I’m going to have to give this method a try, looks like it works really well.
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yah I bend the rules with ph 6.5 in veg and 6.0 in bloom. The conductivity the plant can take is determined with some experimentation. I’d say ph 6 EC 3.0 seems to be the sweet spot in bloom, for the plants I have.
I know ph 5.5 EC 1.5 is standard.
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Nods, that’s about where I run at. Habe you noticed a difference between 5.5 and 6 in hydro?
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Yeah think 4.0 was a bit much last ride
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I went through a phase when I did check and adjust it. It was so long ago I don’t really remember the outcome. It’s way easier to overdose them on nutrients as I recall. I dumped out the nitric acid 5 years ago. huh you know I never really thought about it…if they WERE any different? I do know that my meat breath buds LOOK like the ones in the store, but are better. True story, someone else stopped by tonight and wanted to do a sponsorship deal with the group said the meat breath buds from the store were gross.
We’re living in dawn of the posers here in legal store weed sales.
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I have seen a difference between 5.5 and 6 in some cases. Never ventured to 6.5. Not intentionally.
You have been growing the Big Bud and Meat Breath for how long now? Growing them so long I’m sure you have killer notes. You could probably predicts everything they do before they do it huh?
veg panorama! Yah I’ve been studying those plants heh heh. I think the big bud is on it’s 4rth year of productivity. I had the big bud with me when I was producing for compassion. It grows fairly slow in veg and only doubles in size, not like the meat breath. That plant grows fast in veg and triples in size when it hits bloom.
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The big bud is growing it’s buds now. Oh yah, this is the meat breath. The photo of the big bud was all shitty.
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I’m going to get some of those Big Bud seeds. Last time I grew them I was not disappointed. It was some of the strongest smoke I ever grew. My step father smoked some going on his rant about how todays weed ant crap compared to the stuff he used to get back in the day. This was after I told him he will only need about two hits. I can’t tell you how satisfied I was when I came home 2 hours later he was still on the couch. He said he will never smoke again. Lol. I felt a little bad but eehhh. He said he felt like he was in a cocoon. There was allot of mexican brick at that time so anything back in the day is better then that. But not that Big Bud. I was scared to smoke a whole bowl.
Dose AMS still have those? I know you told me the story of the difficulty you had getting them. I might have to look around.
lol I have a special treat when someone says weed doesn’t have any effect on them. Break out the hash. It never fails to burn them out! The big bud was yielding 4dried to 1 bubble, it’s got these really short trichomes.
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Lolol love it! Couchlock 
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Yah it was tough for me to get my hands on that shit. It’s more to do with… the fact I don’t really exist, almost. I had to wire transfer them cash. On the other hand, the service was excellent. I got a free pack of seeds because the customs held the first one up for weeks. They emailed me to make sure the seeds had made it.
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ok I went and dug out the instructions included with my nutrient bottles. They aren’t so radical, listen to this:
“add 15ml boost, 15ml bloom, to each 4 liters to get ph 6.0 and EC 2.6 if not adjust to 5.8-6.2”
it has a little write-up like that for each stage indicating the dosage, ph and EC. I guess the 6.5 is a little high even according to the instructions for veg mode. Now that @nefrella asked about it and I can’t even remember, I’m curious as to what even happened. Memories are vague, I feel like I kept it at 6.0 in veg. hah hah who knows. I shouldn’t have dumped out the acid. Regret that now. Shoulda kept better records as well. meh. shoulda woulda coulda.
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I guess my tie job wasn’t good on the poly twine pipe cleaner. It slipped out of the knot and the plant fell over. I’m going to have to go in there tomorrow and put up more strings. It was one of the huge meat breath. Hey, drama!!!
I’ll replace the cordage with glow in the dark string. It ties knots better than the poly twine.
Three photos! Meat breath/banger, meat breath and big bud, then the ivy geranium! Haven’t taken a good photo of it when it was huge as hell.
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Those fucking seedlings are going mental. I swear that one on the left is looking female-ish. heh heh
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holy shit and the bloom room. You can see the big bud is well under way to the bloom phase. I scared away all the ghosts with some rock salt.
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The triangle weaver has been sniping gnats like no tomorrow. She gathers the carcasses and doesn’t even eat them anymore, just tosses them down to the ground. That’s what happens when she gets 6 a day lol! She has to renew the web every day, must be some kind of instinct. The living soil is doing fine. They are ironically just starter pots with fungus in them and gnats. I feed alfalfa meal in there and the trees grow. Unfortunately… They have started putting roots out of the bottom of the pots. Gonna have to up-pot my trees!
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