A Shed With A Valley View 2026

[DopeDaniel]

Did some pruning and dropped a net over them a couple days ago.


The need for silica was made obvious when installing the net. Recovery was slow. I reduced the feed duration to 2 min and duration to 2.5 hrs, giving one additional daytime feeding. I'm close to dialing it in, maybe a bit on the overwatered side but I am increasing temps slightly so we'll see how they react. Thinking next round will be a single plant, these only vegged for 3 weeks in here while I was learning the basics too. Still learning.

Grow genius is 40 percent mono sililcic acid. It is the highest percentage available professionally or commercially for Cannabis cultivation it's drench rate of application is .3 ml per 10 ltrs water. 1ml treats 8 gallons for drench. I use at .5 ml per gallon foilar sprayed. It is 1 of my 2 I can not grow without amendments.

Hey @Chefdave what's your other can't go without ammendment?

 

[rkymtnman]

is that a DIY COB light with the heatsinks?

our county just got put on a stage 2 fire ban. this summer is gonna suck unless we get tons of moisture

 

[DopeDaniel]

is that a DIY COB light with the heatsinks?

our county just got put on a stage 2 fire ban. this summer is gonna suck unless we get tons of moisture

Yup, too bad cobkits went out of business.

Forecast isn't good. Mtn. pine beetle are kicking up again too.

 

[rkymtnman]

too bad cobkits went out of business

he was a cool dude and was more than willing to help DIY. my old rig was built with his stuff too.

 

[Chefdave]

Did some pruning and dropped a net over them a couple days ago.
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The need for silica was made obvious when installing the net. Recovery was slow. I reduced the feed duration to 2 min and duration to 2.5 hrs, giving one additional daytime feeding. I'm close to dialing it in, maybe a bit on the overwatered side but I am increasing temps slightly so we'll see how they react. Thinking next round will be a single plant, these only vegged for 3 weeks in here while I was learning the basics too. Still learning.


Hey @Chefdave what's your other can't go without ammendmentIts

Its Deep breath from Humboldts own. I use it foilar 3x a week at 5ml/g with Mr fulvic(4.5%) at 2.5ml/g from germination till day 21 of flower. This combo is very economical when used as foilar( very expensive as drench!! Don't recommend!!) and highly effective. The deep breath has tricontinol and monofloral honey, it supercharges veg times. It really works and has no chemical pgrs if anyone was wondering. Other amendments I use are ryzofuel, which I like better than roots excellerator gold, Moab, billions or recharge and raw enzymes

 

[rkymtnman]

I haven't tried nearly as much as others but 1 thing I do like and is cheap is the 5:2 blend of kelp/humic from kelp4less I don't remember what university published the study but that ratio was optimal

 

[DopeDaniel]

This combo is very economical when used as foilar

Thanks Dave. Foliars are just a pita, and tough for me to justify as a hobbyist. Dosen't take away from their efficacy but it's a tool that has migrated to the bottom of my toolbox. Even ipm at the scale I'm at I can often mix a pint and have half left over, mixing less than a pint gets tough when the mix rates are low.

I don't remember what university published the study but that ratio was optimal

Virginia Tech?

 

[DopeDaniel]

Notes - 70% mix 2.4ec for flower, using 70% in veg too but not pH`ing or checking ec. I added RAW silica to veg (they sent some sample pacs).

UK Spunk @Bullfrog
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8 weeks tomorrow. The one on the left has more amber trichs and the one on the right has more receeded pistils. Both are pretty much done, water uptake dropped off a week ago. They did get some salts a couple times later in flower.