If by acidic, you mean -slightly- acidic, then yes.. that holds true for soil. Don't spike it with a pH similar to what's required for azaleas/rhododendron or you will watch your cannabis crops die very quickly without massive recovery effort. All I really have to contribute on the acidic discussion.
Good luck. You're gonna need it.
it is P that exacerbates stretch not N ...pre harvest flushing is botanically unsound and detrimental not beneficial to the fermenting, or "curing" of the final productHello Waiakeauka. I'm not sure if this will help you or not but i found this on another website and it made sense to me -
Cannabis requires a 1:2 ratio of P to K throughout all stages of it's growth.
It's worth stating for the record the actual ratios of N, P and K that cannabis requires through it's life cycle:
Vegetative Stage
N - P - K
3 - 1 - 2
Flowering Stage
N - P - K
1 - 1 - 2
Final Flowering Stage
N - P - K
0 - 1 - 2
To translate this into a 12 week schedule for a typical Skunk type such as Cheese or Psychosis would give something along these lines:
Veg week 1: 3 - 1 - 2
Veg week 2: 3 - 1 - 2
Flo week 1 : 3 - 1 - 2
Flo week 2 : 3 - 1 - 2
Flo week 3 : 1 - 1 - 2
Flo week 4 : 1 - 1 - 2
Flo week 5 : 1 - 1 - 2
Flo week 6 : 1 - 1 - 2
Flo week 7 : 0 - 1 - 2
Flo week 8 : 0 - 1 - 2
Flo week 9 : 0 - 0 - 0
Flo week 10: 0 - 0 - 0
This schedule reduces the Nitrogen two weeks into the 12/12 period which will assist in stopping the vertical growth (stretch). It cuts out all Nitrogen after 6 weeks which will result in a less leafy, smoother burning end product with greater density to the flowers. The last two weeks of plain water is sufficient to leach out all accumulated salts and give a clean end product. Three week flush as advocated by some really isn't necessary if the Nitrogen is cut out after 6 weeks. The people using a three week flush tend to use Canna nutes which have too much N in them for late flowering and this is why they get a benefit from flushing for three weeks.
Hope that makes sense. Despite all the crap the nute companies fill our heads with about the need for all kinds of fancy bottles, you really don't need any of them. Cannabis is a simple plant, a weed in fact, and all it needs is the correct NPK at the correct time plus a full range of trace elements, that is hard fact and no amount of BS an marketing from the nute companies will ever change that fact.
AnywayHope this helps you a little bit ? Good luck and Happy Growing
first off jacks is dry...not liquid...so you're not paying for water...second the other 40% are inert carriers to keep you from frying your plants...the nutes with the lower %'s are liquid not dry so the water further dilutes it...wht's important is the ratio not the actual %'s...20-20-20= 1-1-1 9-3-6=3-1-2 and you can grow from beginning to end with 1-1-1 and do great
ok you are another one that already thinks he knows too much
What if my plant is shaped like the letter K, what am I to read from that?
hahahaha
Agreed on this, there will never be a 'this is the best' combo as every strain can/will react differently, and you can find strains that mow down on K and ignore 1/2 of the P put in during flowering, or love twice the amount of N as everything else. At the end of the day, cannabis is not an 'extremely difficult' plant to grow, but she will go from 'nice' to 'psychobitch' if not treated properly.
I was thinking the same with his DG vs. gen. Hydro. Trying to say GH had ph fluctuations more so than DG, well it's the other way around in my experience. GH is stable in these reservoirs and this water.
Correction there Uncle Ben. As far as history can pin down, Mari jane originates from the cold mountainous regions of Asia i.e. Afghanistan and Himalaya regions then traveled the world with the mystics and elites(kind of the same way tobacco would).
Then you should use GH.
