ElBarto
Well-Known Member
Ok..I'm pissed now. My outdorrs babes came down with a case of fungus /mold/mildew of some sort. In the problems section of the book where it talks about what sprays to use for downy/powdery mildew and stuff, he says use seranade. Cool I thought, so I bought some and applied to my plants...well they were so much worse the next day I knew it hadn't worked. So I did some more reading in the book to make sure I read it right. It did say to use seranade...BUT there is another section in that part of the book that talks about what certain chems do. ie bleach, baking soda, safer soap etc. Well I found the section that talked about bascilus subtilus(active ingredient in seranade) In it Jorge said to use seranade as a soil drench to protect against fulsarium wilt and some other stuff......NOT for mildews. Now I know that the bottle of seranade says its for mildew and such....I'm just pissed that there was conflicting info on such an important issue in his book.
Cervantes could use a good editor. There's a shit load of repetition and contradictory info in the book. There's also a ton of useful info. I think you need to read each chapter through from start to finish several times to get the best out of it.
I bought the SeeMoreBuds book last week. There's some useful ideas and on the whole I think the book's good value, but once again the book would have been improved by a good editor. There are a couple of mis-attributed quotations and and there's a quote (from Harry Anslinger?) that appears in two different places. Some important details (particularly the lighting schedule) could have been clearer. I thought he was very lucky to get such a substantial yield from three plants under cfls in MG soil and no additional nutes. A bit more prominent a disclaimer along the lines of "individual results may vary" might have been nice for dissappointed customers who weren't able to reproduce his results.