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Can Anybody Tell Me What This Is?

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Can Anybody Tell Me What This Is?

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3N1GM4 said:
If you take a soil slurry ph test or five from the soil before you transplant and the tests are ok, and you ph up or down your water b4 watering then you have nothing to worry about.
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Again with the slurry tests haha.

Sorry, in another thread of mine (yeah, I ask a lot of questions), multiple people told me to do a leaf slurry test. Slurry.... Funny word.

I have to ask again, though, what's an organic way to ph up/down my water? I took a nap today after all those earlier posts haha (today's my Saturday, what can I say?), didn't research organic methods of raising and lowering water ph. But I will tonight. I've seen people using citric acids, but that feels "wrong" to me. Super-curious to hear your thoughts re: organic ph adjustments.

Also, I fucking hate that crawling bug thing at the bottom of all your posts hahahaha!!!!! Just kidding, I'm used to it now. But the first few times I saw it, I was like,"What the fuck is THAT?????" and frantically wiped at my ipad screen haha.

Thank you thank you!
 
#23
Vinegar, baking soda, lemon juice, potash, lime etc.
You can uncheck the show signatures box in settings to get rid of my bug and everyone elses sigs.
 
#24
Bulldog11 said:
You could do all the OG BIowar products, but the root pack is where it's at. Plus, I think those packs have redundant spores, so it might be a waste. However, I don't think all three packs would hurt one bit.

The ACT's are very hard to over due, especially if your using MM's recipe's and advice. However, I rarely need a tea more than once every other week. I think the main thing here is the TM-7. The only reason I keep going back to the tea, is because the coots mix is solid and shouldn't need anything at all. However the TM-7 will kick in the micro's real fast, especially as a foliar.
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Okay, good to know. So you do an AACT twice a month? That's also good to know. I didn't think it'd be necessary to water with an ACT that often, but I don't mind brewing up some teas. I like it, actually haha.

Been waking up at 4am lately, mind racing,"What's going on in the tent? How are the temps? What are the humidity levels?" etc etc. and then finally getting up and checking on everything. Plus, I'm an early riser anyway, but not that early haha. So I guess I'll have enough time tomorrow to transplant before lights off at 10am. That's the best time to transplant, right? Like relatively soon before lights off? Or, like everything else, am I getting that wrong, too? Haha!

I feel you re: icmag. I lurk there, but the farm is really the only place I post/ask questions/whatever.
 
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3N1GM4 said:
Vinegar, baking soda, lemon juice, potash, lime etc.
You can uncheck the show signatures box in settings to get rid of my bug and everyone elses sigs.
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Haha, nah, I like seeing everybody's signatures. I was just fucking around. The bug doesn't bother me at all. Pretty cool, actually.

Sorry to be so specific (and for all of the newb questions), but would apple cider vinegar work? I add that to my drinking water a few times a day (pretty much the only "healthy" thing I do, besides smoke weed haha) so I have a lot of that around.

Also, can you suggest a decent/reliable ph meter? Or rather, what do you use? I wanna get one ASAP and I'm quite sure I'm gonna use it the first time and be like,"Holy shit, my ph is fucked....." haha.
 
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3N1GM4 said:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Hydroponics-Organic-pH-Testing-and-Adjusting-Kit-VPTK4/202985176
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Ah, okay, thank you! I'll check that out ASAP. I wonder what the organic ingredients in it are that raise and lower ph.... Any idea?

Transplanted everything into half-gallon containers this morning, shit took forEVER. Or longer than I anticipated anyway haha. Started at 7:30am and got everything back in the tent and my AACT brewing with four minutes to spare before lights off.

Anyway, I inoculated globally with all three OG Biowars and also top-dressed with a decent amount of earthworm castings, then mulched with barley. Definitely need to get in the room when the light comes back on and sweep up/clean up haha. I just didn't have any time to do that before the light turned off. I'm pretty OCD, so it's not crazy-messy in there or anything, but it's still kinda driving me nuts knowing that I didn't get to at least sweep up before the light turned off haha.

