ShLUbY
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Precisely why I want to focus my garden on terpsEach terp profile has a different medicinal effect.

Precisely why I want to focus my garden on terpsEach terp profile has a different medicinal effect.
The notch is just taking your very sharp blade and taking a chunk out of the stem in a few places. Just as a logger would notch a free before felling it. I usually take about 4-6 notches out and then make my angle cut just below the them. Make sure you take more stem than needed and make your angle cut immediately before placing into water.The split stem I understand but I want to make sure I understand the"typical notch and angle cut"...
I'm getting ready to take five cuttings and want to give them the best chance possible. Thanks in advance!
In Oklahoma there is a big hurt for in state growers. I know of 2 dispensaries that are importing illegal weed. I also heard that the state is not doing much to control it. I really thought that Okla was going to be like a police state.No sense in growing a shit ton of weed if you're not even sure you have enough people to distribute it all too (the dispensaries or whatever they're gonna call them, hell I don't know lol).
I've been impressed with Delicious seeds. I haven't ran anything from them in several years, but I hear that Spanish breeders are pretty good. I had Critical Sensi Star and Cotton Candy from them and I wouldn't mind running them again.These just showed up! Bring on the fuckin CBD Jam. 14%CBD:7%THC. SOOOOOO looking forward to this pack.
Great idea on the terp thing Shlue
I like where that's heading.. Too many ppl underestimate the power of terps.. And organics just rrrrramps them up!
Beauty of a bubba on the page prior btw.. Nice stackage!!
Is that the 2/3 power or regular power recipe ? Props!
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Excellent! Size of notch? ~1/4 diameter of stem?The notch is just taking your very sharp blade and taking a chunk out of the stem in a few places. Just as a logger would notch a free before felling it. I usually take about 4-6 notches out and then make my angle cut just below the them. Make sure you take more stem than needed and make your angle cut immediately before placing into water.
Also if you’re using cloning gel, you can just dilute about 6 drops of gel into a half a cup of water, mix it up real well and then soak your cutting stems in that. It’s a much more efficient use of the gel. Shit lasts forever like that
Yeah quarter diameter is good, you want to expose the white tissue below the dermis. Soak 12-24 hrs. I don’t see any difference with the amount of hours really. Cool thing about diluting the gel is you can soak a ton of cuts in that water. Makes it last long time!Excellent! Size of notch? ~1/4 diameter of stem?
How long to soak in the diluted solution? Love the idea of making it last. Seriously.
For the final cut I take it immediately and dunk but then I'll cut a bit more with the stem under water.
Yeah man I've been encountering the ph up creep as well. Few different times it's happened. I can only think it's things breaking down causing it to rise. Likely the fish bone meal, crab meal and prob a few other things doing it imho. I'll have to check my water I think, make sure that hasn't changed, been awhile since checking water quality. Do you know of a proper method I can do myself to test for the amount of liming type minerals in my water?Busy busy! Here's a few shots I managed to take that turned out halfway decent.
Brainwreck nugs heading into cure. So pungent, wonderful citrus terps.
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Pre 98 Bubba Kush at 45 or so days.
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Confidential Cheese at 24 days and stacked up nicely. However, I've noticed my soil pH is creeping back up and is slightly alkaline. Doesn't seem to be affecting growth at this point, but if I remember correctly from the last time this happened it was a very hard stall around week 5... I've added about 1.5oz of elemental sulfur to my latest recycle mix. I need to start figuring out what the hell is going on. I've stopped adding oyster shell flour to the recycle mixes, hoping to combat this pH issue, but it doesn't seem to be working yet. I'm gonna continue to keep trying to save this soil. I'm wondering if breaking it up each run is having an effect on the soil pH due to disrupting fungal populations in the soil. Or I'm wondering if there's just too many nutrients in the soil and it's causing the pH to jump. I hate to say it, but I'm going to start acidifying my water for these plants in order to help neutralize some of the CaCO3 in the mix (using pure citric acid crystals, so should have little to no affect on the plant/microbe relationships). Anyways here they are.
