Well I knew I would tell you that it was only on the wedding cake. Ugh...Hmmm, MC/BE are not the best formulations and ratios for the various stages of the plants life, that's why I stopped using them.... Some folks get good results, others get nothing but trouble, and often many get leafy buds...
I suspect it's because not enough P present when they need it most, and too much K almost all the time. BE is ridiculous with it's ratios IMO, especially for a so-called bloom booster! For that critical early-mid bloom stage, the PK ratio's should be literally the opposite, 2:1 P:K...
I can't prove it for a fact, but the anecdotal numbers of the results I've seen over the years sure point to less than stellar bud:leaf ratio because of too little P when it's needed most, and too much N in bloom... K is overkill period, and it can really start to fuck with uptake on other things via antagonistic uptake actions...
I don't necessarily think you're experiencing this mate, you're not marinating the plant in the stuff like some do, but this is a heads-up advisory-
I still use Sweet Candy, but as a finisher because of it's high K, S and other goodies that help enrich terpenes... Otherwise, I like to use something that has high P, mid-low K for bloom boosting, and spare the K inputs for what the Si product and SC bring in, more than enough by themselves... Of course, I'm using that KIS Organics nute pack stuff as you know, but there are some bottled options for better bloom formulations...
I use Terp Tea Bloom (3-7-4) and/or Roots HPK (0-4-3) which is basically processed liquid bat poo-
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I think we'll be very happy with Phyter mate, but the real test is coming yet right? As we mentioned, it's no panacea, not a "fix-it" solution, but a strong suppressor,...
Well it might be that your RM pheno' won't have the same aroma nuances, only time and cure will tell! mine lost some orange aroma, licorice got stronger along with a sort of base aroma that most all the Red Family seem to have....
I'm not sure GTG, last PM we had I mentioned using powerful magnification to make sure broad mites (far smaller than spider mites) or some other vermin are not behind that,.. the symptoms don't scream anything specific at me, but a microbe pathogen doesn't seem likely with those symptoms,... more distant possibility is a virus in early stages of development, and those are a real bitch to diagnose outside of lab testing!
I saw on KIS Organics site, a new Podcast with a scientist about viruses in cannabis, which I'm going to check out here soon,... this is a difficult subject to get reliable info on,, so it's worth a listen for sure!
Well I haven't been out there for about 2 weeks. So I just talked with the farmer today and he says it's on a lot of the plants not just the wedding cake it's widespread on his whole Farm now. So we got to diagnosing some of the things that he changed from last year to this year. Such as the organic dry elements that we put in the ground and everything was pretty much the same. Nothing out of the ordinary. Then I asked him are you running your filter on your well water still. ?
He said No.?
He had a boogie Brew high-end filter on his well water last year. It plugged up so he undone it when he put in the little irrigation system for the plants this year. We didn't start noticing the problems until a couple of weeks after that irrigation system being in place. And him running it
(without the filter in line)
I'm not sure but
I'm going to check it out.. but he might have an iron overload.? What do you think?Thanks pal.
.. will see what happenz ..
