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check with garden shops/hydro shops. Lowes and Home de Pot has Promix HP or BX often. Add some fine perlite to BX and you'll get HP. For worms castings, again, check garden shops. You want to get a "0" for K in NPK.
Doc Bud's High Brix Q&A With Pictures
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check with garden shops/hydro shops. Lowes and Home de Pot has Promix HP or BX often. Add some fine perlite to BX and you'll get HP. For worms castings, again, check garden shops. You want to get a "0" for K in NPK.
If you go to the big boxes, be aware they often sell a different size "bale". Instead of 3.8 cu-ft, their packages are 2.2 cu-ft. It seems cheaper until you realize you need most of two of them. The last time I bought a 3.8 ft bale locally it was about $45.
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A few pics. Notice the stems on this Grape Ape...no support and bending, but not breaking under the weight of about 4.5 oz of frosty, purple, greasy, gooey buds. This is a good example of what happens when calcium NOT POTASSIUM in incorporated into the cell wall.
Can't get this without Minerals, Microbes and Magic.
Tangerine:
Paki:
More Grape Ape about a month away from harvest:
BOG's Sour Grape. (Way too much grape in my garden. I gotta some strains named after something other than fruit.)
This is a good cycle!
Can't get this without Minerals, Microbes and Magic.
Tangerine:
Paki:
More Grape Ape about a month away from harvest:
BOG's Sour Grape. (Way too much grape in my garden. I gotta some strains named after something other than fruit.)
This is a good cycle!
Theborn420
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My Gob... That Grape Ape looks special.
Governmentchz
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Yes, garden/hydroponics shops are best IMO. WalzMartz is hit or miss and I got some bad product from them myself a couple months ago although they DO carry it at times, just look for wiggle worm and preferably in larger lot sizes (15# or 30#) as it's usually cheaper.
edit: crazy pics doc. I was scrolling through them and my wife even said...."wait, what's that? OOOooOOOooooo...that looks niiice". I'm like...meh, they're ok. lmfao
edit: crazy pics doc. I was scrolling through them and my wife even said...."wait, what's that? OOOooOOOooooo...that looks niiice". I'm like...meh, they're ok. lmfao
hey Born...welcome to the Mag! You've stumbled upon a fantastic place ...the growers here are all very helpful and most are experienced with Doc's "Kit". The part that is special about this place is...the members are great growers but...they're even better people!
make yourself at home, do some reading of some HB journals and see what we're all up too. Cheers Born and once again welcome to the Mag!
Once you get your Kit and start growing youle see what all the fuss is about!
sent from my DeLorean...in the future!
Theborn420
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+1 Government. I just got off the phone with the hydro shop and they had the bales of pro-mix for $30 all day. Bloodclot!
Theborn420
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hey Born...welcome to the Mag! You've stumbled upon a fantastic place ...the growers here are all very helpful and most are experienced with Doc's "Kit". The part that is special about this place is...the members are great growers but...they're even better people!
Once you get your Kit and start growing youle see what all the fuss is about!
sent from my DeLorean...in the future!
Already feeling the love my dude. I've already been through many of you folks journals like this ->
Finally got the courage up to post and what not.
Thanks again.
masonman
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Well, lights just came on and she looks the same. I can't think of anything more to do for her. I guess I screwed the pooch on this one.
I'm not upset that she is unhappy, I'm upset I don't know what I did to cause this.
I'm not upset that she is unhappy, I'm upset I don't know what I did to cause this.
I bet that is the 2.2 ft bale. I hope I'm wrong, but that is hella cheap if it is for the 3.8.
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Well, lights just came on and she looks the same. I can't think of anything more to do for her. I guess I screwed the pooch on this one.
I'm not upset that she is unhappy, I'm upset I don't know what I did to cause this.
What? You'll be fine. Prune the lower branches up to the third node from the top. Water/Drench when it starts to wilt. It will be fine.
It looks over-watered to me.
masonman
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OK... I ignore you at my own peril.
Here she is after her hair cut.
Do you think I should start a new journal for this one, or just continue posting to my old one.
Thanks for the help....
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OK... I ignore you at my own peril.
Here she is after her hair cut.
Do you think I should start a new journal for this one, or just continue posting to my old one.
Thanks for the help....
Whatever you're comfortable with re new journal. I'm fine posting anywhere you want.
OK, so now you've just cut the burden on the roots and helped shape the plant for bloom. Let the soil get bone dry, but dribble a small amount....like 2 cups....of water down the top daily while you wait for it to dry out. Make sure you go by weight. It should be light.
Then, give it a rescue drench and you should be in fine shape!
Brix plus WayAhead 10x if you've got it in a week.
That's what I do!
