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No way brother! Folks around here aren’t even out yet : ) i mean some are starting but the majority wait till the first. I mean if your lows are still fairly low you wouldn’t want them out anyways. Awesome spot though!
Frost advisory last night. There's still 3 weeks until I got to up pot them. I thought I was late on the start. Fuck I'm like @Bilber thread name. Jammin on it with a late Early start. Lol
 
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I been following what it said on bottle. All three every other feeding. There whole lives.
Week 4 is when I started feeding. I been over feeding than probably under. And the micro all the way to end. Fucking up big time and for like 3 whole runs. Thanks @Greenadian bro!
I should have known I could just use what is needed. For the stage of life.
As a couple people pointed out, some plants are just hungrier than others.
Maybe just try increasing the bottled nutes for that one plant for now.

There are lots of good liquid nutrients out there, I’ve used quite a few and they all have pros and cons.
That said, I have been using all organic dry nutrients for about four grows and counting and it is so much easier! If you want to spend less time watering/feeding and enjoy other benefits, this is the way to do it.

I am using Gaia Green products, a veg (4-4-4) or a bloom (2-8-4), and add some of their glacial rock dust along with earthworm castings combined with Pro Mix HP, which already has mycorrhiza. It all gets dumped into a large tote box where I mix 10 gallons of pro mix with the other ingredients, right in the veg room. I can use it right away or just leave it in the box until I’m ready.
After that initial soil mix, you just water as needed, no storing or messing around with multiple bottles and measuring spoons/cups, no constant mixing of liquids and making mistakes, no spills or getting bad mixes because you didn’t shake or stir something enough etc.

When it comes to watering it’s a quick and painless procedure every time so I’ll never go back to bottles.

If you end up with a very hungry plant or leave a plant in a pot longer than expected, you can just sprinkle a little of the dry organic food on the soil, mix it in about half an inch deep and water. The plant will be able to get those nutrients in a couple days.

I feel mixing organic amendments into the soil and then just watering regularly is a much more natural type of feeding for the plant. It’s not getting different amounts of food each watering and it’s not just waiting there for you to bring those nutrients. The plant can find them and take them up as it pleases and just needs water to keep living and thriving.

The next evolutionary step in this process would be true living soil, but that’s a little above my level of knowledge right now.
 
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As a couple people pointed out, some plants are just hungrier than others.
Maybe just try increasing the bottled nutes for that one plant for now.

There are lots of good liquid nutrients out there, I’ve used quite a few and they all have pros and cons.
That said, I have been using all organic dry nutrients for about four grows and counting and it is so much easier! If you want to spend less time watering/feeding and enjoy other benefits, this is the way to do it.

I am using Gaia Green products, a veg (4-4-4) or a bloom (2-8-4), and add some of their glacial rock dust along with earthworm castings combined with Pro Mix HP, which already has mycorrhiza. It all gets dumped into a large tote box where I mix 10 gallons of pro mix with the other ingredients, right in the veg room. I can use it right away or just leave it in the box until I’m ready.
After that initial soil mix, you just water as needed, no storing or messing around with multiple bottles and measuring spoons/cups, no constant mixing of liquids and making mistakes, no spills or getting bad mixes because you didn’t shake or stir something enough etc.

When it comes to watering it’s a quick and painless procedure every time so I’ll never go back to bottles.

If you end up with a very hungry plant or leave a plant in a pot longer than expected, you can just sprinkle a little of the dry organic food on the soil, mix it in about half an inch deep and water. The plant will be able to get those nutrients in a couple days.

I feel mixing organic amendments into the soil and then just watering regularly is a much more natural type of feeding for the plant. It’s not getting different amounts of food each watering and it’s not just waiting there for you to bring those nutrients. The plant can find them and take them up as it pleases and just needs water to keep living and thriving.

