What’s up brother. It looks like these ladies are losing nutrients.
You think it will be ok to give them a little GH Calmag to help them along?
I have a tea brewing already…
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That’s Manganese def going on there. It’s tied to the K demands of the plant. Amongst many others, there’s Ca Mg Mn K & I in black strap molasses. A tsp/gal on the reg, but in this case 1 tbs/gal would help to slow the issues going further down.
If looking for faster
I use 2ml/gal after wk5 with 1 tsp moleasses
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Ok, I’m going to add some more molasses to my brew and hope for the best right now. Thanks again.
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Bro, do you use a regular all purpose nutrient spray you like?
I realize this is going in the feed for my case right now, but do you use it on foliage?
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I don’t usually have the need to foliar this. It’s not something you run into a lot in veg. About 98% of the time it’s only for drench in late flowering.
I do use ferments as a foliar in veg, but that’s advanced methods. No need to bring this up. If your looking for a flowering booster drench, I’d suggest Build a Bloom (2-10-5) from Build a Soil.
They look like it’s getting close to harvest time. It’s probably time to start panning your cut and dry. Do you have a scope yet?
@Budbrother Wouldn’t it be too late for booster or did I miss something? Not arguing just trying to educate myself
What about for targeted stress and to promote ripening? I think it was Hoppyfrog’s journal I was reading about it, but some of his stuff is still a little over my head sometimes. I’ve been trying it out and feel like I’ve seen a difference, but my notes and pics weren’t great so who knows…
He’s talking about something to get for a booster. I assumed, not for this crop.
Ah OK. Guess that new rosin press is putting in more work than I thought.
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I’m one of Hoppie’s mentors. I got him going on his living soil. We talk on the reg to spitball his grows, but I’m not sure what this refers to. He knows you can’t flush organics out. The water just gives the microheard the ability to move around and consume again. Organics don’t build up in the leaves like salts that need to be flushed out before harvest.
It probably wasn’t his journal then. Must have been a coco thing. I’ve read so much on the subject the last few years for various mediums and methods it kinda runs together sometimes. I’m trying to get better at taking notes and pics to keep stuff straight. That’s a hard switch to flip after years of it being forbidden. Thanks for the correction.
I have such a hard time with not keeping notes, nor talking about anything in my daily life. It’s still illegal in my state. I’ve run as stealth as possible being a 3 striker lookin at life.
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Thank God, I never got caught. Came close a few times. I almost strangled my buddy the first time he pulled out his phone to take a pic of my grow. Now days I keep it mostly on the up and up. So I don’t care so much anymore. I appreciate you taking the risk to share your knowledge.
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So Hoppie and I talked about this. Stressing in late flowering by tearing some leaves. Water balance when they are drinking less. Too many variables to this via txt so we moved to calling.
The “flush” he refers to is the overwhelming microheard in last week with Florida Crystals, raw sugar. Duke D. taught us this a couple yrs ago. This for is the finisher when you switch from molasses into raw form sugar. It’s lacking Ca Mg I to smooth buds. It’s like crack to the microheard so they gorge on sugars and not the amendments. The “flush” method here isn’t absolutely necessary, but it ups your game.
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That’s likely what I was thinking of and missed the point. It happens from time to time. I think I missed the raw sugar part and I was growing in coco then too. I was just starting to dig in to organics. Hence why I was reading his journal. So the idea is to reduce the available nutrition at the very end along with small amounts of other stresses like defoliating or fiming to make the plant think it’s dying and give you that last good burst of trich production? I think I’ve read about this elsewhere, but I’m not sure I’ve put all the pieces together correctly.
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Using your words, I would phrase it…
So the idea is to reduce available nutrition at the very end with a more available form with small amounts of stress like tearing some leaf tips (like being consumed, increase defenses).
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Ok, that makes more sense. Thanks for breaking it down, I’m a little thick sometimes. So when tearing the leaves I’m guessing less is more. Just few to stimulate the stress response?
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Nailed it 
I mentored Hoppie and got his costs down while boosting quality. He wasn’t quite satisfied with the terps. Not connoisseur enough. How can I get legendary terps and potency? That’s when we started getting guidance from Duke and his crew. Cup winners/breeders
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Glad to help you get that straight @Gl1tch
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I’ve heard they think the tearing is an animal eating on the leaves and that kicks in terp and trich production as a defense.
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