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Thanx brotha for the info appreciate it very much so also what size containers where u putting those veg girls into when u would add a cup to a cup and a half of craft blend at transplant cause I use 5 gallon pots so would u recommend the same ammounts of craft blend b4 the flip??Thanks for the reps there Blaze... I use the craft blend from BAS. Here's how I use it.
At up-pot from VEG pots to final flower pot, I scoop out 1/2 the soil from the finished flower pot. Then I add in about a cup of that craft blend with a cup of my found EWC (worm castings) mix it up a little in the pot then sprinkle mycos on top of that then put my VEG plant on top of all that.
There's lots of extra space around the sides of the new VEG plant so I sprinkle about another 1/2 cup of the Craft Blend mixed with some soil I have in a container... pat it down water in FTW! into flower she goes. Doesn't even skip a beat.
Now the EM-1 - I use that... I also drink the human version!! Hard to do too much.... I also water that in and sometimes I even foiler on with my IPM.
You plant looks like some sort of lock out... or nutrient deficiency. Doubt its a deficiency since I know whats in your soil. Actually, and its hard to tell without a soil test, but that looks a lot like too much Mg. Dolomite lime is usually the culprit.. and it shows its ugly head after a few runs with the same soil. All the Ca gets used up and you get left with too much Mg and it can be toxic in the wrong ratio to Ca.
OK science done... just water her. Do that flush thing everyone is crazy about. Let some water run out the btm and discard the run off (in your compost pile please). Not a shit ton of water just enough to get some run off...
Next watering - wait like 2 days. Meanwhile make a Kelp meal and EWC tea.
1 cup EWC to 1/2 cup Kelp Meal in 3 gal water ... aerate overnight.
To water in:
Dilute 1:3 tea to water. So for a gallon total of water and tea - add in 1 quart tea and 3 quarts water.
What you are looking at is why I gave up on dolo lime in containers... not saying you have it in your mix but that's what my plants looked like when there was either too much Mg and/or not enough Ca. Ca:Mg ratio off...
You can't just add in Ca.. not in a container. Doing that throws the plant off and it will take a few weeks for her to get back on her feets.
Trust me there will be enough Ca in the Castings and Kelp Meal to bring her back. It's going to likely be a bit of work to get her to the finish line. After she's done, put that soil in your garden outdoors and mix some new.
You can top dress that mix from BAS... its more slow release I'd save it and do the EWC/Kelp tea and get that big girl to the chop block!
You won't be able to over do the EWC/Kelp tea with that 1:3 ratio.. so you can water in every other watering if you need to. Be mindful of mites, they love plants that are suffering a little.
There will be enough Ca in the tea to bring her back on line.
Usually yellow leaves, I don't get concerned. When I start to see leaf necrosis - yellow wilting with brown spots, that's an issue. Actually looks a lot like over watering but its real hard to do with a plant that big. Usually its under watering but we don't see this response to under-watering.
Get your fans running after that "flush" deal. Helps dry out the soil by using the plant to transpire the moisture in the pot and the wind will tamp down those f-ing mites.
Thanx brotha for the info appreciate it very much so also what size containers where u putting those veg girls into when u would add a cup to a cup and a half of craft blend at transplant cause I use 5 gallon pots so would u recommend the same ammounts of craft blend b4 the flip??
Dam bb those are some some beauties u got there ive been gettn a few more sativa going in my grow arsenal now i seen how fast n big that kali mist got which is mostly sativa i went n got some amnesia lemon which said it's a mostly sativa strain but I forgot to check the flower window n see if it was a fast one but my black domina says she Flowers in 6 to 8 weeks so not to bad being that it leans more towards the indica side i believe but yea man great lookn girls u got there interested in seeing what u get for a harvest weight off those ones u got hanging7.5 gal are my finish pots. You could add a cup to the 5gal containers you're using. Just add it at transplant, to top dress already going flowering plants its like a few tbs. and scratch in. I don't like to do it that way, as the surface of the soil gets hard and crusty. The way my setup is (water from the bottom), top dress isn't very helpful in my situation. For top watering it will likely work a little better for you. Try it.
The craft blend needs to break down to release the nutrients and I find it does that better when mixing it in like I mentioned earlier instead of top dress.
Go over to KIS organics web site... in the Podcast section Clackamas Coots did 3 interviews and they are up on YouTube. Very interesting interview. CC is the brains behind the soil recipe we use here. KIS sells all the CC mix stuff and has a bit of a different soil recipe. This interview is new like from September of this year I think. Also Jeff Lowenfels from the books "Teaming with Microbes, Teaming with Nutrients, and Teaming with Fungi" fame does an interview.... cool stuff.
Interesting how KIS Organics has switched over to the CC blend soil gear. Also pretty cool how KIS breaks down the recipe into 7.5gal size which is 1 cu. ft of soil and the same size pot we use here... not that I mix 1 cu. ft. at a time but cool anyway. Helps with the way my brain works, I don't have to do much math....
