Doc Bud's High Brix Q&A With Pictures

All good advise, especially the room temp water that Gazoo pointed out.

I have found it beneficial, to hang light hangers over my dunk buckets, and set it to a good height, dunk and top pour water, or drench, wait till the percolating bubbles stop, (about 1 min) and then pull the plant out of the dunk water/drench and hang on the hook to drain the perched water. Then I move on to other garden duties, and come back in 5 mins to the next plant to be dunked. Obviously this really helps if you have a bunch of plants to dunk, and most of the time I have two dunk buckets going. I find plants I do this too get the most from this wet/dry cycle and just as important, a fresh air exchange in the soil. I observe the best results when the dunk bucket is full so the drench comes up to almost the top of the pot I’m dunking, really forcing out all the air from the soil. Then conversely, when the pot is pulled from the drench, the rush of draining drench water sucks fresh air in from the top. Hanging drains most of the excess, and the plants seem to love this.

However, for those who need to conserve products, this tech does have some leftover. I just feed my compost pile the leftovers , and the garden has never been so good.


 
All good advise, especially the room temp water that Gazoo pointed out.

I have found it beneficial, to hang light hangers over my dunk buckets, and set it to a good height, dunk and top pour water, or drench, wait till the percolating bubbles stop, (about 1 min) and then pull the plant out of the dunk water/drench and hang on the hook to drain the perched water. Then I move on to other garden duties, and come back in 5 mins to the next plant to be dunked. Obviously this really helps if you have a bunch of plants to dunk, and most of the time I have two dunk buckets going. I find plants I do this too get the most from this wet/dry cycle and just as important, a fresh air exchange in the soil. I observe the best results when the dunk bucket is full so the drench comes up to almost the top of the pot I’m dunking, really forcing out all the air from the soil. Then conversely, when the pot is pulled from the drench, the rush of draining drench water sucks fresh air in from the top. Hanging drains most of the excess, and the plants seem to love this.

However, for those who need to conserve products, this tech does have some leftover. I just feed my compost pile the leftovers , and the garden has never been so good.



Great tech!

The only thing I'd say is that plant looks like it is getting too much nitrogen....back off on the GE just a tad....keep steady with Transplant. Keep the foliars at 10 days.
 
Great tech!

The only thing I'd say is that plant looks like it is getting too much nitrogen....back off on the GE just a tad....keep steady with Transplant. Keep the foliars at 10 days.
Good eye Doc! I’ve been pushing the drench amounts on this strain, looking for the sweet spot. Will do:Namaste:
 
Once i removed her from the bucket and returned her to the tent, she sat on a little drain table like the kind you might put in your sink. They never sit directly on the floor of the tent. There was definitely plenty of water in the saucer that sits under it when I checked last night before bed.
Doc may correct me here, but you basically did a dunk.
You allowed water to soak from the bottom while pouring from the top.

Now like I was saying, depending on the pot it can take a few to drain. I have square 1 gallon pots that I set on top of a bakers cooling rack which is also on top of a bucket to catch anything that drains.

If I let them set for a while, then am ready to put back in the tent. I still tilt them back and forth. More water will come out but at a much slower pace. I never had the droopy effect after I started doing that, it happened only on my 1st run or two as I was thinking they were drained pretty good.

Your experience may be different, but maybe it could be a tip to help out.
Ok. So still tip to try to remove the excess from little spaces that may be holding water in the bottom of the pot. Gotcha. I will try this next time and hopefully not have this issue again. Thank you!

One other point (although, it looks like issues are straightened out! :goodjob: ) is that some pots have their drainage holes in the sides of the containers, or in an "indent" in the bottom that places them above the very bottom of the container which is why it's important to tilt & drain. Depending on the container, just letting them sit may not drain all the water from the bottom. ;)
 
BTW....25 days of 12/12 & getting CAT's starting in a couple of days:






Nice! already have some rails goin on those fans too!
May I ask what your drench amounts are? per gallon of soil if possible...
I'm just wondering because the fans look a bit light in color, dont want those babies to be eaten up too soon.
I mean it could just be the angle and lighting, those ladies are looking good Krip!
 
Nice! already have some rails goin on those fans too!
May I ask what your drench amounts are? per gallon of soil if possible...
I'm just wondering because the fans look a bit light in color, dont want those babies to be eaten up too soon.
I mean it could just be the angle and lighting, those ladies are looking good Krip!

Yeah, that's just the flash but thanks for watching out! :thanks:

TBH, I take a much more "holistic" approach, so I don't really have exact measurements. In fact, I dispense the ingredients using a 12ml syringe that has all the numbers worn off! :laugh:

That being said, I feed to the heavy side since Doc says you can safely double the dosage on the drenches and the plants haven't complained yet. I use a 2 gal watering can to top-feed and on the TP I estimate about 4-5ml in the syringe (something less than half full ;) ) and feed until I get good run-off.

