Photoperiod Barneys Farm - Peyote Crit/Watermelon Zkittles/Mimosa X Orange Punch

[Cannaficionado]

I add it once a week and yes add it first then wait 30 min before adding anything else

“Silica must be added to the water that is <100 PPM or less 30 minutes before you add the next nutrients. What you’re seeing is it is binding to the calcium that is in the water making it cloudy. It is also locking up the silicca, calcium, and Mg making all of them not available to the plant.”

Thanks. I thought I read something about how it needed to be added first. If it binds to calcium and magnesium, should I add cal/mag when I use it or should I use it between when I'm using the silica? Or were you saying the cloudiness will happen if I mix wrong

 

[Lil Dab]

Thanks. I thought I read something about how it needed to be added first. If it binds to calcium and magnesium, should I add cal/mag when I use it or should I use it between when I'm using the silica? Or were you saying the cloudiness will happen if I mix wrong

I wouldn’t add it just because your using silica calmag should only be used when it’s needed and that’s not very often.

Yeah basically it was what MOG had said about it not exactly pertaining to this situation just was a quote that explained it better

 

[Cannaficionado]

I wouldn’t add it just because your using silica calmag should only be used when it’s needed and that’s not very often.

Yeah basically it was what MOG had said about it not exactly pertaining to this situation just was a quote that explained it better

Ok I dont use cal/mag very often, my spring water has a pretty good amount of both in it, so I won't use any unless I see problems developing

 

[KingRatt]

Ok I dont use cal/mag very often, my spring water has a pretty good amount of both in it, so I won't use any unless I see problems developing

Id treat cal mag like that any way. Only use when you see deficiency. So many products add it in

 

[Cannaficionado]

I started my lst today. Took off the biggest fan leaves to give these side branches some light to reach for. Looking good so far though I did notice some purpling in the stems on the watermelon. I think its a little sensitive to potassium in veg and I haven't added anything but the silica and that has available potassium. Not worried about it just noticing a difference.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Girls are getting their first feeding today. I'm not 100% they absolutely need it but its getting very close to the 30 day mark, and I have been staying on top of watering, actually watering a lot more than I used to just less volume than I used to at once. Plants seem to have been enjoying it but I'm sure with all the run off I water to that I've washed out a lot of what the soil was amended with. Noticing that the older leaves aren't getting as dark as the ones I've stripped so far.

The feeding is gonna be super light.
Probably about 300-400ppm mix of the macro nutes (grow big and big bloom) and a bit more silica since I quartered the first dose of that too. I wanted to do some root inoculants too, to add some benificial microbes, and some food for the microbes but my root drench and my microbe brew expired about a year ago so I ordered more for the next feed. See how they respond to that over the next week. If all seems OK I'll bump up the ppm by about 100 on the next feed.

After mixing my ppms are about 400 on the dot. Spring water started at 115ppm.

Mix

1.5 tsp silica
2.5tsp big bloom
1 tsp grow big
.5tsp boomerang


Girls watered and fed

 

[Cannaficionado]

Girls are getting their first feeding today. I'm not 100% they absolutely need it but its getting very close to the 30 day mark, and I have been staying on top of watering, actually watering a lot more than I used to just less volume than I used to at once. Plants seem to have been enjoying it but I'm sure with all the run off I water to that I've washed out a lot of what the soil was amended with. Noticing that the older leaves aren't getting as dark as the ones I've stripped so far.

The feeding is gonna be super light.
Probably about 300-400ppm mix of the macro nutes (grow big and big bloom) and a bit more silica since I quartered the first dose of that too. I wanted to do some root inoculants too, to add some benificial microbes, and some food for the microbes but my root drench and my microbe brew expired about a year ago so I ordered more for the next feed. See how they respond to that over the next week. If all seems OK I'll bump up the ppm by about 100 on the next feed.

After mixing my ppms are about 400 on the dot. Spring water started at 115ppm.

Mix

1.5 tsp silica
2.5tsp big bloom
1 tsp grow big
.5tsp boomerang


Girls watered and fedView attachment 1736906

So I checked on the tent this morning and I'm pretty positive they did not need food yesterday, the peyotes stems are starting to turn purple and there is tip burn on the mimosa and the watermelon. So it looks like unless this is mag deficiency from the silica, that the potassium is to hot right now

 

[Cannaficionado]

Its the end of another week in the tent, and I gotta say I've noticed how much training and pruning slows the plants down. I'm keeping this run much more trimmed back, and doing a lot more lst than I would normally do. And usually I'm flowering within the next 10 days. I think with these girls I may push it off a whole month more, depending. They are starting to take off a bit again, but I was in there doing a bit more lst so they are probably gonna slow down again. Not a big deal as long as they stay healthy.

The girls are looking pretty healthy over all. Trimmed off a few leaves today that we're sitting right on top eachother after I tied some more branches down. Looks like so far they are taking the food well. I'm not seeing any more tip burn, but the purpling stems are continuing to spred. Again not concerning just making a note to look back on.

Mimosa x Orange Punch

Watermelon Zkittles

Peyote Critical

Thanks for stopping by.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Just a quick update.

No pics

4500sq foot dehumidifier ordered last night. Basement is roughly 1100. Foundation in the basement has been leaking, and Im in the process of patching the crack in the mortar. Looks like a shitty brick laying job or there's something pushing against the back corner of my foundation, either way there's a break in the mortar all the way from the most rear window well to the back corner of my basement. At the window well I can see light and blades of grass, but the rest of the crack isn't that bad seems like the leak may be washing away the mortar completely up there.

Got lots of rain the past couple days and humidity is staying around 76% in the basement. I figured the way oversized dehumidifier will make short work of maintaining the humidity down there and it will always be a plus during dry. Not a bad price if anyone is looking for one. It's on amazon, Frigidaire brand only 230 bucks when it's regularly 300. Also got a 25 foot drain hose for continuous draining. Gonna keep it closer to the corner where the leak is but when harvest time rolls around I will be moving it closer to the grow space.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Dehumidifier came a day early. It's all hooked up. I'm foregoing the continuous drain till I let it run for a day and see how much the bucket collects over a day or so.

Let the pots dry out over the last couple days. They were pretty light after getting home from work today so I did a decent watering. No feed, I'm waiting till the next watering, after letting the roots breathe a little more it seems like they really boomed the mimosa and peyote really greened up but the watermelon zkittles seems to have actually lightened up a bit, theres one branch with new growth coming in a little yellow. Not too worried, will be vegging for another 2-3 weeks minimum.

Did some more tying down and trimmed off a few leaves and some auxiliary branches I don't want. Really trying to stay on top of the trimming back.

Pic is from before going in and doing anything.