Doc Bud's High Brix Q&A With Pictures

[Gaffle]

Good question. It's not a sign, it's more to do with experiencing the end result.

The OG's I've grown look just fine in regular high brix soil. Green, healthy, etc. Their stems aren't as strong as a "regular" plant is about the only thing that's different.

However, the finished product from an OG type is very different in high brix than say, hydro, or salt nutes in coco, etc. So, it's not really a sign you see in growing. It's more like a missing component in the flavor....like missing the meat in the hamburger. They don't come out right in high brix.

Why? Because the roots are terribly inefficient and the plant doesn't really "groove" to the soil the way a landrace strain does. So, using the OG drench, bloodmeal and wayahead10x help create the high soil energy and salt heavy rootzone that these OG's need to perform right.

My question comes because of my plants right now. My Blue Dream has some color fading on top leaves. This is the first time this plant has shown any deficiency. The most lower fans are yellowing, just a few, but the coloring is changing from the top, not bottom. I am coming off of a GE feeding and the pots are becoming dry. I don't know all of the ins and outs of the kit to determine when to top dress or what to top dress with. I am considering another rescue drench. Flowering is going well so watering after next will prob be cat, my buds are not set yet.

 

[Doc Bud]

My question comes because of my plants right now. My Blue Dream has some color fading on top leaves. This is the first time this plant has shown any deficiency. The most lower fans are yellowing, just a few, but the coloring is changing from the top, not bottom. I am coming off of a GE feeding and the pots are becoming dry. I don't know all of the ins and outs of the kit to determine when to top dress or what to top dress with. I am considering another rescue drench. Flowering is going well so watering after next will prob be cat, my buds are not set yet.

You've got the typical case of the midbloom fade. What size containers are you in?

You're supposed to top dress Recharge around the 3rd week of bloom. Many people, myself included, also include some fresh worm castings at this time....but not too much!

A heavy Transplant drench will do the trick, along with a good foliar spray of DeStress. No rescue drench necessary.

 

[Gaffle]

You've got the typical case of the midbloom fade. What size containers are you in?

You're supposed to top dress Recharge around the 3rd week of bloom. Many people, myself included, also include some fresh worm castings at this time....but not too much!

A heavy Transplant drench will do the trick, along with a good foliar spray of DeStress. No rescue drench necessary.

Thx Doc! I'm in 10s, vegged for a week or 2 and now at week 2 of bloom. I'm due for Recharge next Monday but my spider sense was telling me to top dress with some EWC.

After reading through several journals I have found that some folks are adding Tea to a Trans drench, is there any benefit to this? In the instructions we are to alternate GE and Trans drenches during bloom yet I don't find many people doing a full drench of Trans, unless adding Trans to every watering (which is what I have done) does enough to negate a full drench.

I'm still using first run soil. My last grow relied heavily on the blog that MysterySeeds made. This round has been a tad more gut feeling, which has definitely raised my skills with the kit.

 

[Cannatard]

Thx Doc! I'm in 10s, vegged for a week or 2 and now at week 2 of bloom. I'm due for Recharge next Monday but my spider sense was telling me to top dress with some EWC.

After reading through several journals I have found that some folks are adding Tea to a Trans drench, is there any benefit to this? In the instructions we are to alternate GE and Trans drenches during bloom yet I don't find many people doing a full drench of Trans, unless adding Trans to every watering (which is what I have done) does enough to negate a full drench.

I'm still using first run soil. My last grow relied heavily on the blog that MysterySeeds made. This round has been a tad more gut feeling, which has definitely raised my skills with the kit.

You shouldn't be doing 1/4 trans with new soil anyway bro. After you transplant into final containers (which should be a trans feed at that point), you do water next then energy then depending on your environment, another transplant drink then cat drench (buds might be set by then). Dont do what anyone else does! Follow the directions!

 

[DrZiggy]

Doc, any suggestions to winterize (NE winter) a raised outdoor HB bed 4 x 16? TY.

