Scotty you are an absolute treasure to the community. People seem to want to overcomplicate things but with your methods it becomes simple and enjoyable. Best wishes to all the growmies out there. Good luck and happy harvests.
Living Soul ist ja auch nicht das Problem da kannst du ja auch auf deinen Puffer für die Erde arbeiten und muss nicht wie bei Coco und Bio Bizz drauf achten.
I grew outside for 20 years before I tried growing indoors, except for growing mother plants and making clones. I've been growing indoors for the last 25 years and I'm glad I had the outdoor experience first. I grew mostly in swamps and wetlands so mildew and mold were a factor I had a lot of experience with. I tell new growers you're going to make mistakes, make your grow as simple as possible without making it simpler.
I have 8 plants in a 4x5 and they are thriving but I’m trimming ! I’m using grow dot and recharg the steams are almost the size of a nickel my 2nd grow I’m very happy with all your advice
I'm doing my first grow. I used compost that I made with leaves and stuff and some dirt from the Home Depot and apparently I lucked out and have it dialed in perfectly. My plant is huge, and bushy and green, no yellow or brown leaves. I fertilize with blood meal, bone meal, earthworm castings, and some fish based stuff called Morebloom, which is 0-10-10. I do small amounts kind of often. This thing is super healthy. Hopefully I don't fuck up but it's doing really well now.
I use a touch of that morbloom as well. Some varieties will get more hungry for potassium and phosphorus. Like Purple Punch for example; they tend to have a lotta leaves and grow in kinda shaggy looking lol. All those leaves cost potassium to run I think. Plus the phosphorus is something they need as well, in order to properly use their calcium they gotta have some phosphorus present. I still don't understand a lot of it, but I know what the experts are saying these days. One of the latest things is the discussion about how Phosphorus, in a very roundabout way, can make your plant better able to use the calcium that is available to it, simply by makin' healthier roots. Speaking of which, I just took one of my Ya Hemis, and I dissected her pot afterwards, to see what happened. This is the one I burned real bad, and something had stunted her on top of that. Well, turns out it was because I used one of those little starter disc things to pop those seeds. Then, the little disc expands up into what looks like a little bag with soil in it. Well, it said the little bags disintegrate. They don't. my little Ya Hemi's main tap root was bent off to one side, like it had grown around some obstacle. Yeah, that stupid little bag! From now on, I'm just plantin' in the top of my own soil mix, in a 5 gal. fab. Now if I could just find some cheap little tray things to put under them, I could bottom water.
I just found your channel and I appreciate your content, thanks for what you do. I Ihave been growing for 27 years and breeding for 11 years, I grow indoors full time as well as outdoors every season. Indoors, I use Deep Water culture for my flower runs, and I use Coco/perlite for my breeding projects. Outdoors I rely on soil, compost, and good old Mother nature. I have made numerous mistakes over the years but I am glad that I made those mistakes because it gave me the opportunity to learn how to find a solution and implement it into my routine. The most recent mistake I made (around 8 years back) was a disaster. I went from the breeding chamber to the flower room without changing my clothes and washing up which pollinated my flower room. The result was a flower room full of seeds and a very costly lesson......Lesson learned.
I run autos all year in a 5x5 and have a blast growing them and photos outside in the summer so I always have room indoors. Recharge all the way..thx guys!
I've found one of the best things to have is FANS. Good swing fans and plenty of them will prevent mold, mildew, insects, and give great air flow to the plants. I use a bottom fan gently blowing air underneath my plants, another gently blowing through the branches, and another blowing cooling air across my lights. Fans are critical to good crops.
Ugh I had bud rot take my harvest out once. I got a clone from a buddy. B4 accepting the clone I didn't look at his garden at all. Little did I know he had mold in the tent and my whole harvest was ruined. I had to strip all my tent and equipment down and clean everything with 99% iso. Had to get rid of all my fabric pots. Was a sad season 😢 lol. Lesson learned don't take clones from someone b4 doing your research 💯
@@woodchipgardens9084 i mean mold is indeed everywhere, but when you come into contact with a really strong colony theres still definitely potential for cross contamination. Sterile practices do help considerably, you dont have to go overboard with em but trying to do it more often isnt necessarily going to hurt.
