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Creeper is creeping again.
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I'm live now and here are today's photos of both groups. Indoor plants and plants waiting patiently for daybreak. Green shots for the leaf color of both grows. I'm getting a little tip burn a couple of plants.
I want to share a gardening method that helps with gas exchange. When I up-pot the one-gallon FFOF containers into a large flowering Promix container I plant them high. This does two things, it allows the plant to obtain root oxygen at the same time when its watered. The second is It splits the ProMix with the Fox Farms so I can feed soil-less nutrients separately. The center core is still feeding so I don't wet the center core at all. Here's what I talking about.
Watering tips, planting high for flair exposure, and watering only around the ring or core will insure the plant's roots always gets oxygen and a drink too. This will give the plant the option between both worlds or whichever it needs the most at any given time. Instead of being forced to drink when it needs oxygen, it can still function. .
Watch the color of the soil with a “bright spotlight”. Get a detailed look at the color and soil tone. Learn your soil colors and get tuned in. When it turns light brown to tan it's time to water and never water when the soil is dark not even a little dark. Promix is the best for showing water time with color. Double-check with your finger between the soil and pot just to be sure. Lastly use the lift method to double-check the color.
Watch the color of the soil with a “bright spotlight”. Get a detailed look at the color and soil tone. Learn your soil colors and get tuned in. When it turns light brown to tan it's time to water and never water when the soil is dark not even a little dark. Promix is the best for showing water time with color. Double-check with your finger between the soil and pot just to be sure. Lastly use the lift method to double-check the color.
Using my spotlight I can see well. Here's an example of what I'm talking about using soil color tones. Here's a freshly watered and ready-for-water in a 3-gallon container. If I water my plants while the soil color is dark I can produce perfect conditions for root rot. Even a little root rot is harmful and will cause leaf bronzing. Creeper
Root rot is a common disease that typically affects potted plants. This disease is a result of either a bacterial or fungal infection and affects the root system of a plant. This disease is caused by prolonged exposure to soil conditions that are too wet. Google
Root rot is a common disease that typically affects potted plants. This disease is a result of either a bacterial or fungal infection and affects the root system of a plant. This disease is caused by prolonged exposure to soil conditions that are too wet. Google
The number one error I have seen in the horticulture business over the past 100 years is people plant their plants too deep in the ground or in containers during transplants. If the stem is wood you need to keep the root flair slightly above the ground to prevent root rot and give the plants the ability to exchange gases.
Back to the garden. I raised the lights about a foot to help with leaf tip burn. In my last grow I burnt the hell out of plants trying to squeeze more trichomes out of the tops. Heres the indoor now, this area is already full again.
Here are the outdoor plants in their final growing spot from indoors. The daily temps are cool but frost free with warming temperatures. The photoperiod is less than 12 hrs so I don't have to worry about revegging. I still have 45 to 50 days to go. When the photoperiod creeps pass 12 hrs I will move them in a holding area to maintain 12/12 daylight hr.
Nice to hear from you Mistsuharu thanks for stopping in Friend. Just moved them outdoors to save space indoors a couple of days ago. The strains are from an old project that I never took enough time to do. Maybe 15 years ago I stored the seed without labels. I kick myself in the ass now for not taking the time to properly store them. So I don't know for sure.Nice to see some northern hemisphere plants outside so early.I'm starting my window grow soon too.
How long have they been outside and what strains are they? I read about some unknowns in the start post...
Out of the different watering techniques, I’m using the shallow watering method instead of the Thorough Deep Watering method for indoor.
If I’m using 3 & ½ gallon containers with a 2 & ½ liter water holding capacity. The difference is a 24 to 48 hr watering sequence. On a watering day, I can give the plants 2 liters and wait for 48 hr, or I can give the plants 1 liter every 24 hrs. I’m hitting them daily watering and holding the runoff to keep the EC high. Every few days I use more feed water to get a 10% runoff to keep the salt build-up down.
The indoor plants seem to do better with swallow watering instead of deep watering. There's more labor but it’s best for this indoor garden. The outdoor plants are on the Thorough Deep watering method with water saturation as needed because of the Sun exposure. Heres indoor now.Sorry for the different Fonts. I use Microsoft Word to copy and paste.
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I'm starting to see the Columbian x haze bud characteristics. The flowers are slow to form because of their long flowering period. These are slender little flowers compared to what I used to grow. Its kind of hard to get used to. Here's what I'm mostly used to growing. Fat buds.
It's kind of hard to believe these plants live on such a low ppm fertilizer application. Only 1/2 the manufacturer recommendations and following General Hydroponics Flora series table charts by the book. What makes this work so well is the FoxFarmsOceanForest 1-gallon core in the middle of the Pro-Mix. It boosts the Cation Exchange Capacity.
Heres today green shots for this week. Outdoor plants and indoor Columbian. I let one get too dry you can see the yellow leaves.
If they are like tits, than bigger is betterBuds are like tits, if they look good, not many will comment on their size. And your tits look great! (Err.. I mean buds!)
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proper filling out man i love the light setup on the indoor man reminds me of what you would see in a game like gta or old school growing minus the leds of course hahah and the outdoor looks fantastic super healthy, glowing in that sunshine.
If I was dying and had 4 last words to share with the world it would be "Never pack your soil!" Somewhere in my old thinking like a lot of other people. I used to think that the more soil I can get into the pot the more weed I will get back. That’s a big mistake because it is not true. Packing soil will cut the air space or porosity in the soil causing the soil to compact and hold too much water cutting off the roots' oxygen.
Using your fingers to push the soil down around the plant or smashing extra soil in a pot is the same thing as strangling someone. No need to tap the containers on the floor to pack soil either. The best way to seat the soil is with a low-pressure water source. Gentle water flow will seat the soil in a way that the plants can still get oxygen as well as water and nutrients. Never let the pots hit the floor hard, treat them like babies going to a crib, and set them down gently. Try packing one pot and not packing one on your next grow and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
In flowering micronutrients can become unavailable for reasons we don't see so it's easy for misjudgments. Besides a rising pH, the other common reasons for micronutrients becoming unavailable is waterlogging and soil compaction. If I don't pack the soil, use clean water, and practice good water management the plants will do fine just with a basic feed.
Water management and water quality are the keys to successful seed germination, vegetation, and flowering.
Water management and water quality are the keys to successful seed germination, vegetation, and flowering.
