I’d be down to help too… we can cross that bridge when the time comes tho!
Just a little flavoring haha
“OUCH! OOHH, I like honey…wth, I don’t need a baaaath(snip snip snip)OWWWWWWW!! WHAT are you DOING to me?!? HEY! OOH! OH! …ahhhhhhhhhhh
Hello, world! My name is ‘Lucky,’ and I’m a Double Tangie Banana clone. Angie is my mommy.
I’m hanging out with my cousin, Scully, until I can grow my OWN roots. My daddy says I’m snooty, and I have nooo idea WHAT a valley girl even IS, but he says that’s what’s I sound like to him. But…ughhh…you know…he’s REEEEEEally high right now, so…who knows?! ”
Hell yeah! I have a few DTB clones going myself
I wish you could come over and take some bags full from my garden come October
Thank you, but if I ever visited your garden I’m not sure I’d be able to leave. I’d want to hang out and just “be” there, talk to them, pop off yellow leaves, etc. lol
WOW! I’m sitting here almost speechless and I want to thank you for posting the videos. So much I would like to say … but I’d be here typing for hours But, I will say that I’m happy that you have a supportive family and that you are finding out what strains are helping. If I can contribute in any way, please let me know
Sorry i fell behind a bit over here bro. That clone lookd tasty where i was. I just wantd to tag @KingVars and @ElChingon82 n ill catch back up soon
Good looking out! Thanks.
Open sesame…here come Rasta man…
Ok, so I’m feeding Judy today. Just to make sure I’m 100% on the whole EC/TDS thing with feeding:
Last feeding, the runoff was 6.45pH (woohoo!) and 1150ppm…full strength General Organics Go Box bloom nutrients per the week 3 flowering schedule, yucca extract as a wetting agent, molasses for carbs and extra magnesium since I’m using reverse osmosis water, and a pinch of potassium hydrogen carbonate (KHCO3…I failed chemistry in high school. I’m not even kidding. I was too busy studying skirts, sweaters, lyrics and “opening my mind” to learn formulae and whatnot… I just put this here because it looks all technical and stuff) for pH up. Going in, I shoot for around .3 - .5 pH under what I’m shooting for in my runoff, because that’s about how much it seems to swing between feedings. It took me almost a year to figure this part out. Either I missed something obvious along the way, or y’all been hoarding info. Or maybe I just didn’t know what I didn’t know yet, and didn’t know what or how to ask. Anyway, I hope this helps more than just me.
She was dry when I reached under her skirt and fingered her ( I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong with me) soil this morning. So I got out all the goods (I keep my stuff in the fridge…it smells like a pond carp’s rectum, I wouldn’t want to know what it’s like when it goes bad…) and a gallon of water (I keep all my jugs full in case I need to flush…reverse osmosis takes a bit to fill them). Since I fed her last time, she’ll get water “only” today. I use the quotation marks because I only give RO water ONLY when I’m flushing before harvest, because that’s what the dude with the cool sideburns and a lab coat on YouTube said you should do. He looks and sounds like he knows what’s up. But no, at that point, the lack of calcium, magnesium, iron, etc. in the water is a good thing, since the goal is to get the plant to consume what’s there, as opposed to adding anything else, right? I haven’t harvested since I started using the yucca extract, but I plan to use it clear to harvest. Should I use the mole asses all the way to harvest, too, or do we no longer care about feeding the microbiology once flushing?
My process is this:
I pour about a cup of RO water from my jug (I use old 1 gallon vinegar jugs, thick HDPE, lid pops on and off quickly to shake it up…OOooooOOHH…good song…Cars…'81 or '82 I think…) into a Pyrex measuring cup. I microwave that for a minute or so. Then I measure out 1 tsp (5 ml) of unsulphured, organic mole asses. I toss the measuring spoon and all into the Pyrex, and set it aside.
Then I add RAW yucca extract, what sticks to about the last inch or so of a toothpick to a gallon (1/16 tsp to 5 gallons…yeah, alright, I’ll just…wait, what? ), and swish that around a bit. While that part is relaxing, I stir the mole assed measuring spoon in the hot water until the spoon comes out cleanish, and then the mole ass water goes back into the jug through a funnel. (I just decided I need to be making YouTube videos…another day…)
Then I use a children’s Tylenol (because they’d probably take my kids away if I made oil for them ) 5ml syringe to draw my nutrients up from the bottle, and then into the jug. I just go from left to right, following the feeding chart to the letter at this stage in the plant’s life. I pull out what I need for the plant in feeding before I start, then I put each bottle back into the box after I’ve added it to the mix, so I don’t lose track of what I have and haven’t added. I wasted so much making mistakes early on, and if saying that helps you, then I have no shame. My goal is to fast forward everyone that reads my stuff, to my skill level. Early on, I give like 1/8 strength, and that’s only after the cotyledons are used up, and the bit that’s in the soil has been consumed. The transition and stretch is over, and she is now focusing on making pretty, smelly, sticky, dense flowers…mmmm…so we’re giving her lots of P and K to do so. But as I said, today she’s just getting some CaMg+.
