Recent content by Earlyriser76

I live in a tropical climate. Humidity is always north of 70% in my house. Right now it's 80%. How do I dry out my crop enough to put it away without growing mold?

Update: I doubt I ever go back to 100% Perlite hempy again. 70/30 coco/perlite in fabric pots seems like a better choice for me. I'm doing a run in 8 gallon milk crates lined with this weed barrier. I have 4 plants per crate and they are doing well...

You're right. Managing PH and PPM is where I failed with perlite and would fail with any media if I didn't manage it. I'm better at managing it now. I still have 6 in perlite in the flower tent. They are doing pretty well now that I got a handle on the PPM and PH runoff from the hempy buckets...

Moved to coco/perlite 70/30 and running both hempy and fabric pots. These plants that I transplanted were showing signs of lockout. Plants look healthier in 70/30 fabric pots than 70/30 hempy buckets even though they were all treated the exact same way. The ones in the fabric pots improved...

I guess I let the thing dry out 1 time and it's hosed. 15.00 one time PH test.

Went to water today and the new PH pen is broken. I have the PH strips, the drops and 2 broken PH pens and don't trust any of them. The drops say it's PH 4.0 the pen 11.5 and the strips don't seem to change no matter how many drops of PH up I put in my nutes. Everything is 5.5.

I cut the top out of them to even up the growth. In case anyone doesn't know, Monster cropping is taking clones from a flowering plant and re-vegging them to increase yield. https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-monster-cropping-cannabis-about-a-new-technique-to-increase-yields-and-efficiency-n209

Back with an update. My plants look GREAT! Never ever better. PH6 and 900 PPM are magical numbers. I should have a hat made.

How best to tame these beasts? Should I top the main stem? Any training advice you can offer? Thanks!

With coco/perlite should I be using CalMag at every feeding when using tap water?

Because I'm stupid. I Listened to some guy on the internet that said he didn't need PH down with his tap if he used the Maxi series. Assuming Maxi had some lowering capabilities I never measured PH accurately until I got a PH meter just last week. The drops were not accurate enough for me and I...

PH 6 changed everything. Apparently, PH was the last issue. It's been a frantic few months for me. I've been pretty obsessed with fixing my grow. I wasted a lot of time/money trying this and that and just found my last issue today. Turns out, I had a lot of water/nute problems that were...

I'm moving to 70/30 coco/perlite as soon as these finish up.

Here are a few of my plants as the sit today.

Amazing that is the final fix. I was about to come back and say that. I have some monster cropped clones doing very well and when I measured today the PH was between 6-7. I've been feeding too low a PH for all these years and I never knew it. PH 5.2 will grow it but deficiencies will show. I...