 

[Duael]

It would depend on how long you let them keep vegging in that pot but yeah, my 10s are always rootbound at harvest too. Near the end I have to water/feed every 3 days

Cannatard, How long do you veg?
I SCROG, and my goal is one plant in a 10gal fabric under one 1000K filling a 4x4ft screen (after more growth in bloom).
Intended yield is 1 LB per plant/light (best performance, 1.3 LB, usual performance is 3/4 LB)
I find that I need to TOP 4 to 6 times (depending on strain)
Topping slows growth, and I top every other node to get that bush which will fill a SCROG 4x4 screen.
That means I am in veg for much longer than most of the folks here.
6 to 8 weeks in veg (depending on strain) from clone to bloom ready.
(My veg room is small, and the math works better when perpetually cycling thru larger plants, than more smaller plants)

1) I find that I am not root bound, but very populated. As I use fabric pots that Air Prune roots, I'm not really sure what root bound looks like in a fabric pot.
2) I am wondering if by vegging longer, do I need to increase my Recharge?

Thank you.
DBHB is truly awesome.

 

[Doc Bud]

Yep. Get the soil tested now. Let it go wild through the winter, then amend in early spring.

 

[Doc Bud]

Yep. Get the soil tested now. Let it go wild through the winter, then amend in early spring.

 

[DrZiggy]

Yep. Get the soil tested now. Let it go wild through the winter, then amend in early spring.

its all kit soil...

 

[Doc Bud]

its all kit soil...

I'd still get it tested. Outdoors is different in many ways. But you could probably get by just letting it lay fallow, then turning over the top and watering with Tea in early spring. Recharge it then.

 

[Doc Bud]

 

[joemagic3]

Love the resin spilling on to the fan leaves looks magicool!!
Lovely tone of green covered in glistening magic dust cool pics doc .

 

[Doc Bud]

Love the resin spilling on to the fan leaves looks magicool!!
Lovely tone of green covered in glistening magic dust cool pics doc .

Thanks! It's one of my worst runs in a while....I killed all the good plants a few weeks ago and had to put runts and laggards into bloom, having killed all the nice ones.

Next run should be much better.

 

[joemagic3]

I'll keep my eyes open for the next lot sounds good .

 

[Cannatard]

Cannatard, How long do you veg?
I SCROG, and my goal is one plant in a 10gal fabric under one 1000K filling a 4x4ft screen (after more growth in bloom).
Intended yield is 1 LB per plant/light (best performance, 1.3 LB, usual performance is 3/4 LB)
I find that I need to TOP 4 to 6 times (depending on strain)
Topping slows growth, and I top every other node to get that bush which will fill a SCROG 4x4 screen.
That means I am in veg for much longer than most of the folks here.
6 to 8 weeks in veg (depending on strain) from clone to bloom ready.
(My veg room is small, and the math works better when perpetually cycling thru larger plants, than more smaller plants)

1) I find that I am not root bound, but very populated. As I use fabric pots that Air Prune roots, I'm not really sure what root bound looks like in a fabric pot.
2) I am wondering if by vegging longer, do I need to increase my Recharge?

Thank you.
DBHB is truly awesome.

6 to 8 weeks isnt that much longer than most, its pretty standard actually. I think most guys using the kit on here veg longer than that. I personally veg until my plants are rootbound in solos then in 2 gallon plastic pots (11 weeks and 2 days total). I always finish in 10s under LEDs and can hold the rootball by the stem after I chop with minimal mess made lol. I only grow 3 or 4 plants at a time so I divide all the recharge into the 10s when its time. I also throw in a handful of ewc and some ROOTS at the same time as the recharge. That might be the difference?

 

[DrZiggy]

A root bound soft pot looks like a root bounded plant in a plastic pot except much harder to remove from soft pot.

 

[Shawnee]

Thanks! It's one of my worst runs in a while....I killed all the good plants a few weeks ago and had to put runts and laggards into bloom, having killed all the nice ones.

Next run should be much better.

Dang Doc, you slay me....I, too, have experienced a bad run after a perfectly incredible "up my ante" type grow....it's so interesting to continually fine tune "the machine."

 

[Doc Bud]

Dang Doc, you slay me....I, too, have experienced a bad run after a perfectly incredible "up my ante" type grow....it's so interesting to continually fine tune "the machine."

It's getting harder to have major, gamechanging breakthroughs these days, but I'm still trying to become a better grower each plant at a time.

 

[Cannatard]

It's getting harder to have major, gamechanging breakthroughs these days, but I'm still trying to become a better grower each plant at a time.

I think your formula is working just fine Doc

 

[DrZiggy]

It's getting harder to have major, gamechanging breakthroughs these days, but I'm still trying to become a better grower each plant at a time.

Doc, you're approaching perfection!!- like a 'Limit' in calculus- closer and closer you get...
less change noticed..