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Hay Sparky I just found your journal, If you don't mind I will take a seat in the back with the cool kids. I will get caught up in a bit.
Hello All!
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Hell yeah man, welcome. It's pretty laid back in my thread. As you can see, I only have 27 pages on 3 grows. Thanks for stopping by
Dankman_420
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That green garden wire is the cats pajamas 
Love your setup too 
Love your setup too 
Yea, pajamas! Super deal and I know where I'm going for that next.
Plants are looking great, Sparkey-
I'm gonna have to check for those garden ties next time I'm in the dollar store-probably walked right past them last time I was there...
I'm gonna have to check for those garden ties next time I'm in the dollar store-probably walked right past them last time I was there...
I trim the same way-if it's got trichomes,it generally stays....pretty nugs don't get me any higher than leafy nugs...
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Sweet! Got the @Dankman_420 in the house. Thanks for stopping by bro.That green garden wire is the cats pajamas
candycane
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Looking beautiful over there and that bud looks mighty tasty 
hope you’re having a great day so far
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Thanks brother! They're getting there slowly. Hopefully, another 3 weeks of veg and flip. Just have to wait and see how big they get. Good seeing you @carcass
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Hey @candycane ! Thank you for the kind words.Looking beautiful over there and that bud looks mighty tasty
Good smoke, needs to cure for couple more weeks though. Good seeing you Candy.
Sätkis
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I just bought the same ties! Theyre great. Been using them for long time.. i have a box full of old used pieces of it and if im out of ties or cant find any laying around, i take from there 
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Yeah, I was lucky to find them. I bought 3pks and might go back tomorrow. It was up front by the valentine candy promotion displays. Also, bought a couple of these small bags of seed/clones soil. Enough soil for about 2 or 3 solo cups. Perfect for my next round of clones or seeds.I just bought the same ties! Theyre great. Been using them for long time.. i have a box full of old used pieces of it and if im out of ties or cant find any laying around, i take from there
Thanks for stopping by @Sätkis . Hows you wonder woman x super skunk turning out?
Sätkis
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Shes doing good. Biggest single plant ive grown so far. On week 4 atm. I have a big tiedown operation coming soon in the backroom. 6days since flip and no net. Lucky i have those frames there atleast.
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Wow, that's a serious canopy..lol..looking great man. I would love to grab some of those seeds. Great job @Sätkis
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Hey 420 family,
So, I was pumped up today having a little extra cash. I decided to buy some bone/blood meal to my recipe. I'm in coast of Maine soil with kelp,fish bone meal, ect. I had about 3 gallons of roots organic soil leftover applied 4 tbsp of bone meal, 4 tbsp blood meal, 4 tbsp kelp as a top dress. I'm new to creating my own soil, so hopefully I dont screw these diesel up. We shall see soon I guess
So, I was pumped up today having a little extra cash. I decided to buy some bone/blood meal to my recipe. I'm in coast of Maine soil with kelp,fish bone meal, ect. I had about 3 gallons of roots organic soil leftover applied 4 tbsp of bone meal, 4 tbsp blood meal, 4 tbsp kelp as a top dress. I'm new to creating my own soil, so hopefully I dont screw these diesel up. We shall see soon I guess
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Also, about a 3rd of ewc
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Hello 420,
I wasn't going to post today but I'm tripping mentally because my plants look like they're hungry in their 5 gallon fabric pots.
The reason is trying to get my recipe down for my soil.
They were transplanted in 5 gallon on Jan 7th with adding some amendments to my coast of Maine soil. 3 tablespoons of kelp,fishbone meal, lime,epsom salt.
On Jan 21st they were top dress with 4 tablespoons of kelp,blood,bone,alfalfa, combined with 3 gallons of roots organic soil with 1 gallon on earth worm castings. Since the top dress they have only been watered once.
I think they need to Veg for least another week or 2 but I'm concern either overfeeding them or not giving them enough with this new recipe. I also raised my lights up a little bit too. Temp/humidity are good. Here's a couple of pics. Any help would be appreciated kindly.
