ORGANinc.

Its a loooooong lasting cough, that tickles all the way to the back and doesn't subside in a hurry. I just don't see it being feasible to smoke dabs, One hit of dabs and no bong, joint will ever be able to compare obviously. Luckily for me, I tried it once and wont be doing it again. I'm already touching the limits with tolerance. I think its called VOC's like a blanket term - volatile organic compounds, organic but still fuck you up haha.

Good luck to all!

That's very nice of you. I've been looking at possibly investing in one of these, continuous smoking coming with some draw backs. But wondering how effective these things are.

Having something like this is definitely the best way to approach it bud, nice planning. It doesn't look like a heavily amended mix, but it does look to have quite a few moving parts when talking about fertility. I'm definitely not an expert, but having many sources of dense nutrient transfer is very tricky and almost never works.

Do these guys still hand water their beds? @GGG

Does not look like there is much perlite/aeration come to think of it. Compaction could be making the issues worse.

Hey bud! I can almost certainly say your compost teas are the problem, I wouldn't do more than 1 Cup per 5 Gal, and I don't do compost teas anymore, also many times commercial compost hasn't fully been assimilated, leaving much free nitrogen around and that can have adverse affects on your plans, more like a fertilizer than a inoculant. Just keep that in-mind if increasing your feed. Then another thing I read is that you have amendments in your soil that you have added? Also very important considering you are adding more in the system, details for those amendments are critical?

You can get the best of both worlds if your timing is impeccable, and you know how fast you are depleting your organic matter, which takes out a whole host of benefits, also rendering many other nutrients in the soil unavailable for such a time, then it becomes a guessing games especially for the next plants if you using the same soil

There definitely is a global shift towards a more sustainable approach and it really doesn't have to include finger pointing or forcing people to change their ways of getting a desired outcome. I do not have anything against people who use synthetic fertilizers at all. When it's a home grower trying to get some bud out decent home grow, that's a win! I do feel as though I can tell straight away when the bud was grown with salts. It really is a different type of experience, then depending on how well said bud was grown or fertilized then cured, you sometimes get a snap, crackle and a pop, almost like someone snuck some pop rocks in there... that evidently cant be organic matter being burned (this is a inorganic salt residue) - also worth mentioning this can happen in full organic methods as nutrients in the organic form first need to be converted into an inorganic form for uptake (which happens in the plant). There are no stories of negative effects I've come across to support that nitrates or nitrate residues in the fruits are bad for human beings who ingest them / there are however studies of nitrate residues being an attractant for pathogens and disease. I must also agree with the fact that there are way more unhealthy things we folk do and probably wont stop doing anytime soon, one of those being ALCOHOL! man how I love my dopskies. And we all know how that story ends, proven many times over. But really. No hate for home grower using synthetics or anything like that, growing weed is already hard enough. My only hate is for the commercial industries not observing the crucial rolls they are playing in climate control and managing their soils better. Its complete and total ignorance, monocropping, heavy tilling, bare ground (that's left because it doesn't work anymore) and the likes. This is who I don't like - Big Farmer, haha dick heads.

Goosebumps!

Just to update the thread, All 3 were males. Luckily I managed to get clones and fem seeds from @Totemic

This images shows off a bit more of the fade.

Zurple Punch All Gas #9 Spumoni (Chopping this weekend) ] Slurricane (also getting chopped) (first time grow, finished 8 weeks, now in 13 weeks. Definitely stunted when trying to fix the soil, but happy how she finished regardless)

I’m definitely for re-amending your soil and reusing it @CreX really brilliant practice! The only thing I can see possibly going wrong is the salts getting stuck in the medium and hindering the cycling of the organic matter, but you can add worm casting / compost and should be sufficient, probably wouldn’t need to use any nitrate products for the beginning half of plants veg, coming scenario agronomist are prescribing to farms in the americas, this is what they say. But that’s what it’s about, Small steps, maybe try a fish instead? Fish hydrolysate is one of those really brilliant nitrogen products.

Yes that all sounds quite right, flushing does not remove a build up of nutrient in the vacuoles. However which ever way you classify flushing, watering for a week or flooding your plants, you've then given some time to go by till the next feeding, and water in the interim, you've done good and your plants might be ready for another feed. Depends on how badly you screwed up.