Damn, I know the feeling. Bud rot is the worst disappointment to see IMO. At least pests can be treated if early enough and if not - trim excess foliage and paint neem oil solution onto every leaf's underside. Bud rot... you get this unshakeable "all my work and passion...is fooled? 😓😢" . Even cutting that budrot cola and washing the rest doesn't restore my trust 100% lol
well, in my newbieness and excited mindset to start my first grow in September this year I made probably the biggest bonehead mistake. I did not rinse nor buffer my coco. According to the company, re email contact, they claim they triple wash the coco, so salt content should be low. They also claim that a lot of people grow plants with their coco . BUT they also didn't have the pH or CEC for the coco. (I like to learn stuff). Anyway, I have 3 plants growing. One is about two weeks behind the older 2, which popped 9/7/24. One is doing pretty good and the other is growing, but showing signs of stress. Anyway, without writing a novel, my biggest mistake was not buffering or rinsing my coco prior to transplanting into 5 gallon pots. It didn't wipe me out, but I am pretty sure the leaf curl and discoloration is a nutrient issue associated with the salt content of the coco. It could be genetics or other environmental factors also. Which is confusing as one plant of the two siblings is doing so well. My next step is to add Cal-Mag when I water next and with future watering down the road. Nutes, lighting, rH, pH, etc are all in a safe range. Growing cannabis is a fun experience, but to my amazement and a bit of my frustration, there is much more to it than any garden flowers I have raised from seed to flower.
7:00 overwatering is only an issue with young root systems. Ie; germination and early veg. This is critical Scotty!!! Most TH-camrs are stunting during germination and early veg from too much moisture extending veg times. Then they underwater when the roots are mature causing osmotic shock that looks like deficiencies. It's not overwatering or underwatering, it's insufficient irrigation, PERIOD. It's time to understand root hairs during early rooting, fresh air availability to the substrate (this is where co2 supplements fail you Scotty!) and most importantly, growers must get a handle on the moisture needs of the plant. This comes from growing experience ONLY. Learning to irrigate appropriately comes with HANDS ON EXPERIENCE ONLY. You can't overwater with mature root systems unless you're trying to. But you can easily underwater because of irresponsible TH-cam advice... Grow to know!
I just popped a plant and almost killed it because I let it go an extra day without water, it drooped and didn't return to form until almost two days later. The other plant just continued to droop until I put it out of its misery. Now the one plant that ended up coming back is growing really slow, been three weeks and not yet big enough to uppot. Is this what is meant by "stunting?"
I’m checking off all the right boxes according to this video. Minnesota makes sure we don’t crowd our grow space with their four plants in flower and four in veg rule. I have copies of that PH chart along with feeding schedules hanging on the wall and set ppfd and DLI according to charts. I’m not right on with temp and humidity but am always solidly within the recommended range. The only time I’m off a bit on recommend temp and humidity is when I’ve got something in the drying tent and veg stage. Then I have to compromise and get up to the 70-72 range while drying. Aside from that it’s always within range and if the veg tent is empty I can zero in closer to 60/60. Range is the key word here that is sometimes overlooked. Outdoor growers deal with deer, storms, drought, and this summer monsoons. Like I say, they dry in the pole barn and do a fantastic job based on past samples. I feel pretty good as I’m on top of proper watering as well. That all came naturally from planting outdoor gardens and having a yard to take care of since 1974. I like these episodes where I don’t feel like any changes are needed. Validation that I guessed right.
I've got a 3 x 3 and it has 6 3 1/2 gallon pots and I opting for two more because altho the space is tight it is there. Ive done it before and I keep everything trimmed and tidy at all times and work hard to keep the plants from overlapping or touching each other and keep them smaller than I normally would with less plants. The benefit is that if one or two plants don't grow well the others will make up for it. Interestingly enough with just four plants I had my biggest harvest but those were with 5 gallon buckets. And let me tell ya G13 is a seriously stinky strain. But I do believe Scotty is right about the plants wanting and needing there own space and even if there not touching or overlapping they seem to know its to tight. Somehow they know.
I always feel down a few inches of potted plants in the soil, which also helps if in doubt, and the drying period is healthy as long you don't overdo it where totally dry too.
My autos look great couple of weeks from harvest, now all the leaves are getting brown spots, then drying and curling just like a calcium deficiency, so i added calcium carbonate and it has not helped, cant work it out. Ph is 6.8, 7ish 🤷♂️ i should make it to harvest though
This is my 3rd run. I started last year. I have a 5x5 tent and got 8 plants this time but smaller pots. 2 gallons. I’m planning of flowering sooner so they won’t stretch too much. I’m excited I got a variety of like 5 different strains
Still preaching DWC. Grew in soil for years. Never over/under water your plants again. Monitor pH daily. I grow from seed, no auto-flowers. Only 1 or 2 plants at a time. So many ways to enjoy this hobby. Glad this info is available.
That chart on nutrient absorption is very helpful. I’ve been fighting an iron deficiency on new growth.the old growth is perfectly green and healthy. Out door grow in straight ground. I added CaliMagic to my nutrient cycle and the plants got better. Then it keeps coming back. What I didn’t do was check the ph of my nutrient solution. When i finally checked the ph it was 8.5 in the water and high 7 in soil. I dropped the ph in the water to 5.5 and watered again. This brought my soil down to a low 6. 🤞 it fixes the problem. It’s almost time to stretch and flower so I’m hoping it’s fixed, but I’m getting so nervous being this close to flower.