Cropking Sour Diesel clone
Amherst Sour Diesel pheno #2 from seed
Amherst Sour Diesel pheno #1 from seed
Last pic look like cal/mag?
I wasn't going to post today but I'm tripping mentally because my plants look like they're hungry in their 5 gallon fabric pots.
The reason is trying to get my recipe down for my soil.They were transplanted in 5 gallon on Jan 7th with adding some amendments to my coast of Maine soil. 3 tablespoons of kelp,fishbone meal, lime,epsom salt.
On Jan 21st they were top dress with 4 tablespoons of kelp,blood,bone,alfalfa, combined with 3 gallons of roots organic soil with 1 gallon on earth worm castings. Since the top dress they have only been watered once.
I think they need to Veg for least another week or 2 but I'm concern either overfeeding them or not giving them enough with this new recipe. I also raised my lights up a little bit too. Temp/humidity are good. Here's a couple of pics. Any help would be appreciated kindly.
Cropking Sour Diesel clone
Amherst Sour Diesel pheno #2 from seed
Amherst Sour Diesel pheno #1 from seed
Last pic look like cal/mag?
Hey Sparkey, I think the blood and bone meals need to be composted before we feed. I'm fairly new at it myself so I'm not sure but look in that direction. I wouldn't know what to do either if so. I feel ya brother. Maybe @Emilya is on.
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I was going to feed them next watering some Neptune, 1 teaspoon gallon?
Hey bro. The plants look fine in my opinion. The last one looks like it might need a little something but other than that they look pretty good. This is the reason I’m not a soil guy. I don’t like how much time it takes to see a change. You can feed it today and won’t see drastic changes until next week. Anyways I’m sure you will get it sorted and they will flower out without a hitch.
Peace brotha
Peace brotha
Emilya Green
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@Sparkey224, You are approaching this organic thing as if you were still in charge of feeding your plants. You have taken a good mineralized and cooked soil, and added uncooked amendments into it, and are continuing to add more as topdressings.
A word about topdressing... All that can be immediately available to to the plant is whatever small component of the raw material that happens to be water soluble. The rest just sits there in the soil, waiting to be broken down into its core components. All of that excess raw nutrient is sitting and building up in your soil... with nowhere to go, and not enough time in a 3 month grow to break down and be accessible to the plants. Worse than that, the buildup of certain elements in the soil can lock out access to other elements and you can easily upset the delicate balancing act that is going on in the soil.
Topdressing is for an emergency fine tuning, or a boost... not for feeding. In organic growing, you actually get out of the role of feeding the plant, and you let the microbes take care of things for you. That, is what you need to give your hungry plants... more microbes. In one watering with a microbial infusion via a product made specifically for that, or a proper actively aerated compost tea, you can bring millions of microfeeding factories into action in your soil, breaking down exactly the raw nutrients that your plants are calling for. The plants don't want you to feed them... they want you to fix the feeding cycle so that they, the microbes and the fungi can do the job better than a human ever could.
A word about topdressing... All that can be immediately available to to the plant is whatever small component of the raw material that happens to be water soluble. The rest just sits there in the soil, waiting to be broken down into its core components. All of that excess raw nutrient is sitting and building up in your soil... with nowhere to go, and not enough time in a 3 month grow to break down and be accessible to the plants. Worse than that, the buildup of certain elements in the soil can lock out access to other elements and you can easily upset the delicate balancing act that is going on in the soil.
Topdressing is for an emergency fine tuning, or a boost... not for feeding. In organic growing, you actually get out of the role of feeding the plant, and you let the microbes take care of things for you. That, is what you need to give your hungry plants... more microbes. In one watering with a microbial infusion via a product made specifically for that, or a proper actively aerated compost tea, you can bring millions of microfeeding factories into action in your soil, breaking down exactly the raw nutrients that your plants are calling for. The plants don't want you to feed them... they want you to fix the feeding cycle so that they, the microbes and the fungi can do the job better than a human ever could.