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PipeCarver

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MIMedGrower said:
Hey @Dirtbag do you hang yellow sticky cards above the canopy as well as lay them on the pots?

I have not erradicated my gnats. The pro mix had them for sure.

I am still using Microbe lift mosquito control which renders deformed, even wingless bugs in the runoff sometimes. And some confused crawlers that fly funny. But a couple of adults always survive it seems.

So i see a few here and there. Nuisance level i guess.

I have been pushing the dry cycle but some plants will always be freshly watered in my system.

I went so many years without the suckers. :-(
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Fans on high right over the tops of the pots and scrape & remove the soil around the rims to level with the rest of the soil & 6" of sticky tape hanging off a lower branch on each plant. I think the fans on high do the most good, if they can't fly they don't stick around very long.
 
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PipeCarver said:
I doubt you miss this time of year here in the Maritimes, It's black fly season. They make working in the yard so much fun, tuck in a few mosquito's and we have Spring finely 20 c weather and the bugs love it.
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The only season I miss back there is the two months of summer. Besides then it's either too muggy, too buggy, or too cold. I moved out west for the weather and the weed man... Weve been having daytime temps near 20 for a month or two now. No snow this winter and I think it only dropped below freezing once for a couple days. Hardly any bugs at all either.. Its like Canadas California..
 
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PipeCarver said:
I doubt you miss this time of year here in the Maritimes, It's black fly season. They make working in the yard so much fun, tuck in a few mosquito's and we have Spring finely 20 c weather and the bugs love it.
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Hey pipe cant stand those peckers either they tought me the black fly dance a few years ago in maine, i thought for sure that i could out run that bastard ,
He wasnt giving up till he drew blood......
He won........
 
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Hahah weird videos man. This one is a super trip! Serious smoke a bowl and check this one out... Its actually a decent tune, but super bizarre vid.

 
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End of week 6. Dialing the food back to 0.7ec, 30% pbp grow, 70% pbp soil bloom, and increasing ph to 6.2. Also reducing irrigation frequency to 4 times a day and dropping temp and humidity slightly. Gonna try and get in here to pull a few more leaves in the next few days too.
No burnt tips this round really, pretty happy about that. Seems to be a common flaw with my grows sometimes despite being conservative with food..

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Dirtbag said:
End of week 6. Dialing the food back to 0.7ec, 30% pbp grow, 70% pbp soil bloom, and increasing ph to 6.2. Also reducing irrigation frequency to 4 times a day and dropping temp and humidity slightly. Gonna try and get in here to pull a few more leaves in the next few days too.
No burnt tips this round really, pretty happy about that. Seems to be a common flaw with my grows sometimes despite being conservative with food..

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Got to love Canada, looking like its snowing at the end of May
 
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Well, probably the last little trick of this grow that I'm trying seems to be working something incredible.

Im within a couple weeks of the end now, and have tapered back nitrogen slightly and am somewhere around 2-4-5, feeding at about 0.6 EC.

The trick is once the runoff stabilizes at 0.6 after a couple days I cut my fertigation cycles back from 5 a day to 4, then 3 times a day, allowing the media to dry out quite a bit more than I have been, with extremely minimal runoff. Watering to good runoff once a day for the last watering to reset any buildup. And running low dose enzymes to keep things flowing..

The last 3 days or so, the buds have quite literally fucking exploded. I'm actually speechless. Ive never grown a crop this nice looking in all my years tending to this plant. Blown, away. I'll try and get a dark cycle pic tomorrow so you can see the buds better.. Incredible.
 
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Dirtbag said:
Well, probably the last little trick of this grow that I'm trying seems to be working something incredible.

Im within a couple weeks of the end now, and have tapered back nitrogen slightly and am somewhere around 2-4-5, feeding at about 0.6 EC.

The trick is once the runoff stabilizes at 0.6 after a couple days I cut my fertigation cycles back from 5 a day to 4, then 3 times a day, allowing the media to dry out quite a bit more than I have been, with extremely minimal runoff. Watering to good runoff once a day for the last watering to reset any buildup. And running low dose enzymes to keep things flowing..

The last 3 days or so, the buds have quite literally fucking exploded. I'm actually speechless. Ive never grown a crop this nice looking in all my years tending to this plant. Blown, away. I'll try and get a dark cycle pic tomorrow so you can see the buds better.. Incredible.
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Soaking this all in even if I have to wait for coco to do it
 
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Soaking this all in even if I have to wait for coco to do it
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I think it's easier to get a quick reaction from the plants in coco or wool for sure. It's also good to do it at the end of stretch too apparently, around the same time I start dialing nutrients back. Light rinse, let them get quite a bit of dryback before resuming regular fertigations.
 
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