Thanks for the kind words.
So your cousin, who helped you initially setup, then give you advice on what to do (granted incorrect advice), now wants some clones from your vegging plants, lol classic. I give you a couple of little snipitts of how to use hydro and he wants some of what you've got.
Has he managed to kill the ones he was working with?
Has he seen your plants?
J
I think I told you....?
He'd given them Aqua Flores A&B from day one of VEG to the last day of FLOWER.
It was only when he took me to see them, to get my opinion about why they were so rubbish this time, that the problem was worked out.
"Where's your Aqua Vega, Jonathan?"
"It's there, Paul"
"No, Jonathan. This is FLORES A & B - for flowering. Where's the stuff you gave them during their VEG stage....?"
A sudden flash of realisation crosses his face.
"FUCK!!! FUCK!!! I've done this for six years....How could I have made such a basic mistake?"
Luckily for him he knows people who are even thicker.
Every gram of his crop was sold within a few hours of being cropped - Wet as anything but at DRY prices....!!!
He got £800 (which he reckons is about a third of the usual and 25% of his better yields.
Allowing for his drunken exaggeration I would guestimate that he normally gets 25% to a third more.
I told him that I would take enough cuttings for me and him after they had had 2 weeks of flowering time. (I'm sure that's what I read or was advised as the best time to take cuttings - from non-Mother plants, in a perpetual grow situation???).
To start cutting away branches now, when they're at the stage of 3 week veg plants, would've been too much for them.
It's only the last ten days that they've REALLY started to go from strength to strength.
He never takes pH or EC but, luckily for him, lives in an area with 0.2 water.
By following his 'recipe' my plants were nearly nute burned to death!
I don't want to memorise parrot fashion 'recipe's'.
I want to have the knowledge to take readings and adjust nutes accordingly.
He's seen my plants and he thinks they're doing well BUT he advise me to veg them 5 or 6 weeks (now it's 4 week 3 days).
AND, during flower, to add Bud Blood and Overdrive and Boost....
TBH it sounds like bullshit, to me.
I will keep my Aqua Vega A/B at the same strength (12ml of each for every 10 lt)
Cannazym at the same (25ml for every 1o lt)
but stop it after 2nd week of flowering
and Rhizotonic will reduce (from 20ml per 10 lt) during VEG
(to 5ml per 10 lt) during FLOWER.
I am not changing from VEGA to FLORES
I am not introducing PK 13/14
In the words of someone I trust and respect -
"Boost is BULLSHIT!" so I'll not be using that.
As for all the other BUD boosters that Jonathan keeps recommending
My EC can't exceed 1.2 so adding anything would mean deducting something else....
