**2nd Grow** SpiderFarmer SF4000 , NFTG #4 -Sour Power-Hella Jelly-Strawberry Cheesecake- 3x3 Tent

[SpiderFarmerLED]

wow~ great great great

 

[Dothraki]

UPDATE!

The Sour Power from bag seed is now dried and getting trimmed up. I tested a bud and it is exactly the same as the bud it came from. TONS of flavor and no harshness. No cure yet, just a slow dry.

2 small hits from a bowl and i’m ripped

Dense and full of smell and (surprisingly) tons of flavor

Remember kids… drink your Ovaltine….and save your bag-seeds.

 

[Peat_Phreak]

What happened to Strawberry Cheesecake? It's the only one I wanted to see. The others look nice. Good job.

 

[Peat_Phreak]

Who said PH adjusting removes alkalinity?

Science says so. When we add acid to tap water it reduces alkalinity. It can be reduced to zero with the right amount of acid. The media pH can also be reduced and controlled by simply using acid. In order to do this, we must prepare an acidic solution that has NEGATIVE residual alkanity. In other words, the solution has enough acid to neutralize all the bicarbonate in the water PLUS some bicarbonate in the media. This experiment used citric acid to reduce the pH of soil while growing wheat.

I have used large doses of citric acid to reduce the media pH from 7.8 all the way down to 5.1 pH. Refer to this thread if you want to know more.

Acid flushing at 3.0 pH to reduce media pH works

The pH of the media was 7.8 after 4 weeks of veg. I was able to reduce it to 5.7-6.4pH and keep it in the safe zone. How? By using a shit ton of citric acid and water. pH the water to 3.0. This takes about 15g-20g of citric acid per gallon with average tap water. The first flush was a big...

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[Dothraki]

What happened to Strawberry Cheesecake? It's the only one I wanted to see. The others look nice. Good job.

The Strawberry Cheesecake was growing male sacs before flower time, and by then the plants were too big for the tent so I kept two in this tent, then moved the Hella Jellies to another tent. One Strawberry went to a buddy, apparently he killed it. The other one I stuck outside and it thrived and started to flower then got too cold. The tiny buds smelled amazing. Smelled like a strawberry haze. I’ll definitely grow it out again.

 

[Dothraki]

Science says so. When we add acid to tap water it reduces alkalinity. It can be reduced to zero with the right amount of acid. The media pH can also be reduced and controlled by simply using acid. In order to do this, we must prepare an acidic solution that has NEGATIVE residual alkanity. In other words, the solution has enough acid to neutralize all the bicarbonate in the water PLUS some bicarbonate in the media. This experiment used citric acid to reduce the pH of soil while growing wheat.

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I have used large doses of citric acid to reduce the media pH from 7.8 all the way down to 5.1 pH. Refer to this thread if you want to know more.

Acid flushing at 3.0 pH to reduce media pH works

The pH of the media was 7.8 after 4 weeks of veg. I was able to reduce it to 5.7-6.4pH and keep it in the safe zone. How? By using a shit ton of citric acid and water. pH the water to 3.0. This takes about 15g-20g of citric acid per gallon with average tap water. The first flush was a big...

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I don’t remember what context that conversation was from…but essentially I had to continue with my regular PH adjustments and watch for a climb due to the bicarbonate build up over time. With high alkalinity due to calcium it can build up in the soil raising the PH of the soil over time.

 

[Peat_Phreak]

Awwww. I had high hopes for Strawberry Cheesecake. I can't buy it now. It's jinxed.

 

[Dothraki]

Awwww. I had high hopes for Strawberry Cheesecake. I can't buy it now. It's jinxed.

Nonsense. Just pull them off they only show up within the first week of flower. I grew a Pineapple Upside Down Cake and plucked them off in the first week of flower…then over the next few days a couple came back, plucked them and watched it flower. Didn’t find a single seed and it was covered in trichomes. The Strawberry Cheesecake I threw outside, after I plucked them they never grew back, and although it wasn’t really harvestable (buds were tiny due to winter weather) there was no sacs at all and it didn’t even throw stress induced pollen sacs either. I will definitely be growing it again.