DrZiggy's 1st Journal Featuring High Brix - LEDs & Cool Strains

Gnats and organic matter are a match made in evolution. I could have controlled the gnats better. Eventually they'll go away. I'm serious about my tolerance for other earthlings, gnats included.
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The application of a pesticide is the act of admitting your crop has failed---paraphrased from Dr's Albrecht, Reams and others.

It works like this: sugar can't be digested by insects. When they get too much of it, it turns to alcohol which will kill the insect. Insects know this, which is why they target low brix plants. Low brix=low nutritional value for humans...but good food for bugs.

High Brix plants have different UV light patterns and different electrical charges which communicate to insects to STAY AWAY...deadly for them.

Them are just facts. The reason those of us growing HB don't have much if any insect pressure is because of the soil. This isn't my opinion. It's not just my experience, either. Everyone notices this when they have properly designed soil.
 
SmokeyMcFly said:
I'm not one to get on anyone about their methods if it works for you and you're happy thats all that matters. With that said, the bold section sounds like more work not less along with a greater chance for inconsistent results than what we have to do with the kit...

Just saying :)

Have a great day all :passitleft:
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And yet grow after grow using these techniques comes out every bit as consistent as your HB grows. My inexperience with my initial run still resulted in an effortless successful grow with a high-quality harvest. I'll perfect my gardening skills and increase both quality and yield. That's a natural evolutionary process, and should be expected, most particularly in this community.

I'm feeling privileged. These are two stellar soils. How lucky am I to get to play with both? I want that kit harvest as much as you and I want my no-till to perform the same. Each soil just demands a distinctly different touch of the gardener's hand.
 
Dutty Panty said:
I went from using a total of 12 bottles all different feeding ratios. And I have to wait 15 mins between a and b with house and garden. I've grown for 17 years and I'd say 5 have been a larger scale and three it's been my job. Docs kit is the easiest method besides crap osmcote method I tried like 4 years ago it was easy but results were very sub par. Docs is about to be tested on my end and it looks superb
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LOL....I like Osmocote! I don't use it anymore, but I do recommend it for people who haven't grown anything in their lives before.
 
Nice bud Dutty, properly frosty.

I personally went from spending a small fortune on advanced nutes producing bud that was barely worth smoking at all to growing as good or slightly better bud than I can get from the dispensaries on my very first HB grow. Now a year later I am growing bud that is far better than anything I can buy.

This is a bud from my first hb crop
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This is a bud from my most recent harvest, keep in mind I don't even understand whats really going on under the surface. I just know what I need to give the plants based on what they look like and when it the cycle it is at this point :rofl:
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Ok enough humble bragging :rofl: back to the regularly scheduled program. Zigg the test plants look fantastic! Cant wait for the final results, thanks so much for doing all of that for us!!! :high-five:
 
Doc Bud said:
The application of a pesticide is the act of admitting your crop has failed---paraphrased from Dr's Albrecht, Reams and others.

It works like this: sugar can't be digested by insects. When they get too much of it, it turns to alcohol which will kill the insect. Insects know this, which is why they target low brix plants. Low brix=low nutritional value for humans...but good food for bugs.

High Brix plants have different UV light patterns and different electrical charges which communicate to insects to STAY AWAY...deadly for them.

Them are just facts. The reason those of us growing HB don't have much if any insect pressure is because of the soil. This isn't my opinion. It's not just my experience, either. Everyone notices this when they have properly designed soil.
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I can attest to mites not digging it. I still get mites about once a year early March. My veg has a passive intake and well I use green clean. And this year when the bastards arrived they were on some here and there but not like usual I still used green clean and cleaned whole room twice to be safe. So mites don't like high brix nearly as much. There gone now anyways
 
Doc Bud said:
That sounds simple enough.

Here's what a typical week looks like growing with the kit:

Once a week I put one ounce of a liquid into 1 quart of water and spray my plants. Once a week I put one ounce of one liquid and roughly 3 mils of another into a 5 gallon bucket and give a gallon to each of 5 plants.

You're grinding malted barley, adding kelp meal, letting it steep, adding fulvic acid, aloe vera and silica.....and the using coconut water, aloe vera and agsil again.

