A Cannabinerd's Journey

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adower

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ThaMagnificent said:
Now im confused...


RO/SOFT is great for all hydroponic applications such as rock wool and coco. It's specially formulated for soft water (under 200PPMS or .1-.3 EC).

TAP/HARD is great for all hydroponic applications such as rock wool and grow stones. Being a more acidic formula, specifically for neutralizing alkaline water supply, (175+PPMS or .3-.7 EC).
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From emailing the owner this is what I was told. hard water formula will have less cal mag because it will be provided by the water more ppm in the water means more minerals are in it. The soft water formula has more cal mag in it since the water is low ppm so less minerals are in it.

If I were you I would get the hard water and a small bottle of cal mag. If you see cal/mag deficiencies you can add the cal mag. It's easier to add than take away in my opinion.
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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adower said:
I think all that booster stuff is not needed. I just use the base and my stuff comes out killer. I resort to the KISS method as much as possible.
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Same here, Im just using v+b and that's all, but v+b does already have some additives in it, not sure if it makes it better or not I have to have a true side by side with maxi soon to make a decision but v+b has silica, aminos and sugars in it along with extra calmag. All I know is its super easy to use and works great lol
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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A little Hugo block veg porn. These gals, the left tray is mamas, animal cookies, animal pie, mendo Breath, black lime reserve, Bubba kush and dosido. The right side tray is animal cookies and 1 gg4 sherbert.

They have much much longer to veg, I dunno like a month or more, so I'm thinking of stacking a Hugo block on a big mama 8" block and starting a drip system for my veg plants :) I can't keep up with the waterings, 2x a day now by hand. So tomorrow I'm going to grab the stuff needed to build the drip system I think

Man, now that I have everything back to normal and healthy it feels good. I don't really want to change anything but I kind of want to try maxibloom again in flower, something cheaper than v+b, but at the same time I don't want v+b being the glue that is holding the healthy together lol.

Anyway. I just noticed that the electrical panel on the house I'm buying is IN the garage, holy hell that's a bonus! It's going to be soooo easy to wire up new 240v outlets in there and make it 10x easier to install :)

I keep thinking to myself, I've never truly grown trees before, and now I'll have 10' ceilings.. In a month these gals should be massive, especially the mamas, gonna be a wild ride!! Maybe 3 gallon pots of rw mini cubes with the Hugo's on top, drip system. I don't know, but it'll be fun figuring it out lol

Sorry for the rant, thinking out loud

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AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Oh, and for anyone that hasn't seen a dud plant. I have my LAST dud plant in flower now in the rw slabs. Not sure how it dudded since it was healthy in veg. But this is the madness I was talking about and this is the worst case I've ever seen in my life, and I've dealt with lots of duds. Figure before I forget to post it, I should show it now so you know since I'm not sure if I posted this rated x photo before lol (it's rather embarrassing so I hid it as much as I could lol). I think the drip stakes caused it (I got them as a hand me dowm) , imo I think it's a disease and the drip stakes we're used in dud plants from another grower. I think that the issue spreads by contact, especially when something with the diesease makes direct contact with roots, it spreads almost instantly in that plant. Just a theory, but it makes sense to me since I've never seen it THIS bad before. But this should be the last one since everything I'm buying is new from here on out

This is a mendo Breath. You all know what the mendo Breath should look like lol, sad
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AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Oh, and those dud plant pics are 7 weeks into flower, that isn't week 2 like it looks like. My other mendo Breath buds in another grow are the size of bats around and just massive. Depressing to say the least. Also, the other plants in that grow have started growing funky, but at least for the most part it's OK. All the colas are messed up but all the lower buds are good. They got the sickness but not too bad so the harvest will be mediocre.
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Vnsmkr said:
Yeah those suck eh
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Fucking wierd right? Lol. The plant looks healthy, nice and green, petioles are nice. Thing is, the leaves are micro. The stems are extremely fragile and snap of if pulled at all. I wanted to cull it from the rw slab but if I did the roots of the plant would rot. Figured let it be and move on. Fucking duds lol. From now on new equipment is key and no more clones coming in. It's amazing the night and day difference from my veg plants and latest batch of plants in flower compared to anything before. No more recirculating water for a while, just drain to waste. Easy painful fix to keep things good
 
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Vnsmkr

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AlphaPhase said:
Fucking wierd right? Lol. The plant looks healthy, nice and green, petioles are nice. Thing is, the leaves are micro. The stems are extremely fragile and snap of if pulled at all. I wanted to cull it from the rw slab but if I did the roots of the plant would rot. Figured let it be and move on. Fucking duds lol. From now on new equipment is key and no more clones coming in. It's amazing the night and day difference from my veg plants and latest batch of plants in flower compared to anything before. No more recirculating water for a while, just drain to waste. Easy painful fix to keep things good
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Did the roots take off or were they tiny?
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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It was over a year of this madness lol. I was growing healthy plants in fucking carpet padding for crying out loud. Then all of a sudden shit got sooooooo messed up and I never knew why, thought it was something I was doing, but it turns out I had no control. That's the hardest part to swallow, a whole year of second guessing myself when it was something literally in the plant (gg4) that started the madness ugh. Seeds from here on out :)
 
AlphaPhase

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Yeah I never even thought anything would go wrong with this grow, the stems were so fat at flower, the other plants are over 3' tall and look healthy, that one is the same size as it was when I flowered it lol. The other plants look healthy but Def have something wrong with em
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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I'm so over the dud crap if ya can't tell, it's brutal. I was getting 2x the yield before it and it took 14 months to get my plants back to as healthy as they were before the wierd crap started, that's so much bud lost to the abyss, but gotta take it how it comes and learn.

My first seed I started since, the animal pie, has the fattest stems and biggest leaves be seen since I moved to ca, so I know the seeds won't let me down :)
 
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