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Well thank you lot of good information in there I am using goat manure that has been put in a pile and been composing for five or six years real good dark fluffy material I added worm castings and bone meal and I have been using nothing but bottled water mainly to keep my pH the same and it has stayed at 6.8 the whole entire time no fluctuation nothing else added to plants except I made a banana tea and a garlic tea to get rid of the pests I'm using an eight and a 10 gallon pot the healthier plant or the one with more Limbs and branches is in the 8 gallon pot and the more stringy thin looking plant is in the 10 gallon pot I do use my meter and it seems to work well so I'll text you 72 air temperature between 72 and 78 my lights are 24 in at least above the canopy using three 300 watt full spectrum lights El cheapo's from EL-BAYO PLENTY OF AIR MOVING AROUND 24-7Hello and welcome to the forum.
I'd like to see some pictures. I assume you are growing outdoors in pots or in the ground.
I see that you are trying an organic grow. Have you mixed your goat manure with worm castings into a nice dark garden soil?
City water, Well Water
Do you have a compost pile?
If you take 50% nice rich black garden soil. Mix in 25% fresh well composted kitchen scraps, Grass clippings leaves/ Finished compost.
25% worm castings and mix them together. 1/2 cup bone meal per cubic foot. Mix very well. This will work.
In nature goats poop on top of the soil. Living organisms eat and slowly over time breaks down the green matter. Goat poo is basically chewed un composted grass balls.
Your going to need to add microbes to your soil in order to break down the undigested green matter into a plant usable state.
That goes for the bone meal as well. You can dump in all the bone meal you like but if there is insouciant microbial life to break down the bone meal into a plant usable state it will not produce measurable amounts of Calcium. But under the correct conditions bone meal will slowly release all the calcium your plant needs for every stage of it's life.
If you need to add More calcium and Magnesium you can also add 40 grams of Dolomite lime without drastically changing soil P.H.
10 grams of Gypsum adds Calcium and Sulfur.
Check this out. Talk again soon.
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Hello again. I actually posted before your pictures loaded. I was really expecting a bunch of 1/2 dead plants under a pine tree. Not these beautiful plants. I thought about asking if it was well stomped.
I'd consider this normal. Just a plant dropping an old leaf way down in the dark.
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I was thinking Thrips. But the other guys believe you have a spider mite infestation. I'd suggest that you grab a 10 power glass and have a good look at what is on your plant. Then make up your mind as to how you want to deal with the infestation.
As your plants are well into flower. I'd suggest you strip her to the tip.
Not to get rid of the spider mites, but to prep her for flowering. Please watch this video.
Fast forward to 8 min. House clean her! This will eliminate all the fluffy bud on the stalks down under the canopy and your plant will grow just nice top cola for you. I prefer to take everything off the bottom 1/2 of the plant as it's in the dark. No light to collect. Then pinch off only the buds and leave as many leaves as I can on the top 1/2 of the plant. Leaves are light collectors. They feed the plant. When you are finished. Look at her down from the top. If a fan leaf is shading a bud sight. Cut off the leaf so light ripens the bud.
Phosphorus and Potassium.
Start with Crosby's Molasses from the grocery store.
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I warm up a glass of water quite hot. Add 1 tablespoon per gallon of water into hot water and mix well.
Dump into gallon water. Add 1 tablespoon of Alaska More Bloom 0-10-10 per gallon water mix well.
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This will give your microbe population a nice boost. The Molasses is full of good plant available nutrients.
And of course the More Bloom bumps up both Phosphorus and Potassium levels. I have used this with great results.
Anything over 60 ppm Phosphorus and your plant will produce great bud for you. You don't need to over due it
and risk a Nitrogen lockout issue. This is my flowering mix. I still feed my microbe population a little green juice until my plants are finished stretching.
Then cut back to only this for flowering. The plant will lighten up. Take on fall colors as they finish up and pack on the sugar in late stages.
Don't worry about this. No hay smell associated with all the dark green chlorophyll in the leaves. The bud should smell nice.
Hope this helps you bud.
Ron
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