Well I am healing well after the surgery, still sore but that will take awhile.
Here are a couple of pics of Q1 and Q2 getting a bath. They went an extra day between watering and man do they show it.
going to put them in the cabinet this weekend and switch to 12/12.
More later!
Peace out,
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GR
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Hi GR,
The worst state to get caught in eh? Must be Kansas
or Mississippi, hmm don't matter. I too just recently had a discectomy L4/L5. I am healing up well myself.
I noticed your plants took a hit (stressed) for a lack of water. I never worry about that anymore, if fact I don't really water my plants I let them water themselves.
I use cloth pots with an organic soil mix that keeps my ladies feed well but I hated the watering part, too time consuming and as we both know can't always be there to stay on top of it.
I did a little research hoping there was a way where one could grow in a self feeding and self watering setup. The self feeding obviously easy right soil mix duh da!
The hard part was a watering system where getting water to plants did not require electrical powered assistance moving it, providing air to it, ensuring it's PH and PPM balanced for chemical feeding.
In attempting to find a solution I came across a book by Ed Rosenthal considered to be the God Father of growing cannabis. He had a section on hydroponics and what I knew of hydroponics at the time
was all electrical pump moving water through a variety of different mechanisms. So I was quite taken back and very interested when the first section under hydroponics was titled Passive Hydroponics, passive what the hell is passive.
Then as I read and discovered that our ladies roots are designed in such a way that the lower portion of the root system is great at up taking water and it grows deeper into the soil and that the upper layer of the root system excels at developing and nourishing itself within the soil web us organic gardeners go all out to ensure it optimal. So why not ensure water uptake when needed in the photosythis process is prime and readily available. At that's what he did. Ed showed you could build a container utilizing wicking system techniques that would allow one to house the upper root system in organic soil and yet underneath it provide a layer of porous rock and water that is separate yet accessible via wicking and permanently once lower roots grow through dividing material that keeps the upper system from resting directly in the water reservoir below.
One can spend a ton of money on special made pots for passive hydroponic system. Or one can take the concept and DIY in there own grow as I did.
Check out my links in signature if you'd like to see my take on Passive Hydroponics.
Take care of yourself...heal up well now ya hear!
DS