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haze crazy

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Molasses is an awesome way to boost the buds. Canna's bio flores is full of it. I use the organic unsulfured molasses found at the grocer ...usually near the honey and maple syrup. As an added bonus, if you use it only around the plant and not cover the entire garden, it chases away those pesky aphid farming ants.
 
We expiremented with adding molasses to the soil during the last 6 weeks of growth outdoors. The molasses feeds the soil life and consequently more nutrients are able to enter roots. The result is stronger growth. We added a couple of spoonfuls of molasses diluted in a liter of water three times during the last 6 weeks. But you can add more, just don't let any residual sit on the soil surface which will attract scavengers.

Ha, That's great and all, but can you add it to hydroponics? which is what i am using (DWC). I'm just wondering. I don't plan on going out and buying a bunch of sugar juice and dumping it into my buckets or anything. I just read some article about sugar stimulating growth during flowering.....
 
Update: The sativa (the one i crimped) is getting so damn tall. It is going to bust through the roof! Other plants are still stretching and starting to lean and fall over the place, so ill have to rig up a support system very soon (most likely PVC with wire). Ill post some pics here in a few days.

Oh yea, and the auto-flowering plant's pistils are turning really yellow looking (ill try tonight to get some shots, but getting pics without the HPS glow during flowering is tough). I've read that pistil color does not matter? True/False? Also, the buds doubled in size and are really starting to look delicious :laughing:!!!!! I treated it with all that peroxide solution and an aggressive batch of flowering nutes (which are kind of exspensive, AN) 2 days ago, so i don't really want to dump em' out and start flushing if they are almost done. I also don't want to taste nutrients every time i take a rip of it. Hopefully i get enough bud from this little beeotch' that it will last me until the big girls get done! Anyways, what do ya'll think (ill get a pic here in a day or so), when should i start flushing? I definitely don't want to over do her and let her go too long, and i'm already a few days into the 8th week of flowering!! The website i got em' from, which is a good and reliable site, said 6-8 weeks. I'm a paranoid person, so i am just being sure.

Oh Yea (double),
The POLICE knocked on my door at 5:30 A.M. this morning and asked me to step outside onto the parking lot, and i really didn't want to be like "no officer, i am hiding something" as long as they don't ask to come in. I had just gotten' out of a heavy xanax induced coma and was Scared. Very Very Scared. I was shaking, but it was cold as hell outside, but being cold had nothing to do with the feelings. I was like dear god, they got me. I had no idea. I tried to not be incriminating, and slightly funny. Turned out to be a bunch of cars around the block had gotten broken into, and my dashboard light was on and my console was open. Fuckin' intense....I didn't have shit to steal, ha!
 

Vegan

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Oh Yea (double),
The POLICE knocked on my door at 5:30 A.M. this morning and asked me to step outside onto the parking lot, and i really didn't want to be like "no officer, i am hiding something" as long as they don't ask to come in. I had just gotten' out of a heavy xanax induced coma and was Scared. Very Very Scared. I was shaking, but it was cold as hell outside, but being cold had nothing to do with the feelings. I was like dear god, they got me. I had no idea. I tried to not be incriminating, and slightly funny. Turned out to be a bunch of cars around the block had gotten broken into, and my dashboard light was on and my console was open. Fuckin' intense....I didn't have shit to steal, ha!


roglmao.........................

i bet you were scared..sorry but im sure you are laughing about it now..
heart pundin and all..

keep up the good work..that slime was crazy..res temps seem to be kinda important ,,
 
roglmao.........................

i bet you were scared..sorry but im sure you are laughing about it now..
heart pundin and all..

keep up the good work..that slime was crazy..res temps seem to be kinda important ,,

Thanks, Ha and Hell yea my heart was poundin'. Yea i'm no pro or anything, but i'd say res temps and ph are key in DWC.
 
I'm almost not sure if you're serious or not.

It is widely accepted that pistil color change is a general, although not precise, sign of maturity. Generally, with most strains, pistils go from white, to yellow, to orange, to red, and if left long enough they can go brown.

I've had strains go pink, and even purple, instead of the red stage.