For the GE, Doc has instructions of 1-2oz per 30 SF. Since my tent is a 4'x4' (16 SF - or about half of the 30) I try to feed 30ml of the GE to the plants. Four are in #10's which each take about 1/4 of the tent, so they each get around 7ml (again, estimated!) in the syringe.

I replaced one of the plants that was in a #10 with two plants - one in a #10 and the other in a SIP that's about a #3 and it only gets 1-2 ml.

This might be a better shot of what's going on in the tent:

 
Hey Krip! I'm in 15s and I use a 2 gallon can for each plant, they each get 30ml of drench,both ge and tp and even gave cats at that this time, I was previously only doing 1ml pet gal of soil for cats but saw Duggan gave his 26ers 60ml each. So far so good. They just got the straight RO after the 2 cats and all looks good.

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Hey Krip! I'm in 15s and I use a 2 gallon can for each plant, they each get 30ml of drench,both ge and tp and even gave cats at that this time, I was previously only doing 1ml pet gal of soil for cats but saw Duggan gave his 26ers 60ml each. So far so good. They just got the straight RO after the 2 cats and all looks good.

:passitleft:

15ml per gallon!!! :eek:

OK...I take it back...I DON'T feed to the heavy side! :rofl:

That being said, the girls still aren't complaining and are a nice, lush green! :thumb:

Now that they're well info flower, though, I'm gonna start upping dosage.

My next watering, I was going to start the CATS and was only planning on putting about 7ml in each #10. Do you think I should drastically up this amount?

Interesting side note: I've been mixing the TP per gallon of water, the GE per square foot of grow tent, and was planning on the CAT per gallon of soil; which is how it's laid out in the directions. Maybe there's a more consistent way? :hmmmm:
 
15ml per gallon!!! :eek:

OK...I take it back...I DON'T feed to the heavy side! :rofl:

That being said, the girls still aren't complaining and are a nice, lush green! :thumb:

Now that they're well info flower, though, I'm gonna start upping dosage.

My next watering, I was going to start the CATS and was only planning on putting about 7ml in each #10. Do you think I should drastically up this amount?

Interesting side note: I've been mixing the TP per gallon of water, the GE per square foot of grow tent, and was planning on the CAT per gallon of soil; which is how it's laid out in the directions. Maybe there's a more consistent way? :hmmmm:

We give drench per gallon of soil not water and I'm not sure where sq ft came from. So I'm giving 2ml of drench per gallon of soil. I think that is what most do. So I'd say go up to 20 and see how they like it!

:passitleft:
 
We give drench per gallon of soil not water and I'm not sure where sq ft came from. So I'm giving 2ml of drench per gallon of soil. I think that is what most do. So I'd say go up to 20 and see how they like it!

:passitleft:

This is how I look at it

The amount of water varies according to how much stays in pot to run-off.
So its harder to figure using gallons of water.

The amount of soil in the pot does not change and will hold a specific amount of Liquid.
I add the amount of Drench using gallons of soil, to the MAXIMUM amount of H2O the pot will hold before Run-Off.
Doing it this way I know exactly the amounts that are staying in the pots

Edit I can get a little fancy by allowing a little run-off but doing the math to figure how
much to allow
 
We give drench per gallon of soil not water and I'm not sure where sq ft came from. So I'm giving 2ml of drench per gallon of soil. I think that is what most do. So I'd say go up to 20 and see how they like it!

:passitleft:

The directions on my bottle of GE suggest 1-2oz. per 30 square feet of growing area.
 
Thanks Krip! Im not even sure how I would calculate that. 1-2ml of drench per gal of soil is easy peasy lemon squeezy! I also think it's how most that measure do it. I've actually just eye balled it a few times but mostly us my 10ml syringe for drench and 3ml syringe for tea, brix and destress. My last transplant and growth order, I got 2 quarts but should've just got gallons!

:passitleft:
 
Thanks Krip! Im not even sure how I would calculate that. 1-2ml of drench per gal of soil is easy peasy lemon squeezy! I also think it's how most that measure do it. I've actually just eye balled it a few times but mostly us my 10ml syringe for drench and 3ml syringe for tea, brix and destress. My last transplant and growth order, I got 2 quarts but should've just got gallons!

:passitleft:

Well, a 4'x4' is 16 sf, which is about half of the 30 (plus, I think I might be able to muster up another SF of tent floor that isn't covered! :rofl: ) so I just work with that but I do like "easy peasy"! :high-five:
:thanks:
 
Well, a 4'x4' is 16 sf, which is about half of the 30 (plus, I think I might be able to muster up another SF of tent floor that isn't covered! :rofl: ) so I just work with that but I do like "easy peasy"! :high-five:
:thanks:

Yeah but my tent isn't full and if it was, 1-2oz would be less than what I use. That SF thing is just odd, maybe Doc will chime in.
 
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