Got my 3rd grow going now 1st I used compost result wasn't good last one I used hp pro mix was pretty decent using coco now man this stuff is rocking right now I think I'll stick to coco
Here's a question for you i been growing now going on now for 6 years and been watching all of you guys since the 2017 I've only been growing outside for 3 years and been doing great the last 2 years on production some real fire but here is the question that I have is my soil is 4.5 to 5.5 and I've put fertilizers to try and get it up and still staying at that range and still production great growing i wish I could show you the pictures
I am heading the end of my first „professional“ indoor grow. The one plant that grew the fastest started to turn brighter. After a lot of research I found out that it is an iron defficiency. I Never tested my ph levels because our water used to be perfectly at 6,5. Once a year our city runs cheaper water that is at 8,2. Obviously that was the problem 😅 It was interesting to see that the plants are not able to absorb Iron with an ph of over 8. thank you for your help ❤
Day 3 of flower, running some sfv og bx1. 3 lovely ladies out of 5 regs. Not bad percentage. Kinda like i did in school. Lol. Did i mention its 100 degrees here and my ac went out a month ago. Had 2 buy 2 portables just to keep up. And open the tent. Just hoping they call soon about the part. Holding 79 degrees 64.5 humidity with a vpd 1.21.
I am a new grower and so far everything is going well I recently topped my plant and now it has exploded with growth on top the veg part is going wonderfully but in all honesty I don't care that it is super dank I just want to grow my own that give me the buzz I want while keeping my butt out of the dispensary
Love your shows buddy. I have been using Grobuckets and they work fabulous. No more under or over watering my autoflowers seem to really like it. I’m never going back to fabric pots again🤪🍻. Would you think using half coco and half soil would be a good thing with these Grobuckets. I would love for you to do a show on how to use them to there fullest. Happy growing from Canada ❤
I've done 9 in a 30"x30" several times and that's about as crowded as I can get. That's just 9 main colas and a few side braches lollipopped to hell and flipped at like a foot tall. I was finding the fastest way to fill out my canopy and get to flower. My personal best is 9oz from that space, which tracked with the seed bank I ordered from said to expect by area for that strain. So I fell in love with SoG method pretty quick.
Hi, i applaud you for the packed grow tent ,but to be honest 9oz is a pretty small yeild for that many plants. I got 10.8 oz fully dried from 2 plants. Many times by heavy lollipopping youre taking away nutrition to fuel the plant to push fat happy buds. Anyways just my take on over crowding.
@CM-vu5kf And how long did you veg them? How big a space did you grow them in? I'm more interested in the total tent's yield. I've grown plants the size you're talking about in there too. But I found I could pull the same amount faster by doing a larger number of little plants.
I'm guilty of over loving my plants I've found less is more in most cases. I'm doing my first pure organic outdoor grow this year lots more planning ahead I'm realizing it takes weeks for some amendments to break down enough for the plants to up take the nutrients. It's definitely challenging to get everything balanced
I'm having good luck with organic. As you said it takes awhile for the nutrients to break down, but you can time it. I'm using blood meal for nitrogen and also worm castings. Also using bone meal and some liquid fish based stuff which is 0-10-10, I think it's called Morebloom. I use pretty small amounts kind of often and it's doing great, lots of growth and no yellow or brown leaves. If you do it just right those products are constantly feeding just the right amount.
Of course plants can feel what u feel. So if u want good grows.... Stay happy n positive. Ive had couple bad grows in the past but at the time didn't know what i was doing wrong until i realized i was going through some intense emotional stress. I was sad n that caused my plants to grow poorly yeah they were sad too. Was doing everything correctly but my pants seemed like sad or something. If your happy, positive, n proud of your plants then they will grow a lot better. There's a lot of steps that goes into pulling amazing grows but its all easy steps just make sure u learn how to read your plants to avoid over or under feeding
I just use recharge for the first time that stuff is amazing it perked my plant right up nice and green. I don’t think I’ll ever use anything else besides grow dots. That is amazing also
On my first grow i had a slight mildew smell so figured i needed more airflow, put a large oscillating fan, set it on med-low and went away for the weekend, came back and the plant closest to the fan got wind burn 😢. Luckily it wasnt toooo bad but definitely hurt my yield. Didnt know wind burn was a thing. I do now
I recently had to use captain jacks ready to use neem oil for 🐛 chewing leaves and now the tips are turning kind of orange yellow is there any thing i can do to make them better??
