The Mega Crop Thread

I'd bump it up. 5.5g or 6g.
Jump to 6g if you don't mind possibly torching your tips. Ease into it if you are trying to grow a picturesque potm
I'd jump to 6 if they were mine.
 
I got this from the MC site for dosing if it helps anyone.
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This plant has gotten 2g fed as soon as it hit the netpot 4 days after the seed cracked. Root porn @ 19 days from dry seed. I should have bumped up to 3g @ day 16. I fell behind.
 
Thanks gents 2grams it is... soon as these bugger pop up. I hate this part!
 
NewLedFarmer said:
I'm currently at 5g/gal of mega crop day 54, will be flipping lights in about 2 weeks

My question is should I order sweet candy or bud explosion to use with mega crop in flowering?
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@NewLedFarmer, that is a loaded question. :Rasta:

I'm currently trying those two supplements for the first time (also my first MC grow). I've tried the SC and BE on a auto Zkittles, and I believe bud production has been enhanced. I've also used the SC only on a auto Purple Lemonade. With her, I can't speak to bud improvement yet, but I haven't seen any adverse effects. I use each at 1g per gallon and I don't plan to go any higher. You could start using the SC now. I would recommend holding off on the BE until later. And since I don't grow photos, I can't tell you how much later.
 
Are any of you non-flushers growing in coco? I use 3 gal airpots, and run about 10 gallons of water through 10-14 days before I chop. It's a pain, and I've always felt I should be feeding till closer to the end like in dirt, but conventional wisdom says don't treat coco like mud!

I've just chopped a plant that was fully grown on MC. I did not give her give her the big flush, and only gave her pH'd water for 5 days, so way too early to tell. I've got another of the same strain ready in about 10 days, which I'd like to feed to within 2 days, or so, of chop... but just wanted to make sure that would be cool on coco.

PS I use all our trim for edibles, will not flushing give them a bad taste?
 
FatBeaverBuds said:
Question on adding Si with MC...

Once I hopefully get a viable Bday Cake mother cranking out clones I'm going to be quadlining at least two plants. Supporting my colas becomes the logistical issue at hand.

Being in DWC buckets I hate scrogging. Yoyo's are a pain in the arse to work around. My ideal solution is to grow tree trunks that can support their own weight.

I've never used Si and would like some feedback from those who have.

Any Si out there that won't fubar my npk ratio?

I've read it really raises your pH quite a bit. I wouldn't say I battle high pH once adjusted but I do go through pH down like it's PBR on a Saturday night getting to 5.8 already.

Does it increase branch diameter or just strengthen the structure?

Thanks for any input y'all can offer.
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Can you mount tomato cages to your lids? You could thread thread the legs for an inch or so then use fender washers and nuts to hold it in place. Alternately, you could mount a block of wood on the lids and fasten the cages to that.
 
HorseBadoritz said:
Are any of you non-flushers growing in coco? I use 3 gal airpots, and run about 10 gallons of water through 10-14 days before I chop. It's a pain, and I've always felt I should be feeding till closer to the end like in dirt, but conventional wisdom says don't treat coco like mud!

I've just chopped a plant that was fully grown on MC. I did not give her give her the big flush, and only gave her pH'd water for 5 days, so way too early to tell. I've got another of the same strain ready in about 10 days, which I'd like to feed to within 2 days, or so, of chop... but just wanted to make sure that would be cool on coco.

PS I use all our trim for edibles, will not flushing give them a bad taste?
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No matter what medium you grow in, feeding plain water or reducing your nutrients for the last x days/weeks will not remove anything from the buds and therefore not change the taste when smoked. If you feed the plant so little at the end that the trim goes yellow, that might change the taste though.

Flushing the substrate to clear the leftover ions and salts (yes, even MC leaves ions and salts behind) will reset the medium and could be helpful depending on how much there is in there. Check your PPM at runoff to get a good idea of what's in the medium. And always feed full strength nutes immediately after the clear out.

That said, in coco — since most folks drain to waste — there is rarely build-up in the medium that needs to be cleared out.
 
