I am in Minnesota and we are allowed to gift free stuff to friends and relatives. They allow four plants in veg and four in flower. I’d keep some kind of rotation going but don’t make concentrates so I can take a month off between grows. So far I just pop seeds and haven’t really settled on any particular strain. I came from a simpler time so I’m just cruising along enjoying a great retirement hobby.
I'm doing 4 fem . N 4 autos . 4 auto 2 harvest In a year. Well my female will be done by September. I can have 2 harvest of autos first be July 2 would be November . If everything goes well . Just feed the homemade fetlezer . Real fish n real grass tea ... hopefully I didn't harm them . All organic n no chemicals fetlazer . No fox farm no added. I just made other with turkey bones and coffee dust soil with regular soil from mn ..
Depends on water source. I live in the mountains and have my own well system. Never used a ph meter, couldn’t tell you how and I’ve never had any issues. Growing for over 10 years.
@@gregc.9313 I have well water and it's 500 ppm even when bypassing the water softener. Depends on the minerals in your area, mine are too high and I"d rather just RO to zero and start with a clean slate. PH was pretty consistent until we started getting a ton of rain but it's still within acceptable range and soil adjusts it as well. I'm in the habit of checking for piece of mind in case of changes in the ground water due to precip.
I’m a professional cultivator here in Colorado - we are religious about serving up PH at appropriate levels for the varying stages of growth - clones @ 5.8, veg and flower no higher than 6.0… That being said last season I ran a test crop in my personal garden and did NOT PH my nutes - just ran straight well water (we’ve got fantastic water but very ‘hard’) and also made sure water temp was appropriate. The crop turned out AMAZING!!! Great yield, phenomenal trich production and terps were incredible! So for ME it seemed as though PH wasn’t such a big deal. I still PH today as I feel it’s the ‘best practice’ but it’s not absolutely necessary in my experience…
i think the message was to use the drops and not to trust digital .PH IS IMPORTANT FOR FEED , i use well water and a air pump in res.and a blob of molasses . 🤫
Really no shit. U can drop the ph with an air stone in the water? 🤷 I never knew this. I got well water in the low 7s so i use the zero water filter. It seems to work but if i could get it down alil more i would jump for joy. Water is everything.😊 thank u for the comment
I have temporarily stopped growing (wife wants the space) so I started a smaller space hobby 🍄. It's amazing how the first hobby helped on the second hobby 👍. Plants aren't close related but they live in same environment and many have the symbiosis like you described. Keep giving insight. Thank you for the videos and being so exhuaberant.😊👍✌️
We had a dry summer last year and have been getting drenched so far this spring. I have to RO my well water in order to use it for growing. I fill up twenty gallons of jugs so I only have to setup the RO once or twice a month. Recent rains changed my ph and I’d have missed it if I didn’t check. I’d rather stay on top of the PH just for piece of mind if nothing else. Hell, I’m retired and have all day every day to tend the garden so it keeps me busy. My wife is into esoteric stones and their properties and I think it’s a bunch of BS. She gives me stones that are supposed to help my plants. I put one in each pot and they stay there for the entire grow. Who am I to question her? I just do what she says and don’t change a thing. 😂😂😂
If you have water like RO water, there is no mineral solids to maintain a pH. The water will immediately absorb minerals in its environment and stabilize to its surrounding pH. If you have a harder water with calcium and magnesium, your water will need to have the pH adjusted. With a high ppm of solids, your environment will balance to the pH of the water. This usually causes your water to be very base and raising your soil pH to 8.0 or even higher. If you grow with fertilizer salts, correcting your pH is a little more important and definitely necessary in soiless grows. In soil, good fertilizer companies have already solved it for you. If you have to hit that 5.5-6.0 range, that requires a bit of acid.
That's what I do, RO my well water because it's 500 ppm even bypassing the softener and I don't know what the 500 ppm consists of which can cause imbalances. I RO it and strip it down to nothing so I know what I'm working with. Soil adjusts the PH but I still monitor that and the PPM of runoff to time what usually ends up being one feeding about half way through flower after soil amendments are used up. It's a pretty simple little indoor garden once a person finds a system that works for them.
Seedlings take about a month to become sexually mature before they can start to transition to flower if under a flowering light schedule. Clones typically come from sexually mature plants. Flower time after they're sexually mature depends on the genetics.
