If zeke were mine, I would give a foliar of liquid fish (1/2 Tb per gallon) followed by a kelp and earth worm casting slurry on top of the soil (1/8 tsp per gallon soil) then a dose of LIFTA for 3-4 days
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Iād do that if I had money to buy water even rnš
Iām broke as a joke ATM. Only occasional work and that money went to giving the plants a home and then food as I havenāt eaten more than a meal in a week.
All I have is megacrop from last yearās batch before the new recipe I see on the site, Epsom salts, foxfarm grow big, foxfarm tiger bloom, and foxfarm organic big bloom. Big bloom is a mix of guano and earthworm castings, but has 0 nitrogen in it. I have some coffee I can French press if thereās any way thatās useful too.
Unfortunately I canāt get any of those other options until I can get an income. Rn I just have to hustle and make money any way I can. Surprisingly legally LoL. No supplies to make any black market money. Favors here and there when someone needs help. I lucked out and had the water heater install job.
Iām probably screwed here of Zeke canāt pull through. Iām open to a new name. Maybe a better name would perk her up. Lol my auto-correct wants up to be yo 
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I hear yaā¦out of all of those, I think the grow big would be your best bet though your also adding P & K which they donāt appear to need. I canāt get to the post office until Monday but pm me your address and iāll send you some then when you can, pay it forward 
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Totally forgot to do yesterdayās update, so itās getting rolled into a before and after update. Zeke has finally improved color and has come back kicking.
I pulled out most of the cilantro as it was becoming a mold issue and I can put them in my fridge to keep from going bad. Win win.
I watered Diana with about 4oz water. No nutes, just distilled water. I gave the rest of the plantās soil a spray with 1oz water between them all.
Pics in a few once they adjust to the water. He rest of the plants donāt matter in the pics as they just had the surface moistened from near white dry dirt.
Once I got humidity back up Zekeās color improved significantly, so Iām thinking they may have been transpiring too much and lost color from that.
Zeke better move fast. The rest are catching up to them. Indigo in particular is going to probably end up surpassing Zeke in size. Iām waiting until they need a transplant.
On another note does anyone know if I should be watering Zeke carefully or deep enough that the water can reach a certain point in the pot?
Diana last night 12 hours ago now
Diana currently
Daisey 12 hours ago
Daisey now
Zeke 12 hours ago
Zeke now
GSC 12 hours ago
GSC now
Indigo 12 hours ago
Indigo now
Hygrometer from last night. Todayās is off as it found itās way out of the room somehow after I watered Diana.
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How old is the auto now? She looks so little.
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Diana? Sheās just over a month old. 6 weeks. Daisey Iāll have to check, but she should be about 4 weeks younger. Iām outside rn and my muscles are locking up from the cold
Just be warned that if you go super hot peppers keep sugar, yogurt, and a chunk of soft bread nearby. Chew the sugar if it gets too hot. Yogurt if itās too intense to handle following the bread chewing excessively to soak it up.
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Fk that I wouldnāt dare, it hurts too much coming out! :-))
I donāt like anything too spicy it hurts my stomach
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I get that. Iām a lucky person to not have the fire coming out. Either that or just like my lips my ass also likes the heat. No pain ever for me. Just white hot fire taste, but I probably have a mind over matter thing going on.
I really enjoy the high though. Not many things give me euphoria on that level. Cannabis actually never gets that intense. 200ug LSD is more intense, but not by much.
I canāt get easy access to acid, but peppers on the other hand are really cheap. I can get a packet of dried ghost pepper for $3 and thatāll last me over 3 months of highs as I make something with it. My last recipe was my fermented ghost pepper Sriracha. All alcohol smell has now vanished and now itās stabilized to a 4 stage death sauce.
It gives you a false sense of security at first. Itās white hot fire that almost immediately turns into a savory carrot, garlic, onion, and cumin note before you get a sweet heat and last you just get a mouthwatering sour note while the heat dies down and you get a rush of euphoria.
The whole time you feel the burn, but itās less intense as you reach the second stage. Personally I think I just got used to ghost pepper. I basically drank a bottle of it 4 years ago when I was camping.