Ok so here's a last week vs the other day on stretch. The first pic the young lady in the front right is DT #4 and she's just getting going... in the 2nd pic DT #4 ... of course DT #1-3 are already harvested. I just chopped DT #1 last night had to use loppers her trunk was so thick.
DT #4 - 2 weeks ago
DT #4 11 days later moved to the back row she's about 5 1/2ft tall here and still stretching. Here's our new lamps - notice the middle COBs with the slight orange glow - that's a 1750K COB in the middle of 2 3K COBs...my total wattage draw in that room with 12 COBs is 1250watts draw at the plug. So just a hair over 100watts each. Room temps are same as ambient... I even closed up all the windows, too cold at night now. When DT #1 is dried and trmmed, I'll calculate gm/watt.
DT #1 Last pics... she's on the hook. Oooh she's a big one!
DT #1 - side buds..
DT #1 finished - Weird how she's all gold and the buds are a bright green with orange and white pistols and hairy looking.
Next Plant coming down the stretch:
Chemdawg clone... @ 45 days
Chemdawg - side buds
Chemdawg in fade @ 45 days, she's got about a week more. I may lower the light a little
Chemdawg fade...
More Chem-d coming up... they are in VEG and now I have some more room finally.
... interested in seeing what u get for a harvest weight off those ones u got hanging
Dam man 9 zips holy jesus i cant wait till i get some plants like that lol i really can't wait till i move to my new grow spot once we get r new house up but thts still a few months off still but yea man nice job on the harvest very impressedDT #2 = 200g dry & in cure
DT #3 = 220g dry & in cure
DT #1 = still on the hook - larger by a bit than the others...
My wife said I should have weighed the plant right after chop when I had in hanging from a hook cutting off all the fan leaves. It was in a double doorway w/ 9' ceilings plant was all of 8' tall tip to soil line.
My dog was trying to nibble the fan leaves and the stalk was at the ceiling.
Had to use loppers to cut this one down. first time I had to do that. Awesome.
That plant took the space of 2 normal sized plants so I hope I get 9 zips dry out of her or I'm not going to let them get that big indoors again.
So lets say 250g dry.. under 300watts of COB ... so say .83 g/watt. I'll take that, not too bad.
Don't forget nothing but water and we were in another country for 49 days of the 91 days. I couldn't have gone away late in flower as these plants were drinking up 60gal a week going down the stretch and even at the end before chop they were gulping down the water at an even faster pace.
Now I need to go on another vacay now that all the ladies in flower are young'ins cept the Chem-d.
DT #1 was 91 days in flower
DT #2 was 65 days in flower
DT #3 was 81 days in flower
No mold, no bud rot and no pests... I did have a hic-up with mites @ 30 days when I came home for a brief re-charge from vay-cay, hit em with an IPM x 2, problem solved.
My package arrived today. I really wasn't expecting the horsetail fern and those other treats.
Anyhow...Thank You! What a surprise! I'm going to try the comfrey salve tonight. Thank your wife for me.
The shoulder has actually made quite a recovery just with that shot of cortisone. But that stuff has a life span will provide no benefit sometime down the road.
Cortisone is a short-term solution. I had to get injections a few times due to strong back pain, but it also gave me some shitty side effects. I never liked it, but if nothing else helps, you go for it. I've just prepared some CBD infused olive oil and it works great for pain management.
Cortisone wasn't real effective with my back. I was getting 6 injections per time (L3-L4, L4-L5, L5-S1 on both the left and right side of spine). It would give me about a weeks worth of relief and then the pain is back. CBD oil alone doesn't give me the pain relief I need.....it helps but not as well as smoking something with THC does. Just picked up the Magic Butter Machine and going to try to make some lotions/creams and see if that will provide any relief. I am hoping they will help with the muscle spasms as well.
Cortisone wasn't real effective with my back. I was getting 6 injections per time (L3-L4, L4-L5, L5-S1 on both the left and right side of spine). It would give me about a weeks worth of relief and then the pain is back. CBD oil alone doesn't give me the pain relief I need.....it helps but not as well as smoking something with THC does. Just picked up the Magic Butter Machine and going to try to make some lotions/creams and see if that will provide any relief. I am hoping they will help with the muscle spasms as well.
What you describe is pretty much NOT how to prescribe cortisone. If that doc suggests cortisone injections again, I, personally, would get a new doctor.
CBD oil helps with inflamation which helps - a bit - with pain.
THC helps pain more directly, but as Magic Jim describes some of it isn't removing the pain so much as limiting how much you care as about the pain. THC helps manage the emotional component of pain as well as directly promoting healing and health.
I'm guessing DT#1 will be closer to 11 oz since the other two came in at 7-8 oz