Plants got rained on

[Noonin NorCal]

I have a few questions for you guys, we got close to a half inch of rain yesterday, after that i had a lot of the heavier tops plopped over. The weather is suppose to be nice and its gonna heat up again, i was wondering once they dry will they prop them selfs back up? And would a leaf blower do more damage to dry em good? i was thinking it would push that water deep in the buds? I also was wondering we had a mite issue on a few plants, would all the rain we had wash em off or will they still be present? Thanks friends

 

[Lester Beans]

They will bounce back. No leafblower!!!!

And the rain is excellent to encourage the mites to sod off!

 

[who dat is]

If it's going to get sunny and nice I would just let them ride it out and do their thing. I feel like a leaf blower would knock them right the hell down even more.

As far as mites go too I would think they would still be around for sure. It wouldn't be anything for them to scurry down in the crevices and ride it out.

 

[Robrites]

The mites will be back. The plants will right themselves unless stems were broken. Good time to install or adjust trellis. No leaf blower.

 

[_tessarecting]

You might need to prop them up better by the sounds of it. If they flopped over they probably wont flop back on their own. The leaf blower cant hurt if they're soaked and it's not going to break any branches or kick up dirt.

 

[theJointedOne]

Support them, but don't worry about the rain, most of it stay out of the inner buds, it's sitting moist for days and mixing hot and wet that should be avoided

 

[Noonin NorCal]

Thanks guys, i been out the last couple hours shaking the shit out of them and tying them back up. I'm using geo pots, I noticed my topsoil looks to be moldy kind of looked like cotton balls, i hadn't watered for a couple days but did yesterday morning before the rain came

 

[_tessarecting]

Sounds like mycelium from fungus.

 

[Sourbear]

Here is what i did :

36 hours of rain here, just under half an inch.

went out after 16 hours of rain and shook the cages/ladies a little bit to get some of the excess water off. About to go out now and shake them down again. The colas that where leaning i tied up with a little garden tie. been about 6 hours of straight sunlight now and my ladies are already springing back up.

I had a guy at a hydro shop sell me on some stuff called Silica Dioxide. He explained that every time a branch micro-fractures or stretches or bends, that the Silica Dioxide supplement will strengthen that particular area. He claimed it would help with more sturdy/stocky stems and less snapping on heavy branches. We struck up the convo because I have a lanky stemmed heavy yielding genetic that was toppling all over itself last year. Been feeding Silica to my ladies for over a month now and i would say they definitely have more weight retention than last years run. And after watching them take almost 2 days of rain and not seeing a single stem snap with some serious weight on those branches. I'm sold on the product

RAW sells it at a 35% concentrate of the stuff.

 

[Kygiacomo!!!]

Thanks guys, i been out the last couple hours shaking the shit out of them and tying them back up. I'm using geo pots, I noticed my topsoil looks to be moldy kind of looked like cotton balls, i hadn't watered for a couple days but did yesterday morning before the rain came

i got this same thing u are talking about when i topped dressed my plants with some milled malted barely. its gone away now and nothing bad happen to the plant so it must not be a bad one

 

[Kygiacomo!!!]

Here is what i did :

36 hours of rain here, just under half an inch.

went out after 16 hours of rain and shook the cages/ladies a little bit to get some of the excess water off. About to go out now and shake them down again. The colas that where leaning i tied up with a little garden tie. been about 6 hours of straight sunlight now and my ladies are already springing back up.

I had a guy at a hydro shop sell me on some stuff called Silica Dioxide. He explained that every time a branch micro-fractures or stretches or bends, that the Silica Dioxide supplement will strengthen that particular area. He claimed it would help with more sturdy/stocky stems and less snapping on heavy branches. We struck up the convo because I have a lanky stemmed heavy yielding genetic that was toppling all over itself last year. Been feeding Silica to my ladies for over a month now and i would say they definitely have more weight retention than last years run. And after watching them take almost 2 days of rain and not seeing a single stem snap with some serious weight on those branches. I'm sold on the product

RAW sells it at a 35% concentrate of the stuff.

sounds like this is alot better then the protekt i used this year. i was gonna change from protekt as soon as i finish this quart up but i was gonna go to Armour SI since it was stronger then protekt but this 35% seems to be even better

 

[Sourbear]

sounds like this is alot better then the protekt i used this year. i was gonna change from protekt as soon as i finish this quart up but i was gonna go to Armour SI since it was stronger then protekt but this 35% seems to be even better

Yeah RAW seems to be pretty proud of their concentrated products, according to the retailer, its the highest amount of silica dioxide concentrate out there.