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Iāll just stick with Fishermanās friends thank you very much
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Hi @OniTenshu
Fantastic post so far, I know now far too much about soil ā¦ Im a hydro bloke 
A nice light would finish your tent ā¦ 
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I canāt agree on that moreā:sweat_smile: Iām at 11.5w/SF rn and itās not intense enough to beat the shadows from anything above the plants like my phone
Can anyone suggest a cheap option to hold me off until I can save up 500 to get the 2 solstrips to get 40w/SF in the tent?
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yaaaayyyyyy Zeke!!! He/she looks much better! Nice turn around 
The cheapest that I know of that is comparable is the 135wQB for $213 though its only rated to flower a 2x2 or you could go with a 315cmh to flower a 3x3 for ~$200.00 going with a conversion kit if you already have the hoods or ~$180.00 for a no name complete kit or just keep doing what your doing and save up for the solstrips
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I had mostly meant like a cheap one off Amazon or eBay thatāll improve my light spread ATM itās intense, but not spread out enough to cover the whole floor tbh. I had to redo my lights and bunch all the plants together to get them properly covered with minimal shadows cast. The hard part was figuring out where indigo and Daisey should go.
500 will be a long time from now, but 30-50 I can ask for help with getting tbh.
On the note of indigo: the roots are already poking out of the bottom of the pot. Just a couple stragglers, but when should I transplant them?
On the note of Zeke: Iām not 100% sure, but I do believe I can almost presex Zeke with my naked eye and the growth looks different than a calyx to me, but not sure if itās a pod. Itās just small enough that Iāll need my scope to see it. I lost the lens for my phone. Itās whatever Iām grabbing a loop soon.
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Scroll down to where it says active heatsinks.
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I donāt have access to any of those tools. My budget is 50 Max as Iām asking a favor and in not being a mooch grabbing something for 300 or so when Iām saving up for something 500.
I found a couple of blurple, white, IR, UV combo lights that will be good enough to cover the canopy evenly
This is also my fianceās grow. She wants to use a full spectrum light using diodes that display 1 color and part of the spectrum. Similar to blurple concept, but essentially the goal is a macro version of a white led diode. Itās her money, so if sheās excited and wants to try something I wonāt stop herš
She just wants me to do all the digging for dealsš
She gave me the concept of what she wants to build and I actually found a few on Amazon that are almost exactly what she wants. Sheās grabbing them tomorrow. Iāll get the links and post them here. There not perfect lights, but they cover 3x3 and one of them were a 2 pack of them that cover 3x3. They wonāt be much better than my existing lights that seem to cover a 2x2 area with 3x3 max coverage that barely gets light. There dark spots in the tent for sure. When the walls of the tent get sucked in the tent is effectively an hourglass shape. IDK if the tent should be that sucked in or if I should just also get a fan speed controller tomorrow too.
You can use a normal drill.
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I donāt have one and borrowing is a no go for me.
Unless the build is around 50 Iām letting the missus have her way this grow. She did a lot of research the other day and really wants to try this
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Hereās the lights she wants to decide between tomorrow. If anyone has a better suggestion in that price range Iāll tell her, but she kinda put her foot down here and isnāt spending a fortune on anything temporary. 50 is cheap enough that sheāll give in rarely.
I only just started to feel better and not in horrible pajn for once, but I can barely see, so Iām not sure if my aggressive behavior is from pain I donāt feel or the edible I had for breakfastš
To add context I occasionally get confrontational with weed in my system. No explanation on why. IDK what causes it, but Iād guess that on the times it happens I may be feeling anxiety and I regularly go into fight not flight. If my life isnāt in danger my fight or flight response acts like it should, but I just wish my anxiety would stop triggering that shit. I smoke weed to be chill and not my normal psycho self. Unfortunately I get the aggressive side of ASD often. Too many things set off my sensory input like ice cold weather making my muscles stop working.
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It might be because weed makes you more relaxed and your more at ease to have discussions.
Cold weather is not good either I hate it as it makes me feel like an old man 
itās like you just seize up.
Regarding lights, my friend @Esrgood4u and I bought meizhi leds and they are pretty good and quite cheap. I bought the 300w itās only 140true watts but itās a great light.
The light penetration is pretty strong with this one 
(starwars quote) 
That light in your link sounds good also as it has UV
which is meant to be amazing for plant growth I was reading about about it the other day.
Iāve just realised it was UV-A I was reading about not sure of the differenceā¦more to read 
Heres a link, itās quite interesting
https://chilledgrowlights.com/education/why-you-should-include-uv-a-in-led-grow-lights
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