The ultimate measure of maturity would of course be to view trichomes through a serious scope... they transition from clear, to cloudy/milky, to amber/gold.... of course, these have a far more significant effect than pistils.. pistils dont truly mean so very much in terms of when to chop, they just give a ballpark idea generally of how far along you are.

of course, pistils can also show signs of burning in some scenarious.

ya dig?
 
i dig homie.....probably burning in my case, i put peroxide in the buckets. Why do you question whether i am serious? and about what?! ha im pretty dang clueless....
 
why'd you put peroxide in the buckets again?

what day of flo are they and how do they look to make you concerned of burning? when they are showing burning you usually will see them start to curl and go darker orange or brownish.

sorry man I didnt mean to be rude we were ALL noobs once anyone who says different is either a liar or out of touch with reality, but I just thought the role of pistils was so widely known. its a common noob misconception that they are the primary method of gauging maturity.
 
why'd you put peroxide in the buckets again?

what day of flo are they and how do they look to make you concerned of burning? when they are showing burning you usually will see them start to curl and go darker orange or brownish.

sorry man I didnt mean to be rude we were ALL noobs once anyone who says different is either a liar or out of touch with reality, but I just thought the role of pistils was so widely known. its a common noob misconception that they are the primary method of gauging maturity.

Ah, its all gravy, i just didn't know what you meant:joint:. i was pretty sure pistils had nothing to do with it, but they just turned really orange and brown real fast, like within two days. It is an autoflowering plant in a separate bucket from the rest of the gal's and it developed slime and gross residues all over roots and the inside the bucket (pics on other page). I think she is on her 5th or 6th week of flower. I guess its a bacteria that emerges when res temps get too high, and it can be treated with peroxide.
 
sorry I didnt see your pics earlier man I only check these boards intermittenly but I like to help newcomers cause I wouldnt be where I am now if it wasnt for the countless people who helped me..

dude those are not root rot im not sure if thats good news or bad news cause ive never seen that before. someone said bacteria, frankly i am completely stumped and have absolutely no clue as to what that could be.

If its bacteria I'm not entirely sure its due to temps man, may want to start a whole new thread for that issue by itself to get more specific input and attention.

now if your pistils went orange and brown in like 2 days thats way too fast and definitely a sign something is wrong imo
 
Appreciate the knowledge man, yea i have no idea what it was, the slime and stuff is pretty much gone now and the plant is starting to look a little bit healthier. I'd just figure id let her go one more week then flush. Hopefully she makes it that long. The roots just look all rotten and unhealthy. ill get some pics up asap.
 

Longhair

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Hello,
In General What Would Be The Lowest Rez Temperature That Would Do No Harm To DO & The Plants? Also Can To Low Cause PH Lockout?
Thank You
Longhair
 
67-71 is considered optimal. I would not personally go below 65.

I once rented a place where the home's heater had broken and of course I didnt feel comfortable talking to the landlord. so just rode it out for the winter, mid round... snowing outside... temps in room got so low that balls ended up popping up on the girls which were in late flo.. still yielded great and had great root mass that filled 5gal bucket - at that time I didnt know to check rez temps etc. but point is, low ambient temps in room will affect plants before low rez temp, in my humble experience.
 
HEY QUICK QUESTION: I was messin' with one of my girls earlier today. I tried to move her a bit further from the light, and i accidently bent one of the main side chutes over too hard and it snapped. It didn't break it off or anything, but it can not support itself alone. A little bit of water started leaking from the branch because i cracked the "skin", so i got some duct tape and tissue paper and made a little band-aid. She is going to into her 3rd week of flowering. Is this going to fuck my plant up? stunt it? i have read that supercropping after 12/12 can make it turn hermie?!? Any precautions i should be aware of?
 

Mist

Member
LOL, no it will heal up and be fine. You need to give them all some kind of support when they get like that. You will want to tie up the broken one of course and this isn't going to make it turn hermie.
 

Mist

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LOL, Jackass is more like it. I just made a second 50 mile round trip today to the hydro store because I had bought the 5 liter jugs of Canna Aqua today which are solid greed plastic instead of the 1 liter bottles which are clear. And normally you can see that the part A is clear and the part B is brown. But when I was mixing up my nutes I got confused and thought that both bottles had brown liquid in them so I called the store and they said to bring them back so that they could see. Well I did and when I got there and we looked one was brown and the other clear. I felt like an idiot! And I hadn't been smoking either. Maybe that was the problem, LOL.,
Oh yea, my wife had to drive me both times because she wrecked her car while out of town and has a rental that only she can drive legally. SO she is WAY NOT HAPPY with me right now.
Oh well, it is all mixed up right now and feeding the plants. And I need a joint!!!!!!!!
 

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