That last photo looks like some sticky icky. Are you positive you’re not losing your sense of smell?
@SauronBlue I’m not sure if you’ve read this, but if you have not... it is absolutely vital to growing cannabis in pots.
You said you’re using GreenLeaf one part Nutrient? You mean Megacrop?
in soilless, (coco especially) it’s very bad to not saturate the entire pot with a solution that’s too heavy a couple times, then add fresh water. it makes a very inconsistent root zone that’s just asking for all kinds of issues.
I just spend a bunch of time in there, watering and propping up buds that are way too heavy for their stems. The only time I smell anything is when I try. I do get that lights off, chlorophyll smell.
Yes, Megacrop is my main nute, I'm running a comparison with new millenium rn, I have Advanced, but I think I'm gonna try humboldt's secret before I try anything else.
I've read that and try to basically follow it, but how closely do people really follow that? I only started adding a plain water run every few feedings after having this issue, and seeing that many other growers seem to do this. What precisely is the issue with this?
I see youtube growers that are running successful commercial grows that just flood their coco like crazy every day - no dry cycle, no slowly allowing for lateral absorption, done in like 30 seconds a plant. Then you've got the very commercially popular drip irrigation, which cannot cycle around the plant, moving silt from the root ball out, then back in. There's a dozen different ways to deliver nutes to media that ppl swear by, that don't follow that procedure; spayers, emitters, those little carrots that keep the soil moist thru osmosis and syphon, flood and drain, etc. And that's if you are using a different style altogether, but I'm sure plenty are watering in this style, but just not willing to be so meticulous. Are they all going to fail if they don't do this? How can I be doing it so wrong that I have a problem that literally no one else has?
Like I said before, I water slowly, making sure to get the edges, the whole plant. I hit one lightly, then move on to allow it to absorb outwards, not just down. I generally go over the whole surface to get it started, making sure all gets wet, but nothing pools. Once it's a bit wet, I make sure to get the edges, make sure they are wet and soil isn't coming away from the pot. I go around 2-3x, watering evenly until I start to see runoff, usually about 5-10%, not 20. I think that's a pretty damn good job, and it takes me about an hour just to water the bloom area. I try to use the best practices that I uncover, even though I have literally NEVER seen anyone in person or on the probably hundred youtube vidoes of successful growers, dispensaries, grow houses, outdoor in California - ANYWHERE use that procedure to the letter. But they all grow bomb bud. It just doesn't make sense that it's so difficult for me
My greatest source of frustration, thru my journey of learning to grow cannabis has been the wildly variant, contradictory and tribal beliefs and techniques. What one person who's been growing 15 years says is absolutely vital, the next tells you is insane and will ruin your whole crop. It's like the same thing as politics these days, there's basically no middle ground, and no tolerance for what the other guy likes. There's also very little data, and lots of opinion; meaning, ppl don't usually give detailed info about what processes are meant to be affected, what macro/micro nutrients are involved in the issue, the signs it should show upon manifestation or alleviation. There's little science and much conjuncture. We don't generally learn this from a university, but by copying others and trial-and-error, which means we don't really know WHY things happen, just that when we personally tried a, it worked, while b didn't. And when you factor in that every grow has dozens of variables that can change things, from soil composition, water, nutes, supplements, light type, VPD, strain, training, pots, and on and on, do many really have good experience with a wide range of different settings? Makes me feel like there's no hope that anyone will be able to help me
I got the pump, and tried to suck up the runoff like a straw (I didn't have the tubing for the intake yet, but I figure it must work the same way using the barbs, just shorter, and since I hadn't had time to go shopping, I tried to make it work). Turns out that even though the pump looks like it'll just suck up from the intake hose like a straw, it needs the water to get all the way to the pump to create any suction. As long as the pump is in air, or even mostly air, it can't create pressure, so nothing happens. The good thing is that once it starts, it will suck up the water until the vacuum is broken. All this means that it was still a big pain to drain with the pump, I had to slosh the water around or add more from another tray, in order to get the pump submerged to get it started. Once it was going, I could tip it up and get most of the water, but once it gets low and grabs some air, it dumps out what it has, and I've gotta mop it up with rags. It's not like using a shop-vac, and just chasing the water until it's up, this always leaves a layer of liquid. Speaking of shop-vac, I bought one of those, but it is incredibly noisy, and pops my fuses like bubblegum, which does not really help me keep stealthy. Especially if I put it under a load, like lifting water, it cranks up the amps, and trips the breaker.