I have damaged a few cameras from trichomes.
I have found that packing the soil in the pots slows down root growth and cuts oxygen. I never pack the soil and allow the watering to pack it softly. When I move a pot, I don’t allow it to hit the ground hard, either. I set it down softly or lightly to avoid compacting the substrate. Before I pot up the soil it's as light as a feather before it gets any water.
I feed with a low ppm with every watering so as not to break the nutrient sequence. The plants take what they need and get adjusted to the EC. Since everything is there with every watering the plants find it easy to get what they need without having to search through a bunch of impurities. Only pure liquid feed.
And here I am, watering with plain tap water with pH 8.2. Reusing the same soil too. And I almost never water to runoff.It's truly the basic concept you stated. Continuous liquid feed.
You can definitely do that also, but most people arent gonna have beautiful organic soil providing top shelf results. They either don't run large enough containers or don't have enough experience. *points to self*I will be following this one keenly! Very fascinating to watch a legend work.
And here I am, watering with plain tap water with pH 8.2. Reusing the same soil too. And I almost never water to runoff.
I have not done this, some of my seed runs, have had 70% males. I usually just start at 12 1/2 light to 11 1/2 dark. Reducing to 11/13 after presexing.The photoperiod starts at 12/12 after seed spouts and I slowly add hours until I hit 16 hours then start reducing back to 12/12. I have found that using Mother Nature's day/night time sequence and not letting the photoperiod stay the same very long will give me more females in the long run. Out of 15 regular seeds, I got 12 females and only 3 males. I have seen this happen many times.
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