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Week4Bytch ..The Cannabis Karen

Seed slut is me... Larry OG Kush & Boss Hogg
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Week4Bytch ..The Cannabis Karen

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Week4Bytch said:
Last seed horde of the year . (Said no one) Holidays around the corner.. Turkey and what not.
@Trustfall came through. 😎🔥💯
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Awesome! I look forward to watching how my genetics stack up to the others you have. Have a great weekend!
 
#504
Found an interesting post from Coots (who knows when this was posted)

Calcium & Magnesium in Organic Soil

"Okay – the first goals of wanting Calcium & Magnesium are good we’ll stipulate. Whether or not you need a mineral amendment to achieve that will be put aside.

Dolomite Lime is used in ‘the real world’ when a complete soil analysis has been done and now you have a complete overview of the element levels, CeC, etc. and it’s been established that lower levels exist for the long term on the Magnesium percentage. Even then, DL is applied maybe once every 4 or 5 years. The Magnesium in DL arrives as Magnesium Carbonate (MgCO3) but it’s a bit more complicated than that.

The reason that it is ‘slow acting’ is the molecular structure and if you were to hit even WikiPedia and looked at the molecular formula you can easily understand why this material is as slow acting as it is.

If in fact you need a Magnesium jolt then you’d be far better off using a mined mineral compound like Epsom Salts (Magnesium Sulfate) or Sul-Po-Mag (Sulphur, Potassium & Magnesium). The Magnesium in Epsom Salts is in its elemental form like Sul-Po-Mag.

The main straight liming agents, Limestone, Calcite (aka Agricultural Lime), Oyster shell powder and Crab meal are sources for Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3). All are pure Calcium Carbonate with the exception of Limestone which can have a Mg level between 2 – 3% depending on the specific mine, country of origin, etc.

When looking at the numbers on a Calcium Carbonate source you have to multiply the CaCO3 percentage by 0.375% and now you will have the elemental Calcium (Ca++) numbers.

Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) is the preferred ‘liming’ agent in the PNW due to the acidic soils we deal with (the west side). That has to do with the adulteration of the clay platelets which no longer carry a pure negative charge (-) on the edges which bind along its edge with the center of adjacent clay particles and now you have clay compaction. All the Rototilling isn’t going to change that – ever.

So back to Dolomite Lime and why it’s used in commercial potting soils – certainly not used by professional nurseries other than for specific growing schedules like 3 – 5 years in containers. Even then, DL is part of a ‘liming mix’ that will include Gypsum (Calcium & Sulphur), Limestone or one of the shells meals. Bottom line is the DL is the least expensive because Calcium Carbonate is widely used in animal & human supplements – next time you’re in a store selling vitamins and supplements look at the label on the Calcium products – Calcium Carbonate.

Same for livestock and poultry. Calcium is a necessary part of their feed and DL isn’t part of that. DL has several industrial, manufacturing, etc. uses – it’s not the big deal in agriculture or horticulture like it is in the cannabis hobby gardening paradigm.

All of this assumes of course that the potting soil that you make is deficient in Calcium or Magnesium. It would be highly unlikely that given the compost and EWC you produce that you need additional Magnesium or Calcium. EWC are covered with a slime which is Calcium Carbonate from the worm’s digestive tract.

Calcium is not this elusive element that Goober wants you to believe it is"

CC
 
#505
So .. the bitch is coming out of me on this one, planning on tearing down the autos Skywalker OG.. not coming out as robust as I like them to be. These might go down tomorrow evening and be replaced by the clone. Could be the cheap lighting, cold weather, grower sucks ass ... whatever, she's going down soon.
 
#506
Boss said let her ride, we cleaned it up some more, we clipped about 2 gallons full of green. Got too packed in there, the Skywalker caught me by surprise. If we took the tent down there'd be a square bush standing there.
 
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BudRanger1919 said:
Hammer looking REALLY good! Lets hope the last 3 pop!
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Thanks, they just started with the leaning tower act today. They are just a week behind the inside grow tent. The indoor grow started leaning last week, or Thursday abouts. Had to get in there and move pots out just to get to the heavy one in the back, took advantage of the half empty tent and shop vac the floor.
 
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BudRanger1919 said:
Just bury them a lil deeper when you transplant, they'll be fine 😁 . They're looking good though!
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The last Kush popped yesterday, and as soon as I write off the last two Moonshine.. they'll pop. So maybe give them another week? Heck, I ain't going nowhere.. they can pop when the want I guess. 😆
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#518
I'm gonna be trying out some earthboxes here soon. I see a lot of folks using them here (Farm), Jeremy from BAS been selling these for years, has some cool youtube vids out on them. Been curious about them for couple years. It's gonna go against my "Go As Big Of A Pot As You Can" ideas but those/mine are in the garage, a 4x2 bed and two to three 20 gallon pots will hold me over on that one. But indoors, I'm hoping the earth boxes will be that golden ticket.
 
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