Captspaulding
What’s the matter? Don’t like clowns? 🤡
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I dig advanced. Its ph perfect line with a little big bud powder I. Flower will bring the colas you are looking for, but bar none, for the money, if you are going synthetic like my toxic ass, you know who I’m gonna says erretymeThe Frostette run did use fox farms 2nd half of flowering
She still got the Gaia green top dress, all my normal organic inputs, but then at week 3.5-4 I started adding in 3ml micro / 8ml bloom, opposite watering was flower fuel full strength, and then before going back to the bloom the 3rd in order was microbe brew or advanced nutrients organics OG tea
Whatever it did, it worked
I’d like to get away from the FF neuts though if I’m gunna add in the synthetics, i tested this theory with them because I have it all on hand from the past, most of it is over 2 years old but it’s kickin still, I was looking at advanced’s organics line, only issue is pricey to buy on Amazon and nobody local has it
What’s everyone’s preferred neuts?
Biggest thing with fox farms, whatever their suggested range is I cut either in half or 1/3
The micro says 5-10ml/gal I use 3ml
Bloom says 10-15ml/gal I use 8
Not worth over pushing it it’ll only stress em out, also my PH out the tap is 7.3, I don’t check my PH of my input water (just know my base ph as I checked water report) but with what I listed above when I did used to check would average about 6.4ph when mixed, I do keep a mechanical PH meter (the ones with 2 long metal prongs) in my soil at all times it sits at just about 6.7-6.8PH,
There’s a myth peat become more acidic as you run, but it appears in reality the acidifying properties of peat deteriorate weather quickly an d kkow the soil to become stable on its own without adjustment needed besides what was already planned to be watered, i believe its the same reason @GNick55 does the same as me and not check or adjust PH, feed the microbes and they’ll take care of you!
but here’s some results from some different ratios of peat mixed with soil and recording the the acidity of each along a timeline, mind you I run the 100% peat so the bottom blue line,
I believe letting the soil buffer itself is a major component of a healthy grow. When we start throwing crazy shit at em then have to adjust the PH to “make it fit the suggested range” were only hurting them more than helping if I would have followed FF suggested feeding like I used to my PH with that bloom / micro mixture would be in the 5.5 range then I’d be trying to “fix” it, imo if it has to be “fixed” then it’s not worth using
Just my opinion though so people can take it or Leave it but figured I’d explain my process with the synthetic change up mid flower, in addition to that it also dosent have any salt buildups early in flower that will affect them in late flower, by the time any real salts accumulation happens from the supplemental feeding and bloom boosters the plant is done and chopped
@greenleaf
indoors I use the synganic approach. I keep some canna A and B around for the quick slap in the face to keep my girls in line
let the solo dry to much before up pot and the soil broke apart in my hands as I was getting ready to set it down into the bag, then of course I tried to “make things better” and it only fell apart more! I was able to hold support on the plant to hopefully not snap the tap root, but im not sure what how the other roots are doing. It’s my dumbass fault. Now i just hope it survives enough for clones! That was going to be my fire smoke!
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