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This reminds me a lot about peptic enzyme. It is used in wine making to break down fruit pectin and because it clears the haze in wines that is left when fermenting fruits. I have no idea if it would help our plants though, it might even eat roots for all I know......scrappy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectinase
Fuck it - I'm not gonna even try to catch up today LOL
Cann - how's the cup? You're right - a lotta overhyped terms get thrown around in that scene - it's all marketing, and until I started talking with this group I was never ashamed to be a part of it
DJ is neither short nor a DJ - he's kinda tall & lanky. Sub makes Kyle look un-ridiculous by comparison.
Cannaventure seeds guys are great and everything we've popped from them has been impressive in every aspect - find em if they're there and send my regards.
re: Blueberry - GC - do you know if moonshine's Old Blue is from DJs? For some reason I thought it was a different line, but I could def be wrong.
The REAL question is: what do I have to do to convince folks to come out to the Denver cup in April - it's the "first US cannabis cup" so all the characters will be out. Passes on me, of course.
And we could potentially do our own little event in tandem as well.
Where's it going to be? Is there an establishment hosting?
I've never been, so it'd be interesting. Especially now, here.
Must be a special model of Jeans they wear. Fire proof maybe?
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I've been sprouting my seeds for enzyme teas using a combination of a jelly straining bag and a mason jar, it's been working well, it takes a day or 2 to get the sprouts where I want them, adjusting the air gap in the lid for humidity control.
^^^^that's a nice set-up!
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I was trying to do something just like that Durdy, with a hemp sprouting bag I picked up but the hemp canvas type material is too rigid to be effective or ideal using it inside a jar. I just leave em in the jar now to sprout and save the hemp bag for sprouting large amounts of sprouts for the kitchen.
You have the right material - jelly straining bag, cool!
You have the right material - jelly straining bag, cool!
The elastic band around the top of that bag makes it especially functional I would think. Definitely the right size vs. trying to use the paint filter bags from Home Depot.
Though the 5-gallon size paint bags are good for larger batches of concentrate perhaps - for your outdoor vegetable gardens where you would need a much larger amount to work with vs. your indoor garden requirements
Though the 5-gallon size paint bags are good for larger batches of concentrate perhaps - for your outdoor vegetable gardens where you would need a much larger amount to work with vs. your indoor garden requirements
the pic you posted looks just fine - a nice dense canopy imo. thats where the good yields come from...
i will only remove fan leaves if
1. they are totally blocking a budsite and cant be tucked out of the way
2. they are getting old (old leaves are less efficient) and there are newer leaves underneath that will absorb the light.
3. they have any mite damage whatsoever. i usually get a few mites creeping in by the end of a run and i look at the plants carefully and remove any damaged leaves along with the mites on them. this can keep them at bay and stop an infestation most of the time.
VG
Thanks for that VG, Maybe next time I will do a scrog only reason I didnt this run was that I have 3 genotypes and 6 phonotypes and you know they are gonna grow at diff rates so I just played it safe... Scrog are defo better with clones
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How are your new CMH bulbs working out?
CC
How are your new CMH bulbs working out?
CC
Very well mate, The growth is great, really happy the nodes are so tight with my new seedlings they are stacked right ontop of each other.
I also just ordered this, I ordered 10 grams will last me a while
http://www.aromantic.co.uk/buy-aloe-vera-powder-200-1-organic-uk.htm
Aloe Vera Powder, 200:1 (Organic)
From Australia. Freeze-dried crystalline powder produced from 100% pure liquid of organic aloe vera...
I also just ordered this, I ordered 10 grams will last me a while
http://www.aromantic.co.uk/buy-aloe-vera-powder-200-1-organic-uk.htm
Aloe Vera Powder, 200:1 (Organic)
From Australia. Freeze-dried crystalline powder produced from 100% pure liquid of organic aloe vera...
You bought the right product - seems like the better powders are mainly out of Australia or at least that's the situation on the West Coast here...
Yes sir....
Leaf with mite damage is too risky to keep around considering the successive generations of eggs that were laid on that leaf.
I treat that material like a biohazard,consider everything it touches to be infected.
