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Oh no I’m referring to your specific comment about plants attracting unwanted bugs, only scenario I see that being possibly is if the plant is sending out those stressed signals. Well documented phenomenon. This is all. Otherwise, healthy plants attract beneficials.

Howzit bru, Okay I must jump in and comment here, the prevalence of many deferent parasites, pests and diseases are closely related, if not directly related to plant health and finally production of secondary metabolites, lipids and fats. All of these things ... flavonoids, terpenoids oils and waxy layers on the surfaces of the plant tissue will dictate the palatability relative to the consuming organism. Some people believe that plants are just sometimes susceptible to certain pests regardless of the health of the plant. First off, its hard not to see it that way, because some plants just look healthy and get attacked anyway. Looking at the back end of things and not just on the surface, is that plant really healthy and happy? This connects closely to holistic nutrition. Are there any excesses or deficiencies? Are there any missing gaps? There are 118 elements they focus on in chemistry, they can make plant growth in excess with less than 17. Plants most certainly have very effective defense mechanisms - recent studies suggest, but are all the enzyme co-factors available to kick that switch into gear? Not only that, are there also any imbalances that might also interfere with the highly complex domino effect of these enzymes, many of the time not. Here is a key example, Plants convert nitrate to ammonia and ammonia to various amino acids that it then uses those amino acids to build proteins. The first step should be completed in less that 24hr give or take, So if excess nitrates are left over, they are stored in the vacuoles waiting to be moved through the system, apparently aphids love nitrates. Regarding the addition of bugs in the system to counter the bad bugs, this is possible, however very much swinging in the dark. Also adding a few more layers of potential complication. Microbial life from bacteria through to the macro arthropods and worms are very selective regarding the environment they choose to make home - if there is enough food, a suitable environment and little competition they will appear or disappear.

Ya that's blatant, and they just look so irreversibly tainted by doing shit like that. If you going to buy seeds for the purposes of resale, put some effort into it, grow some out, take some dope pics, understand what your customer is getting and if they would be happy with the resultant bud. I have had a experience with both GSR as well as President seeds. Here's the thing though, and I'm not saying this can't be done, however I may have just had bad luck with it. The president seed - gelato bin ladden auto I grew, being auto's, I assume they are sensitive to the touch. So I didn't do anything drastic at all, but noticed it started flowering around 3 weeks in, Still TEENY TINY... So in the bin it went. I only noticed later on that I had made a switch in lighting, Cool White tubes - 240w Quantum board 3500k to make for a more speedy veg, which was the intention. Soon after seeing all my plants a little too close to flowering, calyx busting, 2/3 pistols quite pronounced, I made the change back to the LED Tubes. Could the Qb's color temp caused early flowering in my Auto, most probably... But is that also where you draw the light with pissy strains that break down in tears if you look at them funny? Most certainly. GSR gelato grew so promising, but then the buds were full of air unfortunately.

Nice new OPTICS! What light is that bud?

Parents are always the first logical people to look at. Maybe they just don't care enough, or stopped caring as much. Comparing the youth of today to the youth of yesterday if you will, is a broad topic. I do not think it is a fair comparison any which way you look at it. The youth are primarily a product of what they are most focused during their upbringing. I'm sure the world is way more fucked up than it was a generation ago.

White widow from the real OG @GGG

Very nice bud! Nugs look similar to slurri but the size of Gelato, and they all have speed on their side! Cant wait to grow this. Must put out a ton of resin! Looking Compactttt!

It’s some of John Kempf’s regenerative agricultural works. They have a academy called advancing eco agriculture... that quite informative. They’ve done remarkable things on farms across America. Its not all die hard organic, they understand the farm, soil analysis and if necessary supplement a foliar to bring nutritional balance up to scratch while remediating the soil which can take some time, but not terribly. the most interesting of all is that he suggest that plants generally only photosynthesize at 15-20% of their potential, this is field test, no way applies to our indoor plants. But surely we still only scratching the surface. He pulls at strings that suggest plants that are able to photosynthesize 60% or more produce such an amount of secondary metabolites that the plants acquires complete immunity - this is another discussion amongst doctors and professors high up in the food chain, proving pest/disease resistant can be 100% overcome by holistic nutritional management. Most interesting. Brix overload!

