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RE: Perpetual Indoor/Outdoor Grow Journal #22: Tent is booming, and I wouldn't have it any other way!
The quality of my bud went from low to high just by not wet trimming and hanging in my closet. I battle with high humidity in my apt, which totally sucks.
I don't trim wet either and I consider it to be an amateur mistake :)
It’s crazy because it seems that a lot of people do that . I even tell people I know that I used to wet trim but it diminished the quality. But they don’t listen. Funny because my bud keeps getting better and theirs is the same.
2nd that!
Hear hear!!! haha Hey so im curious if I should add the cal/mag all the way to cut down, or stop adding it at a certain point before chop?
All the way and it's still not gonna be enough for one reason. They both have low solubility and your base saturation is still low. But you can fix it before the next run :)
How so?
Hmm ok, so your soil is happy frog or green squirrel or something like that, innit? These soils have their potassium levels typically up the roof... and potassium is a cation (K+), which clings to soil particles with other cations such as calcium and magnesium. But these companies don't have a clue about the importance of ca/mg pair, so they skip it and thus your base saturation is low with majority of cations being hydrogen and potassium. And when you push ca/mg during plant's growth it's gonna have to fight with k/h first in order to get into absorption zone, so plant needs to absorb potassium first. Hydrogen is not absorbed though as plant breaks down water molecules to get it. However it still occupies significant portion of soil particles acidifying it, especially if CEC is low and ca levels are low too. But if your CEC is high and ph is high, then potassium and in commercial mixes phosphorus are biggest players. And you can't just displace them, cause they're light molecules and they're more mobile in soil than ca/mg. Phosphorus is actually quite immobile, but potassium is very mobile, so it'll always win competition for affinity with calcium, which is very heavy and if there's not much of it adsorbed it's gonna take the back seat. So the only way is to minimise potassium levels in soil in favour of ca/mg, but you can only do it before the planting. I hope I explained it well :)
Yes that makes sense. Is there a way to minimize potassium levels in my soil or would i have to switch it up?
i usually have the opposite problem in Arizona
Yeah I’ve heard that before. I don’t know which would be worse. I know it does suck in my apt cause mold grows around window. I probably should invest in a dehumidifier not for my plants but for my families health.