Mitchician
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If you're buying some rock phosphate just get a bag of potash too it's cheap.. not sure if paper would be good but I'm sure leaves would be good.
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Mitchician
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Wood ash: using in the garden / RHS
Ash from wood fires, such as bonfires or wood-burning stoves, can be a useful additive to the compost heap or can be applied directly to bare ground and dug in. It can be a natural source of potassium and trace elements. It also has a <a...
Read that.. lots of useful info, including application rate for top dressing.. I'd say it converts to about 2 tablespoons for your 2 pots. Mix it into the media you top dress with.
Did you order the rock phosphate yet? I just found this article, I think you want some steamed bone meal instead, the rock phoshphate won't be broken down for a year or so..
Organic Phosphorus Fertilizers, Organic Phosphorus Sources, Colloidal Phosphate
Organic phosphorus fertilizers include bone meal, fish bone meal, rock phosphate, and colloidal phosphate, a.k.a., soft phosphate. Bone phosphate is more readily available to plants, but mineral phos
www.grow-it-organically.com
there's a chart at the bottom with all the forms of organic phosphate and their uses and stuff..
They are telling that it will increase alkaline level in soil will that be good for autos???Wood ash: using in the garden / RHS
Ash from wood fires, such as bonfires or wood-burning stoves, can be a useful additive to the compost heap or can be applied directly to bare ground and dug in. It can be a natural source of potassium and trace elements. It also has a <a...www.rhs.org.uk
Read that.. lots of useful info, including application rate for top dressing.. I'd say it converts to about 2 tablespoons for your 2 pots. Mix it into the media you top dress with.
Did you order the rock phosphate yet? I just found this article, I think you want some steamed bone meal instead, the rock phoshphate won't be broken down for a year or so..
Organic Phosphorus Fertilizers, Organic Phosphorus Sources, Colloidal Phosphate
Organic phosphorus fertilizers include bone meal, fish bone meal, rock phosphate, and colloidal phosphate, a.k.a., soft phosphate. Bone phosphate is more readily available to plants, but mineral phoswww.grow-it-organically.com
there's a chart at the bottom with all the forms of organic phosphate and their uses and stuff..
Mitchician
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Not too sure maybe it will be bad so I thought if you add a bunch of coffee grounds to the mix it might help it stay neutral. It really depends how much it will raise alkalinity, sorry I don't can't really tell how much it will do that. I would imagine if you only used a couple of tablespoons mixed into the media spread over the 2 pots it wouldn't change anything too drastically. It's always better to do not enough than too much, that way if you notice no difference next weekend, you can add another sprinkle on top..
JavaCo
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That's normal nothing to worry about pretty much all strains will consume the lower fan leaves later in flower
Mitchician
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You're right there's not much amber apart from the damaged ones which degrade prematurely (and there are lots of damaged ones), but don't worry about that she's looking beautiful.. Don't even bother about waiting for amber just keep watering another week and she'll be done, even if you keep her a little bit too dry for the next week it will really help her ripen faster..
The longer you leave her the more trichomes will get damaged, there's no point waiting to get fully mature trichomes if half of them are destroyed.
The longer you leave her the more trichomes will get damaged, there's no point waiting to get fully mature trichomes if half of them are destroyed.
Mitchician
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You could chop her right now and have a fine smoke but yes Saturday is fine.
Drying is the most important part so how do you plan on doing it? What is your usual technique?
No you don't have to "flush" at all, don't put any extra water through, just water like normal and harvest on Saturday. If your weather is forecast to be really hot next weekend, chop her while the pot is still heavy, if it's just normal weather, chop her when the pot is dry and light.. You want to use the moisture of the plant to help lengthen the drying process.
Ideally you will hang dry for 1 week at least, if she dries in 2 or 3 days she could be ruined. Also you have to be very careful not to squash or bruise the plant while it's wet, that will also ruin your chance of having beautiful buds.
You just want to cut at the base, hang the whole plant with all leaves on in a dark place with a bit of air movement and ideally under 25C, and don't touch it for a week.
Drying is the most important part so how do you plan on doing it? What is your usual technique?
No you don't have to "flush" at all, don't put any extra water through, just water like normal and harvest on Saturday. If your weather is forecast to be really hot next weekend, chop her while the pot is still heavy, if it's just normal weather, chop her when the pot is dry and light.. You want to use the moisture of the plant to help lengthen the drying process.
Ideally you will hang dry for 1 week at least, if she dries in 2 or 3 days she could be ruined. Also you have to be very careful not to squash or bruise the plant while it's wet, that will also ruin your chance of having beautiful buds.
You just want to cut at the base, hang the whole plant with all leaves on in a dark place with a bit of air movement and ideally under 25C, and don't touch it for a week.
Mitchician
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If possible it would be optimum to hang her in 18c and 65% humidity but I don't think it would be very easy for you to provide those conditions so you just want it to be as close to that as you can get without trying too hard.
Mitchician
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Oh I forgot you like to wash them.. I've never done it but if I did I'd get 3 bins of water and gently swirl the plant in each one, so the first one takes off most of the dirt, the second takes off the rest, then the third basically just to check that everything has been washed off. If there is still a bit of dirt in the third bin I'd probably not bother washing it any more to be honest. I feel like you would lose a lot of trichomes just from the water swishing around, so gently swaying it around for longer with cleaner water would be better than being rough and fast.
Mitchician
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Yeah I heard of that too I think I read the same thread as you.. couldn't remember how they said to do the lemon and baking soda though that's why I didn't mention it.. but yeah do what it says in that thread lol..
Yeah I will lol meanwhile I filled the medium of landraces with sand vemicompost and woodash and I added woodash to GA too
Mitchician
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I guess so, you want air to circulate around the buds but not too much.. Just do whatever you think you have to so it dries in 1 week or more but has a bit of air movement, and don't let the box get too hot. Keep it in the coolest part of your house.