb of lean body mass, but lately I honestly can’t be bothered. I half-assedly want to lose some more weight before I start bulking, purely so that I can go for longer before I reach the top of my comfortable-weight window, but counting calories and maintaining a deficit is goddamn difficult. So now I just do my full body program 3x/week and eat what I feel like and hope for the best. Probably a fast lane to burnout and loss of motivation.
Let me be on topic for a second though. The reason I read through the thread is because I’m growing mostly organic also, and I’m becoming increasingly interested in trying liquid or powder organic feed like the EJ or maybe Bio-Bizz. My last (first) run and this one have been Ocean Forest amended with plant meals, barley, etc since around week 4 and fed occasional Big Bloom and silica for the most part. The lack of control over what nutrients the plant has available to it is definitely the worst part of this type of grow. My last one, she was an outdoor plant in a 20gal, and I was amending with amounts for a 20gal pot, but she wasn’t a 20gal plant. She never got enough direct sun to grow to that potential, she was only ~4ft or so. She ended up with pretty bad N tox all through the last few weeks of flower and there wasn’t a thing to do about it except transplant, which I couldn’t be bothered to do at that point.
Similarly, my current run with the same style, except pot sizes more appropriate for the plants’ sizes, has had deficiencies that I’ve been unable to rapidly correct, because I don’t have the means to get the plants a direct dose of what they need. In this case I think that was magnesium and N, so in a hurry to fix my problems I fed inorganic calmag, and Grow Big for chelated N. Now the nutes are in the soil, but I’ve potentially screwed up the microbiology in my pots and they may not have the pH-buffering capacity to get the food to the plant.
Basically, a moderate dose of dry to get through veg, and then liquid nutes during flower when things tend to get pickier, sounds like a much more controllable way to do organic farming. At the same time, part of me wants to try this again but with regular doses of recharge and a *thick* mulch layer to protect my bennies.
Anyways, that’s about everything I’ve wanted to say as I read these last 39 pages. The plants look gorgeous, and I’ll be watching very closely and taking notes for my next grows.
Y’all were talking animal rights and psychs AND lifting without me? Ok, who’s gonna bring up progressive metal LOL.
It all ties together (the first three). I inched toward my personal choice to go vegetarian last year through a handful of revelatory trips making it increasingly difficult to keep consuming what I was. Even while purchasing most meats from local butchers and local farms. I was exposed to the PETA style slaughterhouse exposè videos at an early age, like 8-10, by my older step-sister, and I lived with that cognitive dissonance for decades before I realized that the dopamine burst in my brain from a big reverse-seared New York strip wasn’t worth that cow’s life. I’m also in chicken country, and the big trucks going 80mph through freezing rain with hundreds of suffering birds in uncovered cages...those caused me a few serious attacks of overwhelming guilt and deep, black sadness.
I’m a perpetual novice lifter, so I don’t have anything to add that anyone else wouldn’t already know about that. I used to make sure I was getting 1g of protein per lb of lean body mass, but lately I honestly can’t be bothered. I half-assedly want to lose some more weight before I start bulking, purely so that I can go for longer before I reach the top of my comfortable-weight window, but counting calories and maintaining a deficit is goddamn difficult. So now I just do my full body program 3x/week and eat what I feel like and hope for the best. Probably a fast lane to burnout and loss of motivation.
Let me be on topic for a second though. The reason I read through the thread is because I’m growing mostly organic also, and I’m becoming increasingly interested in trying liquid or powder organic feed like the EJ or maybe Bio-Bizz. My last (first) run and this one have been Ocean Forest amended with plant meals, barley, etc since around week 4 and fed occasional Big Bloom and silica for the most part. The lack of control over what nutrients the plant has available to it is definitely the worst part of this type of grow. My last one, she was an outdoor plant in a 20gal, and I was amending with amounts for a 20gal pot, but she wasn’t a 20gal plant. She never got enough direct sun to grow to that potential, she was only ~4ft or so. She ended up with pretty bad N tox all through the last few weeks of flower and there wasn’t a thing to do about it except transplant, which I couldn’t be bothered to do at that point.
Similarly, my current run with the same style, except pot sizes more appropriate for the plants’ sizes, has had deficiencies that I’ve been unable to rapidly correct, because I don’t have the means to get the plants a direct dose of what they need. In this case I think that was magnesium and N, so in a hurry to fix my problems I fed inorganic calmag, and Grow Big for chelated N. Now the nutes are in the soil, but I’ve potentially screwed up the microbiology in my pots and they may not have the pH-buffering capacity to get the food to the plant.
Basically, a moderate dose of dry to get through veg, and then liquid nutes during flower when things tend to get pickier, sounds like a much more controllable way to do organic farming. At the same time, part of me wants to try this again but with regular doses of recharge and a *thick* mulch layer to protect my bennies.
Anyways, that’s about everything I’ve wanted to say as I read these last 39 pages. The plants look gorgeous, and I’ll be watching very closely and taking notes for my next grows.