I use water.

I can see why you think yours is easier. You're working with 7 ingredients, a sprayer and a mortar and pestle, while I'm only working with 3 ingredients and a sprayer.
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We don't count time moving plants around to soak? Or time setting up and breaking down soaks? Transplanting time is also not part of the experience? How much time invested in foliars? It isn't as simple as plant and water. It is simple. It is consistent. These were reasons I was giving it a go.
 
SmokeyMcFly said:
Nice bud Dutty, properly frosty.

I personally went from spending a small fortune on advanced nutes producing bud that was barely worth smoking at all to growing as good or slightly better bud than I can get from the dispensaries on my very first HB grow. Now a year later I am growing bud that is far better than anything I can buy.

This is a bud from my first hb crop
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This is a bud from my most recent harvest, keep in mind I don't even understand whats really going on under the surface. I just know what I need to give the plants based on what they look like and when it the cycle it is at this point :rofl:
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Ok enough humble bragging :rofl: back to the regularly scheduled program. Zigg the test plants look fantastic! Cant wait for the final results, thanks so much for doing all of that for us!!! :high-five:
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Damn your trimmed bud. Beautiful
 
SweetSue said:
We don't count time moving plants around to soak? Or time setting up and breaking down soaks? Transplanting time is also not part of the experience? How much time invested in foliars? It isn't as simple as plant and water. It is simple. It is consistent. These were reasons I was giving it a go.
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I don't soak once out of 1 gallons. Just top and bottom. My cool Lil flairsol sprayer thing is great. I spray well over 30 plants at a clip takes about 30 minutes don't like it but it's easy. Alot easier then brewing shit and grinding shit and waiting for shit. Etc etc. I don't show all my cards or any of the other grows I'm involved with but this is easier then house and garden and I'm in this to win cups so if I'm willing to jump heavy brix it must be easy cause I love being lazy
 
Dutty Panty said:
I can attest to mites not digging it. I still get mites about once a year early March. My veg has a passive intake and well I use green clean. And this year when the bastards arrived they were on some here and there but not like usual I still used green clean and cleaned whole room twice to be safe. So mites don't like high brix nearly as much. There gone now anyways
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Do you have a hepa filter on your passive intakes? If not it might be a good safety measure to keep any nasties out :thumb: I run the phresh ones on the intake of both my tents since it was cheap insurance but I don't know how effective it really is in my setup since the rest of my tents aren't completely airtight but it at least makes me feel better :)
 
SweetSue said:
We don't count time moving plants around to soak? Or time setting up and breaking down soaks? Transplanting time is also not part of the experience? How much time invested in foliars? It isn't as simple as plant and water. It is simple. It is consistent. These were reasons I was giving it a go.
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Mixing the foliar is easy....I can do it holding my breath. I sprayed last night....took 5 minutes for the whole room.

Setting up a soak:

1. put water into bucket.
2. add drench
3. add tea
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total time less than one minute.

Then I put a plant in the bucket and let it soak while I do something else, like pruning, inspection, topping, or transplanting. One of my favorite time savers is to transplant while I'm soaking the veg plants. The time it takes to go from one gallon to seven gallons is about the right time to let the little plants soak.

Breakdown of soaks:

1. empty bucket
2. rinse bucket

I've only been at this (like a fanatic) about 6 years, so I don't have that much real world experience compared to some others here.

But in spite of my relative lack of experience I've managed to produce some halfway decent buds from time to time.

I'll get some pics today. I have a few that look OK. Like this one.

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And as for moving plants Im chopping down between 15 and 30 a month in my grow. If my pots ain't moving in and out of rooms something is very very wrong. I'm about to retire to a cool tent indoor once I go rec maybe that will change probably not though I like harvesting every 30 days.
 
Doc Bud said:
Mixing the foliar is easy....I can do it holding my breath. I sprayed last night....took 5 minutes for the whole room.

Setting up a soak:

1. put water into bucket.
2. add drench
3. add tea
===========
total time less than one minute.

Then I put a plant in the bucket and let it soak while I do something else, like pruning, inspection, topping, or transplanting. One of my favorite time savers is to transplant while I'm soaking the veg plants. The time it takes to go from one gallon to seven gallons is about the right time to let the little plants soak.

