Stay away from my plants I guess.
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What? You donāt like my funk?
L.i.t.f.a. , k.i.s.s. no 1 magical secret, great environment + great genetics .
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Years ago, after learning that seeds germinate faster after a forest fire, I got to thinking about whether I could use that to help germinate seeds.
I looked it up and found some articles, namely this one
Ever since then Iāve used it sparingly here and there, and I canāt say for absolute sure cause Iām just the one person and Iād like to see more ppl try it first, but I can say that every time I have tried it, seeds seemed to sprout a few days faster than normal when I let them soak in some bongwater.
Thatās right. Your stanky bongwater is your next next-level seed germination soak.
I donāt usually use pure bongwater either, I just go half n half with regular water or some X-seed, but Iāve never really noticed the X-seed to make much of a difference on itās own, where as with bongwater Iāve seen seeds sprout a tiny tail in less than 24 hrs at times.
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paying attention to the VPD chart made the biggest single difference for me (just make sure to account for the difference between room temp and leaf temp)
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If itās liquid, yes.
If itās solid, I think this stuff needs time in the soil to be picked up in the food web so you would add it when repotting them, so before flowering.
Good stuff though.
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I buy different varieties of bat guano, seabird guano, kelp, and worm castings-
Then brew teasā¦
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Yeah the problem there is, and Iām not gonna go into discussion about it, itās just what Iāve been told by a company that makes bat guano teas, is that in order to get bat guano into an effective tea, you need to do it at separate temparatures for extended times (days on end for each temp) and keep it moving the whole time, so they use temp controlled agitator vessels to make their liquid solutions (which is why you use astronomical amounts where a tiny bit should suffice, btw not the most ecological or cheap nutrient either so being economical with is is being ecological with it. It was banned for a while due to itās strain on the ecosystems there IIRC)
edit: I do think thereās debate about bat guano being a good nutrient to use or not and Iām not at all clear on why it was thought of a strain to the ecosystem, so donāt lynch me on that one, like I said, IIRC, and Iām not at all sure.
Not bashing anyone, I use bat guano too.
BWAHAHAHAHA-
Shit tea
been working for me
Since 2003ā¦
(Actually, longer than that, but 2003 seemed to fit)
Lately Iāve heard people warn me about the sustainability of batshit, possible heavy metal contamination in my final product, and I find it all fucking HILARIOUS!
That is allā¦
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The argument is an ecological one. Bat guano mining alters/destroys caves and the bats flee.
And itās bad for the miners breathing in shit all day.
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Forgot Boron!
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LOL that dude is something eh? I wonāt ever forget Boron again, but with glacial sands I donāt actually do anything about it. Like, actually care?..nope LOL how many alaises now 4,5? he is persistent. Thanks for the giggle @Astrodudeā¦ gearing up for outdoors I assume? I hope my back holds thru digging/mixing seasonā¦There it is the secret for me isā¦a helper with a strong back (big tits and loose morals would be also favourable). SRY ladies, but I was describing my wife, except the morals partā¦unless she is reading as Iām typingā¦naked gardening is a thing I heardā¦in trouble now.
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be patient and wait for them to finish. as grower we are eager to finish up and try our work, understandable with what we invested in the plants. however it is easy to get anxious when that one phenotype or strain starts to finish and pack on the trichomes while the other plants are still not ready and lag behind. dont fall prey to āthis one looks good, the other ones must be good to.ā guess how i know this.? all good things come to those who wait. i find this makes a difference to me between a good crop and a great crop. as hard as it is for that extra wait time until proper finish is so worth it.
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welcome aboard mainerJ, good advice
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thank you. glad to be here to learn & share.
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idk if someone has said this but to me a good dry and cure makes the difference to me , where u can mess up terps bad. i dry for 2-3 weeks at 60% humidity and 68 degrees
Gpaw They would probably love a little bit of food grade hydrogen peroxide. Gives a whiter brighter smile to that lovely ball of roots. Forget I said that, perfect the way they are. Award winning really.
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Your obviously at the right place to be talking like that. Welcome to OGā¦Iām guessing not a newbieā¦
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Surprised I havenāt seen mention of aspirin/Acetylsalicylic acid/Salicylic acid here.