Ipm. That has been a problem a few times. I was able to kick plants outdoors and hit with neem. Yet another reason I don't grow indoors in summer. I had 4 autos that were too far into bud to plant outdoors. But knew at 22-25 days when they showed sex I was NOT getting a good yield for auto. My water table is low this year. So had to dig a few new holes. Did use some recharge not all of it went to the sweet corn. Think the cedar root in gave clone #4 a peppery taste last year. I expanded that hole this year. And same clones. Ultimate purple fast photo x skunk hero x b2. Shows sex like an auto but photo dependent. Done earlier then regular photos for my environment and shorter grow season. We have had a lot of rain in upper great lakes too. Which hasn't made up for lack of snow. It's made floods.
yes they can destroy the leaves, best way to keep them off is make some type of barrier that makes it had for them to get to the plant. like wood chip mulch or other things they can not travel on.
My most common and aggravating mistake for me is over and under watering very annoying but I give myself credit by being able to bring back mostly any sick plant I come across but after 6 yrs of indoor growing in living soil that is the mistake i commonly make I also have designs for self watering bucket system but a tip I’ve learned is using a small spray bottle and just water seedlings with that
I'm really struggling with over and under watering. Trying out CocoLoco right now but gonna try an actual coco run soon though, when I got the space for another plant.
?? So when I water I should until it runs out?Because I have never watered, until runoff cause I hate having to suction the extra out of the catch tray, I do try not to overwater were I grow organically! I am a fairly new grower!!
Love your uploads man👍👍 So informative. Personally I'm still running soil. Lumatek lighting. Advanced nutrients. Ac infinity fans. Struggling to get grow dots here in Ireland guy's!! Definitely want to try
Should of pollinated autos in basement but had other plants didn't want pollinated. Might have to build a cage in back yard at home next year. Just to put plants outdoors sooner to pollinate some before going up north. Don't think I got colloidal silver on autos soon enough.
I just love your videos Scott, you are a real dude……see what I did there😊. Btw, I’m an organic guy and have been using recharge from day one and love it. Lately I’ve been thinking of using salts and thought….” Well recharge works so well, I wonder how grow dots will do” so today I bought my first bag of dots. I only grow autos and was wondering how they do on shorter grow times like the 65-75 day strains. I would think maybe only use them on the 90 day haze type maybe?…. Got any advice on that?
I have only 4 plants in a 6.5'x6.5' greenhouse grow(8' of head room)that I started early May. They're in 15 gallon pots using COM stonington blend soil. I topped the plants I've been growing in my indoor tent as early as possible, and they grew maybe 24"-26" tall in my grow tent, looking like a menorah, with equal sized large branches all pretty much the same distance from the light. These plants in the greenhouse however are out of control. I have only 4, albeit in 15 gallon fabric pots. They're taller than me, despite being topped when young. It's awesome, but I'm worried about not having enough room! I wanted bigger plants in the greenhouse than last year, but this is just insane! Apparently they're loving the 15gal pots with stonington blend, and full sun every day. I should also mention the weather has allowed for almost zero cloudy days since May. I'm not sure what to do at this point, or if they get too big, maybe I should dissemble the greenhouse around them and hope for the best lol.
Growing out side watch out for tobacco worms And pray you don’t get too much rain too much rain means bud rot I found that blowing then off with leaf blower to dry off the buds and plant works pretty good
How did u join? All it does is show me a login page nowhere can i find how to create acct. When click on create acct it just brings me to login and dont work..its useless
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its funny i started in coco with canna a+b and i kept overwatering my seedlings into dying. i was also not regulating humidity well enough and was too dry. then i switched to diy living soil and havent looked back. no more needing to measure fertilizer every watering, i don't even monitor my ph anymore and my tap water is too alkaline but I buffer ph with amendments instead!!
My biggest mistake growing (and I still do it at times) is overcrowding. I say it's for less veg time between harvests, but I always wait to long to flower and get major overcrowding.
Yea he’s correct. Mine are overcrowded. So i set up my HPS tent into a LED. Using HPS in the summer is crazy dumb. So i set up my tent for LED. I have 17 plants and they are crowded. I will split them up.
Growing on the balcony. With summer outside it's hard not to overwater. Especially at an altitude of 2200 ft the UV radiation is so high that the leaves will hang within hours when not giving them water. Got fabric pots and still i feel i should go with less water. But how?
Yes there shouldn't be any differene beside the absence of nitrogen in any healthy soil system. Once you're reinnoculating the soil and adding back in nutrients you can reuse the same media up to 5 times
@@lordfreizaa4013@scottyreal What is the best products to use to make your soil like brand new or better so this batch of plants don't die like the current batch? Bio-char or Cocoa bricks to help retain nutrients to disperse when plants need it?
My first grow in 4x4 I did 8🤦♂️ loads of larfy crap🤦♂️ top tip….vacuum pack the larf real tight. It’s not pretty but it all sticks together and grinds up fine👍 once ground you can’t tell.
