dude these are awesome replys i really, really appreciate it!
and definitely feel better about my situation! none of this is taken the wrong way or personally as i know it has to be some sort of user error on my part.
im sorry i posted and disappeared, i just started a new job AND college again after tens years out of school, i have a lot on my hands =] taking plant science courses and its pretty exciting.
I need to take more pictures for you guys. i have some close ups of some leaves and other spots to show deficiencies....
they eventually did perk up a bit, but its weird... some perked up more than others, like half of my favorite plant is droopy, so im happy, but my main mother, my prized platinum cookies still looks badddd. i dont believe they were dry to long, and usually if they are, they perk up after a couple hours... so this was weird to see them droopy for a day and a half.
I transplanted the gsc mom,from 5 gallon bucket to a 10(? could be 18) gallon tub, only till she's healthy so i can take cuts. she wasn't totally root bound, but roots weren't super healthy on the outside. like half the coco broke off and i lost some roots (doesn't seem to be an issue yet as its been a couple days and part of the plant is perky) but could see a lot of new pearly whites coming in.
and i seriously dont understand how you can water every day and get good results, thats like going against the grain of plant care...
I definitely saw more results by lifting the pots and feeling the weight to see when i should water... as opposed to watering everyday. so this is one thing im confused about, and believe this could very well possibly be trolling. im open minded to the fact that it isn't, but my own experience speaks differently.
also, i was doing the maxi bloom method of kiss, with
calmag, and again just simply logic after seeing my plants told me thats not ok either, its a flowering nutrient, not a veg...
and third! =p
im seeing better results from the teas and foliar
calmag than i had before! a lot more green new growth instead of my hideous red stems. so im quite surprised to see that some one mentioned teas aren't enough to feed in coco.
my real concern is that its an active, organic based brew that could turn sour in the medium. a guy at one of my hydro shops was trying to tell me that the teas can only be in coco of a day before problems arise and then you need to flush it out. to be honest it sounded like bs to me so i ignored it, but i always wonder the truth behind the words.
I brew whole alfalfa(not chopped, not meal, not granules or whatever other form, i got it at pets mart =p) for about three days(i read it takes 3 to 5 days for it to be good), i then add a little kelp and ewc with caps bennies and molasses, sometimes fish emulsion. ill then brew it for another 18-48 hours and than foliar with that and feed with that.
room temps are 70-85 in the day, and 60-70 at night, rh is usually 50-60 but ive seen it up to 70 after watering/foliar feeding. no co2, and only feed teas at this point.
used the go box, wasn't satisfied, again could be my fault...
would bubbling the
general organics be a bad idea? whats your guys take on the cal mag nute they have? worth it? or should i stick with a synthetic version..?
i have so many chems/salts i haven't even used =[[[[
I have some pretty great genetics, i got a small "ok" harvest from them so i do know first hand, Some delicious platinum cookies, and quite possibly my new favorite, "pre91"
Chemdog.
ive also seen growers better than me flower these exact genes and all i can say is WOW.
those soil grows that i did well with were years ago,
there was a 2-3 year hiatus where i had no plants and just read stuff alllll over the internet and talked to different growers, ultimately deciding bigtokes bio buckets at ic mag was my method of preference (the allure of simplicity, not having to ph, and ridiculous yields was what i was after) which didnt go well for me,(guess i wasn't ready =p) and im still hoping to try something like that again in the future, so i decided to try coco as its described as being very good for beginners and somewhat forgiving, avoiding dirt because "pests come with dirt" but thats obviously not an issue isolated to soil. ive read all kinds of people getting pest from new bricks of coco.
i will be honest with you guys, cuz i do really want help. i do feel i could dedicate more time to the grow room. sometimes i feel kinda lazy. sometimes the room could be a bit cleaner too. but im trying not to play with them too much so that i dont mess them up. trying to keep it simple, as my complicated hydro really made me wanna simplify the process. i do check in on them everyday tho, seeing how wet/dry they are, and i foliar
calmag 5-7 times a week
Im really starting to see why fully organic soil is the way to go after all of this, but to be honest i can't invest in any dirt or amendments right now other than what i have, so i need to keep up the coco for a bit longer. =[
its really good to hear the
happy frog is good enough just to give water for a short period of time, its what i want to go for when i can. but i was planning on cooking a super soil like mix, ive read across the net that subcools mix is only "ok" so i plan on doing something different, or maybe not at all since i wanna stay simple ;]
i reallllyyy feel like im forgetting to explain something here... ill post pics off my phone a little later i need to eat lol
