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Beachwalker said:
I'm surprised you stop using it in bloom!? I remember Mykos used to give me big spongy root balls in ffof, I don't specifically remember it in pro-mix

TM7's good stuff👍🏻 out of all the additives, if I could only pick one I would prolly use something like that

Just finished clearing the driveway, scraping the roof and bringing firewood up on the deck. Now I have an Italian bread baking and I'm going to take a nap, & that's it for me for the day 😴💤
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Most of that root growth is done in veg, after week 2 in flower root growth can drop by as much as 90% so Myco's in flower isn't needed like it is in veg. Once I go to the large pots I stop using it,so I learned from AI just this year.
 
Pipecarver said:
Most of that root growth is done in veg, after week 2 in flower root growth can drop by as much as 90% so Myco's in flower isn't needed like it is in veg. Once I go to the large pots I stop using it,so I learned from AI just this year.
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You had me up till AI 🤣5bc5a2a808fa85ae941693d7761b66fb.png

Mykos is also for root uptake, don't recall how often I added it, I'll see what it says when it arrives
 
Beachwalker said:
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Mykos is also for root uptake, don't recall how often I added it, I'll see what it says when it arrives
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I use it liberally in my veg mix and I added it to the bottom of my hole when I transplant up. I'd like to see an image like an ants nest on a glass wall with a root system, add this roots do this,,,add another and they do this and so on. As is now its hit and miss but my brain believes everything I add is good. Each item I've added I've seen results but I'm probably adding overlaps I don't really need.....

I watch a lot of video's on youtube, I searched for experienced growers and found and old guy with hundreds of plants and a life of growing behind him a bit upset at the amount of crap we add. He kept enforcing that there's only 3 things we need N,P,K and in flower the middle one goes up. With his hundreds of plants he spends $50/$60 a year on nutrients.......ah...I think I over do it....lol.....
 
Pipecarver said:
I use it liberally in my veg mix and I added it to the bottom of my hole when I transplant up. I'd like to see an image like an ants nest on a glass wall with a root system, add this roots do this,,,add another and they do this and so on. As is now its hit and miss but my brain believes everything I add is good. Each item I've added I've seen results but I'm probably adding overlaps I don't really need.....

I watch a lot of video's on youtube, I searched for experienced growers and found and old guy with hundreds of plants and a life of growing behind him a bit upset at the amount of crap we add. He kept enforcing that there's only 3 things we need N,P,K and in flower the middle one goes up. With his hundreds of plants he spends $50/$60 a year on nutrients.......ah...I think I over do it....lol.....
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You do seem to add a lot more now than when I ducked out of the internet 5 years ago, but then again I'm a bit of a minimalist so I'm certainly no one to judge you my friend, whatever you're doing is working so keep it up!
 
I read a bunch of promo stuff on how to grow bigger badder weed and I'm easily swayed to try new stuff if there's a chance it can improve my grows but I stick with all GH brand inputs......I thought it was you back on the farm that said something like "they stick with one company because their stuff is designed to work together and the well paid scientists work hard to give us products to help our plants thrive. Mixing and matching can create imbalances and poor interactions." ...So I took that to heart and stayed with GH inputs...other than Epsom Salts

My soil mixes are a bit different but the minerals I'm adding at pretty inexpensive and will last years using only a tbs at a time. I've been adding some of it to fill an order to get free shipping so a $10-$15 bag of minerals sometimes is all I need
 
Pipecarver said:
I read a bunch of promo stuff on how to grow bigger badder weed and I'm easily swayed to try new stuff if there's a chance it can improve my grows but I stick with all GH brand inputs......I thought it was you back on the farm that said something like "they stick with one company because their stuff is designed to work together and the well paid scientists work hard to give us products to help our plants thrive. Mixing and matching can create imbalances and poor interactions." ...So I took that to heart and stayed with GH inputs...other than Epsom Salts

My soil mixes are a bit different but the minerals I'm adding at pretty inexpensive and will last years using only a tbs at a time. I've been adding some of it to fill an order to get free shipping so a $10-$15 bag of minerals sometimes is all I need
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I doubt I ever said that 🤣😂🤣
Sounds more like MiMed, I miss him!
 
So I've gone back to 10 mL of each of the 3 GH products (GH's 'transition to bloom' ratio), it gives me 1100 PPM which I cut two to one with tap water for 625 PPM which is where I'm currently feeding.

It's much easier, and I mix less than when following GH's recommended 'bloom' ratio.

These are the girls tonight, White Rhino with about a month to go!

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Time to go water 🫤 I'm trying to psych myself up, maybe I should try to wake myself up first, more coffee please ☕️😴

They're looking good I'll try to remember to grab some pictures
 
Still watering at 650 PPM, not quite time to back off yet.

I just want to brag a little bit on my low, 29% humidity, and why I never have to worry about septoria, wpm and/or any other humidity related issues 😁20251222_071635.jpg...and please, no one mention VPD 🙉

I've been growing almost 20 years and not once have I ever worried about that, or a lot of the other things some growers obsess over. Back in the '80s before the internet we didn't have all that and I for one don't need it now.

I'm not saying what some others do is right or wrong, I'm saying I do it my way, like Frank Sinatra 🥳🍾
 
Got seeds for the next run today, I don't want to star them much more than 3 weeks ahead of the coming Harvest so I'll give the White Rhino's a sharper look tonight, try to assess when it's going to be ready20251223_145420.jpg
 
I think I'm close enough that I can start the Purple Chem (purple punch × star dawg) seeds

I think I got three weeks left on the White Rhino's, going to look up when I started them tonight, also whether I'm going to do 4 purple chems or two purple chems and two of something else

I checked them pretty close last night they still have a ways to go.

