CreX

OMG!!!! the day has finally arrived

now for some fun with tagging @CreX @CreX is a bird The corn crake, corncrake or landrail (Crex crex) is a bird in the rail family. and that is literally where my name comes from. i simped into playing COD modern warfare and bought the game and a nice mouse and a decent headset....all i needed was a name

lucky it was light!! glad to still have you with us

Tar and feather?

pssssst!! @420SA i have needed a wow button like, 100 times just this past week, what do we need to do to make it happen

very good man!! damn your plants are huge! that leg room is doing them wonders!! i also find that cleaning up everything below the first layer of netting is vital, why waste energy on a stem you are most likely just going to toss at harvest anyways. similar methods at play here, clean up the lowers very early in flower, usually within the first few days of flower so i can use the cleanup as cuttings for another run and also add the 2nd layer of netting for the stretch to climb into, and then at the end of the 21 day stretch, i do another defoliation and take off all the leaves that are bigger than my palm. And thats all i do in flower until i harvest. excuse me while i go put on my big boy pants for the rest of the comp considering all these pro grows owning it!!

@CreX that feels.... empowering why are you forcing this apon us!!

Sheet! almost time for another update! just been having some electrical and water issues at home and havent been taking pics. i have taken the decision to terminate the smaller Tortoni as she will just get completely swallowed by the bigger Tortoni and will not yield much, nor do me any justice in this fine competition. cuts have been taken for another go and more veg time for sure! on the plus side, i am already able to determine female sex of my main entry, even though they are all fems, its still good to check! i am now down to one plant for the comp so any fuckups here on out will seriously hamper my chances of a great outcome. i gave the ladies a sulphur spray to make sure the Pm stays at bay. so far it has been quite a smooth ride and i am hoping that my methods and actions keep it that way. this is not my main update, which will include pics

3\7 lights? what does that mean hehe

@prom its a simple Bonsai technique and there are a bunch of ways to do it. most common is very early in the bonsais life, having a rock under the rots must be the plan from the get go. once your bonsai cutting has rooted, you choose a rock and you place your cutting ontop of the rock and cover it all with soil. then the roots grow over the rock and down into the meduim below. and then once a month or whatever, you wash a mm or 2 off the roots that have grown over the rock, and eventually you will have washed the medium off the rock , exposing the roots all draped over the rock you chose. depending on the type of plant, it could take quite a long time to accomplish. but it sure is visually worth it

sorry, my bad, i just double checked and you still need to dilute it, but not by much. if you have 500ml 3% peroxide, you can add another 500ml water to get it to about 1.5% peroxide

yes

you may need to go a bit stronger than that, by mixing the already weak 3% solution into 600ml, you effectively mixed a 0.006% h202 solution, practically zip, nadda. 3% h202 is pretty much ready to use as is and any dilution will really reduce the effectiveness of the h202 especially as a disinfectant

LOL you should hear some of the missions i have pulled moving grown ass plants up and down the stairs in the dead of night like some skelem hahaha and i am not a build oke... im kinda skraal so i can just imagine what people would have thought if i was caught haha. i buy the 5kg pressed bricks and hydrate them upstairs, much easier than lugging coco for days

found that coco suits my grow style better at the moment. which is still kinda hydro hehe. and i stay on the 3rd floor so any above average spills are a huge nono for me and i cant risk it i really do want to move toward flood and drain when i do move to full hydro again, floof and drain with rockwool and drippers. i loved how cool hydro was and how fast the plants grew, hated how stationary it is, and flexibility is my current needs

i think the tabs arent so much about the oxygen and more about the carbon. so adding the tab into a seperate floating jobbie wont give you the results you like to see i dont think... but you can try and let us know?

hehe i think about my growmies issues even while i stand and stare at my own plants lol @ExoticCannabis2021, when i was running hydro and doing manual checks twice a day, i noticed that my ph fluctuated a fair amount as well, and how i dealt with that was with daily ph adjustments, often twice a day with a few drops to get it back to where it should be. it sounds like you are not dosing your water on the daily and are compensating by lowering the ph that low so that its not a problem in a few days like you said. maybe try more regular dosing and then you wont have to let your ph swing so much? go in at 5.6 and then every time it goes up to 6.2 you give it a few drops to back down to 5.8 or 5.6 even?

you would be surprised at how fast they can multiply if left unchecked dont research too much... the stuff that works is neem, pyrol, efecto insect control, or perhaps a legion of swarskii mites to eat the thrips and their larvae and eggs.

hey @PippinTook! sadly that is all to familiar to me. you have thrips. you could pick off one of those leaves and you will have to look ultra close to see anything. thrips range from about 0.5mm to 1.5mm and they will chow your whole plant fucked. as for the yellowing, thats likely just normal nitrogen def. i wouldnt add too much in flower, but it does need a smidge. what have you got in your stores for IPM management?

might? wink wink

iv found stepping back and zooming in works okay as well, and putting my hand above the camera like a peak cap, like im in the sun and the sun is hitting the camera and making shit, so i shield the sun...seems to also work a bit for the electro lines. but if you can afford an iphone you can use the long exposure settings

fair come back, at least you know whats up with your borehole water. @PsyCLowns idea about doing different things to the different pots why dont you try that? do nothing with your healthiest plant. doing nothing seems to be the consensus at the moment, to try dry up the medium to see if positive results ensue. with another plant, only do a epsom foliar feed every day or every 2 days for 1 week and see if there are any differences. and on the last one, give her a proper feed, dont formulate your own feeding regime, the one that works is printed on the bottle. and see how she is in a week. based on the results i can guestimate that the epsom foliar plant may look the healthiest, followed by the plant that got fed,and lastly the one that got nothing insanity is changing nothing, but expecting a different outcome - try something at least and see for yourself. i would for real prefer you to try something, come back and tell us we are a bunch of twats, than you try nothing

as new guys join the forum and ask for advice, among the first things we encourage is a Ph pen and a Ec pen. due to the lack of testing equipment, it is highly probable that your borehole water is not phed well, it may have undesirable amounts of crap in it that you dont want. i would switch to tap water honestly, stable ph and stable Ec to work with. a friend of mine in durban is also trying to use borehole water to grow with, and im also telling him that he must use tap water... literally 10 min ago another growmie complained that he mistakenly put borehole water into his jojo and it has an ec of 1.4 im just saying... i dont ever ever hear anyone praise the borehole water as pure and refined... its more often advised to not drink it, so why give it to our valued crops?

i agree 96% with @Totemic, i would personally saturate the pots with a full strength dose of GHE and correctly ph the feed and then leave the plant alone for a week and see what happens... possibly take @iGrowDagga daily Epsom salts foliar regime for the next 7 days as well because those purple stems are badly needing some mg. are you testing your Ph?

slow and steady growth is better than normal potentially moldy growth.. keeping the fans and circulation off is not a good idea. the transpiring plants and just moist mediums in general will raise the humidity considerably and most likely lead to problems... hell, even eishkkoms 2 hour daily outages in my tents was enough to trigger a PM outbreak despite the very low rH outside the tent. plants prefer a higher temp, but can manage just fine in the cold