Doc Bud's High Brix Q&A With Pictures

[high 420kwats]

re: Doc Bud - High Brix Q&A With Pictures

What is the longest anybody has run a Indica? I'm on the 11th week of Ripper seeds "Double Glock" she just does not look like she wants to finish. Not much trics, most pistils are orange but still pushing out new, very slowly though. She is losing color in some of the bigger fan leafs which is normal.

 

[Doc Bud]

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Ok!
I was talking about hydrated as watering the peat before I measure its volume, I don´t know if it will expand with the watering thats why I was asking.
I´m taking notes on the soil cook. Do you think an AACT will help activate the cooking? I´m using microbeman recipes, it works without adding nutes to the soil, mostly a rich microherd (I will be analyzing the microbiological compositcion on an optic microscope soon).

My grow environment consist of a 2.6x2.6 veg tent(12+1 GLR) with 400MH and a 3.3x3.3 bloom tent on 400HPS, both with AC and extractor. I´m controling both RH and temp in the tents and will be using DIY to supplement the AC with CO2 during daylight. I will be having 2 plants flowering and will be adding 2 more at midflower.

Please resist adding anything else to the kit! It's designed by smart people with PhD's in crop science, soil science, etc. The VAM included in the kit is exactly what we want.

What are you day and night temps and rH?

 

[Doc Bud]

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What is the longest anybody has run a Indica? I'm on the 11th week of Ripper seeds "Double Glock" she just does not look like she wants to finish. Not much trics, most pistils are orange but still pushing out new, very slowly though. She is losing color in some of the bigger fan leafs which is normal.

11 weeks is about right for HIgh Brix. You can take 'em earlier, but by waiting I think you'll understand the Big Picture as soon as you try it.

Did you use a lot of Cat Drench perhaps?

My Willie Nelson, a sativa, went 21 weeks......

 

[Engorage]

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Please resist adding anything else to the kit! It's designed by smart people with PhD's in crop science, soil science, etc. The VAM included in the kit is exactly what we want.

What are you day and night temps and rH?

Ok, I will try to follow instructions by the book but I can´t guarantee that I´m not going to experiment and tweak things a bit. I mean of 4 potted clones I may tweak things a little with 1 of em. Not on dosage or timing of aplications, but surely I will keep an eye on soil life once I get acces to the microscope in the lab, and will for sure experiment with the AACT I´ve been using. Again it does not add minerals or nutes, nor humic acids or stuff, just thriving microbial colonies, which can be modified depending on which kind of microbe you want to enhance.

Daytime T° range from 73 to 85F with RH going from 45% to 55%. Nightime T° go from 57 to 54F, I´ve problems controling RH at night which is usually above 60% up to 70%, once I get the new extractor (this week probably) I hope I will be able to take care of that.

One more time, just to be sure. I rinse the peat (it will expand?), measure pH, adjust pH with limestone, measure total volume (60 gal), then add perlite, ammendment and rootzone? Is this the order I should follow?

 

[Doc Bud]

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Ok, I will try to follow instructions by the book but I can´t guarantee that I´m not going to experiment and tweak things a bit. I mean of 4 potted clones I may tweak things a little with 1 of em. Not on dosage or timing of aplications, but surely I will keep an eye on soil life once I get acces to the microscope in the lab, and will for sure experiment with the AACT I´ve been using. Again it does not add minerals or nutes, nor humic acids or stuff, just thriving microbial colonies, which can be modified depending on which kind of microbe you want to enhance.

Daytime T° range from 73 to 85F with RH going from 45% to 55%. Nightime T° go from 57 to 54F, I´ve problems controling RH at night which is usually above 60% up to 70%, once I get the new extractor (this week probably) I hope I will be able to take care of that.

One more time, just to be sure. I rinse the peat (it will expand?), measure pH, adjust pH with limestone, measure total volume (60 gal), then add perlite, ammendment and rootzone? Is this the order I should follow?

You keep wanting to complicate it......

Again, I do not advise using AACT or anything else with the kit. Do so at your own risk.

Your nightime temps are WAY TOO LOW. You'll have issues with phosphorus uptake at those temps and yield and quality will suffer.

Your night temps shouldn't be lower than about 67-68 unless you're going for purple, in which case you could go to 63-65. Your RH will improve when your temps are higher at night. Well, it won't improve, the problems will likely disappear.

Rinse the Peat. If you can test pH....great. I'm going to guess it's about 5.5, knowing the medium. The Amendment by itself will probably put your pH in range. The limestone will help, but the main reason I'm having you add the limestone is because we're trying to duplicate the ProMix, which has limestone in it.

 

[thecanuck]

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If you cant follow direction, dont use the kit. Those of us who are making adjustment do so because we've gone by the directions and know what to look for now. And regardless of that, we're not adding or removing products, we're just making adjustments based on observations we've made and learned. We notice things about our hb plants that arent apparent on others. Not telling you what to do but id listen to the man whose name is on the products if i were you. Its really simple...dont make it hard on yourself!