That is most certainly always the case. And you really don’t want to under do it. Because that’s possible as well. Theres new studies done regarding the bud formation phase and fruit fill stage. That’s making headway’s in Agri at the moment. These are 2 different phases in the reproductive stage that make all the difference in yeild, from a commercial stand point. The way nutritional needs and hormone influences switch all during the flowering stage. Imperative information I would imagine. I think the plants will tell you, I havnt looked at a nutrient dosages on bottles, but I hear it works best to start at half dose and work your up up to full? They put just the right amount of micro nutrient chelates. These vital nutrients are responsible for the higher that usual uptake of macros, mn and fe primarily, they will make sure your plant is photosynthesizing till the very end. These Micro nutrients are very rarely available in your traditional living soil.

So to conclude - all depends on how much you feed, if you feed just enough, there would obviously be no reason.

Agree with that sentiment, from what I understand the other nutrients get stuck in the vacuoles and chlorophylls get replace with anthocyianins (red,purple, pinkish colours). The excess doesn’t usually leave the plant, organic or synthetic. Pump enough sulfur in the plant and it will smell, Epsom salts can work given there’s not a huge surplus of magnesium. Depending on the type of growing style, I would say majority of grower need to flush, but what is flushing? Pouring liters and liters of water through your mediums? Or just watering instead of feeding, I think the benefits of just plain watering in mediums like soil, or slightly organic input which would happen to be using microbes would be the best. Reason I say is because you tryin to get majority of those nutrient used up. Redox potential is much better for reduction of built up minerals with regular water than super drenching. If is all synthetic hydro, coco and salts, super drenching would work best

Yesss brilliant, welcome back bud!

Week 9 this morning, had a heatwave that had me quite worried but seems they doing okay, a bit sluggish and could be further along by now. But hey that comes with the territory. Temps are getting better slowly but surely. Both fading quite fast, WW will be another 2/3 weeks, Frosted another 1/2 weeks. Otherwise - Happy with the progress!

Thanks man, It really does performs well ... I am yet to do them justice. I believe they can do much better per/m2. Although the footprint would better suite a rectangular space.

Its a book, called how plants work by Linda Chalker, Yes they kill them like a bacterial pesticide, The quantities which you are using definitely makes a difference like with everything. So if you have amendments in your soil made up of mineral and organic matter, you will likely have microbes come in from thin air, and set up shop on the food source regardless, you may hinder the system but do the benefits outweigh the downs. And they will continue to operate and regulate ph etc. Inert mediums, complete different story.

Ya this is something. I've come to realize that many people are using microbial inoculants religiously with salts (mixing it together before application) haha just imagine that, a Washington state professor of horticulture described how salts take out microbes, she said it was like swiping your creditcard at a shopping centre... really microbes do nothing in Coco with nutes. Don't waste your money.

Starke Ayres lol, yep biobizz not organic. Its like if people thought silica is organic too. Probably a decent amount of that in Grow. I really don't think its a issue at all though, if you need to be certified for commercial organic cultivation... etc.etc. Then make sure its all above board, but home growers trying to get the best experience out of growing, why not. Good recipe @Totemic Full bloom success!

If the strain is something other than tortoni that we are growing then yes I don’t mind paying for seeds thanks. Otherwise, Good question.

No you not allowed to play unfortunately... everybody wants a decent chance I’m sure. ☝

Thick, frosty and fast Mooi bru!

3 weeks too early

Last bit of mAg

Good article this one!

Very interesting, how much heat comes off the new one?

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