re: Doc Bud - High Brix Q&A With Pictures
Hey Docbud! Thank you so much for taking your time out to answer my question. I am not 100% certain that it is the moist soil that is killing off the roots but it seems to be that, or like you said, too high of EC for the roots to be there at all, so therefore aren't sucking up the water. I wish I never cancled that order on the soil EC probe and may have to re-order it because I think it would be the magnifying glass to the supersluth as far as showing me the evidence I need to go one way or the other. I will try popping a pot off in a few days when the soil is a little dryer and see what I have going on under the soil. (great idea)
In my mix... a lot of little things... It is mostly promix with about 20% worm castings, and about 20% mix of perlite/pumice with a few cups worth of the amendments (the 6-5-3)azomite, and other things like greensand, lava sand, crab and fish bone meal and kelp meal. For the most part each of those are about 1 cup per ingredient spread across 7x 5 gallon pots worth of the soil base. On past grows I added very little nutrients in my feedings, mostly compost teas and water, but this grow I wanted to see if maybe I wasn't feeding them enough, so I have been doing 1/2 doses of Earthjuice grow and bloom, along with some potassium silicate, cal/mag. I also took your advice of no sugars/molasses so I haven't added any to the soil throughout the grow, except for the very last feeding. I have been doing foilar sprays of 1/2 gallon of r/o water to :10ml of Amaze, 10ml of PGR, 20ml of Carboload (5 sugars for transport) and cold pressed seaweed. (ocassionally adding organic b and fulvic acid at about 10ml each). Also yucca extract is added to both the soil feedings and the foliar feedings. I also have been using TandJ tea, but only using about 1/4 off the biominerals they recommend, and about 1/2 the amount of tea activator.
The PPM's of all of these feedings are way below 500ppm.. I don't check the PH, but generally bubble for 2 days which brings it up to the 6.5 range.
The reason I am leaning towards too much water, or too frequently, or both, is because I have the el-cheepo soil moisture probe which actually seems pretty accurate, and usually the top 1/2 of the pots will be ready for a feeding and reading dry, but the bottom half of the pots always read moist...?? so I still think you may be right about their not being roots down below that layer to soak up the water?
Either way I am in the market for some airpots or fabric pots soon, but they wont be making an appearance until my next available grow. I also tomorrow will be going out to get some smalll 3" fans and putting them in the bottom of my grow area to maybe help dry out the soil a little faster? I am going to have to order that soil probe now...lol...
So if it was too much salt, then I guess a good old flush wouldn't be a bad thing to do... I will check the roots in a few days and then let you know what I find...
Again Doc! I thank you so much for being such a stand up guy, and always helping all of us out. I especially appreciate it since if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't even know what high brix is.. Thanks!
Hey Docbud! Thank you so much for taking your time out to answer my question. I am not 100% certain that it is the moist soil that is killing off the roots but it seems to be that, or like you said, too high of EC for the roots to be there at all, so therefore aren't sucking up the water. I wish I never cancled that order on the soil EC probe and may have to re-order it because I think it would be the magnifying glass to the supersluth as far as showing me the evidence I need to go one way or the other. I will try popping a pot off in a few days when the soil is a little dryer and see what I have going on under the soil. (great idea)
In my mix... a lot of little things... It is mostly promix with about 20% worm castings, and about 20% mix of perlite/pumice with a few cups worth of the amendments (the 6-5-3)azomite, and other things like greensand, lava sand, crab and fish bone meal and kelp meal. For the most part each of those are about 1 cup per ingredient spread across 7x 5 gallon pots worth of the soil base. On past grows I added very little nutrients in my feedings, mostly compost teas and water, but this grow I wanted to see if maybe I wasn't feeding them enough, so I have been doing 1/2 doses of Earthjuice grow and bloom, along with some potassium silicate, cal/mag. I also took your advice of no sugars/molasses so I haven't added any to the soil throughout the grow, except for the very last feeding. I have been doing foilar sprays of 1/2 gallon of r/o water to :10ml of Amaze, 10ml of PGR, 20ml of Carboload (5 sugars for transport) and cold pressed seaweed. (ocassionally adding organic b and fulvic acid at about 10ml each). Also yucca extract is added to both the soil feedings and the foliar feedings. I also have been using TandJ tea, but only using about 1/4 off the biominerals they recommend, and about 1/2 the amount of tea activator.
The PPM's of all of these feedings are way below 500ppm.. I don't check the PH, but generally bubble for 2 days which brings it up to the 6.5 range.
The reason I am leaning towards too much water, or too frequently, or both, is because I have the el-cheepo soil moisture probe which actually seems pretty accurate, and usually the top 1/2 of the pots will be ready for a feeding and reading dry, but the bottom half of the pots always read moist...?? so I still think you may be right about their not being roots down below that layer to soak up the water?
Either way I am in the market for some airpots or fabric pots soon, but they wont be making an appearance until my next available grow. I also tomorrow will be going out to get some smalll 3" fans and putting them in the bottom of my grow area to maybe help dry out the soil a little faster? I am going to have to order that soil probe now...lol...
So if it was too much salt, then I guess a good old flush wouldn't be a bad thing to do... I will check the roots in a few days and then let you know what I find...
Again Doc! I thank you so much for being such a stand up guy, and always helping all of us out. I especially appreciate it since if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't even know what high brix is.. Thanks!
Well Doc to late I'm already a snob. I've tasted those fruits and veggies that just seem to explode in your mouth, I've had water that seemed to chill me all the way down too and it wasn't because it was so supper cold. So it just stands to reason that I can experience those same experiences with cannabis then why deny myself and those around me that I love too.