Yes but also the conception of flushing is something I view quite one-sided, because why would you pour ridiculous amounts of water through the medium... And then cool you can leave them in there rather, all you really doing is watering to move those salt nutrients through and used by the plant, from the soil and into the fruits... Then your outdoor plants, boasted a lot more terps because of the diversity of microbes and huge variety of mineral matter available in a general outdoor soil, couple that with some bugs in a jug and you flying, greengrowing crops also bring huge microbial diversity as well. Then also worth mentioning - The sun! The fresh air! (CO2), the ground cycles out a hell of a lot of CO2, they measure how much microbes by the amount of Co2 emitted if i'm not mistaken, could be wrong on that one.

If flushing is the debate. Then I have to stick to my points the last time we had this discussion. Flushing is vital! Not to you me, or anyone who understand what synthetic nutrients really are, but to the beginner grower. Imagine the huge majority of first timers growing out their first bud pushing over recommended serving sizes not flushing, and tasting that chemical mess. They might stop growing completely and i'm sure they have. So this is would actually make flushing an integral step in cannabis cultivation. Cant just say get it right the first time.

Also this one is incorrect from what I understand, above are the compounds, these metabolites are way more complex prefab parts the plant didn't have to expend energy creating.

Ok this is incorrect. The plant definitely does not take nutrients up the same way, synthetic nutrients come ready with the relative chelated metals to by pass the plasmodesmata (like a backstage pass) these co-enzyme factors make it so easy for nutrients to pass through the membranes. Organically feeding either, mollasses (huge array of nutrients) and Banana peel (potassium and stuffs) they come through as microbial metabolites. OR (big one here, changes the way everybody understood nutrient uptake) Through the Rhizophagy cycle - This is endophytic types of fungal and bacterial microbes, that huddle together in a snot patch in the rhizosphere, ready with tied up nutrient, get sucked up by the root tip, (seen on a microscope) spray with superoxidesimutaze (there it is again) inside the ROOOT, that's like alien shit, they basically strip the microbes membrane to pull out the nutrients that come chelated and ready to go! the the microbes get spewed out of the root hairs and go for another cycle.

Yes that's correct, the reason that works so well is because microbes are amazing, and you've given them a food source, without organic matter and a 25th of nitrogen, microbes do not have a sufficient diet to survive. Then after they been doused with waaayyyy more than 100 times the amount of nitrogen, their nutrition balance go out of wack, and they start declining. the soil starts oxidizing and so carries on the unsustainable practice of synthetic nutrients. Number one problem in agriculture today, No organic matter??? Why??? So much added nitrates that the microbes ate the selves out of there.

Not to mention the environmental effects, who remembers the explosion in Beirut? Yep abandoned ship filled with ammonia nitrate... Fertilizer or Facking BOMB!!! hahaha never mind me growmies

So yes, I think everybody started with salts and has either tried soil and moved back to salts or stayed. I really enjoy reading to expand my knowledge around micro-biological sciences, physics and chemistry as it correlates to agriculture so bio-physics and bio-chemistry, compiling all this info is super overwhelming for someone who barely got by in school, but comforting knowing the info comes from industry leaders, bringing agriculture to new heights! As you can imagine, there is new tech daily, the possibilities for AI, processing power increasing at an exponential rate. With all this comes a new understanding around microbiology and what chemical fertilizer/pesticide do in the soil. Chemicals companies obviously didn't care about what could possibly go wrong back then, but now because of the direct linking to certain types of disease and cancers, they are highly implicated. You see this is still all happening in the background, not much coverage, and still very little awareness. Bayer is facing in the 10s of thousands of law suites with direct links of Glyphosates causing cancer, and you thought you were being healthy eating that carrot. Glyphosate is the key ingredient in a once popular pesticide that had the ability to chelate a plethora of heavy metals resulting in the plant taking it up and you getting cancer to make the long story short. Salt nutrients are definitely a successful way to grow crops, but it still the equivalent to a picture or a digital song, its is not analogous. Dr Aden Anderson who has the highest qualification in just about everything, explains that while in different parts of the plants life the nutritional requirements change drastically, there are about 5/6 different stages in the reproductive/flowering phase. Would make sense that you would be able to achieve a higher level of tastiness. But not the yeild. However, I don't think anyone would argue that we are far behind the more progressive countries practicing full regenerative models and knocking it out the park. So yes, full organic... and still paying school fees.

Should have got an email that has a link that will take you to the 420store, then eft

Blunicorn nearing the end at 8 weeks tomorrow, nice outdoor expression.

Its not a bad Idea to do that, but you can over do it easily with pot ash when amending a soil and that will cause your PH to go through the roof, I wouldn't go over 2% of the volume of soil.