The next evolutionary step in this process would be true living soil, but that’s a little above my level of knowledge right now.
@Spliffy twojoints brother I was feeding my plants based off what fox farms nutes said every other. Advanced nutrients calls for feeding every rip. I don't even know what I was doing to my plants. At best they been getting half fed. I think also my calmag is a every feed nute. Thanks to my nigga @BearWater lead me to the feeding charts. He's better at Google and research.
 
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so I listened to my threads music. Got me turned up! This is the song that defines my grow and life. Time. It just took a little time.
 
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Yeah.....wood isn't the greatest.....

I've got some? maybe restaurant style trays I use in veg.....but the soda ones have a higher lip.....

I'm always waiting for the tray to dump.....🤣....
 
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Bilber go out back of your liquor store. There's just tons of them around. There coke labeled and Pepsi. The ones that lay flat are great for plants. Bro I used to use wood. You told me that was no good.
Shit I just go out back liquor store and take those plastic racks. I spend enough money in there on cigarillos alone they can suck it up if a few go missing. Everything is on camera and I don't hide. They must not care.
 
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Shit I just go out back liquor store and take those plastic racks. I spend enough money in there on cigarillos alone they can suck it up if a few go missing. Everything is on camera and I don't hide. They must not care.
OR........waiting to put together a massive case against ya bro!!! 🤦🏼‍♂️ A 3 hour cut and paste video of you showing up, parking out back, buying cigarillos then taking 2 or 3 trays!!! 🤣🤣
 
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@Spliffy twojoints brother I was feeding my plants based off what fox farms nutes said every other. Advanced nutrients calls for feeding every rip. I don't even know what I was doing to my plants. At best they been getting half fed. I think also my calmag is a every feed nute. Thanks to my nigga @BearWater lead me to the feeding charts. He's better at Google and research.
Yeah, there can be a big difference from one brand of bottles to another. You’ll find people swearing up and down that one is superior and you’ll find just as many people hating on it.
If you were on decent city water, you shouldn’t need cal mag unless you have a particularly hungry plant. A lot of guys hail cal mag as the magical elixir to fix any problem, but be very careful with it because too can be worse than too little and lock out other essential nutrients.

Overall your plants are looking very good! 👍
 
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Ph pen is my next buy. I can't accurately say what pH my water is. Blue lab is good right?
Vivosun pH pen was junk. I calibrated with the solutions than cleaned off and stuck it back in solutions. Wasn't accurate on all 3. Like 2 points off wasn't even close to any.

Mine just shit out and my water has been running ~9 usually runs 7.5
I have another cheap 1 coming but need a good 1. I saw an extech being used for hotsauce. ( i wonder how often that dies).
Mines stuck on 14.
Which 1 did you get/ are looking at?
 
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Ok pictures from veg area.
11 weeks for bigger plants. Still green.
17 days of life for the seedlings. There's a little twisting of leaves but there green and growing. The little light is doing just fine.

6 weeks of flower in the box.
Both plants got ugly. I know it's pretty much nothing I can do for the poor girls now. Just feed em right and let em limp out the last 2 3 weeks. Buds are growing and I did a quick inspection I don't see any seeds growing so that's good.
 
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Ok pictures from veg area.
11 weeks for bigger plants. Still green.
17 days of life for the seedlings. There's a little twisting of leaves but there green and growing. The little light is doing just fine.

6 weeks of flower in the box.
Both plants got ugly. I know it's pretty much nothing I can do for the poor girls now. Just feed em right and let em limp out the last 2 3 weeks. Buds are growing and I did a quick inspection I don't see any seeds growing so that's good.
Dude, things are looking great! The flowering plants look happier than they have been! Nice job on the recovery! 🤩 the vegging plants are going to get nice and big! : )
 
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Seedlings 24 days of life. There looking good. All leaves are green and there growing well.
Only watered them twice so far.

12 weeks of life for my veg plants. Also green and growing well. Next week they will get thrown in the box. I have some work to do on this timing thing for a perpetual grow.

7 weeks of flower completed in the box.
These hoes are still ugly! But on the positive side the buds are bigger this time! Also I don't see any seeds growing this rip. So all in all I think I've learned bigger pot bigger buds.
 
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