Mineralz
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What is the ice for?
I believe he uses it as a final flush. The ice shocks the roots into thinking that Winter is coming soon so the plant needs to hurry and finish up. Also acts as a flush when the ice melts

What is the ice for?
Since I'm all veganic and organic the soils micro heard is very much alive and active. Some like to chop without cold shocking, and there's nothing wrong with that. But for me, I chop after I have sent a clear and obvious signal to the plant that it's life is over. After flowering the plant will die off anyways, but she does it in active soil. If you ice her, the root temps are drastically lowered. This tells the plant that shit.is going down, your gonna freeze and you won't get pollinated. The plant will send out all its resin it can to get that pollen before it dies. The second part to cold shocking is that the soil microbes still perform their job weather it's transplant time or harvest, they don't care. The cold puts them to sleep, they go back into spore and cyst forms awaiting warmer temps. So in the end the plant will have to use up all of its internal stored nutrient. This forces a reallocation of carbohydrates from the roots to the flowers. This is where you want the carbohydrates and helps with the cure when it's time. Anerobic bacteria is what make curing possible and they feed on the chlorophyll and carbohydrate.What is the ice for?
Very kind of you!Very nice work Grandpa! One of my fav threads in Organics to check in on. Your plants look amazing! Just starting to dabble in organic soil myself. Mixed up my first batch of amended soil 5 wks ago. Had some really nice microbial webbing going on and added some redworms to vermicompost a bit. Keep up the good work and give us some smoke reports =)
If your effort is geared towards growing dank, then organics is the only way. If your focused on yield, then it's not always the best. At that point, then organics with bumper yeilds is dependant on genetics.Has anyone found out if organic soil or organic nutrients matter the most when growing or a combination? And are you seeing more people want more organically grown buds?
I"m just trying to see if it's worth the effort of figuring this all out and changing up my current style.
The plant we hit with Ro ice for couple days is sooooooooooooo retarded in terms of expansion.. Smoothness too but shit, son, the expansion..Since I'm all veganic and organic the soils micro heard is very much alive and active. Some like to chop without cold shocking, and there's nothing wrong with that. But for me, I chop after I have sent a clear and obvious signal to the plant that it's life is over. After flowering the plant will die off anyways, but she does it in active soil. If you ice her, the root temps are drastically lowered. This tells the plant that shit.is going down, your gonna freeze and you won't get pollinated. The plant will send out all its resin it can to get that pollen before it dies. The second part to cold shocking is that the soil microbes still perform their job weather it's transplant time or harvest, they don't care. The cold puts them to sleep, they go back into spore and cyst forms awaiting warmer temps. So in the end the plant will have to use up all of its internal stored nutrient. This forces a reallocation of carbohydrates from the roots to the flowers. This is where you want the carbohydrates and helps with the cure when it's time. Anerobic bacteria is what make curing possible and they feed on the chlorophyll and carbohydrate.
Basically it makes for a better cure and much smoother, more fragrant/flavorful/colorful flowers.
Haha! And they look great too!The D. Capensis are out of control lol, they fookin love fungus gnat
I've realized since that the VFT probably won't be catching any fungus gnats, since the shutdown mechanism doesn't react to their minimal weight? So the Drosera look physiologically more adapted to catching smaller critters... is this true?
Since I'm all veganic and organic the soils micro heard is very much alive and active. Some like to chop without cold shocking, and there's nothing wrong with that. But for me, I chop after I have sent a clear and obvious signal to the plant that it's life is over. After flowering the plant will die off anyways, but she does it in active soil. If you ice her, the root temps are drastically lowered. This tells the plant that shit.is going down, your gonna freeze and you won't get pollinated. The plant will send out all its resin it can to get that pollen before it dies. The second part to cold shocking is that the soil microbes still perform their job weather it's transplant time or harvest, they don't care. The cold puts them to sleep, they go back into spore and cyst forms awaiting warmer temps. So in the end the plant will have to use up all of its internal stored nutrient. This forces a reallocation of carbohydrates from the roots to the flowers. This is where you want the carbohydrates and helps with the cure when it's time. Anerobic bacteria is what make curing possible and they feed on the chlorophyll and carbohydrate.
Basically it makes for a better cure and much smoother, more fragrant/flavorful/colorful flowers.
omg how cute are those?!?!Yep, bang on, but don't expect to rely on 'just' Drosera though if you have a gnat infestation. Yeah, they'll take out quite a few adults and thrive off the nutrients they supply, but you should look at them more like a living sticky trap. You would still need to go for the larvae with something to irradicate them, ie. BT dunks, nematode or hypoaspis miles. I look at them more as a hobby than real pest control, although if you have enough of them I think they'd have to be helping out a little.
I've caught the bug big time...........pun intended, lol, and after doing a little research last night, my next mission is to get some slightly different drosera plants and start making my own cross breeds.
If these D.Capensis produce seeds, which I'm really hoping they will, I'll gladly send you some if you're interested.
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I've managed to get 3 VFT's to germinate, they're absolutely tiny, but all have viable little traps