Early Widow

@DEVS_GENETICS, I’m good with malted barley as a flowering top dress. The barley sprouts are likely better for veg stage, but when I tried early on it was a disaster because of my sodium rich water. All that sodium and potassium caused a bad cation imbalance pushing out Ca and Mg. Whoops. Once water issue was sorted it was too late to try again during the veg stage.

@Northern_Ent, I use to put clover in my coco and found that it just used up space and oxygen. Since I started using top dressing fertilizer, I’ve never had a issue and it took most of my guessing right out of the picture.

@DEVS_GENETICS, thanks. This was the first mature plant this year and I tried during the flowering stage to use barley sprouts (not malt BTW) as a top dressing. Bad idea (too much N and growth hormones I think) and this plant had, in fact, the worst buds of all this season. Good to do it on first plant and not the whole crop. 😎 I’ll try barley sprouts during veg stage next year where I’m sure they’ll work great. Glue from FAstBuds, Gelato from Female seeds and 11Roses had the best buds this year. Cheers.

@NorthernChemist, thanks. This adopted plant was the runt of a litter but it’s looking pretty good. I read something the other day (Seedsman outdoor guide) about rain knocking off trichomes and I think that happened here. Unfortunate but worth knowing about to avoid in future.

@iHateSativa, thanks. Never tried this one before but it looks pretty good so far. Now if it would just warm up enough so it can be outside full time.

@Northern_Ent, Oh here's a kinda small, though initially probably significant observation/consideration. So, cotyledons start, if they're aligned north/south (vaguely speaking in terms of general sunlight), they're gonna get a bit less light typically. But the more significant thing is, as soon as those first leaves are about the same size as/larger than cotyledons, to align those leaves east/west to maximize sunlight area. It's very minor in terms of effort and such, but initially it could make a fairly significant difference when I consider light path, exposed surface and the tendency for plants to "pray" (making surface size even smaller). I consider "praying" usually a sign of a plant reaching for or trying to capture more light (like a funnel).

@Northern_Ent, "Well, look I dunno"... The "Harvest" week. That weird looking shit in the plastic container.

@sir_isO, hyperlink didn’t come through. Which diary?