Really ya i just use flora series by i hydro grow all my garden veg with it too. Ya it probably was it had almost no water but i really think the 4 ph fried it lol i feel like id like to try replicating on another plant just 3 days before flush haha.
Yeap, definitely too acidic for the soil. Sorry man, don't mean to criticize you. It took me many attempts to learn how to grow weed, over many years. Failed on the many first attempts. When I started out, the internet wasn't that accessible, like it is today, it was illegal, and very risky. I never sold drugs, Marijuana was the only thing that helped me cope with my chronic insomnia and I was always overactive. Back then, the only way to get weed, was to find a dealer and hope for the best. Books about growing marijuana were illegal for a while in Canada. Marc Emery's movement, his store, his mail order seed business, and the magazine that he published all contributed to making those books legal again. I visited his store back in Vancouver many years ago, I bought the Marijuana grower's Guide, I studied that book and read it many times. It took about or times before I was finally able to grow buds. I smoked the leaves for the longest time, lol.
Are you talking about bug infestations? Bugs shit all over your weed.
Those are nice looking plants. But have you ever considered topping or training your plants to get a better yield? The "Christmas Tree" shape is meant for outdoors because of the arc of the sun. This Blue Cheese is three times the size of the other plants in the room and they were all planted at the same time. But the other plants are similar in appearance after being topped twice. And doing that dramatically increases yields every time. This one is like a 43 inch shrub at 30 days into flowering. I'll have 4 big center buds instead of one. It's so strong I had to take clones. I haven't done cloning in years.
Nice plants, Ive grown some like that , or even bigger than that. Once I had a pure hawaiin sativa strain and those plants get big. I had to lean over sideways because it was too tall for the tent. They were great genetics, got them from Marc Emery's mail order seeds way back when. The result was like huge budes that grew strait up from the side of the plant, best weed ever. My problem right now is that the plants are much smaller than anticipated, I suspect the fungus gnats infestation, which I beat, with Neem oil and DE, set them back quite a bit. The genetics of the seeds I bought were poor quality, didn't have the vigorous growth I'm accustomed to. The plants seem small and are maturing way too quickly.
The fungus gnats, the bug infestation you are referring to, came with the Promix "sterilized" soil I purchased. Didn't realize it until I started seeing them flying around. Like I said in my previous post, I managed to kill them with Neem oil and DE. They are completely gone, but the treatments gave my plants a bit of a beating, set them back a bit. Never had to deal with that before. And where I live, the air humidity outside is almost 100%, so for the first time, Ive had to make sure the air is dried out, to avoid mold issues. I think in the end, I'll get something for my trouble, but it will be a much smaller harvest that what I am accustomed to. I have many years of experience growing, so it's a bit of a disappointment, the seeds were probably copies of copies of the original strain and lacked the vigor of previous plants I grew, the seed industry has really gone downhill.
Fertilizer tends to be acidic, too much of it ends-up blocking the plant form absorbing the nutrients, creates imbalances, so its like the plant is actually starving when you give it too much food. A common mistake with new enthusiastic growers. To counteract the acidity, it's always a good idea to mix in some dolomite lime in your potting mix, it brings up the PH, and makes the nutriens more available to the plant, always worked for me. If you put too much limestone in your mix then you end-up with alkaline soil which isns't any better. The trick is to balance your potting mix so that you can feed your plants as much as possible without turning the soil acidic and toxic. By raising sloghtly raising the PH of the soil and adding calcium (dolomite lime), when you had the acidic fertilizer it balances out the PH of the soil. I'm saying all this, but I forgot to had the limestone to my mix this time and I can see the difference. Have you tried raw unsulfured molasses? It's full of trace elements, copper, iron, magnesium, calcium, and it naturally contains sulfur to control mold and fungus growth. Some of the brands add sulfur to preserve the molasses, but you don't want to use that kind, only natural raw untreated molasses, about one table spoon per gallon. It also increases beneficial bacteria growth and speeds up flower productions, it even has vitamin B in it. works great.
Sounds like a great idea, I was thinking I'd soak the soils a few times with a Neem oil solution and flush it out before I use the leftover bag of Promix, those damn bugs are a pian to deal with you. When I first started grwing many years ago, I use to gather soil from outsite and mix sand, top soil, and limestone to create my potting soil. Then, I finally gave up using commercial potting mix to avoid bugs, but I still got bugs, lol. What a pain.
Ya thats interesting only thing is i grow deep water culture and bucket ran low on water when i was on holidays neighbor got lazy checking on it basically lol. I find deep water i never get bugs easy to fix issues with ph but does take daily monitoring. Im going to build a new grow room in summer so i can run rdwc instead then i can run a huge reservoir so that wont matter going forward. Once my plants get big they easily drink a gallon plus of water a day.
Fox Farm Trio (Grow Big, Tiger Bloom and Big Bloom). Cal Mag Plus. Spraying of Neem Oil solution on the foliage until flowering well under way. Using plant-based dish detergent as an emulsifier for the Neem. I use tap water from a water company but try to keep the PH right by testing the liquids and the soil. It's necessary to add acid because my tap water is steeply alkaline. I have to let it sit out to percolate out the chlorine and it has more iron in it than I'm comfortable with. But I can't do anything about the iron. Here are some pictures of my June harvest and my December 2019 harvest. You may appreciate that these plants are heavy on Hawaiian heritage. G13 Haze. Right now I Have 2 G13 Haze and 3 Blue Cheese. I do five plants at a time in 5 gallon pots with pro mix myco in a closet 66 inches wide. I use a 400W lamp alternating between the MH and HPS bulbs. 10 years of pumping out potent bud in my closet grow. I've got the ventilation and temperature control perfected. The room is heated when the light is off because the out vent fan runs constantly and passively pulls cold air into the room from outside even when the intake fans shut off by timer. Neem Oil is a wonder that I can't stop raving about. Absolutely prevents rust and other fungus diseases from attacking the leaves. Before Neem I had problems with black mold, powdery mildew, and leaf rust. What I hate about them is that even if you bring the situation under control you can't cure the plant. Just when you think you've got black mold beat you'll see it on more leaves.
Nice plants man! I wish I could find the pics from my previous grow, lol.
Its probably better their garbage seeds anyways you need to order from a reputable seedbank and i assure you their reviews on their website are bs.
That's right, Pacific seeds are pretty bad. It took them 9 weeks to finally send them to me, it took them 3 weeks to reply to my emails, and even when I got the seeds, they were very small, they looked more like grape seeds. I didn't even use them, $200 in the garbage. I did ask for a refund, but I never got a reply to my email. You might as well pretend you never ordered from them, it's a waste of time and money.
Good for you. Do you work for them?
