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I wouldn't leave them in direct sun if they've never had Sunthis is what i've been calling an unsettled summer 2019/2020.
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i'm gonna shut down the grow tent with her LED, and place these plants in a sunny spot in the apartment for the Thursday. i'm going to melt myself, on thursday.
the plants are going to get their watering on that Thursday morning.
Putting indoor plants outside or even with other indoor plants risks many kinds of things, mainly bugs! I have seen the fires on the news, stay safe!!
Was wondering about this wet/dry watering cycle you’re speaking of?? Please enlighten me.I don't know what your soil is it may well be poor soil as you say but if your watering till 20% runoff every time you might be keeping it too wet & I suspect you are, that would also explain the fungus gnats
If you're interested in a quick trick to learn to water using a wet/dry cycle properly tag me back in, either way good luck!
I have been growing for 35 yrs and on a commercial scale for 28 and have never checked my run off, never checked ec, never worried about run off. Growing weed is extremely easy but is complicated by all these complicated methods. Never used teas or anything organic for that matter and I grow absolute fire. I use 3/4 strength of directed nutes , don’t use calmag ever. I have a commercial account with advanced nutes and I don’t run there high end products. Sensi grow and sensi bloom, big bud, overdrive and bud candy. I flush for 15 days and my soil is original Roots Organic’s with 2 cups per gallon of soil of perlite and sometimes I run straight coco with advanced coco products. I know people will hate on what I’m saying but my livelihood depends on this and I’m doing very well. I’ve got 50 if not more friends growing organically and you can’t tell any difference in the end product and I fight zero deficiencies. You mentioned you are lazy with your timer. Well you can’t be lazy with any of it. 18/6 in veg every day , not 20/4 one day and then 19/5 and then back to 18/6. It’s 18/6 everyday , plants need to sleep and that’s not subject for debate. 12/12 flower , no light leaks or interruptions of any type ever! No green lights in your room so you can work at night on them. Do not enter your grow room when lights are off. Follow VPD chart and flush for 15 to 20 days. Don’t buy flushing products because they are bullshit. Hope this helps .the tap water presently is around 7.3 pH, left sitting outside for at least 24 hours lower its reading closer to 7.0 pH. a few drops of diluted pH Down solution, and water adjusted to around 6.5 pH. i am watering so that there is <20% run-off.
i use a 1-litre measuring cup with its small beak, when watering. and then throw a small paddle-pop stick on top of the soil, with the day of the week when it was watered. roughly 6/7 days between watering, depending on the plant's conditions and outdoor weather.
keeping it simple.
i haven't yet bothered doing a slurry test or run-off test - as to me, these plants seem happier, mostly because of its new soil mix. maybe i should, just for curiosity sake.
I also do think it's good to be consistent, but plants absolutely do not sleep! They lack a central nervous system and therefore cannot sleep. I'm not saying they don't use light cycles for various purposes, some not fully understood. I have run 24 hrs light through entire veg cycles many times with no ill effects that I can see. There are plants that grow in areas that have 24 hour light 6 months per year. Think ruderalis.I have been growing for 35 yrs and on a commercial scale for 28 and have never checked my run off, never checked ec, never worried about run off. Growing weed is extremely easy but is complicated by all these complicated methods. Never used teas or anything organic for that matter and I grow absolute fire. I use 3/4 strength of directed nutes , don’t use calmag ever. I have a commercial account with advanced nutes and I don’t run there high end products. Sensi grow and sensi bloom, big bud, overdrive and bud candy. I flush for 15 days and my soil is original Roots Organic’s with 2 cups per gallon of soil of perlite and sometimes I run straight coco with advanced coco products. I know people will hate on what I’m saying but my livelihood depends on this and I’m doing very well. I’ve got 50 if not more friends growing organically and you can’t tell any difference in the end product and I fight zero deficiencies. You mentioned you are lazy with your timer. Well you can’t be lazy with any of it. 18/6 in veg every day , not 20/4 one day and then 19/5 and then back to 18/6. It’s 18/6 everyday , plants need to sleep and that’s not subject for debate. 12/12 flower , no light leaks or interruptions of any type ever! No green lights in your room so you can work at night on them. Do not enter your grow room when lights are off. Follow VPD chart and flush for 15 to 20 days. Don’t buy flushing products because they are bullshit. Hope this helps .
I just started a you tube channel to start doing exactly that.PRE-NOTE: Take 2 on writing this thread...so, paraphrasing what I might have written before. I am suspecting the downtime last night wiped my new thread, which I swear I wrote in this 'Grow Diaries' section.
Maybe I am going crazy? I imagined writing my thread and its responses. I definitely uploaded a 'before' and 'after' photos. it's not a double post, is it? I think i was talking about my own credibility.
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Yup, it's been a struggle this year. This struggle all stemmed from my visit to the store several months ago, when they didn't have the regular potting mix I had used in past grows. I made a wrong decision on-the-spot in the choice of 'premium' potting mix.
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Kicking myself for making this silly mistake, getting the fundamentals wrong doesn't help. I read the bag's label closely, before purchasing! Made sure no slow-release fertiliser time-bomb, right balance of NPK,etc.
Other reason for kicking myself was not correcting this silly mistake quicker. I let it go for about a month, when I knew immediately what the issue was, unsuitable potting mix causing poor root development.
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On the flip side, i learned some lessons. I found a better soil/potting mix, which i may use in future grows. i learned to tackle the issue immediately, and properly.
hey, those who never stuff up, never have the joy of figuring it out, finally. maybe, its more a relief.
i could have germinated seeds, sown it, and it would have been more developed (in the new potting mix), than rescuing these babies. But happy that i got these babies back from the dead, and i didn't burn any more seeds.
Onto the next challenge....
This is why I'm writing this grow diary here, to show others the stuffups and its fixes (or not) - rather than tellling ya all how big & beautiful my dick is.
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