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The commercial soil I'm using is "Big Rootz".

Thanks. Making certain my water ph adjustment is correct (my tap water is highly alkaline), and adding a little magnesium to the current watering. What's odd to me is that I've got plants than are just fine, and others that are not, yet every aspect of the environment is identical, and the...

I am growing 4 plants, in pots, outdoors, west SF. I use seeds from a set I also used last year. Last year, I planted 12, and got 12 females. So I figured these seeds must be from a hermi. Everything about the 4 plants is identical: soil, pots, sunlight, water. Identical. (I'm using some...

I have a bunch of mason jars of pretty sweet herb that says you are wrong. It's just a challenge. Not at all impossible. It's not as if I have a choice about the weather; I make do!!!

Harvested. Probably lost 2/3 to 3/4's of potential crop to mold. Still got about 3 mason jars worth of quality buds, though I did still harvest a bit early out of concern for more losses. Here's a few pics fwiw...

Here's the latest. Hanging in there, with minimal occasional loss of a bud due to a speck of gray mold. However, we just started getting fog in the last 15 hours, in theory it won't last another day and I'll escape yet again. Spraying with actinovate every 5-6 days. I think the buds are...

Under my 4x lupe, I'm finding lots of clear trichomes on most of the buds. The few that show more cloudly on top still have lots of clear ones just underneath. My guess is this is a slow mature due to the failing direct sunlight (and now we have a smoke haze, yuch). It's all about dry...

That's the somewhat amusing part. When it got close to germinate time, I had no seeds. My son had roughly 25, so I figured I'd germinate 12, get 6 females. Got 12 females, and that led to extremely crowded conditions (along with fantasies of giant harvest!), statistically impossible unless...

I think I'll just take the incremental route. A few buds definitely have a significant percentage of cloudly tri's, and I snipped some of those just now. Also a few not so mature, but were in an overly dense area. I did another spray of actinovate. And now, primal and tribal sun prayer, to...

Extremely helpful for a newbie to the art of the grow...thanks!!!

I'm growing outdoors on a deck at lattitude 38.7 in SF, west side and west facing, with significant sun blockage at this point in the season. Plants are only getting direct light in the last 4-5 hours of a sunny day, and some on one side, maybe only 2-3 hours direct light max. Plants were...

Hey thanks man. I think I read some of your earlier posts about the pen torch, and I seriously considered it, BUT my space was/is very constrained, and the screen material is nylon cord, so I was more than a little worried about cooking down my screen and having a catastrophe on my hands! Yes...

Just to tidy things up here, I've concluded I did NOT have any damage from the actinovate, the problems I was seeing was due to small spots of rot inside the buds. Sometimes you get a browning/graying leaf. Sometimes you get the bud top "dying" (all the hairs turning very dark red and drying...

Ahhhhhh, decision time!! We are at the peak of a nice heat wave, I sprayed actinovate again on Monday, and yet this afternoon I found 3 small bud tops with a browning leaf and a moldy section of bud/stem. I'm getting pretty decent bud growth all over, but it's noooooot ready!!! Some is weeks...

I've learned to spot the super earliest signs of rot. What I get is a tiny browning leaf, where the brown (or gray) is more significant towards the stem, vs browning on the outer end of the the leaf. Also sometimes excessive darkening of the white/orange hairs, to a very dark red. I instantly...

So I did have some bud rot fallout from the day of fog 2 days ago, but nothing too bad. I'm now working through the plants at least once a day, looking IN DETAIL at every bud, striving to identify if there is a single brown/dark red/graying leaf, or if the bud looks in any way faint (which...

Here's some pics of the (vastly reduced) overall crop, and a close up of my prettiest bud top.

So far, so good. Very limited new mold spots (I'm studying every bud under the magnifying glass now daily looking for trouble, and if I find a single spot, off comes the bud, I cut out the bad patch, and harvest the rest). Just finished two days of sun, and yesterday I resprayed with...

Looks awfully familiar! TY.

some goreous pink bud tops, almost maroon! fog is back and tomorrow is the test day for the actinovate. does it stop fresh mold on my thickest remaining bud?? yikes.