Trichomes not turning amber, first grow.

[Captspaulding]

Here's a short youtube video by Dr. Bruce Bugbee on flushing and nitrogen deprivation. Regarding flushing, he says that the only reason to flush is if there is nutrient excess.

I scream that shit from the damned rooftops
And if the water source is toxic alkaline or toxic acidic,

 

[Captspaulding]

Very well said...I grow in dwc and rdwc, the mother plant from a seed is the exception and I end up cloning that if its a good example and flower the mother with the first harvest but keep the strain going through perpetual cloning. I too believe that curing is over half of the smoothness of the smoke. Burping and monitoring inside humidity with the small humidity meters and using the 62% moisture bags comes out very good. Ive done it with 3 grows and it pays off after the minimum curing timeframe... Keep curing and it gets even better... Very good information on the last few weeks before harvest. Thanks for sharing this...

Sure thing man.
And please never read anyhting i have to say in a nagaitive context, bc legit they aint fighting words, these are helping words.
I just want everyone to grow the best medicine they can.
No need to go tripping over our own junk, and plus I’ve made all of these mistakes and more a long time ago and I really do just try to share what I can to pay it forward so that everybody else can get away Scott free without the heartache and the trouble that my dumbass failed my way into once upon a time.
Hit me up anytime.
I love this shit we all do.

 

[Captspaulding]

I have learned that even soil has its limits.

Same, but i just got done running the same dirt almost 2 years,
The only thing i did was remove roots, and add perlite the last time i used it, like 6-7 runs. Thats when the buffers in the peat finally gave up.
So i finally had to buy new dirt.
Chronicled the whole thing in the trainwreck, never phd it, never amended it, my water is around 7.5 - 8.0 come to findnout since added dwc into my rig,
So it was def poking all the bears.
I am now a lifer in my chosen soil brand.
Im also running a fertilome vs happy frog test right now, and fertilome is def winning it handily. Especially in wet/dry cycle,

But this stuff is my chosen brand.
Its incredibly stable and lasts for years.

 

[Captspaulding]

Very well said...I grow in dwc and rdwc, the mother plant from a seed is the exception and I end up cloning that if its a good example and flower the mother with the first harvest but keep the strain going through perpetual cloning. I too believe that curing is over half of the smoothness of the smoke. Burping and monitoring inside humidity with the small humidity meters and using the 62% moisture bags comes out very good. Ive done it with 3 grows and it pays off after the minimum curing timeframe... Keep curing and it gets even better... Very good information on the last few weeks before harvest. Thanks for sharing this...

This is a great way to cure.
Also, those 62% moisture packs,
Fyi, folks misuse those from time to time, the main use is if you over dry by a few rh% points toss them in to raise the rh back jnto the goldilox %62 range you spoke on. The longer you can stay by that number the better off you’ll be that applies to the hanging and drying part as well but that’s 62 number is everything
They can def be handy, def not the greatest to lower rh, but def good to raise it.
The variety in sizes can def be a good tool as well.

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

Same, but i just got done running the same dirt almost 2 years,
The only thing i did was remove roots, and add perlite the last time i used it, like 6-7 runs. Thats when the buffers in the peat finally gave up.
So i finally had to buy new dirt.

I've run the same soil for I don't know how many grows. My plant growth kept getting worse a little every grow. It was slower and the yield was lessening. At first, I couldn't figure out why it was happening. Eventually, after doing lots of web searching and reading about the symptoms, I decided the pH was too low. I added dolomite lime, and the plants responded well.

So, the question then was, why was the pH so low? I found two likely causes. One was repeated use of Epsom salt. The sulfate makes it a mild acidifier. It doesn't have an immediate effect, but it can decrease the pH over multiple crop cycles. A second cause is decomposing organic matter. The pH of compost is neutral, but the decomposition process produces acids. Those, and perhaps other sources of acids I haven't identified made my soil too acidic.

So, my soil was increasingly acidic. I didn't have a pH meter at first, but after 8 tablespoons of dolomite lime in 5-gallon pots, the pH was 6.4. So, I think it's a fair assumption that the pH must have been much lower before adding the lime. I finally got the pH close to 7.0 in all pots except one. I'll add more lime to that one at the next watering.

This soil was mostly FFHF with some FFOF. Both have plenty of organic matter. I also had amended other organics. I'm sure the pH of those soils is okay out of the bag. Repeated use must have had a cumulative effect.

Chronicled the whole thing in the trainwreck, never phd it, never amended it, my water is around 7.5 - 8.0 come to findnout since added dwc into my rig,
So it was def poking all the bears.

I'll look for that. I haven't been following that thread because I can't keep up with it. It's huge and there's a lot of noise. Have you thought about making a new 'trainwreck' thread every year?

I am now a lifer in my chosen soil brand.
Im also running a fertilome vs happy frog test right now, and fertilome is def winning it handily. Especially in wet/dry cycle,

But this stuff is my chosen brand.
Its incredibly stable and lasts for years.