Then I shake it all up, let it sit for about 10-15 minutes, shake it again, and then pour a little back into the Pyrex (I rinse it between purposes) and pop in my pH meter, which has been on, sitting in reference solution, calibrated if necessary, then rinsed, and my TDS meter, too. I let them sit until I’m satisfied they’re giving me good numbers.
Then, based on what I see (usually somewhere in the low to mid 5 range) I add KHCO3 (about 1/8 tsp per gallon = 1.0pH up I find) to the jug, pour the sample back in through the funnel again, cap it, shake it, rest it, shake it, pour it, and test it again (starting to sound like a song). I’ll skip all this nonsense when I can pick up an air stone and pump.
My question regarding EC/TDS comes in here. Since runoff was at 1100, all that crap I just mixed comes to 700, that makes 1800 total. Then, when I measure the runoff this time, it tested at about 900. Forget ratios and EC to TDS conversion method and all that for now. Since I fed Thursday, could I say she has “eaten” 900ppm in 3 days, leaving the 900 left? Is that to say that when I feed again in a couple few more days, I should shoot for 1000-1100 in anticipation of her wanting more, to dense up? Is this somewhere in the ballpark of how I should be doing this? Or is this all part of why my plants act up when I flip to 12/12 ?
As far as how strong I’m feeding, I base it on the chart, but I try to adjust it according to what the plant is telling me she needs. I’m still learning their language, but I’m finally listening attentively. I plan to get small 2 ounce packs of RAW N, P, K, as well as their amino acids and B-vitamin packs for rescue feeds. They’re cheap, and good to have around if they’re worth a damn. There’s only one way to find out for sure.
I hope you’re all in good spirits and health, and giggling as much as me today. Life’s a trip.
Lol , hilarious @elheffe702, maybe @anon51696465 (aka Mrs.Elheffe) have shake your bootay this morning…!? Hahahaha…
What amazes me is that you know what’s the smells of a pond carp’s rectum is…??? Did you put your finger in there and sniff it??? Lol
Like you see, I do, lol Have a nice day buddy!!!
Ô!!! Your nutes mix sounds great set to tracking
~Al
This is a great post, @elheffe702. Thanks for sharing your accumulated wisdom. I’m afraid that I don’t have an answer for your question about PPM/feeding/plant consumption. This does bring up a question for me, though… about my own (poor?) habits.
I’ve found that when I water/feed my two WW in 5-gallon pots, if I feed them much more than a half-gallon each, their fabric pots start leaking (as they should). Very occasionally I’ll let them run-off so I can check PPM & Ph on the way out, but usually I just feed them ½ gallon each, and leave it at that. Should I really always be feeding them so that they run off? (It’s sort of a drag to deal with the runoff, since the plants are all tied up in a scrog, and it’s hard to maneuver the tray out from under them.). But if it’s what I should be doing, then I can figure something out.
Pour slowly, or spray it with something, then wait. Then pour or spray more, then wait. Keep repeating this until you get a decent amount of runoff. If you pour enough to fill the saucer they’re in, they’ll suck that up in minutes. You have to go slow enough for the medium to absorb it. I use a small shop vac to suck up the runoff once I’ve got what I need to test it.
That post was GREAT n very informative. I may need to read it a few more times but i LoL’d about 5 times. Nice read.
Thanks, bro!
I just found a few bowls worth of my Lil Sebastian from way back. BAM! Super cure lol
CURE YOUR BUD!
Just for you @PurpNGold74 lol
I think…I don’t know what to think.
The lower (middle) buds look like I’ve been flushing, some of the upper (outer) bud look burned, and some look fine. And this is day 32. The Lil Sebastian finished in like 6 weeks. Am I just stressing them into finishing? I’m alright with finishing them in 6 weeks, for sure! But I know I can get more, stronger meds of I can get them to live another month. I’m frustrated.
It looks familiar…
Chilli and Lil Kim looked the same way. Chilli, I could write off, same genetics, Judy looks identical. But Lil Kim wasn’t even sativa dominant. Completely different genetics. It must be the wind. Because
she looks fine, and everything else is identical between these two.