Chuckers paradise......

macsnax

macsnax

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Michael Huntherz said:
Going to try a little water pipe in celebration of page 420 here.

@macsnax seems like these fine folks are steering you right with the coco, at least as far as I know. I would highly recommend using Blumats, especially if you stick to 1 gallon pots.
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I was dreading the idea of watering twice a day, I think blumats are the solution.... I know this is the chuckers thread but, a couple questions and a handful of minds and I think you guys got me off and running here. Thank you all for your input I appreciate it.
 
naiveCon

naiveCon

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macsnax said:
I was dreading the idea of watering twice a day, I think blumats are the solution.... I know this is the chuckers thread but, a couple questions and a handful of minds and I think you guys got me off and running here. Thank you all for your input I appreciate it.
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You shouldnt have to water twice a day, maybe i am doing it wrong but i can get away with every other day.

I run the canna coco in radicle bags with the bag in a shallow oversize container, water the plant til the container gets half full or so, i have never had a problem doing it this way.

Also what ever nutes you run, just be sure to add some cal mag, i usually wing about a teaspoon per gal of mixture, i also put a tiny tiny dab of yucca root powder.
 
curious2garden

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Old Thcool said:
Years ago I found some Mexican bag seed that I had in a film canister that I brought with me to BC from Sacramento. They were late 70s pre paraquat. I planted them 20 plus years later in straight top soil from a local farmer. Not even great dirt, typical topsoil / bark mulch / sand crap. I had to leave town for work for a 6 weeks and the plants were 2 feet tall and showing sex. I had 1 male out of 10 seeds that sprouted. I asked a friend to water them with straight tap water and no fertilizer. He was relatively consistent and we had a hot summer. I came back from work and wondered where my plants went all I saw was trees? The trees were pit plants! Holy crap ! They went from 2 feet to 8 feet in a month and a half! and were just starting to flower! I was pretty excited. One day I was standing on my deck enjoying the lake view and having a cup of coffee and a helicopter flew over the house out over the lake and pulled a U turn! It hovered a couple hundred feet over the house and my heart started to pound as the 12 foot plants were swaying in the prop wash! I had to decide whether to chop em down way before they were done or take my chances. I kept em until the first frost and first sign of mold. They were pretty much mature and I harvested a couple pounds of pretty nice smoke!
It made me wonder about how good the crop would have been had I used compost and chicken manure?
I also wonder if spending huge money on fancy bottles and bags of fertilizers and amendments is really money well spent? I think it’s totally doable to do it with a compost heap and soil with a straw mulch and still have big healthy dope! Sorry for the book just sharing an experience. Please chime in as I really am open to everything and I am just starting my first indoor grow so I have much too learn.
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Cool story, bro
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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naiveCon said:
You shouldnt have to water twice a day, maybe i am doing it wrong but i can get away with every other day.

I run the canna coco in radicle bags with the bag in a shallow oversize container, water the plant til the container gets half full or so, i have never had a problem doing it this way.

Also what ever nutes you run, just be sure to add some cal mag, i usually wing about a teaspoon per gal of mixture, i also put a tiny tiny dab of yucca root powder.
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What's the yucca root powder do?
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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naiveCon said:
I think it has something to do with the coco retaining moisture, lol, to be honest, i am not completely positive,
I started using it years ago with hot peppers and just continued it with weed...
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Thanks. I was wondering if it had a specific benefit I didn't know about.

A friend recently used a product called Regalia. It is an extract of Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria sp.) As a root drench, it worked brilliantly against thrips and powdery mildew. That sort of botanical power is pure win in my book. So I was curious, and I'm always ready to add a new trick to my amateur grower's kit.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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naiveCon said:
I use the green bags of canna coco strictly and i do mix a little perlite in each container.

The yucca makes the water, wetter, lol
Something to that effect,
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Desert plant roots tend to contain saponins, soapy compounds. Nature's detergents, so to speak. And making water wetter will certainly optimize ion mobility between medium and roots. I am notoriously "not organic" and use a drop of Ultra Dawn to accomplish something very similar.
 
curious2garden

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cannabineer said:
Desert plant roots tend to contain saponins, soapy compounds. Nature's detergents, so to speak. And making water wetter will certainly optimize ion mobility between medium and roots. I am notoriously "not organic" and use a drop of Ultra Dawn to accomplish something very similar.
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Same here, especially useful when applying Spinosad :)
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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curious2garden said:
Same here, especially useful when applying spinosad :)
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I believe this is the time when I am constrained to confess that Ultra Dawn has an LD50 for Cannabis. I used a friend's grow to determine that, sigh.

Bottom line, when you open the grow room door and The Blob marches around your shoulders and into the stairwell, that's too much Ultra Dawn. Blue bottle.
 
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