Jimi Caliente
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Creeper is creeping again.
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Thank you friends for the nice words.
I differ from a lot of people when it comes to leaf picking. I think picking leaves hurt the plant's productivity in the long run. The leaves are the plant's breathing system and removing them removes millions of stomata that the plant uses for water and gas exchange.
The term evapotranspiration is used to describe how the water moves from the soil thru the plant and back into the atmosphere. Water never dies it only changes. If you get in the way of the water changing you will cause yourself problems.
What is evapotranspiration?
Evapotranspiration also includes transpiration, which is the water movement from the soil to the atmosphere via plants. Transpiration occurs when plants take up liquid water from the soil and release water vapor into the air from their leaves. Google
I differ from a lot of people when it comes to leaf picking. I think picking leaves hurt the plant's productivity in the long run. The leaves are the plant's breathing system and removing them removes millions of stomata that the plant uses for water and gas exchange.
The term evapotranspiration is used to describe how the water moves from the soil thru the plant and back into the atmosphere. Water never dies it only changes. If you get in the way of the water changing you will cause yourself problems.
What is evapotranspiration?
Evapotranspiration also includes transpiration, which is the water movement from the soil to the atmosphere via plants. Transpiration occurs when plants take up liquid water from the soil and release water vapor into the air from their leaves. Google
If I bring in 5 gallons of nutrient water into my garden "every day" where does it go? I have to move it out unseen because if the water stays around and accumulates the atmosphere will become saturated. A saturated environment will slow plant transpiration in a plant causing the plant liquid to stall. If I have a lot of leaves I can move more water faster than with fewer leaves because of the "millions of stomata" in the leaves. The point is I must get rid of the unseen water completely out of the growing area daily.
Here are today's photos of the moved outdoor plants and indoor plants' green shots.
Lastly, leaves are storage houses for holding extra nutrients, as well as being solar receptors. They fall naturally in flowering when the plant needs its stored reserves. I expect to lose a lot of leaves in the end naturally by holding back water in the end. 
Cerathule
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Yeah when the relative humidity has completely saturated the air, then it's not optimal, but nonetheless, plants rather prefer a humid climate than a too dry (it's different for some species) because, the overall motive for gas exchange is to fix carbon. Water loss is partially to cool leaves but most water is lost unintentionally when stomatas need to be open for CO2 to come in. Thus photosynthesis has been described as the most wasteful process here on earth. Plants basically do everything to conserve water as good as they can which gave rise to C4, CAD/CAM plants and that stomatas may be closed in order to slow down or even stop photosynthesis even when light is still high.
Looking Good Creeperpark Green is Good.
If I bring indoors 5 gallons a day there's plenty of water for the plant without needing to conserve. Removing the 35 gallons of water a week is what I'm talking about above. That water has to be removed or the environment will get swamped.
The way I remove the 35 gallons of water a week is by running a standard box fan out the window for about 10 to 15 hrs a day. Even if the humidity is 98% outdoors I can force the 69% indoor humidity out the window and drop it to the low 50s or upper 40s. When temps are cold it doesn't matter because I can still move water out without dropping the temps by forcing the wet air out.
As long as I remove the water from the environment my plants will up-take nutrients that are in the water. If I don't remove the water, the plants will stop taking nutrients and stall. Once a plant stalls it can take weeks for it to transpire again. It is a crucial part of water management called evapotranspiration.
As long as I remove the water from the environment my plants will up-take nutrients that are in the water. If I don't remove the water, the plants will stop taking nutrients and stall. Once a plant stalls it can take weeks for it to transpire again. It is a crucial part of water management called evapotranspiration.
Here's today with lights on and a room full of plants. Stinky
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Looks like the garden has really filled out Creeper!! Nicely done
So you like to do a form of lollipoping but leave the fan leaves from what I'm seeing?
LungCooking
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Beautiful! They are looking very happy
Thanks, I'm at day 53 flowering and going to flood the center core with nutrient water from here on out.
At 53 days into flowering, I now water the core with nutrients because the core is depleted of most of the organic flowering nutrients. I use a turkey baster and inject the same feed water I use in soil-less into the core.
Here are some early buds shots you can see I still have a long way to go.
I'm hitting 60 days of flowering, the same as being in late Fall only its Spring. My plants are dropping a few yellow leaves just like in Nov. These are 70+ day flowers and so I still have some time left. Both my indoor and outdoor plants sinse its Fall with Winter just ahead. The smell is very strong, here are the outdoor plants. One shot of plants in night time holding area.
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Here are the indoor plants at 60 days in flower. I have cut the cal-mag completely and only using micro and bloom now. The odor is very strong.
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