BioTabs Biotabs with Duggy

[Waira]

..gettin' phaa-aat in there Duggy! BBG looks nice and chunky,...I envy the smoke to come! post us harvest and dry porn too when ready please!...
... who's who with the other two? Ice Cool and GBD cross,... Have you slipped a little Orgatrex in there for some support N? I'm finding I need it, but then, my Tabs depleted weeks ago,... doing the PK tea, with Orga' in it, plus other goodies, and they love it!
Ryker-- I don't know about the PK goo you lucky guys got, for dosing that is,... organics are far less likely to burn, especially with a healthy herd in there, so up the dosage some and see,...

 

[Duggy]

@Waira I hit the younger ones with some Orgatrex too but a little late. I have noted that where I see any issues they are dealt with later rather than sooner...I tend to wait to see how the issues develop to be sure, and by then the damage is done so I need to be more attentive. I'm seeing N depletion mid flower so will likely add an extra tablet around week 5.
BG smells incredible so I'm excited to sample. The Biotabs do make for a relaxing grow.....

 

[Ryker604_BT]

Ryker-- I don't know about the PK goo you lucky guys got, for dosing that is,... organics are far less likely to burn, especially with a healthy herd in there, so up the dosage some and see,...

Heh, I'm even more excited about their compost tea, seeing that you can substitute Orgatrex with Bio Pk in the tea, in late flowering of course. However, sounds like FULL POWER MODE . I know that organics are harder to burn, but still didn't want to cause problems and seeing that you can put more if you feed weekly is going to help my flowering a lot .

Really like your photo grow this season @Waira , amazing looking plants . Have you thought about putting another tab in the pots if they are depleted, like @Duggy mentioned? Think that Biotabs recommends it for longer running crops.

EDIT: Both of you are more than welcome to check out my journal if you want to see Biotabs in Autopots, sorry for sidetrackin' a bit .

 

[Waira]

:smoking: Duggy, it's more tricky than it seems! Many defc.'s start happening with negative consequences even before actual leaf symptoms start,.. last year with that damn KindSoil, the P sourcing depleted at the worst time initial bud-set,... didn't show in the leaves until after I noticed the flower clusters were small and airy,... it hard to know for sure sometimes too, when the strain is totally new to you,.. a few days later classic patchy necrosis started on the leaves, and I had to abandon the organics for synthetic right now P sourcing to try and salvage the bud quality! The Biotabs tapped out weeks ago for me, with a sudden blow-out of extra nutes, if the roasted tips are any indication,... a similar thing happened with the KindSoil when they started tapping deep into that layer,... when I start seeing lowers fade too soon, I start extra N right away,.. but the more or less overall color fade puzzles me, and won't correct (Think Fast is hit bad this time- ..blooming fine though!)... it smacks of S defc., but the tops aren't that badly affected, so i have doubts about S defc.,... P defc. can star as color fade mid-to-uppers too IMO, not typical, but I swear it's consistent enough to not be coincidence,... Anyway, don't hesitate to add some Orga' to the Bio PK,.. as long as the PK is higher than the N in quantity and numbers, notroubles will come to the buds from the N,........ Ryker-- by the time this happened, the roots were solid to the tops, so no point in more tabs IMO, more damage than it's worth, and I don't like what that sudden end-breakdown does either,.. talking with EoF, we think the Guerilla Tabs will hold up better,... So, I'm just feeding manually now anyway,.... Oh, Orgatrex in not a sub' for Bio PK of the PK tea at all,.. it's 5-1-5, far far too weak in P and not quite enough K either,... but using it in conjunction with the tea as recommended works very nice! they're getting PK tea every 10 days or so, but in between they get other organic goodies,.. Roots HPK, basically liquid bat poo's (0-3-4), a taste or two of BioThrive grow (4-3-3), and I've slipped very dilute bloom boosters (Open Sesame) in there as well,... admittedly, I may have overdone it, from some minor tip burn on a few, but after the KindSoil shit-show, I was NOT going to let that BS happen again! Most of the buds last year were under par for density and bud:leaf ratio because the corrections just didn't happen in time,.. it helped some for sure, as did the Mammoth P inoculant, but not all responded that well,... this year, fuck the burned tips, I have solid bud formation going, so I'm golden! Soon, it will be time for Avalanche (bud hardener) and Bud Factor-X (trich' stimulator),....
I'll swing by soon mate,..lately the Infirmary has been so batshit crazy I hardly have time to visit other grows, which sucks!....

 

[Duggy]

It's a tricky balance for sure @Waira and I'm sure I'll continue to struggle...
The Blackberry Gum took 4 Biotabs and plenty of Bio PK...she dropped off quickly once the tabs depleted and when I added the Orgatrex they showed K excess...here she is day 101 ( 56 at 12/12)
Just wish she'd finish as I'm out of stock..

 

[Ryker604_BT]

Oh, Orgatrex in not a sub' for Bio PK of the PK tea at all,.. it's 5-1-5, far far too weak in P and not quite enough K either,... but using it in conjunction with the tea as recommended works very nice!

Didn't mean that Orgatrex is a sub for Bio PK. What I meant was, which @Biotabs F69 mentioned in a thread around this subforum, that in late flowering you can put Bio PK in the PK Booster Compost Tea instead of the Orgatrex that is recommended. Hope it makes sense :smoking:.

 

[Duggy]

Day 63..

 

[Duggy]

For my next Biotabs grow I plan to use a stronger soil in the base of the pots.
I will continue to start in Light Mix and transplant to the hotter final mix.
I'll have to look and see what's available.

 

[Ryker604_BT]

For my next Biotabs grow I plan to use a stronger soil in the base of the pots.
I will continue to start in Light Mix and transplant to the hotter final mix.
I'll have to look and see what's available.

Can I ask why you plan on using a stronger soil?

 

[Duggy]

Can I ask why you plan on using a stronger soil?

I'm just trying to push the plants further to see what happens. Noting depletion early in flower and would prefer not to be feeding them by hand other than a little BioPK.
I may also look at adding additional Biotabs at start of flowering hoping to find a simple approach which produces consistent good results...