@@santafemikez9694 There is no difference in flowering time between a sexually mature seedling or a clone taken from it. Seedlings take about a month (even on 12-12 schedule) to become sexually mature to even begin the transition to flower. I mentioned nothing about flowering length.
Once a week or Twice, having a 1oz to 2 oz, i found it pretty good deal. I don't have the stress of trimming 6 plants at once. Plus is like my trimming time.
It seems to me from what you said about the relationship between the root morphology and adaptations of the plant and the microbes that whacking the PH in mid stream is not just unnecessary and expensive, but may be a bad idea. It introduces a sudden balance shift outside the established relationship and comfort zone. Not only that but external PH adjustments tend to be transient. Soil likes to return to it's original PH. If you start with an untampered soil in the correct range you should be golden. If your soil is too far in one direction, blending with soil in the other direction before using should produce a new stable PH level.
Try going slow and using a gentle twisting motion, to ease in and find space between major roots. A plant can handle a few torn micro roots as animals often burrow in dense vegetation areas.
Big same here, buddy. First time growing organic here, and was told the same old hype as everyone else about not pH'ing the water (I'm using store bought jugs of spring water so I bought in to it to an extent). Everything was fine until I started to implement B.A.S. Agsil 16H for silica, and didn't realize it had shot my water pH to over 9.5 at half the recommended dose. Plants got mad for sure.
@@FuriousGeorge_67 damn! Yeah if it’s not within the recommended range then the plants can’t uptake it and throws things out of wack.Glad you got it together though.
I use a milwaukee PH meter and I check and calibrate it every couple of months and I have never had my meter out of calibration. My measurement of my PPM have been the same after calibration as it was before calibration every time. I do have and use the chemical kit and will use it to confirm my meter readings from time to time. the Milwaukee meter comes with a cap that I fill 1/3rd full with storage solution to keep my tip soaking. Get a quality meter and routinely calibrate it. It is not hard
I have 2 exhale bags in my 4x4 tent and I love them they work great and my tent isn’t sealed. I have an exhaust fan and an inlet fan but with two exhale bags in my 4 x 4 tent it keeps my CO2 PPM around 1200.ppm
P.H, and it’s never ending adjustments are very important to me.. I have the best P.H pen on the market, and calibrate it once a week religiously. And always have good results
I have the chance here in quebec canada to buy very nice water, i recently find out that the water i use for my plant have about 7.4 of ph… and i never have problems with it
I'm so glad I went organic I now have to clean the dust off of my ph pin cuz I hardly ever use it these days and I have been using recharge for about 3 years now and im sold on it
Love the show fellas ! Running my first auto's this year . Im looking forward to the challenge . I've always done photo's . Keep kicking knowledge . Thanks fellas . God bless , and peace !
Start one or two more 3 or 4 weeks before harvest. You can keep autos in the open under light. Mine grew in the dining room with other leafy greens growing.
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Few drops of white vinegar for indoor with 2 part nutrient. Tap water here is about 7.4, nutrient brings it back to like 6.8 or something Few drops of double strength white vinegar I already had in the cupboard. Works well. Cant believe I used to use expensive acid in the early 2000s. Ends up getting on things and burning them or on your skin. Yeah/Nah not any more.
Hyperoxygenated deep water culture with a protein based nute line like cyco is the best growing method hands down. You can actually control the pH in the rhyzosphere. Soil is far inferior. Always available oxygen (yes, plants still need oxygen), always available nutrients, always available water. I yielded 12 pounds in 10’x12’ room with a 21 day veg… 2 lbs per light. My garden was also CO2 supplemented. Good lighting is the best investment. It’s crazy the difference in quality of a $30 bulb compared to a $200 bulb.
I've used soda stream bottles before but all I did was squirt some CO2 in through one of the inlet hole in my tent, no regulator and not sure if it did much but the bottles are available at my local Supermarket for about $20 change over
I'm a new grower trying to find a serious channel for growers. This feels like a middle-aged, wish I was still in college show. Not all stoners are goofy dopes. Any suggestions for adults wanting to grow?
Home-brew shops Lads fill up Co2 Bottles, pretty cheap in Oz, or you could get a bioscape Fish tank one and use Bi-Carb soda and citric acid all found at the supermarket 👌😎🇦🇺
Hey bro just started my second grow with blue dot going great and recharge in the last of first grow very happy with your advice and real grow THANKS a lot
I've been using spring water from the Dollar Tree for my plants because the local water report is bad. We have a bunch of crap from the military bases and shipping industry and other sources. It seems like the pH of the bottled water is close enough for the plants in Ocean Forest soil. I haven't had issues with lockout or deficiencies other than an Apple Fritters plant that wanted more food. A handful of worm castings and some Dr Earth's Flower Girl fixed it. I do alternate between Recharge and Stash Blend or use a little of both together about once a week too. But I haven't bothered checking pH much. Before I fed the Apple Fritters plant Ivdid check my soil pH to make sure it wasn't the problem. I haf the same experience when I had a rain barrel and used the rain for my indoor plants.
