Well I finally got some meds to quell my tooth pain, and wouldn't you know it, I got in the mood to take some shots of the garden.
These are grown in pro-mix and fed with the Earth Juice line of organics only.
There's nothing BUT pro-mix in the pots, this is soiless organic gardening here. This method allows me to adjust the feeding to a very low rate to yield tasty, delicious herbs.
I like to call this red stemming, or keeping the leaf stems red/purple (a sign of impending Nitrogen deficiency) and keeping the leaves a pale green. If I were to skip feeding these ladies just once, the stems would redden further and the leaves would go a lighter green/yellow. If I skipped feeding again, I'd lose a few leaves from the bottom, the stems would get fully red and the leaves would lighten further.
Of course, I don't ever want to get to that point, so I walk a very thin line between enough and not enough food - as nature would do in most instances. The result of never feeding enough to get dark green foliage is that the final product tastes sweeteer and burns better.
Some of these ECSDs just might make it to the IC cup this year for judges to judge... No promises, but it looks like I'll have enough to send... Hopefully :smile:
G'nite. cc
These are grown in pro-mix and fed with the Earth Juice line of organics only.
There's nothing BUT pro-mix in the pots, this is soiless organic gardening here. This method allows me to adjust the feeding to a very low rate to yield tasty, delicious herbs.
I like to call this red stemming, or keeping the leaf stems red/purple (a sign of impending Nitrogen deficiency) and keeping the leaves a pale green. If I were to skip feeding these ladies just once, the stems would redden further and the leaves would go a lighter green/yellow. If I skipped feeding again, I'd lose a few leaves from the bottom, the stems would get fully red and the leaves would lighten further.
Of course, I don't ever want to get to that point, so I walk a very thin line between enough and not enough food - as nature would do in most instances. The result of never feeding enough to get dark green foliage is that the final product tastes sweeteer and burns better.
Some of these ECSDs just might make it to the IC cup this year for judges to judge... No promises, but it looks like I'll have enough to send... Hopefully :smile:
G'nite. cc