First year like at all and I got great results I'm stressing LOL about this very conversation I'm trying to hang method Sinbad jar or whatever you have that will hold are decently
Scotty also uses grow dots on his hair, look at how it’s stretching towards the light. Great grow!
I guess he didn't appreciate this comment as he liked the others :D haha
@@bojevnim hey if they work on hair, I’m a prime candidate! Wish I had Scotty’s hair.
Lmaooo 😂😂😂
I’m dead😂
Scotty you are an absolute treasure to the community. People seem to want to overcomplicate things but with your methods it becomes simple and enjoyable. Best wishes to all the growmies out there. Good luck and happy harvests.
Never check ph I use living soil if soil right it will correct it itself
Not using living soil
Living Soul ist ja auch nicht das Problem da kannst du ja auch auf deinen Puffer für die Erde arbeiten und muss nicht wie bei Coco und Bio Bizz drauf achten.
@@head-of_Grow English please
@@DUTCHSCROGGER wenn du mir alles auf Englisch übersetzt (!)
Here in Texas spider mites are a major problem. So keep the temp below 78F with lots of circulation to mitigate their propagation.
I grew outside for 20 years before I tried growing indoors, except for growing mother plants and making clones. I've been growing indoors for the last 25 years and I'm glad I had the outdoor experience first. I grew mostly in swamps and wetlands so mildew and mold were a factor I had a lot of experience with. I tell new growers you're going to make mistakes, make your grow as simple as possible without making it simpler.
I have 8 plants in a 4x5 and they are thriving but I’m trimming ! I’m using grow dot and recharg the steams are almost the size of a nickel my 2nd grow I’m very happy with all your advice
Hello, my flower is drooping. Is it due to excessive watering? And what should I do? Can you help me? thanks
@@TonyMontana53921if it was late into flower the stems were probably bending down because of the weight of the buds , it’s very common
I'm doing my first grow. I used compost that I made with leaves and stuff and some dirt from the Home Depot and apparently I lucked out and have it dialed in perfectly. My plant is huge, and bushy and green, no yellow or brown leaves. I fertilize with blood meal, bone meal, earthworm castings, and some fish based stuff called Morebloom, which is 0-10-10. I do small amounts kind of often. This thing is super healthy. Hopefully I don't fuck up but it's doing really well now.
Sounds like you’re doing it right, way to go not using synthetics!Personally I think organics produce better flavors.
I use a touch of that morbloom as well. Some varieties will get more hungry for potassium and phosphorus. Like Purple Punch for example; they tend to have a lotta leaves and grow in kinda shaggy looking lol. All those leaves cost potassium to run I think. Plus the phosphorus is something they need as well, in order to properly use their calcium they gotta have some phosphorus present. I still don't understand a lot of it, but I know what the experts are saying these days. One of the latest things is the discussion about how Phosphorus, in a very roundabout way, can make your plant better able to use the calcium that is available to it, simply by makin' healthier roots.
Speaking of which, I just took one of my Ya Hemis, and I dissected her pot afterwards, to see what happened. This is the one I burned real bad, and something had stunted her on top of that. Well, turns out it was because I used one of those little starter disc things to pop those seeds. Then, the little disc expands up into what looks like a little bag with soil in it. Well, it said the little bags disintegrate.
They don't. my little Ya Hemi's main tap root was bent off to one side, like it had grown around some obstacle. Yeah, that stupid little bag! From now on, I'm just plantin' in the top of my own soil mix, in a 5 gal. fab. Now if I could just find some cheap little tray things to put under them, I could bottom water.
I just found your channel and I appreciate your content, thanks for what you do. I Ihave been growing for 27 years and breeding for 11 years, I grow indoors full time as well as outdoors every season. Indoors, I use Deep Water culture for my flower runs, and I use Coco/perlite for my breeding projects. Outdoors I rely on soil, compost, and good old Mother nature. I have made numerous mistakes over the years but I am glad that I made those mistakes because it gave me the opportunity to learn how to find a solution and implement it into my routine. The most recent mistake I made (around 8 years back) was a disaster. I went from the breeding chamber to the flower room without changing my clothes and washing up which pollinated my flower room. The result was a flower room full of seeds and a very costly lesson......Lesson learned.
I run autos all year in a 5x5 and have a blast growing them and photos outside in the summer so I always have room indoors. Recharge all the way..thx guys!
Right on
Met this guy in home Depot in fort Collins. super down to earth and approachable.......ty for the content
Fort Chronic was a lotta fun
I've found one of the best things to have is FANS. Good swing fans and plenty of them will prevent mold, mildew, insects, and give great air flow to the plants. I use a bottom fan gently blowing air underneath my plants, another gently blowing through the branches, and another blowing cooling air across my lights. Fans are critical to good crops.
