Neem - must have in the garden. You can also apply neem as a soil drench and it will be taken up and become a systemic fungicide / insecticide - do this throughout veg and in early flower. This also kills soil borne pathogens and bugs.
I bought several packs of Head Seeds Casey Jones in 2007 from Seedbay auctions. Over the years I have grown a few (~6) at a time. Always my favorite smoke. About 2010 I selected and grew out a stinky male with great structure. Pollinated one of the choicest females and ended up with a few...
Doc, I think those minerals are the secret to better tasting product. I have been using azomite with great success and I plan to add in some glacial and sea crop as well.
I really like the brix stuff you are doing - plan to follow your lead soon.
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The science behind these things:
Protekt silica: silica is the stuff that makes plants strong. Compare a bamboo leaf to a leaf of lettuce and you will see the difference. Silica is a basic building block for plants - silica is used to build cell walls. This makes the cells of the plant stronger...
OrganicTrees, sounds like you have the plague there.
I grow in coco - semi organic. I have no bug problems whatsoever. Used to have aphids, gnats and spider mites bad. Silica is my main defense. I use protekt both foliar and in feed. I also top dress with a little amorphous diatomaceous earth...
So I have a male Casey Jones F1 plant that I stressed a bit by leaving it in 24 hour cycle for a couple of days after it was in full flower and it developed a couple female flowers. I have the plant in reveg now and am wondering if this something special or something to be destroyed.
Before I...
Tissue culture hobby kits sell pretty cheaply. It should be painless to begin experimenting. Another way to preserve genetics is to make S1 seeds with colloidal silver - its simple to do.
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