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You'd backyard is going to be stinking up the whole neighborhood come August!
 
Wind was blowing the rain sideways but tge ladies managed it, I was SURPRISED no breakage RIGHT ON!

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Didn't break and didn't get picked up and tossed into your favorite neighbor's yard either! :bravo:
 
One of the most important skills any grower can have is the ability to visually identify a deficiency or issue with their crop. Proper scouting and early identification of nutrient or IPM issues is critical to staying on target with your harvest goals. This can be confusing for newer growers and can take decades to learn, requiring constant repetition. This is especially true for cannabis growers with few scientifically backed representative images available due to prohibition. We are all familiar with the old nutrient deficiency posters that did little despite their best intentions to help growers determine nutrient issues. Where many vegetable and ornamental cultivators can simply consult the venerable Nutrient Deficiencies In Bedding Plants to visually search for an answer to their question it still becomes a game of memorization. That has always made it very hard for me to teach others and at best I had to hope that experience and time would guide them.

What was needed was a dichotomous key. Rather than relying on memorization, utilizing a dichotomous key gives a clear and simplified path to determining the nutrient deficiency at hand. The staff at KIS has built this off of existing models from more traditional agriculture. Our hope is that it will be of value for all growers. Pulling from traditional agricultural tools we have crafted a useful key for all growers but also specifically for cannabis growers. KIS is here to support all forms of cultivation in an effort to move towards sustainable practices. Proper utilization of the appropriate nutrients is key to managing these strategies. Before we teach you the process for determining nutrient deficiencies we have a very important decision to make. Is this really a nutrient issue?

BIOTIC OR ABIOTIC

Experienced growers who perform regular scouting can easily recognize patterns in their canopy. With multiple cultivars, as most cannabis growers tend to run, this can get tricky. However, if you pay attention to each cultivar as its own project it is greatly simplified. Growers should be looking for areas of chlorosis, yellowing of the plants, and necrosis, brown dead tissue that cannot regenerate. Wilting and leaf angles are more important as environmental signalers rather than as indicators for nutrient issues and we will discuss that separately. The first step we need to take in diagnosing a plant issue is to determine the cause of the visual cues we are evaluating. That first step is to determine if the cause of your plant's stress is biotic (think pests and pathogens) or abiotic (think nutrients and environment).

A biotic symptom is almost always displayed randomly throughout the crop, unless you wait far too long and then it will affect the entire crop. Pests and pathogens tend to jump around from area to area and plant to plant, skipping some plants entirely and going after others. Be sure to include a sufficiently strong scope in your scouting tool kit. Examine the underside of leaves with a strong handheld scope. The crucial importance of proper scouting can not be over emphasized! A real life example would be a grower showing signs of K deficiency that after scoping realized he had been fighting russet mites for months with K inputs! You can't act appropriately without a proper identification, regardless of whether you are dealing with a biotic or an abiotic issue. If you are looking at an individual plant for symptoms ask yourself if there is a discernible pattern on the leaves? If you were to fold a leaf over would it line up with damage on the other side fairly consistently? If your response is yes and you are seeing patterns; entire benches or quadrants within your canopy, then you are most likely dealing with an abiotic stress. Abiotic stresses are caused by nutrient issues and environmental issues. If you find that you are dealing with a pest issue you need to contact a licensed, qualified professional. While trying to remain brand agnostic you can not do better than contacting Suzanne Wainwright Evans, The Bug Lady at "Buglady Consulting" for commercial facilities. If you are a small personal grower, reach out to us and we will see if we can help or if it would be worth investing in a consultation with an IPM specialist.

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Water only so far this season although i did top dress some compost . I mixed about 4 gallons of compost with a small handful of each,ground up (with my garden supply coffee grinder)alfalfa,neem,kelp and fish meal with 1 heaping TBS of walsonite for silica about a 2 or 3 good handfuls for each container scratched in on the surface and watered in ,about a about a week or so ago gonna be an Good year this year if they go into flower looking like that, and I can keep the bugs and rot off them,so far so good.
That mixture for a foilar spray,1TBS of cease with 1tbs Milstop and a gallon of water every 3 days or after rain seems to be doing the trick so far 👍
 
That's quite a lineup of plants you've got, literally and figuratively!
 
I feel the need to have a garden outside for some reason. I did way more than i wanted to but I can't help myself Like i said I get my experimenting outta the way outside, you should have seen my plants 6 years ago when i switched from salt to organic, They were SAD to say the least! I had no idea of what I was doing even with advice and help but now easy as pie and ALOT cheaper and more sustainable 👍
 
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