Check out my poor excuse for a scrog: you will first notice the grower (me) has little skill, and overestimated the stretch, leaving most of the space above the screen unused.
That's not what I want to talk about though. I know how to fix that if I run this strain, which is an afghani landrace, again. For the record, it is freebie mazar-i-sharif, and the plantlet in the back is a clone of the mother, which is under the screen. The first 3 pictures show the scrogged plant before 12/12 , a couple weeks ago, and finally today. I began 12/12 on Nov. 6. EDIT: that makes this the 8th week.
We recently had an ugly debate here about flushing organics, in the "all ears" thread. Well, when I got home from christmas and opened the cab i found some evidence to support the view that even if the soil is capable of supporting the plant (I will chop soon and put another one in its place without adding anything but compost and maybe a bit of azomite), the plant is yellowing, just like when people "flush".
what gives? why is all the nitrogen in my soil not giving me the dark green overfed look near chopping time? Why did I have no deficiency until now? What the hell is going on? Who is in control of all this?
The answer is, the plant is dying. It's an annual, and was never made to keep living. If I want it to make chlorophyl I will have to interrupt the order of things by doing something unnatural, like 24 hours of light, or a heavy dose of nitrates (guano, manure, etc...). Since it is not planning for the future, perhaps the microbes that used to trade nitrogen for sugar have nothing to offer. Why not hold on to the sugar in the hopes of finding a last minute mate? The days are getting short, and nitrogen is useless without sunlight. Something in the plant has changed, since the soil has not been altered since she was born - at least not by me.
Maybe this picture is embarrassing for me, because it shows i can't scrog as well as most (it's my second try with a second strain). Maybe people reading this will decide maryjohn can't grow, and shouldn't be giving advice. Quite valid.
But when someone tells you that the only way to grow the highest quality bud inside is to load up on guanos, then flush to undo the harm, tell them you have seen otherwise. Tell them science says it isn't true.
I am not saying you can't grow great weed the conventional way: by manipulating what is available and when. I am saying there is a new (old) way, called organic. It treats the plant and the its environment as an organic whole, the parts of which can be encouraged or discouraged, but never controlled. It can be done, even by a no-talent grower like maryjohn.
this was grown in:
LC mix with blood meal, kelp meal, and bone meal, and some biotone, aged 4 months or so,
the only thing "fed"other than water:
azomite top dressed with EWC, EWC slurry once a month (just twice total for the grow actually), and 3 applications of neptunes's harvest.
I am about 30% amber at the moment.
That's not what I want to talk about though. I know how to fix that if I run this strain, which is an afghani landrace, again. For the record, it is freebie mazar-i-sharif, and the plantlet in the back is a clone of the mother, which is under the screen. The first 3 pictures show the scrogged plant before 12/12 , a couple weeks ago, and finally today. I began 12/12 on Nov. 6. EDIT: that makes this the 8th week.
We recently had an ugly debate here about flushing organics, in the "all ears" thread. Well, when I got home from christmas and opened the cab i found some evidence to support the view that even if the soil is capable of supporting the plant (I will chop soon and put another one in its place without adding anything but compost and maybe a bit of azomite), the plant is yellowing, just like when people "flush".
what gives? why is all the nitrogen in my soil not giving me the dark green overfed look near chopping time? Why did I have no deficiency until now? What the hell is going on? Who is in control of all this?
The answer is, the plant is dying. It's an annual, and was never made to keep living. If I want it to make chlorophyl I will have to interrupt the order of things by doing something unnatural, like 24 hours of light, or a heavy dose of nitrates (guano, manure, etc...). Since it is not planning for the future, perhaps the microbes that used to trade nitrogen for sugar have nothing to offer. Why not hold on to the sugar in the hopes of finding a last minute mate? The days are getting short, and nitrogen is useless without sunlight. Something in the plant has changed, since the soil has not been altered since she was born - at least not by me.
Maybe this picture is embarrassing for me, because it shows i can't scrog as well as most (it's my second try with a second strain). Maybe people reading this will decide maryjohn can't grow, and shouldn't be giving advice. Quite valid.
But when someone tells you that the only way to grow the highest quality bud inside is to load up on guanos, then flush to undo the harm, tell them you have seen otherwise. Tell them science says it isn't true.
I am not saying you can't grow great weed the conventional way: by manipulating what is available and when. I am saying there is a new (old) way, called organic. It treats the plant and the its environment as an organic whole, the parts of which can be encouraged or discouraged, but never controlled. It can be done, even by a no-talent grower like maryjohn.
this was grown in:
LC mix with blood meal, kelp meal, and bone meal, and some biotone, aged 4 months or so,
the only thing "fed"other than water:
azomite top dressed with EWC, EWC slurry once a month (just twice total for the grow actually), and 3 applications of neptunes's harvest.
I am about 30% amber at the moment.
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