I wouldn't have been able to grow, if I didn't have a hydroponics store near me.... Idk how you do it
Just a lot of research on my part. I refuse to believe I can't find a substitute in its more natural/unprocessed form. The discovery part is the first major step to my solutions without proper grow shops here. The second part is making that substitute usable form to plants root system.
Here are a few examples:
Epsom salt: didn't know the local terminology/translation, and nurseries/crappy grow shops (with local brands, nothing like what cannabis growers have access to abroad) could help me zone in on. Bless the user that mentioned its chemical components and I hit my chemist/lab guy (he's got all sorts of Chems for laboratory purposes, I even found calcium bentonite for my home brews for clarification purposes), low and behold he had it. Not your usual chemist, more like lab stuff but luckily he had this under a German brand as fine crystals. Paid $14 for 1.5 Lbs.
Potassium: I found some people making banana skin peel tea (after drying out the babana peels) for a source of potassium. That I'm under process drying some peels. I'm confident this will work. Updates asap when I've tried it thoroughly. Also coal ash was suggested to me. Just waiting for coals to die out and try this.
Spider mites: I wish I had Dr.doom or something similar. I've tried finding neem oil without any luck. Finally I tried my homeopathic shop. He had that AND garlic oil (to rid of mite eggs), so that was a lucky find. At the time my last grows mite problem had me in a major panic. Now I just bath my plants with a spray nozzle all under, every other day. It's been working well.
Calcium: As far as calcium goes, I'm really considering getting some of that stage 1 or 2 yr old baby food mixes and making a tea out of it. I've yet to find someone explaining how I can find calcium in our natural environment (like milk for example) to extract calcium and make something useful from that.
I guess the P/K element on my black indica has gotten quite bad. It may have been multiple deficiencies at work but leaning more towards setting potassi based instead of magnesium. I've fed it a few mag feeds but no difference to rate of yellowing and on new growth as well.
I'm hoping the banana peel tea and coal ashes will work. If it does, success for me and for anyone that comes across this post that can't access mainstream products locally.
Transporting Fertiliser brands in 32 ounce bottles with original packaging wouldn't have been much of an issue for someone travelling into the country, or doing it myself for that matter, but somewhere in the past some fucktard decided to make explosives out of it and it's on ban lists on most cargos unless with special permission and people trained in handling/transporting an NPK form of it.
Here's my black indica as of today after a good bath (mite reduction in progress, week 2):
Here's what came off just from the pressure nozzle. Too many ! =(
A loosing battle at the moment at my end.
1week into flowering grow )
