Blazinjones
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Jus use gorilla tape n it will be pitch dark works great
Blazinjones
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Yea i jus take my clones out and i put some aloe on the roots from my aloe plant n then jus stick them straight in perlite n as of now I havnt started nutes yet jus started cal-mag and with nex watering will switch the ph to 5.5 or close to it n thn go from there but as soon as my other nutes arrive ill be starting with 2 different brands 2 c which does better one is remo nutes and the other is roots organic nutes
HATE that stuff, lol. A friend's mother crunched her front lights, and he taped them back on with it and asked me to do a complete replacement (he found an inexpensive set of new headlights/parking lights/bulbs). Had I known that I'd spend way too much time just getting an end up, then even more time trying to pull it, then finally wrapping that little bit around the shaft of a screwdriver so that I could exert maximum force with both hands/wrists/arms, I'd probably have told him to go get stuffed instead of, "Sure, I can swap her lights - how hard could it be?"
I spent more time pulling the @%^*ing tape off her front end than I did on the actual light swap :icon_roll . The latter was a piece of cake, which was good because, by that point, I was in a mood.
That stuff belongs in a serial killer's toolbox, lol. But the real reason I don't want to use it for this application is that I don't have any. OtOH, I do have huge piles of absolutely nothing
- so I'd much rather use that. I did so in the past (again, with green bottles) and didn't notice any issues, but IDK if that was a lucky fluke or even if there were issues and I just failed to notice.Gorilla Tape, lol. Aptly named, that stuff....
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If seem to recall B A R used green bottles in his grow, and I don't remember him having any issues with them. Give it a try. I bet your theory is valid. You'll know if they develop issues. The duck tape works wonderfully well to darken them, but then most of us are using clear plastic.
Blazinjones
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Ohh ok kool glad to know that green bottles won't effect it in a bad way always learning new stuff on this site lol love this place
FlowerNose
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Hiya. 
Is one inch (#4) perlite too large for hempy style?
Is one inch (#4) perlite too large for hempy style?
I figure it'll be fine. Won't be anything but green light inside the bottles, so that should prevent photosynthesizing algae, and the non-photosyenthisizing stuff (aka "brown root slime") hasn't really ever bothered me, probably because I don't mess with "organics" and, therefore, can - and do - just dump in some oxidizer on a regular basis.
I was really just looking for assurance, and I thank you for giving it.
Yes... eventually
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Blazinjones
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Hey guys i was just siting here thinkn bout my garden and reading every1s journals n i seem to see tht alot of people r doing every 3 days water/feeding there girls so I wondered if me doing every 2 days was maybe alil to soon and will the girls be able 2 get enuf of the nutes b4 im taking them away??
Naturalgrow
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Well, seeing as how I'm about burned out on the vegetative phase :icon_roll , lol...
But, seriously, if I go through with putting rooted clones into two-liter hempies, and the flowering period is up to 14 weeks, I probably should limit the vegetative period to about five minutes
I've got a couple of other things starting. One is an auto-flower so it doesn't much matter in terms of what lighting schedule I run. But the other is a young BbxWW cross that I hope turns out to be female, and it needs to grow and stretch for best results. I hope it's a phototropic strain, lol, since it's still in a little Solo cup. If I end up extending the vegetative time for those two, I'll have to do the same for the cuttings (currently only running one space).
EDIT: If a planned LST turns into a supercrop, add one week to the vegetative period.
And if I get a really wild hair and start some more strains... Well, I probably shouldn't do that right now <SHUDDERS>.
It may depend on how the cuttings do. I could just run a few in larger containers.
IDK.
Love your blog! Is it safe to clip a fan leaf while buds are growing?
First, one assumes that people water their plants... when those plants need to be watered, lol. If it works out to every three days, fine. If it's every two days, fine. As long as you don't wait too long to water a plant, or constantly water it too often. Personally, I (and, IMHO, cannabis plants) favor giving a plant an adequate amount of water when it needs it. But I've seen people mention giving not enough water, but doing so every single day... and they still seem to manage to harvest something. Cannabis in general is a pretty resilient species.
