day 93 ( 34 of bloom ) so yesterday i watered the plant and dropped the silicate out of the mix over all plant health looks great. i am starting to get some orange hairs 1 or 2 per cola so im in the end game now 2 or three weeks till harvest. i may do one more feeding then all flush till the end.
- update day 94 ( 35 of bloom ) i am going to go into flush i think as i am seeing more and more orange hairs and i don't want to start late.
Update had to harvest early because of pollen sacs
5000 is WAY too high. You need to be down near 700. I have some AP beans, but held back from growing them and glad I did. I seek a great yielder, but also extremely resinous.
I blog on 420 magazine, but unfortunately their server seems to be down. When it's back up, I suggest finding my thread there titled "How to use Hydro Buddy and Mix Nutes". I used GH 3 part for years and always saw leaf damage, but never really knew how to remedy that. I now mix my own nutes from salts and every element right down to the trace elements are intentionally targeted to produce the most favorable result. Each strain has slightly different needs, so when growing new strains, I quickly learn which adjustments need to be made and make them. I now grow perfect cannabis. Well, let me more accurately state that, I now grow with perfect nutrients so the plant can produce the best possible results.
@The_Bearded_Grower, yes, but more than just the blanket answer regarding TDS which measures how much salt is in the water, it is more important to be within ideal ranges of every element. At higher concentrations of everything, the user is much more likely to encounter lockouts which always express themselves as deficiencies, so instead of correcting the feed to account for giving too much of "A", the user is ramping up the "B" to account for a non-existent deficiency.
Here is a tutorial I made about creating your own nutrient solution so to better understand the concentration of any one element. My personal aim as a grower is to produce absolutely perfect leaves and branches. I believe I am about 95% there. When I mix my own personal custom regimen, it settles to about 750 TDS, but more importantly, I guarantee the range of every element in my feed. I don't want to overdrive the plants, I just give them what they need for each growth stage and they do all of the magic.
https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/making-your-own-nutrient-concentrates.455187/
i thinks maybe i shout use something like big bud in bloom next time the buds do seem smaller then i thought they would be but for my first time i think its going good