We're not in a drought anymore, i'm in coco and perlite/lava rock...the mixture is pretty airy, but I can imagine moisture causing an issue...idk. The point was to try it on one plant and see how it reacts, the rest of my girls aren't getting flushed...so we'll see.
Regardless of a drought that’s a lot of fucking water to do , not to harp on you too bad man. So your logic is flush it with a shit ton of water, steal it of it’s nutes and all this because the smell was off?
Well, we're not necessarily out of the drought yet just because of one good year of rain. We don't yet know what this winter will bring.
Yeah, sorry, I buried the details at the top, it’s 20% coco, 10% perlite, 10%lava rock, 30% turkey compost, 30% mushroom compost. I top dressed as per original post..pH a little high where the roots are air pruned at edges of pot (7-7.5), but in middle a nice 6.5. The medium is kind of a hybrid soil I guess, I’ve used this style last two years and it drains really well, so overwatering isn’t usually a problem, they love the air, the plants get huge, but obviously I’m not dialed in completely.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. Our water is pretty cheap up here, but I’m not out here trying to kill the trout either. I didnt put the extra 200 gallons through it (since we had rain coming, blasted me btw) just the initial 80-100 gallons...you know one full bathtub...and then I skipped a shower that day ;p. And don’t worry, I’ll never grow any almonds (read: 1900 gallons water per pound).
That’s good advice, I’ll def do a soil test before next season. As I posted above, I’m leaning toward temp stress or mechanical damage, since our rains were pretty heavy last couple weeks. I’m on a southwest slope by the way, and the sun is a mf’r....nights have been in the 50s, but direct sun feels like 110...and I’ve noticed buds directly in sun more peppery than shaded buds
Clones, similar soil and nutes but not same...good point. I will have to make some better comparisons next season.
I like the worm castings idea, I was thinking the same thing. However, I was a bit hesitant to use gypsum, since I used a lot of oyster shell flour and fish bone meal throughout the season, I was concerned about overdoing the Ca, and potentially locking out Mg...but idk, maybe adding gypsum with the langbenite would keep mg/ca in balance but give an extra boost of sulfur? Just looked up their solubilities in water and it seems gypsum << langbenite, so perhaps it will work well...
I top dressed some of my girls with a thin layer of EWC, mixed with 1/2 cup/gallon each: langbenite, gypsum, bat guano. Last meal...
what do you think about hitting a couple of those with 5 gal of water with 5 tbsp of molasses, see how the microbes in the ewc can assist? I’m thinking harvest will be 1-3 weeks depending on variety...
do you quote netflix' series "rotten" by that? however it's happening... tell me how good capitalism really is...
Thanks. Yeah I’m not sure if there will be no more water left soon (LOL) that sounds highly speculative and fear mongering...do you have a peer reviewed reference for this? What algorithm and data was used to model this? Are you an earth/water scientist? I know people fight over water all over the world...people steal (read divert) water from other land, it’s a major issue. But I think you have to be a little realistic too. Where do you think the water I put in my plants is going? Other than transpiration and a small amount of surface evaporation, I’m pretty sure a good majority of it is percolating down to the water tables/aquifers that feed back into the rivers that fill up the lakes and reservoirs down the hill. Where do you think the water is going? One major issue with water crises around the world is that water is not evenly distributed. That means, we have a ton of it up here, more than we can use this season probably and the reservoirs can only hold so much. It’s not like we can just pump whatever we don’t use to Cape Town...and if we hold onto it too long up here, then the reservoirs overtop and we get flooding....not saying we should just use it all up, but be realistic. IMO, urban overdevelopment, industrialization, water diversion are the primary causes of water shortages...that’s maybe where you should put that bright eyed puppy energy you got.
* thankfully i know how it is not to have an permanent accesibility to clean drinkwater [once i drank water from the tap and there came a fucking cockroach or something and i swallowed it] or not to take a bath each day. And i´m fucking happy not to live that kind of live anymore
Ugh, yes...this.happy growing guys
- that´s why i´m still for carpet-bombing each of the high-roller-gov´s around the world... haha jk
- i think that's the major issue at all, but srsly i've seen alot of hipsters, eco-wanna-make-the-world-better-dipshits who just talk and don't seperate theyre garbage. fucking hypocracy, man
- it's sadly always about how fat, ignorant, rich people try to get more money. Actually you can call it a physikal law already, make poor guys poorer in order to make the rich guys richer.
*not
dude that was one of the most fucked up feeling ever still kinda feel the feets of that fucker in my throat when i´m thinking about that...