I started first grow in VA with 5 gallon Deep water setup, got some huge OG Kush and Northern Lights.
I didnt expect beetlejuice to teach me how to grow weed 😂❤ your voice is iconic sir
Great format really enjoy your videos. Thanks for taking the time.
Ugh I had bud rot take my harvest out once. I got a clone from a buddy. B4 accepting the clone I didn't look at his garden at all. Little did I know he had mold in the tent and my whole harvest was ruined. I had to strip all my tent and equipment down and clean everything with 99% iso. Had to get rid of all my fabric pots. Was a sad season 😢 lol. Lesson learned don't take clones from someone b4 doing your research 💯
70% iso is better. 90% evaporate too quickly. Before it has a chance to kill the germs. People who cultivate mushrooms swear by 70%
@@woodchipgardens9084 i mean mold is indeed everywhere, but when you come into contact with a really strong colony theres still definitely potential for cross contamination.
Sterile practices do help considerably, you dont have to go overboard with em but trying to do it more often isnt necessarily going to hurt.
But i thought bud rot is mainly too much watering @@100GTAGUY
Damn, I know the feeling. Bud rot is the worst disappointment to see IMO. At least pests can be treated if early enough and if not - trim excess foliage and paint neem oil solution onto every leaf's underside. Bud rot... you get this unshakeable "all my work and passion...is fooled? 😓😢" . Even cutting that budrot cola and washing the rest doesn't restore my trust 100% lol
You could just boil the fabric bags in water, most molds die at 60° celcius
Just wanna say "Thanks for these clips" !!! Huge and quick BIG information! Appreciated! ✌🏻
I was champ?
Glad you like them!
well, in my newbieness and excited mindset to start my first grow in September this year I made probably the biggest bonehead mistake. I did not rinse nor buffer my coco. According to the company, re email contact, they claim they triple wash the coco, so salt content should be low. They also claim that a lot of people grow plants with their coco . BUT they also didn't have the pH or CEC for the coco. (I like to learn stuff). Anyway, I have 3 plants growing. One is about two weeks behind the older 2, which popped 9/7/24. One is doing pretty good and the other is growing, but showing signs of stress. Anyway, without writing a novel, my biggest mistake was not buffering or rinsing my coco prior to transplanting into 5 gallon pots. It didn't wipe me out, but I am pretty sure the leaf curl and discoloration is a nutrient issue associated with the salt content of the coco. It could be genetics or other environmental factors also. Which is confusing as one plant of the two siblings is doing so well. My next step is to add Cal-Mag when I water next and with future watering down the road. Nutes, lighting, rH, pH, etc are all in a safe range. Growing cannabis is a fun experience, but to my amazement and a bit of my frustration, there is much more to it than any garden flowers I have raised from seed to flower.
Greetings from Germany. I will start my first (legal) grow in the next weeks. Realy good video❤.
7:00 overwatering is only an issue with young root systems. Ie; germination and early veg. This is critical Scotty!!! Most TH-camrs are stunting during germination and early veg from too much moisture extending veg times. Then they underwater when the roots are mature causing osmotic shock that looks like deficiencies. It's not overwatering or underwatering, it's insufficient irrigation, PERIOD.
It's time to understand root hairs during early rooting, fresh air availability to the substrate (this is where co2 supplements fail you Scotty!) and most importantly, growers must get a handle on the moisture needs of the plant. This comes from growing experience ONLY. Learning to irrigate appropriately comes with HANDS ON EXPERIENCE ONLY.
You can't overwater with mature root systems unless you're trying to. But you can easily underwater because of irresponsible TH-cam advice... Grow to know!
I just popped a plant and almost killed it because I let it go an extra day without water, it drooped and didn't return to form until almost two days later. The other plant just continued to droop until I put it out of its misery. Now the one plant that ended up coming back is growing really slow, been three weeks and not yet big enough to uppot.
Is this what is meant by "stunting?"
I’m checking off all the right boxes according to this video. Minnesota makes sure we don’t crowd our grow space with their four plants in flower and four in veg rule. I have copies of that PH chart along with feeding schedules hanging on the wall and set ppfd and DLI according to charts. I’m not right on with temp and humidity but am always solidly within the recommended range. The only time I’m off a bit on recommend temp and humidity is when I’ve got something in the drying tent and veg stage. Then I have to compromise and get up to the 70-72 range while drying. Aside from that it’s always within range and if the veg tent is empty I can zero in closer to 60/60.
Range is the key word here that is sometimes overlooked. Outdoor growers deal with deer, storms, drought, and this summer monsoons. Like I say, they dry in the pole barn and do a fantastic job based on past samples.
I feel pretty good as I’m on top of proper watering as well. That all came naturally from planting outdoor gardens and having a yard to take care of since 1974.
I like these episodes where I don’t feel like any changes are needed. Validation that I guessed right.
