A grab bag of 20 regular seeds. After sexing, i have 12 random fems starting to flower.
It’s a small grow. Takes up less than 20 square ft.
Are you using nutrients? Which ones? How much?
Refreshed garden soil with some compost, and a touch of NPK soil additives: 12-10-5, 3-18-0 and some 5-5-5
The grow has gone well so far.
The three plants that are actually in the garden with the veg are getting huge and have a ton of buds starting to form.
The other plants are in regular dirt/soil with some of the above mix mixed in. These plants are tall and skinny and don’t have as many bud, but seem otherwise healthy.
I’ve read that a P-K boost will help bigger buds. I read the back of the Alaskan Morbloom bottle and while it sounded promising, the dose was something like teaspoon in a gallon of water for 25sqft. The bottle is only $12, but i don’t want to buy a whole bottle of stinky fish juice if I just need a dribble.
What can I home brew or find cheap to give a dozen gals a lil bud boost. (The ol’ bass-o-matic is not an option thanks!)
Looking nice so far and welcome back. Banana are loaded with potassium and can be brewed into a tea very easily to give a nice little boost when you are working outside. Bone meal was my go to for a phosphorus hit and its usually cheap and useful for your veggies too
As @Crackadoo said, bananas. You can also ferment bananas with brown sugar. This takes about 1-2 weeks until it is ready. Then strain the ferment and add 5-10 ml per liter of water. The bananas can be brown and overripe. I’ve also made my own banana ferment. Slice the bananas (including the peel), mash them with sugar, put the whole thing in a jar, put the lid on, and stir it a little once or twice a day. It’ll be ready in two weeks at the latest.
Left banana ferment 4 days old. However, I made mine with 50% rennet and 50% water, plus sugar. On the right is rice water. When it smells like popcorn, I add about double the amount of milk and let it turn into cheese. The cheese is sieved and the rennet that has been extracted from the liquid is mixed 1:1 with molasses to make it last longer. I add this to the water once a week, 10ml per liter. Lactic acid bacteria are very good for the soil.
I put less than an ounce of the strained fermented banana peel/egg juice into a 2gal watering can. Gave each plant a little splash and then gave it a good water.
Week later things start going dark green, then the tell-tale curly yellow claw leaves. Ive been trimming the the leaves as it climbed up the vine, and watered in morning and night, but it is still creeping up.
My question is, what happens to the buds if the nutrient burn reaches them? Is it donezo? Do I harvest early. Do I wait it out and hope it turns around or am I screwed?
Any other advice? This is only my third small outside grow. Each year there has been a tragic “learning” experience. This year’s is nutrients burn. Yay!
Yellowing, browning on the edges. Curling to claws, then to soggy brown. Climbs up from the roots, proceeded by a burst of dark green. Some of my small plants are pretty nuked. Browning is getting close to the top on my big girls
(Interesting aside: as an experiment I put miracle grow on three of my plants during veg stage just to see what would happen. They grew up tall with lots of space between branches, but took a long time to start flowering. There are smallish buds on them now and they seem generally immune from the nutrient fiasco)
Does your soil have good drainage or does it retain water for a long time? It could also be a fungal infection. Smell the soil; if it smells musty, rotten, or foul, it could be Fusarium.
Yellowing then necrosis on leaves starting at the bottom and going up could be a nitrogen, a potassium, a phosphorus deficiency, lockout, and/or a pH issue.
I have this problem with two of my window plants, too. But it started before I used banana ferment. In my case, it was only on the top leaves. But it could also be from the days of Heavy rain. I also fertilized with banana ferment in the tent. I didn’t have any there, and over the past two weeks, it’s been adding 4-5 ml plus 4ml Bloom and 2ml/Lab/Melasse per Liter every time I watered. Now there’s only one more watering of pure water in the tent. 7 days to go. At the window, I am currently watering with 3ml banana ferment, 3ml bloom and 2ml rennet/molasses per liter of water. The Sun sails are no longer needed and the flowers draw nutrients from the leaves.
The yellow leaves on the Zombie Death Fuck (right) are caused by too much light. A dilemma: the Blue Zushi needs a lot of light. For the last week, it’s only getting 10 hours of light.
Everything fertilized with banana ferment. But I’ve also added other fertilizers. Last week, for example, I used cannibal manure.