@Bulldog11 I was wondering about folaring with the AACT. Can I just use a regular ol' spray bottle mister thing? I feel like I read somewhere that the size of the actual nozzle or whatever the tea is being sprayed through can affect the, uh, effectiveness of the tea. Like, with a regular plant mister bottle, fungal strands can break up and be less effective. Or almost useless? Is that right? Also, should I strain the tea before I foliar with it? It's not like I'm gonna be using the whole four gallons as a foliar , so I figure I could just turn the air pump off, let it settle for a few minutes and then just fill my mister with the tea, but I recall watching Microbeman's video about how to use his brewer and remember that he suggested straining the tea if one was planning on using it as a foliar.

Also, can't resist posting at least one roots shot haha. This is one of the Apollo 11's. They've clearly been the winners above ground and they're obviously outperforming everything beneath the the soil, too. Probably should've waited at least three days to transplant the Clusterfunks, since they were planted a week later. It was obvious that their rootballs weren't as developed as the rest of the plants and two of them actually kinda broke up on me when I took them out of the pots, but I'm sure they'll bounce back. All of the other plants had really nice, healthy rootballs, but the Apollos looked the best, no doubt about it.

Good things coming soon, I think....
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#28
O YEA! ROOT PORN! Looks good.

I strain my ACT's with a paint strainer bag from home depot, costs less than 5 bucks. Panty hose, a ziplock bag with tiny holes, a fine pasta strainer, anything to take out the chunks that will cause your sprayer to clog.

I have been told it's best to use a hand pump, back pack pump, ext for teas. If you use a powered pump, it can shred the fungal population. However, one pass through a pump has been proven to be ok. HOwever to answer your question, yes, a hand pump sprayer is just fine. Some have a small filter at the end of the straw, which helps keep out clogging chunks.

When I am lazy, and have lots of plants to spread ACT on, I have been known to just water on top of the plants as well as the soil. One way to "folair".
 
#29
Bulldog11 said:
O YEA! ROOT PORN! Looks good.

I strain my ACT's with a paint strainer bag from home depot, costs less than 5 bucks. Panty hose, a ziplock bag with tiny holes, a fine pasta strainer, anything to take out the chunks that will cause your sprayer to clog.

I have been told it's best to use a hand pump, back pack pump, ext for teas. If you use a powered pump, it can shred the fungal population. However, one pass through a pump has been proven to be ok. HOwever to answer your question, yes, a hand pump sprayer is just fine. Some have a small filter at the end of the straw, which helps keep out clogging chunks.

When I am lazy, and have lots of plants to spread ACT on, I have been known to just water on top of the plants as well as the soil. One way to "folair".
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Haha, yeah, root porn. Had to do it....

Good to know about the hand pump, since that's what I have. Although I have to admit, being lazy and watering on top of the plants sound pretty appealing, too haha!

I should've taken a pic of the Goldstar roots, but I didn't have time. Thought they were very interesting-looking, though. You see in that pic I posted how the Apollo's roots were obviously gravitating to the drainage holes and kind of wrapping around each individual drainage hole? All of the Goldstars had one big-ass root that kind of wrapped around the bottom edge of the pot, almost as if it was trying to avoid the drainage holes. There were plenty of other roots everywhere, but they all had one huge root (the tap root, I'm assuming) that looked like they were trying to avoid oxygen. Or something. I dunno haha. But I thought it was pretty cool and definitely different than how all of the other strains looked.
 
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3N1GM4 said:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Hydroponics-Organic-pH-Testing-and-Adjusting-Kit-VPTK4/202985176
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Been trying to figure out who even makes that product. Is it viagrow? Probably should've noticed that the first word in that link after Home Depot is "Hydroponics" haha. From what I can tell, that's what it's used for: adjusting the ph of "organic" hydroponic grows. Ain't no way I'm using that in my soil and/or water, unless you grow full-on organic and in a soil that resembles in any way Lumperdawgz mix and have had good results with it. Maybe it's okay to use it just as a ph test kit? And use something else to actually adjust the ph if it's too high or low?

Not trying to be a dick and maybe I wasn't clear enough, but I'm keeping this totally organic and not putting anything in my dirt that I don't know EXACTLY what's in it. The fact that the manufacturer isn't even listed makes me leery. As does the fact that Home Depot is selling it (although I did get my peat there). Do you know if this is something that can be used safely to adjust soil/water ph? Any idea at all what those "crystals" that raise/lower ph consist of? Cuz there really ain't any info about it online.

Thanks, though. Definitely want to hear (read haha) your opinion about this. Do you grow in soil or hydro? Just curious.....
 
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