reefacheefa
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thought garlic was supposed to be a safe, organic type of thing?? dont they use it for bugs?
Balls to the Wall grow, Riddleme Gets Serious
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riddleme
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yes but it was in a organic safe soap mixture also has pepermint oil and had a warning not to use indoors (which I thought was because of smell) and it is well known (ask UB) that some of the so called safe soaps cause MJ to burn
reefacheefa
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thats bad news man, what kind of infestation did you have?? or just preventative maintenance?
riddleme
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no, in fact they just pased a new law that totally screwed the pooch and changed everything, it was getting out of hand so they over regulated it, caregivers are now limited to 5 patients and can not sell overages/extra to disp's any longer
my main reason was a family member asked me and I needed to cover my plant count
riddleme
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depends on how you look at it, we're allowed 6 plants but it is supposed to be 2 in seed/clone, 2 in veg and 2 in flower, since I think I have 2 males I'm technically ok but then the guest came adding 2 more (both females) they were not supposed to stay but had to because of the mites, so yeah a bit of covering my ass going on
riddleme
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would love the link, thanks
riddleme
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gonna do the plant #2 thing again, side by side update pic from yesterday with new pic from this morning, this is after feeding em that little tonic I made and I gave em another lite rain last night (sprayed a whole pint onto em)
please remember less is more if you try to duplicate the tonic, for the epsom salts (MAG) I take 1 tablespoon and disolve it in a pint of water then use that as a nute, so in this new tonic 1 teaspoon of the epsom tea (as I call it) 1/4 teaspoon of ProtK, 1/8 teaspoon of Jack's and 1/2 teaspoon molasses to a gallon of water, it will precipitate the mag and protk make a white crystaline thingy happen in the water so be sure to shake it up real good before pouring it on plants
Note, I would not use this for every feeding
now that is what you call a growth spurt
please remember less is more if you try to duplicate the tonic, for the epsom salts (MAG) I take 1 tablespoon and disolve it in a pint of water then use that as a nute, so in this new tonic 1 teaspoon of the epsom tea (as I call it) 1/4 teaspoon of ProtK, 1/8 teaspoon of Jack's and 1/2 teaspoon molasses to a gallon of water, it will precipitate the mag and protk make a white crystaline thingy happen in the water so be sure to shake it up real good before pouring it on plants
Note, I would not use this for every feeding
now that is what you call a growth spurt
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rastadred22
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looks good!! alooot of new growth
bigman4270
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Right on brother, definitely a growth spurt happening. Got a quick question? I am also using the Pro teKt because of the CMH and fast growth. Have you determined how you will use it? I know we can tell what the plant wants as far as our nutes go, but what about the Silica? I know there is no schedule but was just wondering what you look for to determine it's use or just add when you would be feeding them anyway?
Hope it make sense?
riddleme
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right now I am going real slow, 2 reasons, they are in soil and all soil has silica in it (2nd most common element on earth) and they were/are young so weening them onto it while I watch and what I notice is that new growth seems more narley looking comming out but then shifts to normal looking once established
once I get em in the big pots and in soilless mix I will be using it half strength every watering, so the last gallon I use to rain on em will have the protk in it
bigman4270
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so the silica left behind from the rain will prep the roots for nutrient uptake along with the other added benefits too?
riddleme
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hell if I know? my first time using it, so treading softly and watching closely
bigman4270
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right on, me too!
Illumination
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Upon using the protekt on my grapevines outdoors prior to using on my plants I noticed the precipitation when mixed in with the nutes. Upon looking further into this I found that the reason they do not add it to the concentrated nute mix is because in high concentrations silica can only be maintained water soluble at high ph. Upon further experimentation found that regardless of how dilute the nute solution, precipitation would still occur. As I feel that the precipitation would make the silica and whatever else it is reacting with unavailable I have either added it to my last gallon of "rain" intermittently or alternately nutes on last gallon of rain then protekt only in water when it is almost finished "wicking" Also I have used it every other "rain" as I also have Azomite included in my soil mix which is primarily a form of silica. Also I have been giving it to them since pretty much they sprouted and refrained from mixing it with anything else. Also am finding that Dynagro's levels are low so I have increased dosage of their products in comparisons with Jack's. We will see ...
My two cents for what it is worth.
Namaste'