Hallo just want to say you are the man that inspired me to start growing a few years ago. Thank you!
I Love your Videos they are Very Informative, Thank You! These Q&A Sessions are the Best!
I've got a 3 x 3 and it has 6 3 1/2 gallon pots and I opting for two more because altho the space is tight it is there. Ive done it before and I keep everything trimmed and tidy at all times and work hard to keep the plants from overlapping or touching each other and keep them smaller than I normally would with less plants. The benefit is that if one or two plants don't grow well the others will make up for it. Interestingly enough with just four plants I had my biggest harvest but those were with 5 gallon buckets. And let me tell ya G13 is a seriously stinky strain. But I do believe Scotty is right about the plants wanting and needing there own space and even if there not touching or overlapping they seem to know its to tight. Somehow they know.
Hello, my flower is drooping. Is it due to excessive watering? And what should I do? Can you help me? thanks
I always feel down a few inches of potted plants in the soil, which also helps if in doubt, and the drying period is healthy as long you don't overdo it where totally dry too.
Love it scotty....it's my lifetime goal to meet u and pass u a jay!!!
Hell Yeah!
A 4X4 tent space is 16 square feet.
Yea
× 4 = 64 CUBIC FEET 😮
I'm always learning stuff here.
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Hello, my flower is drooping. Is it due to excessive watering? And what should I do? Can you help me? thanks
My autos look great couple of weeks from harvest, now all the leaves are getting brown spots, then drying and curling just like a calcium deficiency, so i added calcium carbonate and it has not helped, cant work it out. Ph is 6.8, 7ish 🤷♂️ i should make it to harvest though
This is my 3rd run. I started last year. I have a 5x5 tent and got 8 plants this time but smaller pots. 2 gallons. I’m planning of flowering sooner so they won’t stretch too much. I’m excited I got a variety of like 5 different strains
Hello, my flower is drooping. Is it due to excessive watering? And what should I do? Can you help me? thanks
Still preaching DWC. Grew in soil for years. Never over/under water your plants again. Monitor pH daily.
I grow from seed, no auto-flowers. Only 1 or 2 plants at a time.
So many ways to enjoy this hobby. Glad this info is available.
I gave up on it after 8 years after I learned crop steering in Cocoa you just can't get the Quality with dwc cuz you're constantly bulking the plant
@@dannyarmata8878 Is crop steering the same as training (high or low stress)?
No one has ever complained about the quality. It works for me.
Smart. I'll never touch coco
Its night and day. I grow i both at same time. It builds 2 root zones for better nuke uptake
@@RedEyeAlienwhat buckets
That chart on nutrient absorption is very helpful. I’ve been fighting an iron deficiency on new growth.the old growth is perfectly green and healthy. Out door grow in straight ground. I added CaliMagic to my nutrient cycle and the plants got better. Then it keeps coming back. What I didn’t do was check the ph of my nutrient solution. When i finally checked the ph it was 8.5 in the water and high 7 in soil. I dropped the ph in the water to 5.5 and watered again. This brought my soil down to a low 6. 🤞 it fixes the problem. It’s almost time to stretch and flower so I’m hoping it’s fixed, but I’m getting so nervous being this close to flower.
Thank you so much for always dropping knowledge like a Polaroid picture. Too many people still torture their plants...but not in the good way.
Don't everyone forget to shout out to High-C!! You go bro!!
My mistake ,, too much light , thought it was fertilizer problem 😆But them i found Scotty 🤩 Thanks for explaining
Got my 3rd grow going now 1st I used compost result wasn't good last one I used hp pro mix was pretty decent using coco now man this stuff is rocking right now I think I'll stick to coco
Scotty can I use grow dots with grow bags and water wicking system.
Absolutely
@@ScottyReal420 Thank you love watching y’all cause I’ve learned so much. First time I’ve had great success.
Here's a question for you i been growing now going on now for 6 years and been watching all of you guys since the 2017 I've only been growing outside for 3 years and been doing great the last 2 years on production some real fire but here is the question that I have is my soil is 4.5 to 5.5 and I've put fertilizers to try and get it up and still staying at that range and still production great growing i wish I could show you the pictures
👍💨✌️I’ve been growing for awhile and can always learn something from watching you guys , thanks for what you do.
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I am heading the end of my first „professional“ indoor grow. The one plant that grew the fastest started to turn brighter. After a lot of research I found out that it is an iron defficiency.
I Never tested my ph levels because our water used to be perfectly at 6,5.
Once a year our city runs cheaper water that is at 8,2. Obviously that was the problem 😅
It was interesting to see that the plants are not able to absorb Iron with an ph of over 8. thank you for your help ❤
Keep your humidity dialed below 60 in flower you will be fine
So 26.7° and 58.5% ist Just fine ?