Bring me the rake

 

[Engorage]

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You keep wanting to complicate it......

Again, I do not advise using AACT or anything else with the kit. Do so at your own risk.

Your nightime temps are WAY TOO LOW. You'll have issues with phosphorus uptake at those temps and yield and quality will suffer.

Your night temps shouldn't be lower than about 67-68 unless you're going for purple, in which case you could go to 63-65. Your RH will improve when your temps are higher at night. Well, it won't improve, the problems will likely disappear.

Rinse the Peat. If you can test pH....great. I'm going to guess it's about 5.5, knowing the medium. The Amendment by itself will probably put your pH in range. The limestone will help, but the main reason I'm having you add the limestone is because we're trying to duplicate the ProMix, which has limestone in it.

Thank you Doc! I will work with the night temps, I was shooting for blue (got myself a Missing in Barcelona, Blue Thai and upcomming Panama) but I realize I made a mistake there. Ok I will go for 63-65. Thank you for that advice.


I´m sorry if end up complicating things, Its not my intention at all. I just want to get more knowledge.
I´ve read for about a month on HB journals in this mag. I know how every time someone didn´t follow the instructions things went wrong real bad, that´s why I said earlier that I will follow by the book. But I think I can contribute at least in something, my biologist background, If 1 out of 4 goes wrong, so be it, I just want to look at the biota and learn what kind of biota is effective in each stage, for learning purpose (and more...), because I can do so now (instruments and formation). I respect your work and that of the people that have contributed in your product, I don´t wanna mess around with the kit, but aside from getting monstruos frosty buds I´m getting into this because I want to figure out how things work.
Again sorry if end up confusing or complicating things. But I think thats just part of my personality.

If you cant follow direction, dont use the kit. Those of us who are making adjustment do so because we've gone by the directions and know what to look for now. And regardless of that, we're not adding or removing products, we're just making adjustments based on observations we've made and learned. We notice things about our hb plants that arent apparent on others. Not telling you what to do but id listen to the man whose name is on the products if i were you. Its really simple...dont make it hard on yourself!

Bring me the rake

Thank you for your advice I know, thats what I´m gonna do

 

[sir grow alot]

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Q Doc and any one else who knows whats up

Im going to be buying an oxygen pot system and would like to incorporate this into my high brix grow. its just an ebb and flo that uses fabric pots. so it will feed from the bottom as i already do by hand.

Q) can the drenches be ran through a submersible water pump with out "damaging" the mix??. IE. running Live microbial tea through a water pump damages the microbial colonies ect...

 

[thecanuck]

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Q Doc and any one else who knows whats up

Im going to be buying an oxygen pot system and would like to incorporate this into my high brix grow. its just an ebb and flo that uses fabric pots. so it will feed from the bottom as i already do by hand.

Q) can the drenches be ran through a submersible water pump with out "damaging" the mix??. IE. running Live microbial tea through a water pump damages the microbial colonies ect...

Wouldnt you have to use soil-less medium? The drenches and sprays wont work in an hb aspect without the soil mix you know we use sir. I could be wrong! As much as ive read bro, nobodys tried it. Doc would know

 

[organicgrowr]

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Hey Doc, wondering what your thoughts are on feminized seeds vs regular?

 

[Doc Bud]

re: Doc Bud - High Brix Q&A With Pictures

Q Doc and any one else who knows whats up

Im going to be buying an oxygen pot system and would like to incorporate this into my high brix grow. its just an ebb and flo that uses fabric pots. so it will feed from the bottom as i already do by hand.

Q) can the drenches be ran through a submersible water pump with out "damaging" the mix??. IE. running Live microbial tea through a water pump damages the microbial colonies ect...

The drenches can go through a pump and/or sprayer no problem at all. One of the reasons I chose these products was because they are designed for large scale growing.....think legalization. Carry on.

 

[Doc Bud]

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Wouldnt you have to use soil-less medium? The drenches and sprays wont work in an hb aspect without the soil mix you know we use sir. I could be wrong! As much as ive read bro, nobodys tried it. Doc would know

I think he's talking about bottom feeding soil containers....right? If you don't have soil...don't use the HB products.

 

[Doc Bud]

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Hey Doc, wondering what your thoughts are on feminized seeds vs regular?

I am someone who believes in preserving, cataloging and researching pure, ancient strains of cannabis. I think seeds that can reproduce need to be available everywhere, all the time.

Feminized seeds, by nature, keep genetics in private hands.......and I think they should be open source and ubiquitous.

PLus, both times I ordered fem seeds I got males.....go figure.

 

[sir grow alot]

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Wouldnt you have to use soil-less medium? The drenches and sprays wont work in an hb aspect without the soil mix you know we use sir. I could be wrong! As much as ive read bro, nobodys tried it. Doc would know

The drenches can go through a pump and/or sprayer no problem at all. One of the reasons I chose these products was because they are designed for large scale growing.....think legalization. Carry on.

I think he's talking about bottom feeding soil containers....right? If you don't have soil...don't use the HB products.

