D63Hopefully this is the last week.. She is still getting fatter on buds, but the leaves are sad to see.
Ill be more prepared next round with others auto.
I tried to get some pics of trichomes but was hard. the trichomes becoming cloudy and some are ambers now.
So it is near the end
Begining of week 10, Ill water more than feed her. The smell is really sweet and my girlfriend everytime she entering the dining room: WTH that stink!!! im telling her : i know it wont be long and im telling me: yeah the way to go!!
D65: the runoff is quite acidic and with some ppm.
Just flushed to get rid of extra acidity and ppm. hopefully ill get some good news next test
I'm just here because of your name. My name is also Frank. And I have a thing with terpenes. Like I even make terpene juices (various plant leaf, flower, etc teas and oils) as feed for plants.
Just a random mention of something you've probably not heard of before. Mulberry "yoghurt" is good shit.
Basically, I got this mulberry tree. So it makes lots of mulberries, and many of them lie on the ground. So I take that, throw it in a bucket with some soil (not much) with lots of microbial activity, then, I throw some milk and water in it. Those are the main things. I add some other random shit too. Anyway, then that ferments for a week or two. Then it smells like fresh, raw meat. I shit you not. And I feed that shit to the plants.
Anyway, that shit seemed to like boost my plants (crazy terps, sizes). I considered it as like an alternative to molasses (you know, carbs, sugars, acids, oils, minerals, etc), and I would certainly do that again (but not the right season for it now).
Here are some plants I fed that shit:
https://ibb.co/5hvw8Pn
Cheers dude, looks nice. I reckon it's harvest time there though (and I tend to harvest late, I mean I've had 10+ month plants).
@frankterpenes,
Not necessarily just mulberry hey, I was trying to convey the idea that people use too "few" things, don't try alternatives.
Like, maybe you got plums? Or elderberries? You know... Maybe some plants, trees with those really waxy oils, nice smelling flowers?
For an "oil" extract, you take some of that shit (flowers, leaves), maybe chop it finer. You throw it in water. You heat that water (not quite boiling, like 70c) for an hour or two. After that strain it/take out the debris. Tada, terp magic (kinda like petrol)! Then you try some of that. Not much, just a bit, and if it gives you positive results, keep doing it, increase it until it doesn, etc.
There's an ENORMOUS amount of shit you can do with fermentation, teas, other plants in terms of boosting growth. Like kelp for instance, that's known to aid many people growing shit. Lactic acid bacterias, other fermentation products, etc.
I mean, how do you improve if you're just following something already established (especially commercially)? Sure, for "conservative" reasons, that's often a good idea, but unless you want to be latent, experimentation is probably the largest space for improvement. Particularly experimentation with simple exogenous inputs (weeds, flowers, leaves etc).
Like molasses for instance, as a carb/mineral sort of input for "BRICS" or whatever. Shitloads of people use it, but it has specific effects. It has lots of potassium, magnesium, specific sugars. So it results in specific kinds of hormonal, structural, flowering, oil and terpene production in marijuana plants (some variation, sure). It's not necessarily ideal, people simply know it as effective, and they don't know alternatives coz too few people try simple experimental approaches. I mean, a bit of trehalose, rather than fructose or glucose might be excellent for plants? I dunno. Do you?
Like if I seriously need a phosphorus sort of supplementation, I could take some specific sort of seeds (the most suitable I have available), roots of some plants, pulverize that and there you go. But then, I could also consider that there's a lot of organic phosphorus in the soil, and that citric acid could mobilize it, and citric acid is cheap shit (as in monetary cost), kinda like epsom salts.
@sir_isO, Thanks for the input.. you got a wonderful forest in this pic.. nice job... I will put her in the dark soon enough.. but trying to get rid of salt buildup first.. after ill chop.. thanks for the advices ill take a look at mulberry. I love to read a lot of things