Breakdown of soaks:

1. empty bucket
2. rinse bucket

I've only been at this (like a fanatic) about 6 years, so I don't have that much real world experience compared to some others here.

But in spite of my relative lack of experience I've managed to produce some halfway decent buds from time to time.

I'll get some pics today. I have a few that look OK. Like this one.

IMG_76771.JPG
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Damn you too. Yeah I need to take some pics of high brix bloom tonight right before lights.
 
Dutty Panty said:
Damn you too. Yeah I need to take some pics of high brix bloom tonight right before lights.
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That pic is my first try at Grape Stomper. I'm really liking it.....has promise. If I can coax a bit of purple it may very well displace Grape Ape from the rotation. I always have to have something purple....
 
SmokeyMcFly said:
Do you have a hepa filter on your passive intakes? If not it might be a good safety measure to keep any nasties out :thumb: I run the phresh ones on the intake of both my tents since it was cheap insurance but I don't know how effective it really is in my setup since the rest of my tents aren't completely airtight but it at least makes me feel better :)
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I have 3 pre filters. Mites are sneaky bastards. I wear Lil shoe sleeve things and garden Damn near nude. In Washington in early spring you can look across yards and see trillions of mite colonies in the dew. That's why I bust my ass cleaning my rooms and keeping them tidy. No pets no shoes no food sterile tools etc etc
 
Doc Bud said:
Mixing the foliar is easy....I can do it holding my breath. I sprayed last night....took 5 minutes for the whole room.

Setting up a soak:

1. put water into bucket.
2. add drench
3. add tea
===========
total time less than one minute.

Then I put a plant in the bucket and let it soak while I do something else, like pruning, inspection, topping, or transplanting. One of my favorite time savers is to transplant while I'm soaking the veg plants. The time it takes to go from one gallon to seven gallons is about the right time to let the little plants soak.

Breakdown of soaks:

1. empty bucket
2. rinse bucket

I've only been at this (like a fanatic) about 6 years, so I don't have that much real world experience compared to some others here.

But in spite of my relative lack of experience I've managed to produce some halfway decent buds from time to time.

I'll get some pics today. I have a few that look OK. Like this one.

IMG_76771.JPG
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No one should ever be so foolish as to suggest you lack experience Doc. :laughtwo: Your results have always spoken for you.

Thank you for that insight into the process. It's a new approach for me, and that coming off a new experience in LOS. This should be an interesting journey.
 
Dutty Panty said:
I have 3 pre filters. Mites are sneaky bastards. I wear Lil shoe sleeve things and garden Damn near nude. In Washington in early spring you can look across yards and see trillions of mite colonies in the dew. That's why I bust my ass cleaning my rooms and keeping them tidy. No pets no shoes no food sterile tools etc etc
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yep. and no wearing anything yellow! They just love yellow for some reason.
 
SweetSue said:
No one should ever be so foolish as to suggest you lack experience Doc. :laughtwo: Your results have always spoken for you.

Thank you for that insight into the process. It's a new approach for me, and that coming off a new experience in LOS. This should be an interesting journey.
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Thanks Sue.

And yet, compared to others I don't have that much experience......I'm well aware of it. I do have a few things in my favor:

1. a post doctoral education
2. a good mind
3. ability to read scientific literature and understand it
4. a local university with several horticultural majors, along with crop science, soil science, etc.
5. easy access to all sorts of weed so I can see how I'm doing compared to the norm.

Every year that goes by adds to my experience. I reckon in 5 more years I'll be a real expert.
 
Dutty Panty said:
I have 3 pre filters. Mites are sneaky bastards. I wear Lil shoe sleeve things and garden Damn near nude. In Washington in early spring you can look across yards and see trillions of mite colonies in the dew. That's why I bust my ass cleaning my rooms and keeping them tidy. No pets no shoes no food sterile tools etc etc
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Wow that sounds like a pita. My needing to dump gallons and gallons of water into the humidifier every day doesn't sound so bad anymore :rofl: Most bugs cant live here in the desert due to the lack of water for them. We also don't have to many mold issues :)
 
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