ghb - this is how i grow
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ghb
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some larger than life girls, this is only the third harvest for this location for the year, they were big harvests but not much bigger than i would normally get growing 20 plants in the same room. i
don't know if i have mentioned here before but if possible you should grow many small plants over a few larger ones, i feel you get more quality and more harvest per year with only slightly less yield.
drekoushranada
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I am enjoying the grow. I used to grow huge plants but I got tired of breaking stems and moving them. haha.. Now I grow smaller plants and I am loving it. I will start growing a few taller/bigger ones in my vert set up though.
ghb
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getting in to water is a pain in the ass and moving them is a virtual no-no.
i went in the other day and the bilberry on the back wall had two main branches snapped and hanging down in the coco, they had wilted a bit but not dried completely, i lifted them back up and secured them in place so hopefully the plant will heal its self otherwise i will lose around 5 ounces of bud
i don't live in my grow but you can bet when i do get a new place where i can spend more time with the ladies i will do more sea of green type grows with smaller more manageable plants, i like growing them large at the min because i spend very little time with them so i have less worries having to water etc.
i went in the other day and the bilberry on the back wall had two main branches snapped and hanging down in the coco, they had wilted a bit but not dried completely, i lifted them back up and secured them in place so hopefully the plant will heal its self otherwise i will lose around 5 ounces of bud
i don't live in my grow but you can bet when i do get a new place where i can spend more time with the ladies i will do more sea of green type grows with smaller more manageable plants, i like growing them large at the min because i spend very little time with them so i have less worries having to water etc.
ghb
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Man, thank you for that info., just starting with coco for the same reasons my neighbors are too close.
Anyway the video was what I needed, I was going to ask you the ? but you ans. first.
Again, thanks.
whether you are growing legally or not i still think discretion is one of the best attributes a grower can have, i think anybody who is growing in coco and not re using it is making a mistake.
i'm glad you could find the info useful oldman, i was using coco for nearly 3 years before i decided to try out recycling the stuff. i hadn't seen any grows of people doing what i do so when i did finally try it and see the results i had to share what i found. i still speak to many growers out there who seem afraid to try it, i even know growers who work on a much bigger scale than me who still buy fresh every run, they have to worry about disposing of 10 cubic metres of "soil" whilst ferrying in new pallets of bagged coco every 3 months and then wonder why they suffer from such bad paranoia
.i used to keep my coco pretty sterile but i have learned that if you can keep some bacteria alive in the coco then the amount of nutes you feed is a lot lot lower and the health of the roots throughout the grow, right up until harvest stays good.
if you do have any questions then please feel free to ask me oldman. good luck in the coco
I have some large totes with pretty good aeration I'm going to use for storage of used coir 'till I need itwhether you are growing legally or not i still think discretion is one of the best attributes a grower can have, i think anybody who is growing in coco and not re using it is making a mistake.
i'm glad you could find the info useful oldman, i was using coco for nearly 3 years before i decided to try out recycling the stuff. i hadn't seen any grows of people doing what i do so when i did finally try it and see the results i had to share what i found. i still speak to many growers out there who seem afraid to try it, i even know growers who work on a much bigger scale than me who still buy fresh every run, they have to worry about disposing of 10 cubic metres of "soil" whilst ferrying in new pallets of bagged coco every 3 months and then wonder why they suffer from such bad paranoia
i used to keep my coco pretty sterile but i have learned that if you can keep some bacteria alive in the coco then the amount of nutes you feed is a lot lot lower and the health of the roots throughout the grow, right up until harvest stays good.
if you do have any questions then please feel free to ask me oldman. good luck in the coco
again. I also use Mycostim inoculant to start things going. My question is, would adding worm castings
be bacteriologically beneficial or just use rhizotonic.
ghb
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i'm afraid you are opening a whole new can of worms with that one
honestly i don't know, i wouldn't personally but i don't see any reason why not. i'm sure adding EWC to pretty much anything will make it better when it comes to growing. lol
on the other hand you won't be growing in pure coco, and eventually, if you keep adding it, your coco may lose it's natural ability to perform.
how about this for an idea?.
use EWC after you have already had a couple of grows out of the coco, this way you will find when using less harsh chem nutes the plants will benefit more from the organics. for the first couple of cycles in the coco you have to really feed strong to prevent deficiencies and adding these synthetics will kill the micro life very quickly. by the time it comes time to get new coco the added earth worm castings wont bog down the mixture as much.
made sense when i was thinking it
honestly i don't know, i wouldn't personally but i don't see any reason why not. i'm sure adding EWC to pretty much anything will make it better when it comes to growing. lol
on the other hand you won't be growing in pure coco, and eventually, if you keep adding it, your coco may lose it's natural ability to perform.
how about this for an idea?.
use EWC after you have already had a couple of grows out of the coco, this way you will find when using less harsh chem nutes the plants will benefit more from the organics. for the first couple of cycles in the coco you have to really feed strong to prevent deficiencies and adding these synthetics will kill the micro life very quickly. by the time it comes time to get new coco the added earth worm castings wont bog down the mixture as much.
made sense when i was thinking it
Thank you, I'll stick with your regimen.i'm afraid you are opening a whole new can of worms with that one
honestly i don't know, i wouldn't personally but i don't see any reason why not. i'm sure adding EWC to pretty much anything will make it better when it comes to growing. lol
on the other hand you won't be growing in pure coco, and eventually, if you keep adding it, your coco may lose it's natural ability to perform.
how about this for an idea?.
use EWC after you have already had a couple of grows out of the coco, this way you will find when using less harsh chem nutes the plants will benefit more from the organics. for the first couple of cycles in the coco you have to really feed strong to prevent deficiencies and adding these synthetics will kill the micro life very quickly. by the time it comes time to get new coco the added earth worm castings wont bog down the mixture as much.
made sense when i was thinking it
ghb
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i'm thinking of running an sog with this cut, i think it is the best plant i have grown. i have loads of new stuff i want to try (including the full breeders boutique line up) but the yield and quality i get from this plant makes it hard to resist.
first world problems lol.
ghb
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autos! wtf?, that gets a ghb double dislike lol. autoflowers are for the outside garden man, they will not be as nice as the photo period strains you currently have.
did you manage to get any BB stuff yet?
bear in mind this is my 4th run in the same coco, i did notice more stretch on previous grows so i can only assume that the plant growth regulating hormones i use are not fully flushed out of the coco.
did you manage to get any BB stuff yet?
bear in mind this is my 4th run in the same coco, i did notice more stretch on previous grows so i can only assume that the plant growth regulating hormones i use are not fully flushed out of the coco.
ghb
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canna boost and atami bloombastic. the latter is especially salty and sometimes hard to rinse out completely.
sorry to hear about your sons condition, i hope you can get him some decent medicine from it. how many are you growing?
docs stuff will be interesting for sure, you will find some amazing phenotypes to fit perfectly in to you grow room.
sorry to hear about your sons condition, i hope you can get him some decent medicine from it. how many are you growing?
docs stuff will be interesting for sure, you will find some amazing phenotypes to fit perfectly in to you grow room.
Right now I have 30 auto's growing, mostly Fast + Vast from Heavywieght Seeds,
Candy Cheese, Malana all are Indica dominant for the pain.
I let them go 'till they get about 50% amber to be sure cbd has developed.
It will hold him 'till I can get a real grow done. I also help out 9 other people with MS
that are in his infusion therapy group. The meds make them so sick for a couple days
after infusion which is once a month. Weed is the only thing that works to relieve symptoms
.