" Salicylic acid (SA) was reported to play a role in disease resistance in tobacco plants by White already in 1979 (White, 1979). Since then, the importance of SA in plant defense to biotic and abiotic stimuli has been well established. SA levels are known to increase in many pathosystems upon infection with viruses, fungi, insects, and bacteria (Ogawa et al., 2006; Kim and Hwang, 2014; Hao et al., 2018; Zhao et al., 2019), and exogenous SA treatment boosts the defense system of the host (Nahar et al., 2011; Wang and Liu, 2012; Tripathi et al., 2019; Zhang and Li, 2019).
Salicylic acid (SA) is an important plant hormone that regulates many aspects of plant growth and development, as well as resistance to (a)biotic stress. Efforts to identify SA effector proteins have revealed that SA binds to and alters the activity of multiple plant proteinsāthis represents a shift from the paradigm that hormones mediate their functions via one or a few receptors. SA and its derivatives also have multiple targets in animals; some of these proteins, like their plant counterparts, are associated with pathological processes. Together, these findings suggest that SA exerts its defense-associated effects in both kingdoms via a large number of targets.
Since the late 1970s, it was known that applying SA to tobacco plants induces defense gene expression and enhances resistance to viral infection [29]. However, SAās role as an internal signal for disease resistance was not demonstrated until 1990, when rises in SA levels were detected prior to the development of local and/or systemic disease resistance in tobacco and cucumber [30, 31]. Analyses of tobacco and Arabidopsis unable to accumulate SA (due to various mutations or expression of SA-degrading enzymes) confirmed that SA is required for PTI, ETI, and SAR [2]. Grafting studies using SA-deficient or wild-type (wt) tobacco further indicated that while SA accumulation is required in the uninfected leaves for SAR development, SA is not the mobile SAR-inducing signal that travels from the inoculated to systemic leaves [32, 33]. SAās role as a defense signal has been extended to many plant species. However, there are conflicting reports regarding its role in some monocots [2], as well as in plants that constitutively accumulate high levels of SA (such as potato and rice); its role in some plant species also appears to vary depending on the pathogen [34,35,36,37].
Also alfalfa, for both N and triacontanol.
āTRIA can suppress or enhance the stress responses by regulating the gene expression (Perveen et al. 2017; Islam et al. 2020). TRIA has been well documented for their essential roles in plants response to abiotic stresses such as acid mist, chilling, drought, heavy metal and salt stress (Muthuchelian et al. 2003a; Naeem et al. 2012; Zaid et al. 2019; Islam et al. 2020). Its exogenous application ameliorates the toxic effect in plants by increasing plant biomass, chlorophyll pigments, gas exchange parameters, quantum efficiency, mineral nutrient acquisition, compatible solutes accumulation and enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant defense system (Perveen et al. 2013, 2016, 2017; Maresca et al. 2017; Zaid et al. 2019). Due to its diverse roles in plants, the present article focuses on the role of TRIA in modulating the plant growth and development under both normal and abiotic stress conditions and its relation with other phytohormones.ā
Silica is crucial too.
" Plants take up Si from the soil solution as silicic acid [Si(OH)4], or Si(OH)3O- at high pH, so although the Si content of soils can be as high as 45% (Currie and Perry, 2007), availability can be low. Deficiencies are especially important for plants such as rice that require this element in large amounts (Horuz et al., 2013). Evidence of this is the fact that plants have evolved influx, efflux and channel-type transporters to actively uptake Si (Ma and Yamaji, 2006, 2015; Trembath-Reichert et al., 2015; Vivancos et al., 2016) as well as that yield increases when plant-available Si is added to the growing medium (Tavakkoli et al., 2011). The beneficial roles of Si to various plants have been the subject of extensive research and include alleviation of abiotic stresses such as drought (Marques et al., 2016), metal toxicity, and micronutrient deficiency (Hernandez-Apaolaza, 2014); and biotic stress from pathogens (Winslow, 1992; Vivancos et al., 2015) and herbivores (Reynolds et al., 2009, 2016; Ye et al., 2013). To date, there is increasing evidence of Si priming plants for defense against herbivore attack (Reynolds et al., 2009; Hartley and DeGabriel, 2016)."
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