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Put this trellis together, but I've noticed that if I included corner pieces that had an extra hole facing upward (4way instead of 3way), I could add a second trellis on top of this one very easily... so that's what I'm gonna do on the next build, which is happening tomorrow. I'll post the pics when I get it done. These will have removable legs so I can change the overall height, and then the option of adding a second trellis for those cultivars that like to stretch a lot in flower and require a double trellis. The second trellis will also be adjustable height, just as the first layer is. Should be pretty sweet. I'm sure someone has already come up with this design, but I have not researched into how people are building with PVC, this is just my own experiment with them.
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Negative. You’d probably have to send in a sample if you’re on a well. If you’re on city tap, you should be able to find water reports no problem.Ya
Yeah man I've been encountering the ph up creep as well. Few different times it's happened. I can only think it's things breaking down causing it to rise. Likely the fish bone meal, crab meal and prob a few other things doing it imho. I'll have to check my water I think, make sure that hasn't changed, been awhile since checking water quality. Do you know of a proper method I can do myself to test for the amount of liming type minerals in my water?
I really do like your trellis set-up,most practical. How tall is the canopy from the floor and what inch squares do you have?Busy busy! Here's a few shots I managed to take that turned out halfway decent.
Brainwreck nugs heading into cure. So pungent, wonderful citrus terps.
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Pre 98 Bubba Kush at 45 or so days.
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Confidential Cheese at 24 days and stacked up nicely. However, I've noticed my soil pH is creeping back up and is slightly alkaline. Doesn't seem to be affecting growth at this point, but if I remember correctly from the last time this happened it was a very hard stall around week 5... I've added about 1.5oz of elemental sulfur to my latest recycle mix. I need to start figuring out what the hell is going on. I've stopped adding oyster shell flour to the recycle mixes, hoping to combat this pH issue, but it doesn't seem to be working yet. I'm gonna continue to keep trying to save this soil. I'm wondering if breaking it up each run is having an effect on the soil pH due to disrupting fungal populations in the soil. Or I'm wondering if there's just too many nutrients in the soil and it's causing the pH to jump. I hate to say it, but I'm going to start acidifying my water for these plants in order to help neutralize some of the CaCO3 in the mix (using pure citric acid crystals, so should have little to no affect on the plant/microbe relationships). Anyways here they are.
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Put this trellis together, but I've noticed that if I included corner pieces that had an extra hole facing upward (4way instead of 3way), I could add a second trellis on top of this one very easily... so that's what I'm gonna do on the next build, which is happening tomorrow. I'll post the pics when I get it done. These will have removable legs so I can change the overall height, and then the option of adding a second trellis for those cultivars that like to stretch a lot in flower and require a double trellis. The second trellis will also be adjustable height, just as the first layer is. Should be pretty sweet. I'm sure someone has already come up with this design, but I have not researched into how people are building with PVC, this is just my own experiment with them.
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I really do like your trellis set-up,most practical. How tall is the canopy from the floor and what inch squares do you have?
Thanks for the feedback, appreciate the time. If you've got a bit more, I've a few more thoughts on this I'd like to bounce off of you.Negative. You’d probably have to send in a sample if you’re on a well. If you’re on city tap, you should be able to find water reports no problem.
And yeah definitely the breakdown causing the creep up. This is specifically why I stopped using OSF. I knew there was lots of calcium coming from other sources, so I wanted to eliminate that buffer. I think I may not have gotten to it in time though. These mixes definitely had a couple recycles with OSF added. Anyway, I’m starting to really question how often we need to be remineralizing our indoor custom living soils. I have so many grow journal ideas going right now. I just wish I had the time to do them. In a couple months I will definitely have time and we will get some answers![]()
Thanks for the feedback, appreciate the time. If you've got a bit more, I've a few more thoughts on this I'd like to bounce off of you.
I've read that neem meal will have acidifying aspects to it, would that be enough if say neem were to be added in large abundance? Say like a half cup top dress for a 10 gal fabric pot? Along with some other substitutions of amendments of similar acidifying types maybe? How much really can the ph be expected to drop from such items?
Do you know of a list that specifies amendments ph altering abilities or levels? Other thoughts were to cut the soil mix in half with un buffered peat (acidic)and adding in non alkaline selected amendments to bring the nutrient levels back up. If adding elemental sulfur to the soil for ph drop how much is to much before the soil would become toxic to the plant?