Weasel Forges Ahead

Weaselcracker said:
I have some dolomite lime ( if I remember right ). And for the purposes of the mix I was thinking to use up the perlite I formerly used for cloning in, and have been collecting in random containers.

I don’t have any calcium carbonate in powdered labeled form. But if I remember right- that’s what oyster shells are made of, and I have lots of those.
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I believe that CalCarb is optional, but I understand both will buffer the peat. IDK if oyster shells will have the same effect as mined calcarb. When I buy it from CustomHydro, it's sold as Mississippi Lime, but I get lost in all of the products that is called Lime. The important factor that is sought though is the ability to buffer the acidic peat. I think Farside's ratio of perlite is in the range of 20% whereas I use in the range of 40%. It's my opinion that greater drainage will allow the roots to grow quicker due to being able to dry the soil out quicker, but that's just my theory.
 
If Farside’s garden lime is the same as what they call agriculture lime, then it is pure calcium carbonate with no magnesium. Whereas the dolomite is 2:1 calcium carbonate:magnesium which isn’t always ideal.

I’m getting a bit lost as well. Conflicting stories out there but- oyster shell should be basically pure calcium carbonate, Here’s an analysis from an article where they ground it and tested it after baking for a couple hours at 500°
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Anyway I’ll check the most likely source here and see if they have ground cal-carb. Would save me some work.

My reason for wanting to dry the peat a bit is that it’s very heavy, and hard to work with- literally like a wet paste. I bought a new wheelbarrow!

:party:
So one of these days I’ll take the new wheelbarrow into the ditch and see about grabbing a truckload of peat and dumping it somewhere out of the rain for a while.
 
Skybound said:
the hardest part is adding water back into it because once dry, peat resists the water and wants to stay a dry dusty snot clogging powder
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try adding yucca root or other surfactant
Yucca Surfactant is an OMRI-Listed Organic product used as a wetting agent to improve water-holding capacity and moisture penetration. A surfactant also helps to flush excess solutes from the root zone.

Made with saponins extracted for the Yucca plant, it acts as a mildly soapy substance, making it easier to hydrate dry or hydrophobic soil. Simple to use, add 1/16 teaspoon (a pinch) to a 5 gallon bucket and water normally. Can be used on soil as well as for foliar solution applications.
 
No I haven’t. The most I’ve ever done with old/ornery seeds is to file or sand the edges a bit. PotChimp squeezes them in his fingers till they pop just a little. I assumed that the shell opening up is mostly a mechanical function at that stage (?)
 
Dankman_420 said:
Hey weasel or anyone, haha
Have you ever used kelp as a additive for helping troublesome seeds to germinate?
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You can try scarifying also
line a match box with sand paper & shake or roll a tube ,with grit to inside, cap ends & shake
 
Do you have some old seeds and you’re looking for advanced sprouting tricks? Someone used a bubbler in water once that I saw and it seemed to work great
 
Yeah you could try that bubbling thing. It slips my mind at the moment who was doing it but they were in Grizwald’s journal. I think basically just a bubbler in a jar of water. The water is agitated and seeds are constantly swimming all over the place. He would just keep an eye on them and remove them when they sprouted. A trick passed on to him from someone else who was sprouting ancient seeds. Apparently worked great and I’ve been meaning to try it when I get the need.
 
also cold Stratification

Cold Treatment For Seeds - What Is Stratification And Is Cold Stratification of Seeds Necessary
In nature, seeds require certain conditions in order to germinate. Seed stratification is the process whereby seed dormancy is broken in order to promote this germination. In order for the stratification of seeds to be successful, it is necessary to mimic the exact conditions that they require when breaking dormancy in nature.
Some seeds require a warm and moist treatment, while others require a cool and wet treatment. Even still, other seeds require a combination of both warm and cool treatments followed by a warm treatment, or a combination of warm and cool moist followed by a dry cycle and warm period to germinate. Therefore, knowing what seeds require to break dormancy is critical before beginning any seed stratification project.

I had 3 seeds come up, from last years outside plant, come up on there own this year
 
I should have pulled them at 5 weeks from pollination like the others I did in a open pollination. But I let that plant go until it finished few extra weeks. I didn't know any better.
Weird thing is they germed well when I first made them. I soaked handful of the non disireable ones ( lighter colored ) they were cracking normally.
Hey bro thanks
 
Brewsterman said:
try adding yucca root or other surfactant
Yucca Surfactant is an OMRI-Listed Organic product used as a wetting agent to improve water-holding capacity and moisture penetration. A surfactant also helps to flush excess solutes from the root zone.

Made with saponins extracted for the Yucca plant, it acts as a mildly soapy substance, making it easier to hydrate dry or hydrophobic soil. Simple to use, add 1/16 teaspoon (a pinch) to a 5 gallon bucket and water normally. Can be used on soil as well as for foliar solution applications.
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Thanks bro, I'll try that next batch I have to mix. I got rid of the yucca b/c it grabs moisture out of the air and locks up like brown sugar, but I have a bunch of polysorbate and that stuff is magical. 1 drop will make a half gallon nice and frothy, so I presume 1 drop will do a gallon good as well. A little goes a very long way with it.
 
