But instead, I'm back here with you again.
Why don't you let me work?
Why don't you let me work?
Been there, done that, got the scars...next?Well, build yourself a high-stress grow system that you have to micro-manage...
Wow 6 months ago...those were the days when I had something to worry about...sigh.Quick update: D9 said it was cool if I summarized his thread. I'm halfway through it. (B.T.W. your first post was #402...)
Looking great, you could improve it with bending them down to form a more even canopy but nonetheless its looking great.
Looking great, you could improve it with bending them down to form a more even canopy but nonetheless its looking great.
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I was poking through your pics and saw your cab layout.
Between grows, can you install a sliding shelf in the left hand side of your cab? Slide the whole system out for access to all sides?
If you choose, you can find a shallower bottom res, plumb it to the bulk res with a little extra pipe for mobility and make make up for the couple of inches of vertical you'll loose when the shelf got installed.
If you do a modular-SCROG the whole system would move as a unit, and you'd still have access to the bottom reservoir.
I found the Osmocote Plus thread. The search let me find posts by Doc, and then found his method in the 'Un-Lucky Queen' journal.
Summary:
-He grew from seed (he finished single cola plants that were three and a half feet tall).
-He mixed Controlled Release Ferts (CRFs) into his hempys and soil pots.
-He fed one hempy and one soil with Advanced Nutrients connoisseur line without the osmocote plus.
-The CRF's dominated the Advanced Nute's line.
-The osmocote plus showed no yellowing in fan leaves through harvest, an only one plant showed a momentary zinc deficiency. (Harvest times seemed longer than he expected.)
-His observations suggested that the osmotic qualities of the CRF's kept his plants fed at a steady rate of 300-400ppm.
(N.B.: One of the studies he cited showed optimum results with a CRF fed medium and a 300ppm Nitrogen pulse feed...)
-This thesis and method (i.e. consistent even feed of consistent nutes results in extremely healthy plants) is in keeping with the PPK approach.
-With steady, light feedings, he found that he didn't need a flush for clean finished product (i.e. if the CRFs still had food at the end of the cycle, it wasn't negatively affecting the smoke).
"Duh, it is really more proper to consider why are you even trying to remove the nutrients a plants still needs.
pH balanced water should always be used. PERIOD. All nutrients are available at a pH between 5.5 and 5.8 All nutrients are not available at pH of 7. Ie if some of the nutrients are not available due to the high pH then those nutrients can not be removed.
Now consider nutrient mobility from storage in old plant tissues. If the water is at a pH between 5.5 and 5.8 (some say 6.2) nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are very mobile and can be removed from the large leaves in just a day or two. Magnesium, sulfur and molybdenum are moderately mobile so afirly easy to remove and take just 2 to 4 days with a pH of 5.5 to 5.8 and no reservoir water EC. The other nutrients you will likely never remove with flushing.
So dude your wrong about the pH issue amd all flushes are improper growing methodology and using a flush longer that about 4 days is just flat out ludicrous.
Obviously you are in correct. With a pH of 7.0 the plants roots would try to maintain their pH at the reservoir water at 7.0 As your plants fluids have been maintained at a ph of 5.5 to 5.8 since the beginning why would you now want the roots to now maintain a pH of 7.0. That would simply mean the plants would release only salts that will cause a rise in ph in the plants roots and not a balance of salts based upon those taken up when the pH was 5.5 to 5.8. Nutrient availability is a two way street DUDE. The roots are an osmotic barrier where ionic balances are maintained (equalized). You want the pH in the reservoir to start and equalize both at 5.5 to 5.8 not 7.0
IE the water should be pH balanced to between 5.5 and 5.8 and the water checked daily. If the EC rises dump the water. always keep the pH between 5.5 and 5.8.
That is one is so misguided as to actually flush their plants. A good taste is simply a matter of properly drying and curing the mj buds."
I think this process would be the best for the health of your lady. In any honest relationship, I think my job is to do the best I can for her, and in return, she'll do the best she can for me. Quality and quantity are the product of our relationship.If left alone I would end up with a quantity of meds of x quality. If I change the nutes to remove any feeding variables would my quality go up? Or just quantity?