Hey there Rad... sorry to hear about the seeds direct into hempy....
GL with the last UD seed... everyone seems to be running that strain around these parts! UD some variant of Chemdawg??
This seed will hit it and be the keeper.. sometimes it happens that way.
I agree on the smell of males. They tend at least to my nose, smell grassy in VEG.
The Chems that I run tho smell different at different times of the day specially in VEG. They are all over the place and go from straight up gas to dank piss to no smell... and a few days later they do it all again.
GL with the little ones. Winter time is here apparently - tonight 21F - last year we didn't hit 21F until February. Thought we were going that direction again this year. Looks and feels like snow already.
RO water and PH - it will never change. I've left several 5 gal homer buckets sit for 3 weeks covered lots of times, all good.
Now wondering about the plastic the buckets are made from.....
Rad (and friends), I updated the organic soil thread with some info on soil testing. Found a university (VA Tech) that will test anyone's soil out of state for a comprehensive test result (2 pages worth), cost is $16 and you get the test results in 3 days or less sent to you via e-mail. Just have to fill out a form and send in your soil.
Va Tech will also test soil that is chemically fertilized for an additional $6 (I think) and they will advise you about the fertilizers (salts) in your soil.
Also a good link there about our County Extension Service.. not sure what's up with Oregon and Washington State. They get the same funding as the rest of the states get but now do not offer soil testing to the public.
Makes me wanna wonder what they are doing with the money
we send them and the test equipment that
we bought for them.
By "we" that's all tax paying people in the USA - FDA is a federal tax subsidized program. Part of that is to make sure we don't have another famine like we did during the 30s. Soil testing is a BIG part of the success of no famine for US. Food for thought!
We get the same thing here in PA for $10 but report is mailed.