Recent content by BeefSteak

I second this advice, dont panic and dont overcomplicate, sounds like you will be fine.

Um my water company test for every heavy metal and pesticide/fertilizer residue and dont post results because they are trace or so small that they are totally insignificant. Almost all municipal water companies that i have had correspondence with take pesticide and fertilizer as well as heavy...

Is cool dude, just putting the other opinion across, sometimes what we think as simple is not so and some seem to jump from thinking deficiency to overdose and from Nitrogen def to Zinc def, seems like its never as simple as we think. Trying to identify most plant problems from a chart is in...

All within safe levels not to affect humans or plants and hence what the municipal water systems around the world were built on, plants like a little chlorine and flouride, not essential nutrients but usefull none the less. Who said chlorine, research and testing shows it has negliable effect on...

Most of these charts have been around for years, keep posting them but most prefer to get advice of experienced growers otherwise they would just get the chart and grow some super dank skunk, as in this forum, maybe we should close down the nutrient section and just leave a pic of that chart if...

Experience dosent leave anyone guessing! If you follow the fert chart to the letter its not always whats right for the weed plant but if you have experience and knowledge of what you have added and what the plants are eating per feed by monitoring runoff then yes it can be that simple. True...

Not to sound like a killjoy but def charts did nothing to help me grow some dank! Basically you need to work your two part fertilizers better and past that trace elements and cal/mag. You say Nitrogen deficiency and i say up the grow fert, you say boron def and i say add some liquid seaweed...

Oh and bringing rain water in from outside can be disatorous if you allow pathogens and such to build to certain levels, only then would you hope the good guys in your soil can eliminate the bad guys you might harbour outside and bring in. Use rainwater by all means but lets not hide the variables.

I never said it wasn't great for source water but it fell from the sky and sucked in very little on the way down except a few acidic compounds which is why rainwater is typically 6.5 or there abouts and the majority of plants have adapted to this pH range over the ages. Sorry but i am right...

We do to some extent, get too cold and we try to maintain warmth and blood flow in the body i.e. cutting of supply to hands and legs in return for keeping the important parts functioning. I think its just general mobility functions, we dont need to carry round vast amounts of blubber or we...

The thermal properties of his fur allow this to happen and by regulating the blood flow to the surface of the skin, that bits easy.

Yer as far as i can say this would be the idea, smaller grade for quicker short action and larger grade for longer lasting action but slow to start. Arent lime pellets or pelletized lime the same as powdered lime i think?!

Not the point but if your talking anually then grow your hair long, in winter wear it down round your body and in summer wear it up above your head, hey presto we can now do what your describing.

Make sure their not springtails, these are harmless to plants and benificial to soil, dont think you can kill springtails with out killing all soil life in the process. Sounds different though, springtails are fast moving and hop when frightened as well as being so small they are hardly...

Ah great question but again we can only tolerate certain extremes before we need a coat, worms can freeze and still live due to an antifreeze that is in their blood. Had evolution gifted us with these properties they would probably be at the exspense of another feature or heriditary gene. We...