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Ph is mostly important with hydroponic growth, soil they like it very slightly alkaline so they can grab the Ca and Mg, The roots pump acids into the soil that grab the ions they need. Digital PH meters only are for lab use, they dont resond to organic acids correctly. Stuff going acid is a common issue with hydroponics, keep it aereated to purge the CO2 build up and give it some CaNo3 MgCl2, and KNO3 as needed Apply phosphorus as Ammonium phosphate at the plants as a slow dilute drip. Dont forget the trace minerals, best added by a gravel bed that contains the minerals you need. Want to do it all at once and cheap? Try aquaponics. Fish pond, dolomite filter then pump over the roots. Thats it. Microbes do all the work for you for everything short of the pumping itself and the right ones colonize the right places ❤
How come back in the early 80's and 90's we grew huge beautiful plants using 20-20-20 and 10-60-10 and not knowing anything about pH. What's up with that ?
Drops are great. All that used to be used before. I doubke check with drops that my digital is in check. Can help when your Pen might be on the way out. If I had to choose id go with drops over digital. Stock up on thos IMO
1000ppm of CO2 in my 5x5 with 720w of led with 1000ppfd at canopy. Looking like it's gonna be a Fat Yeild of some 🔥 genetics. Appreciate all your tips and tricks to get me there!
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Advanced nutrients sensi products have the ph perfect tech. I actually don't own a ph pen and get nice big buds so it works. Those that say it doesn't work. Those folks aren't using filtered water or ro and or distilled water. It does make a difference. U need to start with a plain base it's what they want. Soil and coco I've tried with more of a pain in the ass with coco. Soil is set and forget
1300 ppm co2 in a 5x5 with the inline fan on 2 my tank will last me 11-14 days. I have to have that fan on or it will get above 95 degrees on me. With fan on its 87-95 which is a good range with rh at or under 60% I only use co2 last week of veg to week 6 flower
I live in Chicago where the water is 7.8 normally and I have grown pretty good buds without using any down. Having said that… I have done 6.5 and 6.0 and 5.8 and literally have seen zero difference between 7.8 through 5.8! Now.. if you live somewhere else and you have hard water or some weird issues with your water, you might have a problem. 🤷🏻♂️
How long can you veg a clone before you have to transpalsnt them? They will continue to grow even with low light. Can't keep them in veg for more than a few weeks ... where do you put them all, Scotty, please tell us. Too many plants going at once * Limited room here
lol ph is no scam but people get too obsessed with it . I run hydro and I take it down to 5.5 and let it drift up to 6.2 before I adjust it again. Blue lab ph pen is best and keep it calibrated monthly . It’s easy. If I could afford it I’d run the blue lab ph auto doser.
the more I did away from the basics, the more I struggled somewhere in during the RUN. I check it because it is something to do to keep you from guessing where to start. Stick to basic stuff.
I grow in coco and I balance using vinegar. Water comes out at 8.3+... Works like a charm, but the whole PH ritual gets old. I have not been brave enough to try without. Growing in coco salt buildup actually scares me more so I always 'overwater' to drain out the substrate. It's a pain to manage runoff too...
Use maxibloom powder it will knock your water down for you and feed the plants at the same time. Works great in coco. Then In flower use liquid koolbloom
co2 is always there no need to have any extra if you have people or pets in the house we tested here after my workout with my daughter it was over 3500 in the room so how long it stayed at that i dont know but that must help the plants also
Lmao I thought I was being weird only using the drops them meters are such a waste of money but ur exactly ryt put like some recharge in a it don’t work so then POOL strips !!! I’m glad this subject came up I feel a whole lot better now lol
I am just lucky I guess. I never have PH issues - I get 6.5 out of the spring in the side of the mountain. it is moderately hard. I never really check my PH and I get phenomenal results for the last 6+ years. I was so worried about it in the beginning and now I never think about it. You can get thousands of pH test strips for just a couple of dollars too - They can expire to in high humidity environments.
