Doc Bud's High Brix Q&A With Pictures

MKenyon said:
See what I mean!? Well, it seems to work for both of you no matter which way you've been going with it. I'm more confused than ever now!
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There's nothing to be confused about. The simple fact is that each of us is getting stuff into the soil our own way.

Drenching light makes sense....why have all the product run out the bottom of the pot? Watering heavy makes sense too.....keeps any salt build up from even thinking about happening.

As for measuring stuff, I had my helper pour an ounce into a shot glass, pour that into a bucket of water and listen to the sound it makes....then do the same thing right out of the bottle.

We've got a large margin of error to play with.
 
Sweetsue said:
This is my preference too. Well, mine water themselves, but I drench light, counting on the micro herd to do the shuttling around of nutrients, as is their nature. When I watered it was the bonsai way: slowly until it began to run through, give it 10 minutes and repeat. The plants loved it.
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I feel that when we go from cat drench to energy drench, for example, it's important to soak the whole pot with energy, as we are trying to change the ionic charge in the soil. At one point doc mentioned a technique of flushing the plant thoroughly after cat drench, then chasing it with a smaller quantity of water with energy. I haven't been flushing because I'm in 15g pots and it's impractical in my small indoor garden, but I still make sure to really soak the soil with whatever drench I am using. If I'm trying to flip to energy, I really want the whole pot to be in energy mode, not just the top or the bottom.

I apply this theory of charging the whole pots soil energy every time I use a drench. But like has been stated, anyway you do it seems to work!
 
PakaloloHawaii said:
I feel that when we go from cat drench to energy drench, for example, it's important to soak the whole pot with energy, as we are trying to change the ionic charge in the soil. At one point doc mentioned a technique of flushing the plant thoroughly after cat drench, then chasing it with a smaller quantity of water with energy. I haven't been flushing because I'm in 15g pots and it's impractical in my small indoor garden, but I still make sure to really soak the soil with whatever drench I am using. If I'm trying to flip to energy, I really want the whole pot to be in energy mode, not just the top or the bottom.

I apply this theory of charging the whole pots soil energy every time I use a drench. But like has been stated, anyway you do it seems to work!
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The smaller the container, the more important it is to get every single inch of soil wet. Larger ones are much more forgiving when it comes to the "flush."

The main thing is to keep soil energy up, and that can be accomplished light or heavy. Work with it a while, and everyone develops their own style...like cooking.

the princple of breaking polypeptide linkage via denaturing protein with heat is underlying all methods of cooking eggs.....but poaching is different than frying, is different than hard boiled, etc. Growing is the same way!

Principle: feed the microherd!
Practice: there are 1001 ways to do this.
As we become familiar with the tools of our trade, pattern recognition starts aligning with our logical minds and our intuitive minds and next thing you know we're doing things our own unique way, all based on the same principle of feeding the microherd.
 
Doc Bud said:
Calcium Nitrate, Potassium Nitrate, Chilean Nitrate, trace elements. Mainly it's the heavy nitrate and added K that sickens the soil to where the OG's like it.
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Have you tried it on non salt lovers? What were the results? I would like to play with it. :) does it have alot of K?
Whats in it that is blooming? Tea?

Thank you.:)
 
So many different approaches, yet they all work great! Thanks for all the info doc, you have no idea how inspiring you have been, thank you. I noticed you already stopped by, please share your wisdom and tell me when I'm am idiot, I have thick skin. :thanks:

I'm starting my first journal and hope that you and your followers can find some time to check it out. I would enjoy the insight, advice, and conversation with the knowledgeable people around here. Link is in my sig, thanks!
 
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Triple cat drench and ~30 hours darkness before chop.

Doc think this should have gone longer?
 
So I've been reading completed journals, and noticed quite a few comments from people having a hard time stepping away from their beloved hydro methods. Which got me thinking...

Why not combine hydro and Hi brix?
Would it not be possible to run the soil ecosystem in a bio-reactor (garbage can of HB medium), feeding water into the reactor and using the drainage as the water for the hydro system? The system would remain more or less closed, with the bio-reactor more or less replacing the hydro reservoir. I guess this is based on a pretty big assumption: whatever communication that takes place between the roots and the bioreactor microbes wouldn't be interrupted.

I wonder How cozy the roots have to get with the soil bacteria and fungi?

What is the nature of the feedback loop between metabolic functions in the leaves and buds, and the microbial metabolic functions? Does such communication exist? How do we know? What is it that the roots put in the water that affects uptake of soil nutrients in such a way that brix measurements increase? Am I asking too many questions? Forgive me if these ideas have been asked and answered.
 
VonDankenhoek said:
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Triple cat drench and ~30 hours darkness before chop.

Doc think this should have gone longer?
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Could it have gone longer? Probably.
Should it have gone longer? Probably not. It's a matter of personal choice at this point.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that will be the best smoke you've ever had. It looks simply fantastic.
 
Rascio said:
So I've been reading completed journals, and noticed quite a few comments from people having a hard time stepping away from their beloved hydro methods. Which got me thinking...

Why not combine hydro and Hi brix?
Would it not be possible to run the soil ecosystem in a bio-reactor (garbage can of HB medium), feeding water into the reactor and using the drainage as the water for the hydro system? The system would remain more or less closed, with the bio-reactor more or less replacing the hydro reservoir. I guess this is based on a pretty big assumption: whatever communication that takes place between the roots and the bioreactor microbes wouldn't be interrupted.

I wonder How cozy the roots have to get with the soil bacteria and fungi?

What is the nature of the feedback loop between metabolic functions in the leaves and buds, and the microbial metabolic functions? Does such communication exist? How do we know? What is it that the roots put in the water that affects uptake of soil nutrients in such a way that brix measurements increase? Am I asking too many questions? Forgive me if these ideas have been asked and answered.
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Hydro is a testament to the plants remarkable ability to live in wide ranging conditions.

High Brix is tapping into 1 million years of nature's methods of growing plants the way they were designed to grow....in soil, with minerals and microbes.
 
Doc Bud said:
There's nothing to be confused about. The simple fact is that each of us is getting stuff into the soil our own way.

Drenching light makes sense....why have all the product run out the bottom of the pot? Watering heavy makes sense too.....keeps any salt build up from even thinking about happening.

As for measuring stuff, I had my helper pour an ounce into a shot glass, pour that into a bucket of water and listen to the sound it makes....then do the same thing right out of the bottle.

We've got a large margin of error to play with.
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I had to laugh when I read this. Every morning I top off the SWICK reservoirs and I measure by sound. I always double check on the watering can, but I've been doing the same amount consistently for so long that my ear hears the melody of one quart in this can.
 
Dutty, that picture popped up and I immediately thought "Girls s in the band". :laughtwo:
 
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