Weaselcracker said:
Hope you kids are good. I’m good.:lot-o-toke: ❤️

At nine days. 1/3 of the dozen cuttings still don’t have roots yet- so they’re definitely not all early.

Roots

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Better pics of the Critical Plus I was mentioning as looking vibrant. This one hasn’t had mega crop for several week. She got fed the new special sauce last week and seems to have really loved it.
Critical plus

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Critical plus

Critical plus


Critical plus

Critical plus


I can easily see the resemblance to her half sister the Critical Cheese I used to grow. Those perfect looking leaves. One of them is in my avatar pic.


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You did notice that last pic is a boy eh? I didn't read much of the thread but did't see anything about you wanting a boy so forgive me if I missed something.

Nice stuff all 'round!

:peace:
 
Wha...? I see maybe what you’re looking at in the last pic. She was always a girl before. Dang. I’m going to go check closer
 
I went and checked her over and it seems to have just been a trick of photography because there’s no sign of balls....
I’m blown away by her magnificent colour and health though. Wow.
Critical plus.

Critical plus.


I remember feeling the same way about the Critical Cheese. Dinafem genetics. Very nice.

Veg is recovering well after not having mega crop for several weeks.
Veg

Veg


Veg

Veg



Here is a Carnival clone that survived a couple weeks of MC and was just starting to turn bad, but now has recovered as far as it’s possible to.

Sort of a weird pheno in that it seems to stretch like a seedling. I’ve noticed it happen several times. At first I even thought I must have somehow labeled it wrong and it was some unknown seedling. In flowering it stretches very tall without much branching, and all around looks like a plant grown from seed. You can see the two worst mega crop victims in behind.
Carn 2

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Carn 2

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I’m super happy about my plants now after switching away from MC. It’s a joy to go look at them again. What a relief. ❤️
 
Weaselcracker said:
I went and checked her over and it seems to have just been a trick of photography because there’s no sign of balls....
I’m blown away by her magnificent colour and health though. Wow.
Critical plus.

Critical plus.


I remember feeling the same way about the Critical Cheese. Dinafem genetics. Very nice.

Veg is recovering well after not having mega crop for several weeks.
Veg

Veg


Veg

Veg



Here is a Carnival clone that survived a couple weeks of MC and was just starting to turn bad, but now has recovered as far as it’s possible to.

Sort of a weird pheno in that it seems to stretch like a seedling. I’ve noticed it happen several times. At first I even thought I must have somehow labeled it wrong and it was some unknown seedling. In flowering it stretches very tall without much branching, and all around looks like a plant grown from seed. You can see the two worst mega crop victims in behind.
Carn 2

Carn 2


Carn 2

Carn 2



I’m super happy about my plants now after switching away from MC. It’s a joy to go look at them again. What a relief. ❤️
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Glad I was wrong then. I copied the pic over to my PC and blew it up good but it got fuzzier as it got bigger and they sure look like balls. I can see the hairs on the new pic.

I'm planting some hi-CBD reg photos tonight so I'll be hoping a couple of them have balls but I have loads of those seeds so will use the pollen on other strains. I have a few seeds of a couple strains I'd like to get some CBD into so it will come in handy.

I kinda liked the Mega Crop ver. 2 but it absorbs so much water and turns to mush. I won a 7 bottle pack of REMO nutes at a hydro store draw and used some tonight to water my plants downstairs. Still have half gallons each of AN 3-part too.

:peace:
 
MC version 2 is what I have. Though it seems that they’ve reworked the stuff quite a few times in between official version changes. To make matters more confusing they like to continue to use the old bags in order to save money. So what it describes on the bag you have might not correspond to what is actually in it.

I seem to be their absolute worst customer as far as getting good results. I can grow with it, but my plants look crappy, are less vibrant in every way, lack stickiness and aroma, and the herb produced has been inferior.
If it hadn’t been for a zillion people talking about how great the stuff was a few months ago, I would assume that this stuff is just junk and get rid of it. To be honest after seeing how much better everything looks after quitting the MC, it’s very hard to imagine ever using it again even as a supplement. My veg room has taken right off and is glowing with health since I stopped using MC.

Where are those people now? Many have issues to report, but there are a few who still think the stuff is wonderful. I’ve got no reason not to believe them. I’ve seen some nice looking plants from it. Just not at my place. I’ve been watching @bluter s plants because he seems to do well with the MC in hempy, but his are still in veg or early flower. Haven’t checked Farside’s for a while but his looked nice when I did.

Human nature is such that the ones who don’t have issues tend to want to tell the other ones that they’re ‘doing it wrong’. But how? As far as I could see I’m using the stuff exactly the same way as they are. Maybe I got a bad batch? Seems unlikely. I did notice @Virgin Ground talking about issues with hers though.

I feel like I’ve flogged this horse from most possible angles at this point. But once I have my side by side clones going I’ll torture them with different levels of MC vs other nutrient alternatives, and see if they talk. Hopefully. Then I’ll post in one if the mega crop threads- so they can tell me I’m doing it wrong lol....
 
Mine are doing well so far but I’ve backed off of their posted schedule and added a calmag plus with nitrogen.
 
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