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Olive Drab Green

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CalMag is definitely one of the cheaper supplements. I'm on a pretty tight budget myself, I got the small bottle of Vitalink calmag for about £7. I didn't think you were supposed to use calmag in flower though, because of the high N content I think? Maybe it's ok as an emergency fix, I don't know?
I also get little dehumidifiers from the pound store, it's like a plastic tub with crystals in the top that absorb moisture from the air and a tank underneath to collect the water. I use them around my flat cos it's pretty damp in here sometimes, they last a month or so. I don't know how much they'd reduce your humidity but might be worth a try. I have 2 in my grow room, only one's near the flowering plants, they don't collect as much in there as the ones in the kitchen and bathroom do, I take that as a positive sign. I have plants with brown hairs on the flowers now at 5 weeks into flower, mostly one of them but there's nothing wrong with the plant and I'm not worried about it, it's developing just as well as all the others so I don't think that in itself is necessarily a problem, or not in my experience at least. Maybe these plants were just too badly damaged before you got to them to ever really live up to their potential? It doesn't mean the smoke won't be fine though, just be patient with them. At 8 weeks in you're nearly there, good luck with it :peace:
I was always under the impression that Mg and Cal are always needed and that cannabis takes up Mg particularly rapidly. Dolomite lime would probably have a lesser content of nitrogen, but I could be wrong.
 

Niblixdark

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CalMag is definitely one of the cheaper supplements. I'm on a pretty tight budget myself, I got the small bottle of Vitalink calmag for about £7. I didn't think you were supposed to use calmag in flower though, because of the high N content I think? Maybe it's ok as an emergency fix, I don't know?
I also get little dehumidifiers from the pound store, it's like a plastic tub with crystals in the top that absorb moisture from the air and a tank underneath to collect the water. I use them around my flat cos it's pretty damp in here sometimes, they last a month or so. I don't know how much they'd reduce your humidity but might be worth a try. I have 2 in my grow room, only one's near the flowering plants, they don't collect as much in there as the ones in the kitchen and bathroom do, I take that as a positive sign. I have plants with brown hairs on the flowers now at 5 weeks into flower, mostly one of them but there's nothing wrong with the plant and I'm not worried about it, it's developing just as well as all the others so I don't think that in itself is necessarily a problem, or not in my experience at least. Maybe these plants were just too badly damaged before you got to them to ever really live up to their potential? It doesn't mean the smoke won't be fine though, just be patient with them. At 8 weeks in you're nearly there, good luck with it :peace:
Cal-Mag is great for the first 2-3 weeks into flowering when the plant uses allot of these micronutrients for the transition into flowering, the added nitrogen helps keep them green and prevents the plant from using its own stored resources too early into flowering.

This is where allot of new growers run into trouble and at 3 or 4 weeks they freak out and try fixing it and end up doing more harm then good thinking it's something else! When really it was just the wrong nutrient ratios from the first two weeks when they needed that nitrogen high and magnesium.

With soil and soiless it's always a good thing to keep the veg nutrients going the first two weeks then switch to bloom formulas. Whereas with hydroponics and with 3 part nutrient formulas we can switch right away. One of the many advantages with hydroponics.

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The HornyCulturist

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Another question now that ive started !

Does anyone else use Bio Bizz and find that they are very acidic?

Maybe its the water here but i find it drops the water ph to 5.4 after mixing when in higher doses!?
Takes a lot of tweeking
 

Olive Drab Green

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Another reason I was recommending organic is because pH isn't unimportant, but is less important, because it buffers itself pretty well. With synths, you have to get the pH to a level that the roots will take up the salts its bound to. With organic, you're feeding microbes in the soil organic matter, which it eats, and then it shits out nutrients immediately accessible to the root zone.
 

The HornyCulturist

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So i switched my meter to Fahrenheit and you can see the lowest readings over the last few weeks on screen
 

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The HornyCulturist

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Things are getting no better!

Does the brown hairs mean that production of the good stuff has stopped and started to degrade?
Should I just harvest when 2/3's of the hairs are brown and take what I get?

Or should I just harvest the buds with all the brown hairs and let the other go another while?
 

Niblixdark

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In my case the strain I am growing the hairs stay mostly white even when they are done ripening, only some brown here and there but not much.
 
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