Plants look good! Those Gro-buckets are working real nice!
Lovin your gardenā¦thanks for sharing your journey
Pretty pretty flowers! Leaf color is looking a bit off though, might be coming up short on some of their nutrients.
Yup. Iām still new at this dirt stuff. So far I havenāt had any success righting deficiencies once they start in organic soil. Hydro was much easier for me in this regard. Does it look like a k or p deficiency to you? It doesnāt look like n to me @RainToday
Everything lookin good, coming along nicelyā¦keep it up and thanks for sharing @BudLarfy
Thank you Percy. A couple of them are pissed off at me right now. I think they just want more food than Iām giving.
Agreed, not N. Based on the needs in flower, Iād guess P, but it could be about availability as much as about whatās there. My best success so far has been with spreading about a cup of granular humic acid on top of the soil and scratching it in a bit. Cal-mag too maybe, but really the humic acid has been what works best for me. What I read is that it works by buffering / balancing the soil chemistry so that all the nutrients are more available and less likely to create toxicity. I got my local garden center to order in a 50lb bag of this kind last month because it seems to fix all the issues I get from re-using soil and doing a sketchy job of amending and fertilizing. Lots of places to buy it, and the same product is available from other companies too.
https://downtoearthfertilizer.com/products/single-ingredients/granular-humic-acids/
If it was my plant, Iād scoop on a serving of bloom / P focused fertilizer, cover it with a cup or two of the granular humid acid, scrape the soil surface a bit so the soil microbes get into it, and if thereās room sprinkle some soil or mulch on top so it stays moist because the roots and microbes will get going faster in it if itās moist. Expect it to look better within a few days if thatās the answer. Could mix some sort of cal-mag in there at the same time too, but I usually donāt bother.
I was getting ready to go and buy the organic calmag supplement that goes with my fertilizer line. Itās called elemental. I do use dechlorinated tap water so I figured mag was covered but maybe the plants just want me to spend some money. Iāll see about humic while Iām there. They have the DTE line there. Plain brown cardboard boxes if I recall. Also it could be as simple as I smoke too much pot to be a decent pot grower. Paradoxical but pehaps trueā¦ thank you rain I value your wisdom and experience
unlikely. Youāre doing fine. Youād get decent pot off those at this point if you let them finish without doing a thing more. Youāre just optimizing now, so keep that in mind when you shop
I use my tap water straight out of the tap. Itās got way too much iron in it, and over time that throws things off in the soil. I wanted to put in my floor drain so I could water to full runoff more, but I found the cold water pipes to the grow room are nearly rusted full, so when I water I can only do it for 5 minutes or so at a time, because thats how long before the hot water fully arrives from the water heater and I have to stop so I donāt cook my plantsā roots. So I canāt really water enough to flush out the pots regularly unless I develop way more patience.
i just took a look and your plants look great!! with your iron water pipes at least you know that theyāre not anemic.
best of luck on all your projects. i really admire all the high minded breeding and sharing and genetic preservation that you and so many others on here do. (if i recall correctly you dont even grow for yourself)
you gotta be āabout that lifeā to devote that kinda time and space to it.
yep. That is 100% an accurate assessment of my plant commitment. Iām constitutionally incapable of not growing plants. I love it and it brings me more joy than anything else I do. When I donāt have my own garden I volunteer in other peopleās. The more rare and desirable the produce, the more I enjoy growing it to share - cannabis is a big upgrade over fancy tomatoes and herbs.
I have an absurd outdoor garden as well. If past lives are a thing, I was probably a dryad.
Dude, thatās some impressive grow
Thanks guy. Hope you had a good weekend