As to (what appears to be) "every two days was maybe a little too soon, and will the girls be able to get enough of the nutrients before I'm taking them away?" You're taking away nutrients from your plants, lol? Aren't you... adding nutrients back in? I don't think that plants are like people - if I'm eating a nice steak, and you attempt to take it away from me, it doesn't matter whether or not you've got a platter full of food to give me afterwards, because you'll still get at least a fork in the eye (and I might end up getting serious about it
) for trying to grab my dead cow. But plants aren't like that. Hempy is just passive hydroponics, so you should be feeding with every watering (unless it's a "flush," and I won't go into that in this post). Assuming that you're watering to runoff, you're both adding in fresh nutrients and removing at least some portion of the waste products excreted by the roots and imbalanced nutrients caused by the plant uptaking more of some elements than others. It's comparable to changing the nutrient solution in a DWC reservoir, only not as "good." That's why a proper hempy-grown plant can outgrow a proper soil-grown one.I'm just rambling. Take the above with a grain of salt and ask for corroborating (or dissenting, lol) opinions.
Naturalgrow
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First, one assumes that people water their plants... when those plants need to be watered, lol. If it works out to every three days, fine. If it's every two days, fine. As long as you don't wait too long to water a plant, or constantly water it too often. Personally, I (and, IMHO, cannabis plants) favor giving a plant an adequate amount of water when it needs it. But I've seen people mention giving not enough water, but doing so every single day... and they still seem to manage to harvest something. Cannabis in general is a pretty resilient species.
As to (what appears to be) "every two days was maybe a little too soon, and will the girls be able to get enough of the nutrients before I'm taking them away?" You're taking away nutrients from your plants, lol? Aren't you... adding nutrients back in? I don't think that plants are like people - if I'm eating a nice steak, and you attempt to take it away from me, it doesn't matter whether or not you've got a platter full of food to give me afterwards, because you'll still get at least a fork in the eye (and I might end up getting serious about it
I'm just rambling. Take the above with a grain of salt and ask for corroborating (or dissenting, lol) opinions.
You had me laughing "fork in the eye"
What do you feed a plant . in 3rd week of budding ?
I'm using compost soil .,....
She looks so sad and anorexic.
It depends. If it's still in the stretch (first 40% of flowering period), I'd still be giving it some nitrogen.
Regardless, I'd be giving it light, potassium, light, phosphorous, and... light.
But I don't use "organics." So I just up the amount of "bloom" nutrient component, while reducing (and, eventually, eliminating) the "grow" one. If I'm using a three-part nutrient set, I'll continue to give it the "micro." So... IDK why I'm trying to answer a question about an organic grow, lol. I need a "self-ban" button to give me - and everyone else - a break now and then.
Regardless, I'd be giving it light, potassium, light, phosphorous, and... light.
But I don't use "organics." So I just up the amount of "bloom" nutrient component, while reducing (and, eventually, eliminating) the "grow" one. If I'm using a three-part nutrient set, I'll continue to give it the "micro." So... IDK why I'm trying to answer a question about an organic grow, lol. I need a "self-ban" button to give me - and everyone else
- a break now and then.
Naturalgrow
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It depends. If it's still in the stretch (first 40% of flowering period), I'd still be giving it some nitrogen.
Regardless, I'd be giving it light, potassium, light, phosphorous, and... light.
But I don't use "organics." So I just up the amount of "bloom" nutrient component, while reducing (and, eventually, eliminating) the "grow" one. If I'm using a three-part nutrient set, I'll continue to give it the "micro." So... IDK why I'm trying to answer a question about an organic grow, lol. I need a "self-ban" button to give me - and everyone else
lol your help is appreciated .
Blazinjones
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ok so i was wondering in a hempy grow do i need to do a flush every now and then after i start my nutes ill be using remo nutes and roots organic bottle nutes
A flush consists of pouring a bit more water to be sure the resevour water is changed out so crap dosent build up. It's not like flush in soil...but kinda
It's not a bad idea, I do it every couple weeks ish.
Gauge Steel
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Hiya.
No. I am currently using it. If you are going to germ in it you can always grab a couple handfuls of it, place it in a bucket and use something to smash it down to a smaller size.
AnimaSola
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I wear a paint respirator when I handle perlite, years of breathing the dust can give you cancer and breathing problems.
And you got this info from where??????
I did see conflicting MSDS sheets.... interesting read
How would someone have years of breathing perlit...lol
Dosent sound fun
Dosent sound fun
AnimaSola
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Just mixing it makes dust fly in the air, you breathe it in every time you mix it and it can cause cancer later in life.