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zypheruk

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Everything arrived but got no time to put it together.
16 strips at 400-500mA each in a 2x3x3ft tent. I suppose I can keep plants close enough
Scrog your plants and you will be very happy with the results, best way to grow if you can be bothered.
 

ANC

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I keep telling you guys it is not about the nutrients, I will spend maybe $5 on this grow, if that much on nutrients.
It is about the microbes in your medium and getting them established well before increasing feeding levels, then the strong ones will survive and be the intermediary through which the plant gets its food at a lower energy cost. The plant, in turn, will secrete sugars that the microbes can feed off at a lower energy cost than making it themselves.
 

nc208

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I keep telling you guys it is not about the nutrients, I will spend maybe $5 on this grow, if that much on nutrients.
It is about the microbes in your medium and getting them established well before increasing feeding levels, then the strong ones will survive and be the intermediary through which the plant gets its food at a lower energy cost. The plant, in turn, will secrete sugars that the microbes can feed off at a lower energy cost than making it themselves.
Do you have a soil recipe? Or what do you use In your medium to achieve this?
 

ANC

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I love the shape of this girl. I accidentally broke off the top 3 inches or so of the main cola when she was about two and a half feet tall.
The side branches shot up into a nice even rosette.
 

ANC

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Do you have a soil recipe? Or what do you use In your medium to achieve this?
Coco coir with a tiny bit of vermicompost.
And I feed a three-part dry salt that you make your own concentrate out of. Costs about $8 for what feels like about 4 pounds of the stuff... will last a small grower 2 or three years if not more.

https://hydroponic.co.za/hydroponics/hortimix-nutrient-kit/

I have bottles of fancy shit I never use anymore... They are so hot when you follow the feeding chart, that the plants suffer almost always.
 

thetr33man

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Coco coir with a tiny bit of vermicompost.
And I feed a three-part dry salt that you make your own concentrate out of. Costs about $8 for what feels like about 4 pounds of the stuff... will last a small grower 2 or three years if not more.

https://hydroponic.co.za/hydroponics/hortimix-nutrient-kit/

I have bottles of fancy shit I never use anymore... They are so hot when you follow the feeding chart, that the plants suffer almost always.
You dont supplement cal/mag?
 

ANC

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Week 3 Day 5 after a light trimming
Don't have to... vermicompost..+ coco !
I will feed some Epsom salts from next week though to help with the later stages of flowering.
The plants seem to like the light at that height. If I lift the lights, the plants stretch with them to keep the distance. Lights are about 1.8m off the ground now. It also started showing some trichomes today.
 
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ANC

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Lol, this is kinda the closest thing I have to a grow log.
I'm just posting as I am one of the first 100W strip adaptors, and so I have something to reference when I switch back to my normal grow style next round.

You just mix a bit of vermicompost in with your coco every time you pot up. Just a few hands full to get the microbes to innoculate your stuff.
 

thetr33man

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my worms were left outside over the winter, hopefully they survive. I threw a few bags of leaves on top of the pile to help insulate them a bit...
 

ANC

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I just throw a pile of grass clippings on the paving in winter, they work their way up through the bricks.
I get my daughter to scratch through the pile to find earthworms. I only use them with fully organic though.
 
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