Thanks Doc thats great news..its gonna make feeding many plants a breeze!!

and i am talking about using the proper HB mix...i have about 200gal of it

Ill be getting the 10 or 15gal oxygen pot system, only diff in using it with HB will be the number of times you flood the system. in the start you may only flood once every 7 days then 5 and plan to get to where im flooding once every other day hopefully if the root system gets big enough

another Q DOC

lets say when it comes to for example cat drench. since we feed it 2x back to back, could i fill the rez with the drench in proper ratio, flood and drain the plants then leave it to bubble in the rez for 4-5 days till its fed again?

 

[Doc Bud]

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Thanks Doc thats great news..its gonna make feeding many plants a breeze!!

and i am talking about using the proper HB mix...i have about 200gal of it

Ill be getting the 10 or 15gal oxygen pot system, only diff in using it with HB will be the number of times you flood the system. in the start you may only flood once every 7 days then 5 and plan to get to where im flooding once every other day hopefully if the root system gets big enough

another Q DOC

lets say when it comes to for example cat drench. since we feed it 2x back to back, could i fill the rez with the drench in proper ratio, flood and drain the plants then leave it to bubble in the rez for 4-5 days till its fed again?

That's a great question, SGA.

The answer is that I don't know if bubbling a reservoir would work. The Cat Drench is a "living" drench, as is Transplant. Growth Energy is not.

I simply don't know how that would work out. I've seen some lovely blooms with Brix left out a day.....and Transplant will do the same thing....

Cat Drench is about 80% Transplant.....but the other stuff in it actually stabilizes it until water is added.....man I don't know!

I do know that your bottom watering scheme is going to work very well. I'm late to the party, but I've got large saucers under all mine now.

 

[Governmentchz]

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I do know that your bottom watering scheme is going to work very well. I'm late to the party, but I've got large saucers under all mine now.

I got a short stack of the largest saucers they had just to protect the floors in my room initially. Now I have a 4x4 tray just waiting for soil to simmer and a light to put over it all, and my smarties will go into saucers too. LOL, I've planned all aspects of this next expanded grow to be ready at the same time...right.

 

[DrZiggy]

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That's a great question, SGA.

The answer is that I don't know if bubbling a reservoir would work. The Cat Drench is a "living" drench, as is Transplant. Growth Energy is not.

I simply don't know how that would work out. I've seen some lovely blooms with Brix left out a day.....and Transplant will do the same thing....

Cat Drench is about 80% Transplant.....but the other stuff in it actually stabilizes it until water is added.....man I don't know!

I do know that your bottom watering scheme is going to work very well. I'm late to the party, but I've got large saucers under all mine now.

My Cat Drench stinks after a few days after being diluted. Theres also a film, looks like a 'mother' floating...
The stuff is effective and strong! The runout from my heirloom tomatoes; It caused my chives to regrow and bloom! Theyre normally a late spring herb here, 1x/yr!

 

[Doc Bud]

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My Cat Drench stinks after a few days after being diluted. Theres also a film, looks like a 'mother' floating...
The stuff is effective and strong! The runout from my heirloom tomatoes; It caused my chives to regrow and bloom! Theyre normally a late spring herb here, 1x/yr!

That settles it.....if your Cat Drench blooms, don't use it in a reservoir. I've not left a drench out for a couple days, but I sure learned that Brix will grow green stuff within 48 hours.

Our products are alive.

 

[sir grow alot]

re: Doc Bud - High Brix Q&A With Pictures

That's a great question, SGA.

The answer is that I don't know if bubbling a reservoir would work. The Cat Drench is a "living" drench, as is Transplant. Growth Energy is not.

I simply don't know how that would work out. I've seen some lovely blooms with Brix left out a day.....and Transplant will do the same thing....

Cat Drench is about 80% Transplant.....but the other stuff in it actually stabilizes it until water is added.....man I don't know!

I do know that your bottom watering scheme is going to work very well. I'm late to the party, but I've got large saucers under all mine now.

My Cat Drench stinks after a few days after being diluted. Theres also a film, looks like a 'mother' floating...
The stuff is effective and strong! The runout from my heirloom tomatoes; It caused my chives to regrow and bloom! Theyre normally a late spring herb here, 1x/yr!

Thanks Doc for taking the time and DrZ too

So DrZ you are saying that the runoff from the bottom of some potted tomatoes dripped out onto the chives and made them regrow and bloom??? Thats cool

So Doc with the drenches being alive wouldnt it keep them alive once being diluted to keep them bubbling, obviously there has to be a "shelf life" for the microbes at are alive in the mix with out being fed to maintain life..

You said that settles not to use it in the rez...forgive me if im just not understanding but why? i dont doubt or question your answers validity just need clarity in my mind

 

[Governmentchz]

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I've a question too (I hope it wasn't answered back on pg 18...I swear I've read it); With the drenches and foliars keyed on reproduction, how would autos fare? I don't have any, and never grown an auto, but I may assign 1 grow slot to an auto this time...not sure.