Yeah, potting mixes are weird, everything from tree branches with a bit of nitrogen added to something a little better...but I haven't found anything organic that was great.
So - and YMMV - but I've landed the following mix(s) for soil. Works across a wide variety of vegetables - weed is less...
Gah. Hate the bugs.. but like other people say, water less often and more heavily if you need to. My grows have been clean, fortunately, but I learned something from growing vegetables. You can spray a Neem oil based spray (way cheaper than Azmax) after the watered soil has dried and it...
Had a problem with purple leaves that became obvious the last week of flower. As you can see the canopy facing the light darkened to purple, and the tips of a few leaves in one spot burnt a bit. The last picture shows that this was light triggered, the growth in slight shadow was still nicely...
So, I was thinking maybe for people thinking of growing the first time out I'd offer some observations:
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Prepared for the grow to take a while. You expect things...
1 month cure to 62%rh Fully trimmed out and cured yield was 100gr (3.5oz)
Lost a ton of weight during dry and cure- but not a bad yield for what I was expecting first time out. I figure it's about 1/2 gr per watt.
I care about the quality waymore than yield. I'm familiar with Herer...
Ok nothing massive like I see here but pretty good looking I think..
Pics are before the trimming was done. But I did get a bit lazy at the end. Save time time since I'm not entering a beauty contest and I didn't want to hack off all the sugar leaves which were pretty covered.
cut trim hang
first image shows what scrog'd branching produced, a lot the secondary bud sites, grow up independently. There were 8 main branches and this is most of one.
Week 10-11
Harvest!
Trichs
Here are two microscope captures from the same bud/location w/ different depth (focus)
Note the big difference between cloudy:amber heads on the same bud. Found similar ranges between colas, but on a single bud just a fraction of an inch away was a...
WEEK 9.
A couple tips of purple leaves look burnt.. (Reading online maybe nitrogen burn, leading to lock out of Phosphorous??)
Trichomes are getting cloudy, a couple ambers but just on some buds. Getting close.
Amount of the colas which are under the screen is about 1/2 to 1/3rd.. which is...
WEEK 9
A little more purple coloration concentrated on the leaves exposed by light.
Expected this might be nutrient lock related..so I flushed a good amount and then stopped watering this week.
WEEK 8
OOOPS
Weird weather - mid-90s... then cool (50s)
STRANGE PURPLE LEAVES... wtf...
Second pic down shows this is triggered by light.. The part of the leaf in shadow is green (as is undergrowth).
#dontpanic (yet). I have a theory, but anyone know what this is?