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[Ninjadogma]

Some people actually have read about 40 journals and have seen the results.
pH and o2 levels not consistent. I agree some folks are able to use this mixture.
I also found a trend in these journals and diaries. It seemed the closer to a 50-50 mix the worse it got. 80-20 and 20-80 seems to not matter as much.
As far as stuffing a bunch of perlite and vermiculite go right ahead. Very surprised you do not have cec issues which means prolly salt enviroment.
A lot of things that work for chemical nutrients will just not work in organic grows.

60 coco / 40 peat is the sweet spot. I don't build mine, I buy it and refresh, and it gets better. If you do drybacks it will punish you. If you try and irrigate like coco, it will punish you. One of its other strengths is it handles hybrid feeding very well so you can tighten up the ratio and fill any gaps you might encounter. If you don't know how to feed a plant outside your nutrient line or identify deficiencies, it's not your best choice. It's about tight control and being able to steer it, not a nanny grow. The key difference from DWC is you just aren't punished instantly. The downside is you can't quickly correct what you can't see is wrong right away. Better buffering than coco, not as much as soil, and just enough control to let you steer.

 

[Vick_Vinegar]

Your prep is fantastic and looks to be from years of experience.
The problems we get is a 50-50 mix of peat based soils and coco. Then top watering and nutrition. This prolly covers 75% of the failed diaries or those closed and not finished.
Do you think the bottom and top watering technique would work on a soil/coco situation or do you think substantial amendments will always be needed?

I'd say it's the microbial/enzymatic activity from breaking down the readily available mineral and organic content in the amendments that are playing a big part in the buffering process.

These mixes do get issues if left to dry out too much as ninja mentioned.
I didn't have much luck running straight 50/50 Coco and peat without the compost and amendments. Would swing acidic when any drybacks were given. Didn't have as much luck feeding salts and ended up with burnt tips and interveinal chlorosis with any substantial drybacks.

But works well for a living soil if you keep on top of moisture levels.

 

[Grownsince95]

And here I thought you were much older than that.

That's my kid

 

[grayoldnproud]

That's my kid

Got em going early....I like it!

 

[grayoldnproud]

WTH Why not.

 

[grayoldnproud]

And a G'night to all.

 

[Ninjadogma]

WTH Why not.

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Poor thing has "Forrest Whittaker" eye.

 

[Florida_Mike]

 

[Ninjadogma]

The bad news: Temps forecast to drop to the 30's the next two nights.

The good news: The two grape pies being flipped come in the house at night. Everything else will be in the shed with the light coming on at 11.

 

[Ninjadogma]

More good news: Time to break open the seedy bud jar and get stoooopid

You folks are a bad influence, I heard someone posting about getting the day started early, well it's cold af tonight so I've been sipping on hot chocolate and you know what, come to think of it, maybe I shouldn't have put in such a big spoonful of that heavy cream infusion I had in the freezer

 

[Hossgrows]

I'm an organic grower. Been on a water only soils for years. Seem to be doing just fine. Ran perlite and vermiculite 50/50 with Canna bio and compost teas for quite a while with no issues, but I've moved to basic peat/Coco, perlite, vermiculite, zeolite and compost mixes now which are water only bar root roids.

Just never seen these issues so I must be Superman. Hell my last mix had perlite, vermiculite, zeolite and scoria as aggregate. I suppose I can't do that either based on "literature".

I've seen it growing out of a gravel driveway

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

More good news: Time to break open the seedy bud jar and get stoooopid

You folks are a bad influence, I heard someone posting about getting the day started early, well it's cold af tonight so I've been sipping on hot chocolate and you know what, come to think of it, maybe I shouldn't have put in such a big spoonful of that heavy cream infusion I had in the freezer

I had a great Nap today. Got up just in tine for dinner Going to the store tomorrow THEN making oily coffee and eating a brownie. I felt little pain today and that's Awesome

If anyone likes the deep tissue massage guns I got this one

$12 and it's strong, lite and great battery life. Well worth the cost.

 

[Hossgrows]

More good news: Time to break open the seedy bud jar and get stoooopid

You folks are a bad influence, I heard someone posting about getting the day started early, well it's cold af tonight so I've been sipping on hot chocolate and you know what, come to think of it, maybe I shouldn't have put in such a big spoonful of that heavy cream infusion I had in the freezer

The frisbee brings back memories.