It does make your water a bit frothy when you mix it up though
doesn't clog any of my lines though, no sediments left over

 

[Noonin NorCal]

i got this same thing u are talking about when i topped dressed my plants with some milled malted barely. its gone away now and nothing bad happen to the plant so it must not be a bad one

Yeah i top dressed a week ago with Age Old Organics Dry Fruit its 2-10-20 1% calcium, i been keeping the outdoor organic this year besides the sprays of azamax, dude at the shop said the stuff i got is a PK booster? and good for giving them late in the season? I have 3 plants that have 2 weeks or so, they are short and squatty. they had the most standing water on them, i was thinking about just stripping all the bigger fans to get some better circulation through the canopy and maybe taking a couple oscillating fans out there?

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

how much rain do you guys act get ? whats a bad week ? cause its not uncommon for us to get 200/300 mm in a day/night for 3 to 4 days totals of up to 700mm straight in head season. big tropical low come in. possibly even twice in a season sometimes. you guys seemed worried about small amounts. these plants can go through more than you realise. if a cyclone is added to that up to 100km winds . seems like you guys have it good

 

[Noonin NorCal]

We have been in a huge drought, yesterday's rain was the first it actually rained about a month ago but was nothing. It say's we got 0.40 yesterday but it never stopped just lightly rained all day. Last season was bad at least where i am I think it rained a good inch or more over night and it was only a couple weeks till harvest everything got soaked an water logged, still managed a pretty good harvest for the few plants we had. That was in late September as well

 

[sackoweed]

Like someone above said and I agree just shake the plants, not like shaken baby syndrome shake, but a light shake a couple few times. You'll feel the water come off into your arm. Do it a couple few times and they'll be just fine. Unless they're broken.

sackO

 

[Noonin NorCal]

Here is what i did :

36 hours of rain here, just under half an inch.

went out after 16 hours of rain and shook the cages/ladies a little bit to get some of the excess water off. About to go out now and shake them down again. The colas that where leaning i tied up with a little garden tie. been about 6 hours of straight sunlight now and my ladies are already springing back up.

I had a guy at a hydro shop sell me on some stuff called Silica Dioxide. He explained that every time a branch micro-fractures or stretches or bends, that the Silica Dioxide supplement will strengthen that particular area. He claimed it would help with more sturdy/stocky stems and less snapping on heavy branches. We struck up the convo because I have a lanky stemmed heavy yielding genetic that was toppling all over itself last year. Been feeding Silica to my ladies for over a month now and i would say they definitely have more weight retention than last years run. And after watching them take almost 2 days of rain and not seeing a single stem snap with some serious weight on those branches. I'm sold on the product

RAW sells it at a 35% concentrate of the stuff.

Im still sitting on a bottle of Protekt Silica i have yet to use it for my outs., my buddy lives by that shit that and mychrohiazea before flowers start setting, what type of solution per gallon are you guys using and its best to foliar with it? what about ratio for a drench also
? I know its to late to use but would be nice to know for next season. It looks pretty concentrated?

 

[Sourbear]

Im still sitting on a bottle of Protekt Silica i have yet to use it for my outs., my buddy lives by that shit that and mychrohiazea before flowers start setting, what type of solution per gallon are you guys using and its best to foliar with it? what about ratio for a drench also
? I know its to late to use but would be nice to know for next season. It looks pretty concentrated?

i have 4 forty gallon reservoirs, for 1 barrel I will had 1.5-2.5 tablespoons of silica per barrel. That's the amount recommended on the package when you calculate up the 40 gallons.

And im only giving silica on watering days
(currently do water/water/feed)

On my watering days I do 2 table spoons of Super Thrive
1.5 tablespoons of RAW kelp
1.5-2.5 tablespoons of Silica
100ml of Carboload

On feed days i dont add the kelp/silica
Just Beastly/Maxsea/Ph Up/Superthrive

I've never used the silica powder in a foliar spray before but I think i recall the retailer saying it wont hurt before flowering. He said if a branch actually snaps, to go ahead and tape up the branch back in place but leave a little room to pour in some thick silica formula right in the broken area, he said it will regrow with a big knot right at the break. So with that said I believe foilar wouldn't hurt, but I never foilar spray my plants, something i've never played with.

mycho: Yeah im crazy about it too, every transplant gets fine dusting of mycho. I love seeing the mycho roots work alongside and symbiotically with the cannabis plants roots.

 

[slender]

white powder sounds like fungus get some bacillus subtillis and azamax into that soil stat.