The Gee Spot - You Finally Found It

[Thirvnrob]

I think in the most recent Rev book he suggests dolo water at 50ppm every watering. It's been a while since I read it so I'll have to go back and reread.

He also has a churn - a 1 gallon pitcher with a bubbler & various additions - worm lechate, etc, that he keeps bubbling all the time. He adds a small enough amount to his dolo water to raise ppm to 65.

 

[Gee64]

Patience indeed! I’ve upped my watering game just because I understand it better. I’m happy with my recycled soil & have a couple batches of the Rev’s TLO Druid blend cooking as I type. Both batches stayed over 90°f for their first week. I mixed the second batch a little over a week later than the first & it’s still in the high 80s. Building the soil is very therapeutic for me. Turning it, feeling the warmth of it, smelling it & waiting for it to finish is very satisfying. To me, it’s just the first stage of a grow. I’m getting a better understanding of brix & one huge benefit of getting it right is pest management comes from the plant itself! Huge load off the gardeners back! Now I’m reading - studying your recent VPD post. Lots to digest there, but it’s beginning to make sense. If I get that figured out I’ll be good to go. My name’s Rob & I’m an organaholic. Thanks for being everyone’s sponsor!

I'm glad your enjoying soil Rob. It's where everything else begins.Patience is definitely key.

It takes awhile to get the basics because there's no money in selling you a bag of calcium, so there is no instruction manual on calcium growing... err... I mean organics.

So we figure it out together and have a few laughs along the way.

I'm really proud of all of you folks hanging out around here. You rolled in looking for an answer or two, got yourselves headed in a better direction, and now all the contests are filling up with Organaholics.

In Canada, legal weed isn't allowed to have bug spray on it, so we are more organic and this info is now becoming more available.

I may have got you started, or another member hanging out here may have done it, but the effort has to come from you guys once you have the knowledge, and here is the best part that's unavoidable.

Organics is all about composting. Composting has rules but if you follow them everything else works.

Human health is actually all about composting too, as our biome is a bunch of composters. If you follow the rules everything else also works. The rules for both are pretty much the same as it's pretty much the same microbes in plants and humans.

So once you understand the organic processes it's only a matter of time until you realize that if you grow yourself thru your stomach the same way as you grow a plant thru your soil, you too have no option but to break into high brix, metaphorically speaking, and be as healthy as your high brix plant.

We run on calcium too. Digesting animal protein requires vast amounts of calcium and you will eventually need Calmag.

High brix food is calmag for humans.

So when you hear someone say "Organics is more than how you garden, it's a lifestyle", all that really means is they have figured out what I just said.

If soil gets low on calcium then nitrogen gets locked out.

In humans we call nitrogen "protein", and if you google protein, it's definition is "a nitrogenous material", so if you get low on calcium your nitrogen (proteins) get locked out in the exact same manner as a plant's does. Disease to us is bugs to a plant. Low calcium will cull you.

Plants show brown spots from a Ca deficiency, humans show type 2 diabetes from a Ca deficiency. That's why osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes go hand in hand. Cardiovascular disease has already started. If type 2 diabetes get's bad enough budrot sets in and your only kption is to start pruning limbs off.

Our bodies can't intake calcium in large doses (supplements) just as plants don't enjoy strong calmag. So you have no choice but to adopt an organic approach to fix your health which turns it into a lifestyle.

That's a bit off topic but it's a spoiler alert for where your all headed so don't fight it, it will make you angry at the world because the world wants you unhealthy and that's a violation, so you get angry from being violated.

Embrace it instead, knowledge will set you free. Enjoy the results, and be happy.

It's one of those well hidden things that once you see it, it can't be unseen, and both health and good weed start with the soil.

I guess it actually wasn't really off topic....

I need a coffee

 

[Gee64]

He also has a churn - a 1 gallon pitcher with a bubbler & various additions - worm lechate, etc, that he keeps bubbling all the time. He adds a small enough amount to his dolo water to raise ppm to 65.

I gotta buy his new book, Santa let me down... Naughty list thing I suppose.....

 

[Gee64]

I a some what familiar with brix idea, I have been skimming y'all's convos recently (no lurking I swear) about brix and I'm curious,what exactly is it measuring,? I believe I understood that it's sugar that it's measuring ? Somehow high glucose correlates to a resistance to most bacteria and pests ?

It is a way of measuring sugars, and the refractometer also measures solids in the sap, and just like the CEC, the solids are mostly calcium, the rest is the other cations, so the fuzzy line means solids are good, and solids are mainly calcium so calcium is good.

Pests don't have pancreas's, so they can't digest sugars, so the sugars will ferment inside them and turn into alcohol and kill them. They know this so they stay away.

Or only specific pests.

Different pests can handle different amounts of sugars, but at 13 or 14 brix none can handle the sugars.

How can brix be high in a plant like the pics you showed ? Especially the shriveling leaves ? Cant a plant have high sugar and not be growing optimally ?

She spent her whole life growing high brix and storing the sugars and minerals in her leaves for future use. When a plant decides to use those minerals instead of soil minerals you can't stop her, it's encoded in her DNA. She decided to eat from the fridge instead of going to the store.

Or unhealthily ? Or does brix represent a resistance only but not metabolic health ? Idk if I'm saying this tight lol can a plant in a too hot environment still have high brix ?

Anything is possible but brix works best when balance is achieved. In humans it's called homeostasis.

Can a damaged plant have high brix ? What system or aspect of plant does brix represent?

Brix is a measure of sugars, and sugars create health. Sugars are made by successful photosynthesis, so really brix is a measure of photosynthetic efficiency.

Sorry to machine gun guys

lol no apologies needed, those are all great questions that everyone ahead of you have asked, and everyone behind you will ask.

 

[Gee64]

My lower leaves are doing this.

I can't read this. Any idea? They are limp, not crisp.

EDIT: Problem solved. I spoke to Jon and he said these inner lowers are dying because they don't see the light, they aren't needed and it isn't a problem. He advised me to trim off some the overhanging leaves, blocking light from the lower budlets, which I've now done.

Jon is correct. At a certain point they have more value as nutrients than they do as leaves, so she eats them and then rebuilds them in the light. It's natural and efficient. She already paid for them and now she's relocating them.

 

[Gee64]

Ok, so I think this is a nitrogen deficiency? Perhaps from under watering? I am noticing that the plant is increasingly thirsty. I top dressed yesterday with Elemental Blend and EWC, and watered it in. Today I watered with fish water. The day before yesterday I watered with kelp water.

EDIT: Nope nope nope, wrong.

This is a top view

lol you crazy chick Are you asking me something here, or did someone tell you I like ditzy chicks? Just joking Carmen. Your edit threw me off. She looks gorgeous

 

[Gee64]

He also has a churn - a 1 gallon pitcher with a bubbler & various additions - worm lechate, etc, that he keeps bubbling all the time. He adds a small enough amount to his dolo water to raise ppm to 65.

Rev's a wicked smart guy, he just loves speaking in riddles. He's figured out what Azi just stumbled us onto. If you don't bubble it long enough to fully dissolve, it will haunt you, as @g-one-three found out. The churn is a great idea

 

[Thirvnrob]

I gotta buy his new book, Santa let me down... Naughty list thing I suppose.....

Two chapters have me hypnotized are chapter 3: Everything Water & chapter 4: Everything Soil. I’m wearing the book out reading these two chapters…