I also do the 'fold leaf' method before removal is chosen,if mites are not present and the leaf is blocking a flower of adequate size.
Sometimes there are like three leaves that somehow lay upon eachother and block eachother from effective transpiration and photosynthesis in those odd instances....and subsequently they are removed or simply cut w/scissors to fit the shape of the area.
There is a small chance those leaves that are stacked upon each other in the end of a cycle will begin to die and decompose due to those conditions,bringing risk of botyrtis and other funky molds.
I've seen it in larger gardens,smaller ones not so much.
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Your tips in this thread seem to be working out quite nice. Thanks again for all your REAL information.
This thread is just simply amazing. AMAZING. Big respect to all the main players here sharing their knowledge - CC, Gas, Scrap and others - very appreciative of your posts. I just got through the dolomite lime debate, and skipped ahead to some later pages and had some insights/questions.
First, I'm very surprised there's not more of the Growing Large Trees folks in this thread. That thread and this one are probably two of the most informative pieces of education on the net pertaining to horticulture, biology, and damn good weed that I have seen around.
Rootwise had been talking about dandelions, comfrey, and alfalfa, for a couple years now and not too many were listening -- really awesome to see it backed up with some of the impressive indoor garden pics here.
I skipped to the discussion on earthjuice and neptune liquids and wanted to know if any of you have worked with J.H Biotech products? I used them this year for my outdoor and saw some other gardens excel with them as well and wanted to hear some folks opinions. Their line is for the most part all organic and aimed at the more commercial farmer vs the hobby grower so it actually applies really well to big outdoor trees.
Their aquapower, fulmax, humax, and natural wet are 4 that I use a lot, the natural wet has a yuca extract in it and it's cheap but unfortuantely I can only find J.H. products out west or Colorado. I use these products mainly for teas and not as fertilizers. If any MI growers have heard of or seen J.H. products please let me know, trying to source it locally has been impossible.
I'm typing a lot here so I'll try to wrap it up, I wanted to know if that original recipe Gas posted is still the recipe you are working with minus the dolomite or with it for that matter and whether or not there's a mix a little less hot that you can use in a shorter amount of time instead of the 4 week cook off.
In my outs, when the soil is still hot I just dig out a hole in the middle and fill it in with potting soil so the transplant has time to ease into the mix instead of jumping right in the deep end, I think the same idea could apply here? Some peat, compost, castings blend to give it a little dip before the plunge kind of thing?
I have more specific questions but I want to read through the thread before repeating shit that may have already been addressed.
Again, respect the real information being taught here!!!
First, I'm very surprised there's not more of the Growing Large Trees folks in this thread. That thread and this one are probably two of the most informative pieces of education on the net pertaining to horticulture, biology, and damn good weed that I have seen around.
Rootwise had been talking about dandelions, comfrey, and alfalfa, for a couple years now and not too many were listening -- really awesome to see it backed up with some of the impressive indoor garden pics here.
I skipped to the discussion on earthjuice and neptune liquids and wanted to know if any of you have worked with J.H Biotech products? I used them this year for my outdoor and saw some other gardens excel with them as well and wanted to hear some folks opinions. Their line is for the most part all organic and aimed at the more commercial farmer vs the hobby grower so it actually applies really well to big outdoor trees.
Their aquapower, fulmax, humax, and natural wet are 4 that I use a lot, the natural wet has a yuca extract in it and it's cheap but unfortuantely I can only find J.H. products out west or Colorado. I use these products mainly for teas and not as fertilizers. If any MI growers have heard of or seen J.H. products please let me know, trying to source it locally has been impossible.
I'm typing a lot here so I'll try to wrap it up, I wanted to know if that original recipe Gas posted is still the recipe you are working with minus the dolomite or with it for that matter and whether or not there's a mix a little less hot that you can use in a shorter amount of time instead of the 4 week cook off.
In my outs, when the soil is still hot I just dig out a hole in the middle and fill it in with potting soil so the transplant has time to ease into the mix instead of jumping right in the deep end, I think the same idea could apply here? Some peat, compost, castings blend to give it a little dip before the plunge kind of thing?
I have more specific questions but I want to read through the thread before repeating shit that may have already been addressed.
Again, respect the real information being taught here!!!
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