I just fed GH nutrients at pretty high strength pretty much straight to harvest on two plants. I tapered the dosages in the last 2 weeks slowly and only water for only the last couple days for no reason other than I just didn’t feel like mixing anymore. I was in soil less medium and never flushed once in flower. The smoke is smooth as hell. Like exponentially smoother than anything I’ve ever boughten on the street, and even more so than most of the dispensary stuff I’ve tried (which isn’t that much but still)

In summary I tried the no flush thing I did not detect any “chemical” or harshness to my product even before full cure.
 
Old Salt said:
Can you mount tomato cages to your lids? You could thread thread the legs for an inch or so then use fender washers and nuts to hold it in place. Alternately, you could mount a block of wood on the lids and fasten the cages to that.
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I've seen the lid mounted scrog screens. They would work great for smaller grows. I really want to grow a couple monsters. I've got the room and enough photons to do it. I'm not shooting for a pound per plant yet but I'm working my way up to it :p
 
InTheShed said:
No matter what medium you grow in, feeding plain water or reducing your nutrients for the last x days/weeks will not remove anything from the buds and therefore not change the taste when smoked. If you feed the plant so little at the end that the trim goes yellow, that might change the taste though.

Flushing the substrate to clear the leftover ions and salts (yes, even MC leaves ions and salts behind) will reset the medium and could be helpful depending on how much there is in there. Check your PPM at runoff to get a good idea of what's in the medium. And always feed full strength nutes immediately after the clear out.

That said, in coco — since most folks drain to waste — there is rarely build-up in the medium that needs to be cleared out.
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I came from dirt, so flushing is a foreign language to me, lol! I had figured flushing was to clean out anything from the coco so the plant didn't keep taking up nutes it may not use up before I smoked it.

It's all conjecture on my end, but one of my not flushing worries is the trim, I eat it. I have no way of really knowing, but I've read that during a *real* flush (3x the medium's worth of water) the plant is going to pull as many nutes as it can into the buds, but they can only take so much, so it's sort of reverse of what we're trying, or thinking flushing does, if I was thinking that flushing actually cleaned out the plant... which I don't.

Then, I think it allows the plant to use up the nutes it's stored in the trim.

So by not flushing, nutes could remain in the trim, where the plant has stored the nutes to send to the buds. I think the buds use the nutes up til the end, but not the trim.

I'm not a fan of getting reliable info from runoff, but for science, I'll sacrifice! Especially if I don't have to flush!
 
PPM is the only thing worth measuring from runoff. pH in runoff doesn't provide any info.

I'm a bit confused about the trim issue. Do you want your trim yellow or green when you eat it? It doesn't seem like a good idea to starve your plants to the extent that they have used up all the nutes in the fans and are now pulling the nutes from the sugar leaves. And I would think all you would taste from uncured trim would be chlorophyll.
 
There seems to be a lot of talk about flushing on this thread lately and I don't flush or water enough to get any runoff and I don't have a problem with buildup or salts and I think this post by @Emilya in her thread maybe explains why. I found it interesting so I thought I would post it here...

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There are several important things going on here, but the key points that I will start this discussion with are that this fertilizer is much smaller molecularly than traditional fertilizers, therefore it is not only more water soluble, but it is much easier for the plant to uptake. Second, this fertilizer is chelated (held together) with an amino acid bond instead of the traditional salt bond. Salt bonds need to be broken apart in the soil, and the salt remains behind as a waste product. Mega Crop waits till it is inside of the plant before it releases the fertilizer, with the leftover waste product being a very usable amino acid. There is NO waste and NO unusable debris.
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3 out of 4 clones are still alive & kicking. Lost one & that's why I took two per plant lol didn't trust myself.

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The mothers grew 3 inches and each drank a gallon the last 48hrs.
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Found an 11 bladed leaf!!! I was stoked. Its a tad gnarled from when I had a bit of leaf curl.
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for anyone following i hit issues at 7g / gal. something is the fuck up and i'm not sure what.. would just kinda repeat that 6.5 is gotta be a ceiling of sorts

can't get to the grow solid enough. been only manager at a 2 shift shop for a bit... :rolleyes:
 
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