Over-fertilized plants are more prone to diseases like mold, pithium, and helminthsporium. It can actually decrease growth and leave plants weak and vulnerable to pests and diseases.
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DIY and other hydroponic formulas.
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If the cannabis you ingest is full of toxic chemicals then so are you. I noticed there's a giant difference between heavy-fed plants and low-ppm high CEC fed plants. The low-ppm fed plants are much stronger in potency and taste sweeter, almost organic. If I told you how little fertilizer I used to grow 9 females you wouldn't believe me. So I won't tell you, find out for yourself. It is unbelievable how little fertilizer I used on whole grow.
This is the third fucking camera I had to buy! I keep getting resin on them from my plants and my hands and the shutters get stuck. My hands get so sticky and I don't take time to wash them with rubbing alcohol and handle my camera. If I try for a close-up or put my stickie hands on it, I ruin them. That's why I don't get an expensive one. Here is the last shots before chop chop.
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When I chopped the plants they were very heavy in weight. The ones I harvested weighed more than the water weight. With the exception of messing up by cutting my calcium too early and bronzing one of my plants, I'm super happy with this grow. I thought I could concentrate Micro and bloom for maximum resin production but I forgot LEDS will burn without calcium. I fucked up on this one.
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Talcum powder reduces stickyness. Washing up gloves or disposable pvc gloves used with talc make working with bud-resin even easier. For cheap Value-gloves which are on the small side; use talc on your hands to get them on. Talc the gloves to reuse them again too.
Thank you, my friend.
Contrary to popular belief, having more roots don't constitute more plant growth or healthier plants.. Actually, the opposite is true, a good rule of thumb is less root-mass means adequate nutrient access. More "root-mass" demonstrates less nutrient access and less above gound plant productivity! If a plant has to spend a lot of energy searching for key elements by root expansion then it will convert plant energy into root energy and the above-ground plant productivity will be less. Here are photos of the 4 freshly harvested plant root balls from the plants above. I cut them so you could see hardly any roots. .
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sarahlaurien3
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these buds look good
A few details of importance. The containers and core SIZE MATTERS! The size of the core vs the size of the outer container is of extreme importance. You can't low feed an organic core without it being in a soil-less substrate and get the same results. A one-gallon organic core works best inserted in a 5-gallon container of soil-less media. A one-gallon core inserted into a 2 or 3-gallon pot will run into slight problems, it still works but not as good, If you make the core smaller say a "quart size ". the 2 and 3-gallon containers will work well on smaller grow. It appears that the center core has to be a little balanced in volume for the best results. One needs "soil-less soil" space to apply the low EC synthetic nutrients around the core.
It's important to keep the low EC feed off the center core until a couple of weeks into flowering. When feeding around the core the electricity or electroconductivity of the core is turned into electromagnetism with two types of dipoles Electric dipole deals with the separation of the positive and negative charges found in any electromagnetic system. The center has "more negative energy" and the "positive ions have less energy" so the attraction will pull the cations into place without excess nutrient exposure. .
If the ions are placed aside instead of on top of the core this method works. If I dumped the positively charged nutrients on top of the negative core the electromagnetic attraction will cancel out making minimal results.. When placed beside the core the magnetic attraction pull is boosted 200% to 400% greater.
If the ions are placed aside instead of on top of the core this method works. If I dumped the positively charged nutrients on top of the negative core the electromagnetic attraction will cancel out making minimal results.. When placed beside the core the magnetic attraction pull is boosted 200% to 400% greater.
Here is an update on the last two plants. I'm only using plain rain and giving them half the total amount. Instead of 6 cups only 3 cups every 3rd day. Still not allowing any dis-charge, the plants are living on what they have stored. . I had to add extra stakes to support the plant's weight. Here are photos
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Here's how I keep the overnight humidity below 70% in the drying room. I sundry 2 large boxes in the Sun when the humidity is below 40% outdoors until they are nice and crispy dry. In the evening I put them on the floor in the drying area under my buds and it keeps the humidity down and acts as a desiccant. When I bring the boxes out the next morning they are soft and wet feeling. Keeps mold down.
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Here's an update. These last two plants are 75-day flowers in the last phase of their life. They are only getting pure rainwater and under one LED light raised high. These plants had no nutrients for the last few waterings and none for the rest of the grow. They are only getting 3 (500ml) cups of pure water every 2 days. This is so easy!!
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Sixty-five-day fowers are in and looking and smelling good and very sticky to the touch. I can't see a smartphone so I have to use a cheap camera for photoshoots. Between the cheap camera and my bad photography please bear with me. To be honest, what I can say is these buds are loaded heavily with resin and you're going to have to take my word for it. Every bud on every plant is loaded down heavy with resin and I'm blown away. Every time I get here, in the end, I'm blown away by the results. I got bud shots from all 4 plants.
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