That's how we got high at school, during lunch break. We'd stick a doob to the underside, and pass it around the group. Teachers just thought we were playing with the frizbee. Puff Puff..Pass.

 

[Florida_Mike]

Good evening farm...

 

[Vick_Vinegar]

Just noticed that one of the Northern Lights X Juicy fruit has broken it's usual dual opposing structure it had over the first four nodes. The 5th and 6th node have come out as tri nodes.

It might just be whorling (I hope not) though instead of going tri as the nodes are unusually close. Either way it's broken it's usual dual opposing phyllotaxy.

 

[Vick_Vinegar]

Messing with this haze chuck. It's noticeably taller than the rest and about 4-5 days older so I've topped it at the fourth node a few days ago. Fimmed and got three growth tips. The plant is stretching overnight so I topped both branches on the bottom three nodes. I'll top the last three tops again in a few days in a bid to slow her down a bit a bush her out as she's a few days older than the rest at three weeks.

So I should end up with 18 colas from 4 nodes. Might end up in its own tent if it's a fem..

 

[Ninjadogma]

The frisbee brings back memories.

That's how we got high at school, during lunch break. We'd stick a doob to the underside, and pass it around the group. Teachers just thought we were playing with the frizbee. Puff Puff..Pass.

There's a story behind that exact Frisbee. My daughter spent a year at a rather exclusive art school in Laguna Beach. When she got accepted, they sent her that frisbee, so the logo is on the other side. I mean if you're gonna break up your weed it should be a college frisbee! Hell yes I use it. Often. I figure it cost me about $160k.

 

[carlosescobar]

Three hours later....this, this little POS spring inside a POS switch, inside a POS Washing Machine is why it wasn't working...why?

Because stupid people can't tell their kids not to put their hands in a spinning drum to see how it feels and a stupid government can’t say they are stupid people for being stupid so they make the manufacturer put in stupid shit so stupid people don't have to teach their kids not to be stupid.
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i had that once in a dishwasher, flooded the kitchen and i had to have the thing upside down to get to the bottom . a tiny piece of chicken bone had got between the switch in the float bowl so it filled up but the switch didnt operate

 

[Florida_Mike]

Clones PBB Okie Cman
51 days cut (12/31/25)
Day 28 of 12/12 (1/23/26)
Very gassy, whole house smells like cat piss
Tent remains open to control rh

Feeders are recirculating drip that run continuously during lights on, nothing during lights off (they do drink about 2 gal out of the pots during 12 hr dark period)

Feed schedule:
Sun) Flush with 15 gal 0 ppm RO water for 1 hour (*pH dependent on current trend 5.6-6.2) Usually ends up around 300 ppm from flushed salts. Empty that. Refill 18 gal RO water to 1400 ppm @ 5.9 pH. Feed is Greenleaf Megacrop 1 part bloom formula. Currently having to top reservoir up after 6 hours light period; 5-6 gal (10-12 gal total per 24 hrs). I've been using mostly dehumidifier water to top up after initial fill.

Mon) Top up with water (ppm will have dropped to 1250-1300 ppm)

Tues) Top up with water (ppm will have dropped to 1100-1200 ppm)

Wed) Top up with water and nutrients back to 1400 ppm

Thur) Top up with water (ppm will have dropped to 1250-1300 ppm)

Fri) Top up with water (ppm will have dropped to 1100-1200 ppm)

Sat) Top with water (ppm will have dropped to 1000-1150 ppm)

Sun) Repeat

* If pH is trending upwards; I'll start it a little low and vice versa

Notes: Ppm will sometimes spike to 1600+ when reservoir gets low. Leaf-tips will start burning around 1700-1800+

I do ranges vs hard numbers. Plants don't care about hard numbers imo

I mix nutrients into a concentrate in 6" of water, in my 1 gal pitcher with a cordless drill until completely dissolved. I mix more than I think I'll need and add it incrementally to the reservoir until I get to my desired numbers (testing as I go). It's ok to keep any leftover concentrate for the coming days.

Room temp average 85f, 45-55% rh. Reservoir temp stays same as room temp

 

[TerpBeans]

Looking lush and green bro!!