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Hi, I’ve been mainlining 2 plants for quite some time. I’ve just topped for the 5th time, giving this beast 32 tops. my question is - should I be stripping the tips from the lower growth nodes in veg? Since this is my last top - I imagine I won’t be removing tips after this because I’ll be...

Do you have pictures? Could be a deficiency of some sort.

Wouldn’t you just top dress with dry amendments/compost or recycle the foliage from previous run to add nutrition to soil? If using compost tea for immediate water soluble nutrients, isn’t that essentially a synthetic process in an organic system? When does it rain nutrients on plants organically?

No need to add additional nutrients with water because the nutrients are already in the soil. When going hydro you need to add nutrients because water has none, or with coco there’s not a lot of nutrients in the medium to feed plant. Organic soil, the nutrients are already present and the...

The soil should be feeding the plant, with all the nutrients required. Don’t need to “feed” the plant with the compost teas etc. those are used more for boosting micro-organisms. My 2 cents

Here’s the start of run 2 - reusing FFHF with added pumice, ewc, compost, azomite, cover crops, oyster shell, kelp meal, Dolomite and a few blue dream seeds poppin up :)

This is exactly what I was looking to understand. So it’s more about how much nutrient breakdown has occurred in the soil. You can have 100% capacity of microbes in both new and old soil, however the longer they have been there breaking down carbon, the more aggregates build up making the soil...

Ya that was my understanding and belief upon stumbling into this information. Their point is that the rate that these microbes multiple - 1 to 250k in like 10 hours that it doesn’t take months to have the multiplication to fill a metropolis. My belief aligns with yours, but just doing some fact...

Reading on the internet, people debate the effectiveness of adding microbes to the soil with microbial teas etc. stating that since microbes multiple so quickly, there really isn’t much of a valid use case for adding them in teas. And that also, so many of them are “invasive” and not local that...

One Q around this - since most of us are cutting as the trichomes get to the nice part amber/part cloudy trichomes phase - how does that align with the plants natural end of life? Should we really care about the fade? If the nugs are at peak ripeness, that may or may not align with the plants...

Yep there’s still a lot of chlorophyll most likely in the buds that give it that nasty taste - where I bet it burns black and not grey. It will need ~2 week cure to not taste like ass. I use bovida 62s for curing, and hydrometers in the jars to measure the RH. Ideally it should be 62 RH

It’s amazing how I’ve researched flushing pro and cons for hours on the internet - and this sort of thought process/rationalization never even comes up. All this “flush or not to flush” talk never even gets to the “root” lol of the issue. Makes so much sense

So in a living soil since we aren’t feeding the roots we feed the soil, the plant will stop up taking certain nutrients on its own as its death arrives. In a synthetic system, roots are force fed nutrients taking plant out of control, and forcing a flush to replicate plants natural end of life...

And wouldn’t they only use the nutrients stored in the leaves if it wasn’t available in the soil?

There should be PK available in the soil though, as I haven’t flushed and am starting to maintain a living soil. I see pictures of peoples “natural” organic fades but lack understanding of what causes a fade in organic soil

Hey All, have a question that I haven’t found a good answer to yet. Why would cannabis fade in organic soil? I found that my plants did fade naturally a bit in my soil - I didn’t flush or anything - but I don’t understand why. The nutrients are still available in the soil. Is there a...

Also - no harm in throwing some worms in there right? I plan on growing in this setup for a couple of years as I live in a pretty small place in Chi lol actually got this tucked away in my bedroom ;)

Thanks for the input all. picked up a 2x2 felt bed, holds like 27 gallons. Adding my used soil (FFHF) from the previous run - adding some pumice, kelp, EWC, compost, oyster shell, and whatever else I decide to pickup in there. planting a mixed cover crop with some of the leaves from the last...

Fed some cal/mag and the issue cleared up for plant 1.The other plant had a potassium deficiency, also possibly a nitrogen toxicity? Looks like Dr. Who was right about that. Apparently FFHF isn’t enough for a full run for all strains. Just finished up as is and the nugs turned out pretty good in...

Well I want to go the organic route. So as I harvest my 2nd run here, I want to start a 3rd right away. If I’m to plant another seed in that pot, I don’t think the nutrients will exist to carry it through another run, and I doubt it will be replenished in time as the new plant goes to flower...