My 2016 Garden Thread

Haven’t done an update on my crop in some time. All gals have been in flower now for 2-3 weeks.

The thing I’m noticing is that the plants getting the least sun are faring the best. They are the greenest, bushiest, healthiest and were first to hit flower. I suppose the triple digit heat streak we suffered through had a lot to do with that. Because of the weight of the plants it was simply infeasible rotating their position. Here are the one’s getting the least sun.

The plants getting the brunt of the sun had a lot of foliage die off, didn’t bush as much and started flower later. They are also twice as tall.

The autos are as dependable as ever. Doesn’t seem to matter to them where they sit.

All in all, I can’t complain. The heat was outside of my control and there were some times where I thought I would lose a few girls. Things are cooling a bit now and of course the days are getting shorter, so I think all will survive and prosper to varying degrees. I’m going to hold off on harvest this year at least until mid October. Gotta have patience to get those colorful buds.

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Dude, your plants need magnesium and possibly calcium ASAP

Get some Biobizz Grow (it has high MG an low N)

Mine were looking like that and if you don’t act, the buds will come out thin and airy with low potency

I’ll see if the hydro shop has it or something similar.

Anything that has Mg in it, but the Biobizz is soft on the plants.

You might use Epson salt, I believe that’s organic too, like the biobizz

I have a shit load of Epson salt leftover from the super soil build. Does it typically have both mag and calcium in it? I don’t have the original containers, so I can’t read the label.

The epsom salts are magnesium sulfate, it just has magnesium in it.

Does it look to you like I need magnesium? Up until now I wasn’t tripping to much on the yellowing leaf die off. I just figured it was the heat. Rancid is getting me paranoid, man.

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Rancid is probably right, are your stems purple or purpling? Your grow shop probably has this…

https://www.amazon.com/Botanicare-Cal-Mag-Plus-Quart/dp/B004JKBMRW/ref=sr_1_1?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1472256100&sr=1-1&keywords=botanicare+cal+mag

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It’s very common to have Mg deficiencies when flowering starts and if it’s too hot, it’s almost certain

I suggested the Epson salts because I’ve seen other people using them on another site and it’s usually a very good solution for quick Mg feeding

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Yeah, I am seeing some purpling on the larger, lower stems.

I’m sure they have that or some other Cal-Mag amendment. I’ll pick some up tonight.

Thanks, man. You may have saved me some major disappointment.

I knew the yellowing wasn’t natural, your plants are too nice to be yellowing like that so early in flowering , it has to be lack of Mg

What are the temps at night there?

70’s at night, 100’s during the day for the past few months. In a week or so it will be more like high 80’s to low 90’s in the day and 60’s at night… and then gradually get down to consistent 70’s and 80’s for the rest of the year.

Nabbed me some Earth Juice CAL-MAG at Green Coast Hydro. I’ll start with this evening’s watering.

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4x8 bed with 40 pepper plants

Getting some nice big red bell peppers out of it lately, I bet I picked 10lbs of peppers today without really trying.

Jimmy Nardello peppers… love these…

Pepperoncini

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Gave them the CAL-MAG and a drop each of Superthrive to help them recover. Lady at the hydro shop said i should continue giving the CAL-MAG for the remainder of the grow. Picky mutherfukkers for a goshdamn weed.

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they gonna be fat as hell!

Biggest mutherfukking grasshopper I have seen to date. Had to be 3 inches and he didn’t pay me the least of mind. I like critters and all but he had to go to that big cannabis field in the sky. Out of decency I did not film his execution. I’m not ISIS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJJZjxxd9g0

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@snoopdog6502 Would love to see a pic of those girls in mid flower.