I can hold seedlings on my propagation mat on the rack for 3 weeks, don't want to go much past that though
 
Beachwalker said:
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☝🏻🙂 flowering started 11/6

Three more weeks will give me about 10 weeks in bloom and that should just about finish them off, although it has been a little colder maybe they're a little behind, I'll look again tonight

Edit: so Greenhouse says 9 weeks and these have been in cooler conditions, so I think it might be a week too early to start the new seeds
 
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White Rhino starting to stink 🦨

May hang a new filter from
i-power, which I had to buy straps for cuz they were missing from the box

So to sum up, i-power sent me a defective filter and two defective HPS bulbs

I will never buy anything from
i-power ever again.
 
And while we're at it, what the hell?!

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I've been using the blue one, it's been giving me readings around 1200ppm, it's obviously failed
 
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So I cut my nutrients 2 to 1 as usual which usually gives me about 600-625 PPM, and then tried a couple of other meters...

Another reason I'm getting tired of all this bullshit

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On the positive I have some nice Bud porn coming up soon 🤩 these White Rhinos are really packing it on, and they're just loaded with big White trichomes!
 
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Beachwalker said:
So I cut my nutrients 2 to 1 as usual which usually gives me about 600-625 PPM, and then tried a couple of other meters...

Another reason I'm getting tired of all this bullshit

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On the positive I have some nice Bud porn coming up soon 🤩 these White Rhinos are really packing it on, and they're just loaded with big White trichomes!
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When I do check I use two meters as well. You never know when one will fail or be defective. Guess a third wouldn’t be a bad idea for when one does fail.
 
Zen_seeker said:
When I do check I use two meters as well. You never know when one will fail or be defective. Guess a third wouldn’t be a bad idea for when one does fail.
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That's a great idea using two to double-check! I have an Infamous photo back at the other place of five meters in a beaker of tap water and no two of them were even close, and the range from high to low was something like 100 points difference 🤷🏻

I was expecting 1100 to 1200 PPM, when I saw around 700 on the first gallon I mixed up a second gallon just in case I'd made a mistake, and the second gallon came out about the same ppm, as shown in the top picture
 
Beachwalker said:
☝🏻🙂 flowering started 11/6

Three more weeks will give me about 10 weeks in bloom and that should just about finish them off, although it has been a little colder maybe they're a little behind, I'll look again tonight

Edit: so Greenhouse says 9 weeks and these have been in cooler conditions, so I think it might be a week too early to start the new seeds
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I'm figuring 10 weeks which will be in about three more weeks so if I start them the first of the year I should be all right
 
I don't pay much attention to the plants, as long as they're doing well I leave things be. This is only about the third time I've even taken a plant out of the tent, and looking at those pictures they might be a little closer to finished than 3 weeks. Still getting full strength feed though, I'll reassess this weekend.
 
Looks like you'll have some good shaking material there~!
Super healthy looking plants. ;budi
 
I don't have that awesome drying room like I had back at the beach house, I dry in my bathroom here in one of those big hanging baskets which I take out to have a shower! Can you believe that! 🤣😅🤣

It's my only option, I can control the temperature and the humidity in there, that's why I was glad that the Grove bags worked out well because once I put it in a jar and get the humidity within a certain range I put them in the bags & put them in the refrigerator in the crisper and they did well, no burping jars! 🥳

Next Grove bag I open I'm going to put the bud in a jar with a hygrometer and see exactly what it's holding them at, they were bagged at 59 percent humidity
 
steamroller said:
Looks like you'll have some good shaking material there~!
Super healthy looking plants. ;budi
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Thanks! They're not a spectacular color or anything special looking but they're pretty frosty and they're getting fat too, they're shaped like a club Fred Flintstone would carry 🤣

Speaking of special colored buds, this was off a GPS Gunslinger that I use for chucking, purple and gold

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I am more a sucker for purple then frost.
Maybe cause I grow purple and not frosty. I have grown somewhat frosty before but never like I see so many others grow.
Not sure why but I have thought it is the fox farm nutes more than once.
 
steamroller said:
I am more a sucker for purple then frost.
Maybe cause I grow purple and not frosty. I have grown somewhat frosty before but never like I see so many others grow.
Not sure why but I have thought it is the fox farm nutes more than once.
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Couldn't comment on that I've never used them, but one thing I know about fox farm soil products is that's where my bugs were coming from

My favorite nutes are Master Blend, I'm going back to them soon. I wanted to use up some of these GH liquid gallons I had left, that's why I'm using it now
 
Beachwalker said:
I don't have that awesome drying room like I had back at the beach house, I dry in my bathroom here in one of those big hanging baskets which I take out to have a shower! Can you believe that! 🤣😅🤣

It's my only option, I can control the temperature and the humidity in there, that's why I was glad that the Grove bags worked out well because once I put it in a jar and get the humidity within a certain range I put them in the bags & put them in the refrigerator in the crisper and they did well, no burping jars! 🥳

Next Grove bag I open I'm going to put the bud in a jar with a hygrometer and see exactly what it's holding them at, they were bagged at 59 percent humidity
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We have a second bathroom that I use all the time. I’ve hung the multi section basket but usually just hang the entire plants now.

The bathroom sink is how I control the humidity. Just fill it with hot water as needed. Until it gets too cold it’s good for starting clones too.

Plants looking great bud. 👊
 
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