And glad to hear the BTI worked for you. I've tried mosquito drunks and they had no effect, but I havent had any bugs since I used merit several crops ago. If they come back I'll order some commercial grade BTI for the greens at work and try it.
humic acid certainly helps with maintaining a loose soil structure but it doesnt need a whole lot and it's easy to pass the point of diminishing returns. I'm not sure exogenous humics can prevent, reverse or correct crusting compaction and chaneling as well as a surfactant combined with calcium. Especially in a mix like FFOF that already has a lot of peat and composted humics in it.
Nice, I didnt realize you were on a well, that's wicked for well water.
And yeah in that situation for nutrient crusting HA and SWE are beneficial for breaking it up and improving utilization, sorry when I was talking about surfactants I'm referring to crusting as in, channeling and dry spots in the media from poor water penetration and absorbtion.
And HA with SWE together in that 5:2 ratio is weird. Together they work better than the sum of either used individually, there is some sort of entourage effect going on there that makes the combination more effective.
No chemical suffections for me bud. Im staying pretty natural.
By the way after all this time still with some gnats arounf looks like the microbe lift bti did the trick in 10 days. 2 drops per gallon at watering. Seemed fine mixed in wih pbp too.
We changed out the yellow sticky cards to monitor but saw no more flyers.
I've used Coco-wet for years. A small bottle of it lasts forever. It's organic.
I'm not sure if I would buy LK nowadays. I know they stripped it from what it used to be concentration wise. Ferti-organics sells Fulvic/Humic powder that is pretty good and cheap. I've used the Soluble Fulvic from them.
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Customhydronutes sells small sizes of their stuff.
Edit: looks like Ferti will send you samples if you email them.
Just got back from a visit with my buddy who owns the LP, we had a very interesting discussion about a lot of things...
Long story short.. looks like I'm dry trimming for sure. 100%. No doubts abouts it. They've done a ton of testing in the last year and decided to shift their entire operation over to dry trimming after numerous experiments and lab tests confirmed a much higher concentration of terpenes and even cannabinoids in the finished product when dry trimmed vs wet. I'm officially converted by science.
They arent hanging the whole plant because it takes too long to process, rather theyre removing big leaves and leaving the sugar leaves on, then breaking the plant down to hang individual branches. What surprised me the most is they've determined it's actually slightly faster than wet trimming. They also determined the large fan leaves were far less important to leave on, but what really matters is you need to leave the sugar leaves on the buds, and you need to leave the buds on the stem.
Very cool stuff. I must admit, I love the fact that I have this guy as a good friend. He is such a frickin awesome resource for information.
Yeah man I usually keep the whole dry trimming thing to myself since that's another one of those 30 page arguments. Cool to see they backed it up with testing. It's great to see the cannabis version of mythbusters. Buddy did that with bleach concentration to make sure it killed PM spores and all that. Lab said above 10.8% to kill everything. Nice to have tidbits like this just wished they were shared more openly.
I notice the smells and flav come out quicker after chop dry trimming. I think once you get adjusted to it you will never wet trim again. I know I didn't except for that last run and that cemented my love for dry trimming after the wet trimming and how it came out.
From the commercial side of it crazy they were wet trimming unless they employ their own trimmers. Usually here wet is by the Hr and Dry is by the Lb if using trim crews.
Beautiful girls budWe got flowers happening. Fed them tonight, 1.3 EC pbp grow, ph'd to 6.2 with potassium silicate. Starting water 0.2ec ph 7.2
Start of week 2, things are looking great.
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