I don't think I've seen that brand. Anyway, after several years of use and various amendments I doubt the beginning brand matters. Eventually any soil will be depleted if it's not replenished. The challenge is how to keep soil fertile.

 

[willyum]

Grove bags, buy them directly from grove. No need for jars anymore :)

 

[Captspaulding]

I've run the same soil for I don't know how many grows. My plant growth kept getting worse a little every grow. It was slower and the yield was lessening. At first, I couldn't figure out why it was happening. Eventually, after doing lots of web searching and reading about the symptoms, I decided the pH was too low. I added dolomite lime, and the plants responded well.

So, the question then was, why was the pH so low? I found two likely causes. One was repeated use of Epsom salt. The sulfate makes it a mild acidifier. It doesn't have an immediate effect, but it can decrease the pH over multiple crop cycles. A second cause is decomposing organic matter. The pH of compost is neutral, but the decomposition process produces acids. Those, and perhaps other sources of acids I haven't identified made my soil too acidic.

So, my soil was increasingly acidic. I didn't have a pH meter at first, but after 8 tablespoons of dolomite lime in 5-gallon pots, the pH was 6.4. So, I think it's a fair assumption that the pH must have been much lower before adding the lime. I finally got the pH close to 7.0 in all pots except one. I'll add more lime to that one at the next watering.

This soil was mostly FFHF with some FFOF. Both have plenty of organic matter. I also had amended other organics. I'm sure the pH of those soils is okay out of the bag. Repeated use must have had a cumulative effect.


I'll look for that. I haven't been following that thread because I can't keep up with it. It's huge and there's a lot of noise. Have you thought about making a new 'trainwreck' thread every year?


I don't think I've seen that brand. Anyway, after several years of use and various amendments I doubt the beginning brand matters. Eventually any soil will be depleted if it's not replenished. The challenge is how to keep soil fertile.

I've run the same soil for I don't know how many grows. My plant growth kept getting worse a little every grow. It was slower and the yield was lessening. At first, I couldn't figure out why it was happening. Eventually, after doing lots of web searching and reading about the symptoms, I decided the pH was too low. I added dolomite lime, and the plants responded well.

So, the question then was, why was the pH so low? I found two likely causes. One was repeated use of Epsom salt. The sulfate makes it a mild acidifier. It doesn't have an immediate effect, but it can decrease the pH over multiple crop cycles. A second cause is decomposing organic matter. The pH of compost is neutral, but the decomposition process produces acids. Those, and perhaps other sources of acids I haven't identified made my soil too acidic.

So, my soil was increasingly acidic. I didn't have a pH meter at first, but after 8 tablespoons of dolomite lime in 5-gallon pots, the pH was 6.4. So, I think it's a fair assumption that the pH must have been much lower before adding the lime. I finally got the pH close to 7.0 in all pots except one. I'll add more lime to that one at the next watering.

This soil was mostly FFHF with some FFOF. Both have plenty of organic matter. I also had amended other organics. I'm sure the pH of those soils is okay out of the bag. Repeated use must have had a cumulative effect.


I'll look for that. I haven't been following that thread because I can't keep up with it. It's huge and there's a lot of noise. Have you thought about making a new 'trainwreck' thread every year?


I don't think I've seen that brand. Anyway, after several years of use and various amendments I doubt the beginning brand matters. Eventually any soil will be depleted if it's not replenished. The challenge is how to keep soil fertile.

Yeah, the Epson salts can definitely catch up with you overtime if it’s something that you have to supplement but generally for the most part man there’s a lot of cal and mag that’s in my water right out of the tap and you’re right about the whole depletion of soils and shit like that it doesn’t matter what you use if you’re knucklehead like you and I and you use the same shit repeatedly because you wanna poke the bear and see how long something can go for it just is what it is. It’s part of the test I would think because that’s basically what I was doing as I was just trying to see how fucking far I could go beyond the slash like that episode of Seinfeld where they’re trying to see how far past E they can drive
I do that kind of shit from time to time just to break up the monotony of everything
And as far as the train wreck is concerned, yeah man it’s a monster that has definitely grown into its own thing and it is a lot to try and keep up with it. It’s thousands of pages now. I didn’t think it would get past hundreds that being said, I do make separate threads from time to time. It’s just depending on how much crap I got going on in my life. It’s tough to keep up with doing the moderator thing, trying to keep track of the train wreck good thing I’ve got a bunch of good buddies in there that kinda helped me keep shit in line on that thread in particular, but the next time that I do make a separate thread, which I already know what the title of it’s going to be it’s gonna be the house of 1000 colas
I’ll link it to you in a message. That way you can follow along if you feel like doing so. And shit man hit me up in a message. What’s your thread?

 

[Grownsince95]

Here's a short youtube video by Dr. Bruce Bugbee on flushing and nitrogen deprivation. Regarding flushing, he says that the only reason to flush is if there is nutrient excess.

The GOAT!!

 

[Captspaulding]

The GOAT!!

Hes a smart feller.