Arctic Bowl
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Wow!!! So much information to digest and so many pages to read yet. Girls look so good!!! I'll be behind but reading forward until we catch up. Great stuff Doc!!!!!!
Keep at it Arctic bowl! I did the same thing last October and read all Doc threads from beginning to end. At first it's all a foreign language but you get to see high brix take shape. It lets you in on the reasons why the kit works like it does today. Really helped me to start understanding the ins and outs of Doc's Kit.
It's kind of cool too. Let's you see when the members of the gang jumped in! You will come to a point and be like "ok here is where that noob Shiggity joined in and asked doc for a kit lol."
Gaffle
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When I joined 420mag I had an idea, but no real system to follow. I had been in grow shops looking at soil and nutes, talked to some people, and just looked around to see what was here locally. I bought rockwool cubes, some pH up/down, and I bought a pH meter. After going all over 420 mag I found Docs journal about the kit. Curiosity was peaked! I had to get everything in my room done before I bought Docs kit, and that entailed much more work being that we were in the middle of a small bath remodel. I had to stall some of the room to help my wife in the bath. I didn't buy my kit until January of 16. Got soil cooking in Feb and had my first seeds pop on March 16th. Here I am with my first harvest drying as we speak (er, type eh?). This has been a most eggcellent opportunity! I highly recommend the kit because of some super fantastic product, and I didn't try too hard!
My anniversary to the mag is coming quick! I will start off my year with a worthy Brix journal of some HSO Blue Dream. This kit has given me an advantage in my state being that there are some bills sitting in the state congress regarding the legalization of recreational marijuana, but between the lines, come to find out, some of the legislators have pushed in the possibility of a company that will already grow all the rec weed. YUK! I do not know what kind of process a large company would do to grow, but I assure you I want no part of it. I want the good shit if you will. I don't want some mediocre weed brought to me by Pepsi, or McDonalds, or whoever. I want to know that what I produce will be much better than the crap that could come out of some large farm. Just think about what a large farm would do for pests or nutes. How do you control something that large without using copious chemicals? No THX!
Everyone should grow fantastic produce just to stick it to large companies that want to take over. Its a weed revolution!!
Rant over, time to go to work, no time for
, must wait until the evening...
masonman
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OK... Will do
On my last grow I over-fed/watered. The soil became salty and flat.
Having said that, should I treat her like she is in a 7 gallon pot and feed accordingly (5 - 7 ML drench per feeding) until I'm sure she can use more? In other words feed for the size of the plant, not the pot.
When the 20 gallon pot is bone dry, it takes 4 gallons of water to saturate the soil. About 2.5 gallons is what I was giving her to keep her moist in flower.
For the rescue drench, assuming the pot is bone dry, should I saturate the pot (4 gallons) But cut back on the drench? The directions would have me mixing 4OZ Transplant and 24ML Tea (if I'm understanding correctly).
I'm thinking 4 gallons water, but treat the rescue drench like she is in a 7 gallon pot. So 1OZ Transplant and 6ML Tea. Maybe give her 3 gallons straight water, then 1 gallon Rescue Drench over and around her root ball?
I'm sorry if I'm making this too complicated and incoherent. I will not be using such a large pot in the future.
Budley Dorite
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Hi,
My name is Bud & I've been drug dealer free for 8 months.
My name is Bud & I've been drug dealer free for 8 months.
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The large pot will be your friend in the future. You've just got to get comfortable with watering tech for a small rootball and a large volume of soil. The easiest thing to do is grow a larger rootball....
Use the Rescue Drench exactly as instructed. 1 oz per gallon. etc.
medmanmike
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I ran into something that I've not seen before and thought I would run it pas the "experts".
Strain is Money Maker, day 40 of 12/12. Notice in the first pic that there is "flower" (pistils) forming at the junction of a (fan) leaf and its stem, which is coming off of a cola. On the same cola, it appears that a "twin" flower has formed (second pic). Note how the sugar leaves are very crowded and have formed a 'division' between the flowers. This plant never ceases to amaze! Anyone else seen either of these before? This is my 6th HB grow and both are new to me. Thx.
Edit: you can see the fan leaf with pistils in the second photo also- bottom left corner.
Strain is Money Maker, day 40 of 12/12. Notice in the first pic that there is "flower" (pistils) forming at the junction of a (fan) leaf and its stem, which is coming off of a cola. On the same cola, it appears that a "twin" flower has formed (second pic). Note how the sugar leaves are very crowded and have formed a 'division' between the flowers. This plant never ceases to amaze! Anyone else seen either of these before? This is my 6th HB grow and both are new to me. Thx.
Edit: you can see the fan leaf with pistils in the second photo also- bottom left corner.