Peanut Butter Breath x Green Crack
Thank you sir, I don't always improve from grow to grow, but I feel like I got the spacing a bit better this time. I have to be more aggressive with defol before flip, but I always find it difficult.
You're way too kind man. I don't usually shine a light on the negative points/things that happen, but I appreciate your comments.
Yep, I'm quite interested in hybrid methods. Most everything I do is borrowed from somewhere else, with the idea of starting with organic soil and myco for an easy start, and then gradually introducing salts around late veg making for a simplified process.
I don't go too hard on the salts, since where I grow I'm not able to control all the other environmental parameters to their optimum anyway. I actually have only recently started to follow the Coco-coir protocol of watering to excess and then removing that (with a big syringe). So in reality I've prob always been suffering from some degree of salt build up.
So tbh my watering technique was dogS, I would let the roots soak up the excess in the tray. But I'd also occasionally feed straight water, so perhaps that helped to alleviate problems.
However I've bought FF Coco-coir (90-10 because of the air-pots)(and cheaper than green bag) and earth worm castings (borrowed from "Scotty" from that YouTube grow show, although he adds some other stuff as well) for a hybrid Coco substrate thing.
I'll also be making a bunch of CO2 bottles using sugar and yeast. Also switching to EHG nutes due to lower cost, and watering to excess at least once a day.
Hoping to progress to the next level and stop making the same mistakes over and over.
I decided to make the switch after watching Migro's Coco vs organic & non-CO2 vs CO2 comparison grows. (CO2 adds 30% growth rate at all par levels)
Since I pH test every time anyway, that was another reason to switch to Coco. (with dropper solution, really quick to do and could never get the hang of the cheap pen I bought with all the different calibration solutions etc.), I'll be aiming for 6.0ish.
Hard at work bringing my own 100% original, shape-transforming light design to market, so still keeping the grow protocol simple yet upgrading is super helpful.
