twentyeight.threefive
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What is your obsession with CalMag and thinking that it makes leaves green again?
How I accelerate fade in soil
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budtoker221
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im just using it as an example of a fertilizer product that might keep leaves green longer depending on the circumstance, it seems like a very popular thing in the cannabis community that is commonly recommended when people are having various forms of “lockout” or yellow leaves or whatever.
I believe it’s partly the nitrogen in the cal mag that can bring the leaves back to a darker shade of green when people use it. Maybe I should have just said “nitrogen”.
Hollatchaboy
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Good thing most farmers don't have that same opinion.
I don't use calmag, mgso4 and calnit, if needed, which I rarely ever need to use, but the point is, feed the plant what it wants, when it wants it, at the correct rate.
I don't even own a bottle of cal mag..
Hollatchaboy
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Nor do I. I bought one when I first started hydro, but I gave it to a buddy when I learned I didn't need it.
LeastExpectedGrower
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Just for fun I put a couple of our cherry tomato plants in 'expended' ProMix HP in pots on our back deck. The rest of them are in my garden with good soil that's been seasonally amended with composted manure, etc. The ones in the garden need 'feeding' every few weeks, while the ones in the post-cannabis Promix need to be fed at least 2x a week or they go yellow really fast. The good news, is when I forget their mid-week feed, and they yellow, I can re-feed and they green up again quickly.
And yes, the ones in containers have been living off of Maxibloom at a rate of ~5g per gallon. When I germinated and started them in the tent I was using MaxiGro & they very very quickly grew out of control.
On that note, I'm at the part of the summer when I'm sick of seeing tomatoes. We're getting a quart to two quarts a day on the cherries, and the big tomato plants (Cherokee Purples, only planted two of those), have produced double digit pounds each and still have more to go and are still flowering.
Jjgrow420
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I planted the Cherokee too! Love the texture!!
budtoker221
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“Ordinary fertilizing by animal and human excretments, or even by too much minerals—sulphuric acid ammoniac—and superphosphate and by over-irrigating—changes the positive good properties into negative “bad ones,” or at least decreases the good qualities. The grower secures the advantage as they look attractive, are of a good size and weight, and consequently bring a good market price, costing the consumer more, for food that is really harmful.”
- Arnold Ehret (1922)
I might not have believed Arnold here if the supermarket tomatoes didn’t taste so much worse than our home grown (that arent heavily fertigated)
LeastExpectedGrower
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All of the deeper darker large tomatoes have been the favorites for us across the years in terms of flavor, and the Cherokee Purples are a pretty known quantity/quality because they're widely popular I think. They also are nice because they 'fill out' and have less seedy/liquid voids and more flesh.
We have a pretty short growing season here, and in the past we ended up with tomatoes in October and losing half of what we grew to frost and snow. This year I started 'in tent' under 675w of HLG's and was maybe too aggressive in how early I started. By the time I got 'em in the garden the last week in May the plants were about 4' tall. Now they're about 7' but the branches are all hanging down because my stakes weren't tall enough, they'd be 9 or 10 feet tall if I had better stakes. We actually had ripe tomatoes the last week in June and they're still flowering.
Creature1969
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They're picked weeks early and force ripened with a gas. That's why they don't taste as good as home grown.
LeastExpectedGrower
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I saw a documentary about tomatoes and they were in Italy going over the famed San Marzano tomato fields. Was interested to see that most of the growers not only don't stake them (they let them just crawl across the ground), but that they also don't water them regularly and that they believe that the best flavor comes from the plants being water stressed.
Blue brother
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Is this supposed to be an insult?
Drying in a fridge
Not knock it but maybe try with a smaller amount first, would suck to grow all that weed just to lose it in an experiment.
www.rollitup.org
Did u try it?
you should have a look back in that thread, results have been posted by myself and others, I never ended up using a household refrigerator, I opted for the thermoelectric wine cooler. But others in that thread are now using a fridge.
For me the fridge was either gonna need a dehumidifier and a humidifier on inkbirds or I was gonna have to burp containers in the fridge regularly, the wine cooler set up is much more hands off .
Blue brother
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Hollatchaboy
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Too much being the key phrase. A balanced diet is what you want.