I'm about a week late on this thread. But I see we are still travelling much the same road. I too quit using BM this round, quit using gravity last round. I was quite happy with my results minus the gravity. The buds I got were actually the most dense I have ever grown (go figure). However this round without the BM I'm noticing the smallest buds I have ever done. Not sure if that's the reason, but I'm running strains I've run before and can't think of any other differences. Hopefully it works out better for you.
And I too just found PM on my girls. I fuckin HATE it. I was 1 week away from harvesting half of them, and 3 weeks away from the others... but they are all coming down now. I can't afford to spray this late, and I don't want it to spread any more. Just a few dots here and there on fan leaves. Grrr. I really should have took more leaves off keeping everything so close together.
I'm looking forward to seeing how things turn out for you. I'm pretty sure you will be able to up the 0.8 g/w of the last grow. That's a bit disappointing.
Take care bro
Glad to have you Jig, yeah I think my problem last grow was that because I used BM it caused the distance between nodes to be very short so I had to prune a lot to keep the mold risk down. I think this may have been detrimental to the final yield. Without the BM the plants have completely filled out the canopy and now they are looking great. The only problem is the weather lately has been very conducive to PM and I got some. The Zero Tolerance seems to be working really well, but some of the plants closest to the lights (my setup is an oval not a circle) got a little burned, but not too bad. The Zero Tolerance is good to use up to days before harvest because it has no chemicals, just herbal oils (cinnamon and clove) plus some potassium bicarbonate which is just baking soda. I would prefer not to spray that close to harvest, but I'd also rather my buds not have PM and still have time to mature.
The gravity seems to be a crock of shit to me, but thats just IMHO. It just stresses the shit out of your plants, even at super low dosage.
Hopefully this grow will go much better, but it's always about that next grow, right? Haha.
awww, thats never good. At least you're catching it now before its too late. Just drench them with it and double check that your humidity levels are on par. Are you currently having issues with that? What are your temps/humidity levels?
Good info: next time i'll think twice about running my sulfer burner....i'm always showering these girls with nutes.
Good luck, update us soon
Yeah, caught it on just a few leaves so I'm not too worried, i just hope to keep it at bay for the next 7 weeks... drain.... yeah i read some warnings with sulfur burners to be careful if you have used an oil based foliar spray recently, but most supplemental foliars wouldn't have oils in them i don't think, so you should be fine. I'd just maybe spray your leaves with water the day before you burn then you should be fine. Mine is just a really small space and I would have to hang the burner less than a foot from the plants which is sketchy at best.
hey snow,
whats your guestimate as to how much your system with water flowing and near harvest weighs? How's combating the PM? Also, what size is your reservoir. sorry if you stated in a previous thread.
I honestly have no clue on that.... there's about 30gal in the system, plus maybe 25+lb wet plant material plus the pipes weigh maybe 20lb total... maybe 300lb in all, the water obviously being the heaviest part. The reservoir is 35gal but I fill it about 3/4 the way up so it doesn't overflow if the power goes out and the tubes drain back into it.
The war on PM is going well at the moment. The Zero Tolerance stuff works well, but you gotta get in there and spray every square inch of the plants for it to be really effective. It burned the plants in the center, closest to the lights, but just a little, nothing terrible. So far so good, just some small nuisances but no major issues. Hopefully things should only get better from here on out. We shall see!
and is pretty harmless to your buds and doesn't affect the final product, even with such a late application. This will be the true test for Mr Rosenthal's product, you can bet I'll be writing a review when I'm done because I spent and hour making sure every bit of plant material was wet with this stuff. More pics/vid soon!
good luck