What do you mean by "if she's even eating"?MafooFarms wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 1:34 pmWater that has been pH’d to 6.3-6.8 with no nutrients added. To me, without knowing what food she has been given and if she is even eating or not, I would just not mess with the nute bottles until you start your own plant from scratch.
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If it makes sense, depending on how the plant is behaving, it may not be uptaking the nutrients you are giving it. In my experience, if a plant is under stress caused by say moving it into a new environment, you may want to back off on following a feeding schedule and let the plant tell you when it is ready for something extra to eat. Thats why I had suggested just giving her pH’d water for a while before feeding her again. Typically, you would wanna be backing off the feed around week 4-5 of flower anyhow so I wouldnt worry too much about all that with this particular plant.merricklandon wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 10:55 pmWhat do you mean by "if she's even eating"?MafooFarms wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 1:34 pmWater that has been pH’d to 6.3-6.8 with no nutrients added. To me, without knowing what food she has been given and if she is even eating or not, I would just not mess with the nute bottles until you start your own plant from scratch.
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Thank you for the explanation, that really ties everything you were saying together! I have a water pH meter so I'll figure out how do that tomorrow or the next day when I water her.
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Should I get rid of any of those leaves?
Also is there anything I can do to increase resin production? Since this is a free plant I'm not that worried about how good the flower will be but it would be great if I could get practice using my rosin press with some of the bud. I have heard that pressing fresh dried, not cured, flower is much better for flower rosin so excited for that!
Also is there anything I can do to increase resin production? Since this is a free plant I'm not that worried about how good the flower will be but it would be great if I could get practice using my rosin press with some of the bud. I have heard that pressing fresh dried, not cured, flower is much better for flower rosin so excited for that!
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That sounds amazing! Something I have never had.
My advice for resin production would be to increase the light intensity a bit in the last week before you chop, then try leaving the light off a day or two at the very end. While these techniques are a bit of a hot button topic, take that with a grain of salt. Going forward, I myself have been wanting to pick up a container of insect frass and use that to trick the plant into trying harder to protect itself. The trichomes (resin) are a defense mechanism against sunburn and herbivores.
My advice for resin production would be to increase the light intensity a bit in the last week before you chop, then try leaving the light off a day or two at the very end. While these techniques are a bit of a hot button topic, take that with a grain of salt. Going forward, I myself have been wanting to pick up a container of insect frass and use that to trick the plant into trying harder to protect itself. The trichomes (resin) are a defense mechanism against sunburn and herbivores.
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Only thing I will say here is do make sure to calibrate your meter and always rinse it off well before capping it. I am an advocate for buying the KCl (potassium chloride) probe storage solution for conditioning and storing your probe.merricklandon wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 2:55 amThank you for the explanation, that really ties everything you were saying together! I have a water pH meter so I'll figure out how do that tomorrow or the next day when I water her.
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And sorry I missed your question about removing leaves. The ones that are snarly and brown for sure can go. All else, even if a tad yellow, can stay.
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I'll try this. Curious what the thinking is behind leaving the light off at the very end?MafooFarms wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 3:32 amMy advice for resin production would be to increase the light intensity a bit in the last week before you chop, then try leaving the light off a day or two at the very end. While these techniques are a bit of a hot button topic, take that with a grain of salt. Going forward, I myself have been wanting to pick up a container of insect frass and use that to trick the plant into trying harder to protect itself. The trichomes (resin) are a defense mechanism against sunburn and herbivores.
Thank you and everyone for all the help.
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I think it is just a technique to freak the plant into thinking death is coming so it puts its all into the flower
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Metal halide for the last week or two of flowering increases trichome production as well
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