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    ProMix HP Organic Amendments Recipe / Recommendations

    Hi all, I’m switching to ProMix and looking for insights or suggestions. In past runs I’ve used FFOF with 20% perlite, 20% EWC, DynoMyco and Dolomite Lime and then top dressed with DTE 4-4-4 and 4-8-4 throughout the grow cycle. I’m tempted to run the same recipe simply swapping FFOF with ProMix...
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    Does Silica help waterlogged or overwatered roots?

    Hi folks, wondering if this is a thing. Would silica help my plant recover if it’s been overwatered? I’ve dried it out for 16 days and it finally looked thirsty again, so gave it half a quart of water with some natural root boosters and it doesn’t look any better a day and a half later. A friend...
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    Praying Before Lights Out

    Hey folks, curious if anyone has encountered this before or knows what this means. I’ve got some young plants in veg around 20+ days (one is 8 days) and they are doing well so I don’t think it’s an issue, but I notice every evening toward the end of their 18 hour stretch the leaves tilt to the...
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    Potassium Deficiency or Overwatering?

    Hey Folks, I’ve been growing these Pakistan Valley plants for a couple months now. Transplanted them to 5 gals mid December and went on vacation for 10 days around Christmas so had to use Blumats while i was gone. they started showing leaf browning/drying once I returned. I assumed it was a sign...
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    Seedling Process

    Hi folks, I’m having trouble at the seedling stage once the seeds pop up. my germination rates are great but roughly half my seedlings die on me. Here’s my setup: happy frog soil w/ perlite and Dynomyco RH 60ish (can fluctuate from 55 to 65) Temps: daytime 74-77, nighttime 69-71 Tap water ph’d...
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    Slow Seedlings

    Hey folks, I'm still struggling to dial in the seedling stage and I find that my seedlings either pause (likely because I adjusted something in the environment too drastically) or they just take a really long time to get going once they pop. I've shared a photo from this morning - all of these...
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    DIY Rain Canopy

    Does anyone have experience building a makeshift rain cover for Sept/Oct...or does such a thing exist for growers out of the box? I'm not trying to build a greenhouse or anything elaborate, just looking to prop up a 10' x 10' canopy kind of thing with a clear tarp so the plants can still get sun...
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    Seedsman Northern Lights Auto - Hermie Seeds

    I just harvested a Northern Lights Auto from Seedsman and I'm finding upwards of 10+ seeds as I'm curing. I've read that these are all going to be female seeds, but figured I'd ask the community. Anybody have experience in this domain and can confirm the gender of these seeds?
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    Does too much Nitrogen lock out Phosphorous?

    Hey folks, I’ve been a bit too aggressive with my nutes and my Malawi has been showing some major N toxicity with clawing leaves. It’s been a week or two of trying to remediate this with flushing but I’m now seeing what looks like Phosphorous deficiency…so I’m wondering if too much N locks out...
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    Why are my grows so slow?

    I'm still new to this so I could be wrong, but I feel like every time I check an organic grow out on growdiaries the plants are exploding by week 3 and my plants are always lagging behind, comparatively speaking. I'm currently running two photos and two autos and it pisses me off to see how fast...
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    Weird looking Malawi

    Hey folks, I’ve got a Malawi going here at about 21 days and it’s looking, well…weird. I’ve got a Dougs Varin in the same tent, same dirt, doing fine and a couple of autos in another tent in the same dirt doing just fine as well - that’s all to say I’ve got some controls here for comparison...
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    Do Landrace strain effects produce less paranoia?

    I read a comment recently from someone on Growdiaries.com that claimed pure landrace strains don't induce paranoia as much as hybrids. He didn't back this up with any data, so I figured I'd ask the community. Do folks think there is any truth to this?
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    Purple Cow Organics Seed Starter

    Hi folks, wondering if anyone has tried this brand of soil to start their seeds in? I’ve had a few recent runs with peat pellets and FFOF burning/stunting seedlings so figured I’d give this a shot - layer this in on top of FFOF while I still have some left to use up. Interested in any thoughts...
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    Potassium Bicarbonate during late Flower

    Hi all, I had 2 Lemon Bubble photoperiods over the summer and one of them ran long into November. My outdoor deck loses direct sun pretty quickly in late Sept/early October so the plant started getting powdery mildew in late flower, unfortunately. I read up on various mitigation approaches and...
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    Autoflowers outdoors?

    Feel free to challenge this or flat-out disagree, but I think growing autoflowers outdoors doesn't make any fucking sense. It's a weird thing to say since Ruderalis has evolved outdoors like any other strain, but because their lifecycle is not dictated by the sun in the majority of our...
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    Seedlings Frozen in Time

    So I’ve got 2 purple kush cbd 1:1 autos that started well and sprouted in peat pellets. I transferred them to small planter pots with FFOF 5 days ago and watered them thoroughly (with drainage). Put them in a tent with some more mature plants and the light was too intense - burned them yellow a...
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    Do leafier buds smell more musty?

    Hi all, I’m relatively new to growing and don’t have a ton of experience so I’m wondering if those with more experience can answer this question: Has anyone noticed (anecdotally) a difference in the smell of your buds if they have more sugar leaves or less sugar leaves? Specifically, if your...
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    Seedling leaf disfiguration at tips

    Hey folks, I got some weird-looking leaves going on here, and wondering if anyone has seen this before or can identify it? This is a Purple Kush CBD 1:1 Auto in the following substrate: 3-gallon fabric pot 60% Fox Farm Ocean Forest 20% Perlite 20% Earth Worm Castings 6 tbs Dolomite Lime...
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