Much love & light to you, Emilya. I just read about your Dad, and I'm so sorry for your loss. He was wonderful to talk to last summer when you were testing your Stone. I understand that he was so much a part of your life, not just as your Dad, but also your housemate, your ears and your voice at times. I hope you are able to take joy in your memories, which will always keep him by your side. I lost my Dad 12 years ago, and I miss him awfully. But I also feel him still with me so often with a song, a smell, a place. Be well.
I was on leave for some time now and came back on here to check on everyone and started to do some growing. Stop by to say hello to "The Water Queen" and I seen what happen to her and my heart just stop a beat, hoping the best for her and her future and so sorry for her loss. She is the sole reason I water till this day after reading her post...If you are reading this or get wind you will truly be missed and hope is all well...LOVE AND MISS YOU DEARLY
Emilya asked me to let you all know what's she's been up to. She's ok and safe in her apartment, but life for her has drastically changed. With the loss of her father and partner/roommate, she's having to work more to make ends meet and simply doesn't have the time or passion right now to rejoin us. The grow house belonged to her dad, so she has nowhere to grow and she just doesn't feel the same without it. She wishes everyone a Happy New Year and will be back when the time is right. Please join me in sending her lots of love and positive healing energy through the universe
Emilya.....The girl is pretty much my sole reason for visiting here. I sure do hope she still has that certain someone to hug her.
Love Light and Peace.
Emilya asked me to let you all know where she's been, so nobody worries. Her father got diagnosed with an aggressive COPD, with only a month to live. So her and the family rallied around him to send him off in style. Unfortunately, she was unable to get a loan for the house, so she's being forced to relocate and is unsure of her future growing plans until resolved. Once she's done grieving and has settled into her new environment, she'll resurface and come back home. Please join me in sending her some love and healing energy until she does
It’s been a few years, but I was looking for a very popular soil mix thread that apparently has been deleted. Does anyone know how to point me in the right direction? Unfortunately, time has unleashed its artillery on my memory. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
i know that you switched to using SIPs but still using GeoFlora - you only top water during the geo feeding. so about how much water during the feeding to activate the geo in what size of pot that you are using?
well somethings have changed after talking with you , you sparked my intrest in going real organic for my current grow I am going to be using Indicanja from purple cow organics it is a one and done living soil But I am really thinking about building subcools 100 gal recipe or maybe use Build a soil. any way My question has to do with SNS209 . do you add it as a top watering or do you add it to the reservoir of your SIP? Im doing everything in power to keep gnats out I am adding some Neem cake to the soil mix and the sns 209 and a little food grade DE in the soil BUG FREE ZONE!!
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While I am grateful for the watering advice you gave me (game changer), I did run into other issues down the road and am currently in a desperate situation once again.
With the right watering method, light intensity, VPD and C02 and other concerns out of the way, there is one last issue I can’t resolve – feeding and media EC monitoring.
Those last plants from the post that looked amazing after the correction in watering, eventually got badly burned in week 4 of flowering.
A total of 4 waterings starting week 1 of flower with around 500ppm (1.5L each) is all that took to almost kill them.
I guess I did not take into consideration that by increasing the amount of water from 0.5L to 1.5L per watering I am also increasing the total amount of nutrients, regardless of ppm concentration. By the end of week 4 lower leaves stated to yellow and by the time I made a runoff test I realized the media was already over 1800ppm and they were frying. I did flush them but the damage was done. Perhaps there were also netes left from veg.
My conclusion is that I need a method of knowing the EC in the media prior to every watering in order to ensure that I am not overfeeding. Does this make sense? I used to rely on set feeding schedule that I’ve adjusted (trial and error) in time but realized every batch runs differently and that can’t work without actual knowledge of the media EC.
As I started to make runoff tests for EC I stumbled upon a new issue I was not aware of. The Plagron Lightmix I use seems to have a 1000-1200ppm runoff right out of the bag. So now every time I put seedlings or repot plants into their final container, I need to take this ppm into consideration, which make the whole decision making every more difficult. To add to the problem the Lightmix is pre-fertilized with mineral nutes, while I use Plagron Alga series nutes which are organic.
Usually I don’t adjust the pH of the watering solution, however now that I know there is so much mineral nutes in the media I wonder if I should.
At some point I plan to change the Lightmix with Promix that is not fertilized and recommended for organic grow. But that will take some tests and time so now I have to deal with the Lightmix.
Long story short, how should I approach the media EC monitoring and if runoff test is the solution can you advice of the correct way to do it and what things I should consider. I also bought a Bluelab Pulse meter, so far it gives rather close readings to the runoff.
P.S I was wondering if there is any way I could contact you privately and share with you a brief document describing my process and principles. It’s a simple table that includes all parameters of the process. Hopefully you can spot some issues and give me some general advice. My final goal is to set a fixed production process that works and try to stick with it and not change it. Last couple of years of my life passed into experimentation, theories and guesswork and honestly, I am physically and financially exhausted and don’t know if I can keep going. And yet I feel I am one step away from success.
Hey EM
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Hello, good morning, I wanted to ask you something that I did not find in any forum and I do not understand well, a friend installed 2 LED panels each with a cxb3590 chip with about 90 w for two tents each 60x60, they have 4 pots each tent, I wanted Knowing what distance they should have in vegetation and in flora is the only thing I want to know, and I think that in forums I saw that it is low power, I await your response and thanks in advance, regards.
Hello! I was wondering if you could give me a hand with two questions I have regarding something you wrote about flushing:
"Flushing is definitely NOT a myth. It is done for a specific purpose. If you think that flushing means giving only water and starving your plant at the end, then that IS an old method that was used back in the 1970's to increase the plant's potency, but that has been proven to be a myth. We now know that it is better to feed your plants normally, right up to the end and that it is the curing process that cleans the smoke of all chemical tastes... it isn't done by starving the plant.
If you are referring to flushing in the correct way, to mean running a 3x the container flush of clean fresh water, to rid the soil of any built up salts or unused nutes, that IS definitely a thing, and is a good tool to use during a grow to allow for full uptake by the plant, not restricted by the debris building up in the soil.
Lastly, and most importantly, a proper 3x flush should be done 2 weeks before harvest, for it is during these last two weeks that the buds finish out, and sometimes double in weight and girth. Flushing the soil before this process starts ensures that your plants will be able to have full uptake and get as much water and nutrients as it needs for this final push."
A) If I understood correctly, you recommend flushing 2 weeks before harvest, but then keep feeding the plant after that?
B) Do you think that this should be necessary for an autoflower fed with organic nutrients? I wonder because it has a lifecycle of only 12 weeks and in my case it's planted on Biobizz Lightmix and using only the Biobizz basic nutrients (Biogrow/Biobloom/Topmax) which I understand are organic and "safer" when it comes to overfeeding/soil buildup compared to synthethic ones.
Looking at your profile, it says you are in search of a favourite strain. Perhaps at one point in time you were blessed enough to try mine? It came packaged in a tuna can in the early to mid 00's and we used to call it 'tuna can kush' came out of western Canada at the time.