Yes, it works well from the Rez. I add I think a little more than the max recommended. Geoflora recommends using a smaller amount in veg and a bit more in bloom, but I have been giving 16ml/gal during most of the last few grows and all of my late bloom deficiencies have gone away.
Looks like a nice fade to me. Ive had some stay green the entire grow right next to a heavy fader in the same bed.
I agree to a certain extent. At this late in the plants life, it is probably refusing any uptake. Senescence....or however you spell it. It's the olants natural way of "dying". Hydro guys flush to get a fade...but in soil it will do it naturally, In a sip, or LOS setup. Thats why I beleieve there is no reason to flush olants in a food soil setup. The entire plant is fading out evenly....more so where it recieves more light. It's just done with it's cycle IMO.
A well-fed plant will not fade, and mine never do. If this was inevitable, all plants would do it, but as you say some don't.
You make a good point in side by side containers behaving differently although that isn't the case here. My thought is, based on what a few good folks here have shared with me, that the soil gave all it had to give before the plant had time to finish. I'm 100% confident in my recipe & the soil cooked for 128 days, so I know it was ready. 5 gallons of LOS isn't a sufficient amount of soil to support the plant through fruition. I'd hoped I could complete this grow by watering only, but top dressing would have been appropriate. I hate that I figured this out so close to the finish line but it's not a total loss. I've sampled some & it does the trick, just wears off pretty quickly. I'm gonna let 'em go till all the leaves die. Trimming should be a breeze...
I suppose that could be backed in my experience that my older beds ( more fertile soil) Ive noticed less "fading" with plants. Can I ask, for plants that have a tendency purple out, is this a case of the same lack of nutrients, or just the genetic trait? Not trying to be a smart ass...genuinely curious.
The point being "early" signs of death. These girls still had a couple weeks to go when they suddenly went south. It was at that point I realized it was too late to do anything that I knew of at the time about it. So now I know what to do. Early on these were the most lush & healthy plants I've ever grown & I still find that very satisfying. My goal now is to keep them that lush & healthy start to finish.
I think the purples and reds are more a genetic thing and something that happens because of cooler temperatures. I have seen perfectly healthy plants do a purple or red fall color thing, without fading because of hunger or old age.
Obviously not LOS but basically anything called something like “Bloom Booster” “Bloom Explode” etc designed for liquid, artificial nutes is basically Potassium for end of flower. Always the most expensive additive too! So you’re almost certainly correct. Trich’s have stalled because they want more of that sweet sweet K.
Yes in the microbial circle of life maybe double will help. It won't hurt.
I've been told I'm WAY too picky when it comes to trimming, especially if I have a lot to process. The trimmer helps with my ocdness...Congratulations on the harvest rob! Looks like a beautiful well-trimmed haul.
Probably a combination. The SIP pot allows the plant to max out its potential for many growers since it eliminates watering issues (both under and over) which often stunt plants somewhere in the grow.
Gotta get the light down in there to eliminate larf. Lollipop and heavy defoliation. I like to do a heavy defol around week 3 and week 7.The sip's finally dried out & none too soon - at least one of them was trying to seed. I don't know if it was the sip's or the TLO soil or a combination of the two but I've never seen so many fan & sugar leaves. I got two of them taken down & the third one will come down tomorrow. I'm no speedy gonzalez when it comes to trimming so i bought an 18" bowl trimmer & I still have 5-1/2 hours invested in this harvest. Once again, I ended up with more larf than I wanted. That said, I'm presently getting by on larf from the last grow, so...
I'm certain that this would have been a significantly bigger yield had I top dressed early into flower. We'll see what happens when I apply that lesson to the Sour Diesel. I'll post an update on them shortly.
I'm taking them down one stalk at a time & wet trimming. I put the buds in a collander & washed them in the kitchen sink. I'll probably change the order of things next time - washing buds already separated from the stalk is a pita.
Here are a few pics from trim jail representing 1/3 of the haul...
And I have not used the gaia green product so I don't know their instructions for use. I would start the top dressing pretty much immediately and then follow their instructions for doing it again at mid bloom. Everything you supposedly need is in the Gaia Green so I wouldn't think that you would need to add any more 444. Watch your plants carefully for any signs of hunger and supplement if you need it.
Sorry Em, I thought you used the product. One of the products is a 4-4-4 for veg but I already have that in my soil mix so thanks for confirming that. The Power Plant was lush & healthy though the 5th week of flower so I’m thinking (here I go thinking again) that I’ll add the power bloom at flip & again half way through. Sound like a good plan?