@@SirMajmun We're from Murica,we use the real measuring system Fahrenheit, so yeah 80°.
Rlly love this format, greetings from Germany
Hello, my flower is drooping. Is it due to excessive watering? And what should I do? Can you help me? thanks
Day 3 of flower, running some sfv og bx1. 3 lovely ladies out of 5 regs. Not bad percentage. Kinda like i did in school. Lol. Did i mention its 100 degrees here and my ac went out a month ago. Had 2 buy 2 portables just to keep up. And open the tent. Just hoping they call soon about the part.
Holding 79 degrees 64.5 humidity with a vpd 1.21.
Hey Scotty😊 what you light in your grow room. Sorry für mein Englisch i'm German speak....
Quality, wisdom and knowledge 🎼🌊🚀
I am a new grower and so far everything is going well I recently topped my plant and now it has exploded with growth on top the veg part is going wonderfully but in all honesty I don't care that it is super dank I just want to grow my own that give me the buzz I want while keeping my butt out of the dispensary
Love your shows buddy. I have been using Grobuckets and they work fabulous. No more under or over watering my autoflowers seem to really like it. I’m never going back to fabric pots again🤪🍻. Would you think using half coco and half soil would be a good thing with these Grobuckets. I would love for you to do a show on how to use them to there fullest. Happy growing from Canada ❤
I've done 9 in a 30"x30" several times and that's about as crowded as I can get.
That's just 9 main colas and a few side braches lollipopped to hell and flipped at like a foot tall.
I was finding the fastest way to fill out my canopy and get to flower.
My personal best is 9oz from that space, which tracked with the seed bank I ordered from said to expect by area for that strain.
So I fell in love with SoG method pretty quick.
Hi, i applaud you for the packed grow tent ,but to be honest 9oz is a pretty small yeild for that many plants. I got 10.8 oz fully dried from 2 plants. Many times by heavy lollipopping youre taking away nutrition to fuel the plant to push fat happy buds. Anyways just my take on over crowding.
@CM-vu5kf And how long did you veg them? How big a space did you grow them in?
I'm more interested in the total tent's yield. I've grown plants the size you're talking about in there too. But I found I could pull the same amount faster by doing a larger number of little plants.
I have a fish tank established more than ten years and i use the water from that to water my plants and they seem to love it...any thoughts?
I'm guilty of over loving my plants I've found less is more in most cases. I'm doing my first pure organic outdoor grow this year lots more planning ahead I'm realizing it takes weeks for some amendments to break down enough for the plants to up take the nutrients. It's definitely challenging to get everything balanced
I'm having good luck with organic. As you said it takes awhile for the nutrients to break down, but you can time it. I'm using blood meal for nitrogen and also worm castings. Also using bone meal and some liquid fish based stuff which is 0-10-10, I think it's called Morebloom. I use pretty small amounts kind of often and it's doing great, lots of growth and no yellow or brown leaves. If you do it just right those products are constantly feeding just the right amount.
@@actionjksnthat's basically the same stuff I'm using
If you brew some compost tea,it helps make the amendments available
Any group u recommend on the app? We need a good med master
Great show guys. I need to try some grow buckets they sound wonderful. 👍✔️🌱😮💨🤤🌄
This dude is a scientist when I comes to this stuff. But he breaks it down like a real dude.
Of course plants can feel what u feel. So if u want good grows.... Stay happy n positive. Ive had couple bad grows in the past but at the time didn't know what i was doing wrong until i realized i was going through some intense emotional stress. I was sad n that caused my plants to grow poorly yeah they were sad too. Was doing everything correctly but my pants seemed like sad or something. If your happy, positive, n proud of your plants then they will grow a lot better. There's a lot of steps that goes into pulling amazing grows but its all easy steps just make sure u learn how to read your plants to avoid over or under feeding
Scotty I think we have the same play book perpetual grower veg lights 20 in lower then flower works
I just use recharge for the first time that stuff is amazing it perked my plant right up nice and green. I don’t think I’ll ever use anything else besides grow dots. That is amazing also
Awesome!
Can I flip to 12/12 at 5 weeks with the extended veg grow dots safely? I don’t always want to wait 8 weeks.
On my first grow i had a slight mildew smell so figured i needed more airflow, put a large oscillating fan, set it on med-low and went away for the weekend, came back and the plant closest to the fan got wind burn 😢. Luckily it wasnt toooo bad but definitely hurt my yield. Didnt know wind burn was a thing. I do now
I recently had to use captain jacks ready to use neem oil for 🐛 chewing leaves and now the tips are turning kind of orange yellow is there any thing i can do to make them better??
Scottie i love the new grow content over on this channel! But please go back to having more grow talk on the og dude grows show pleaseeee ❤
I'm curious, You mentioned something about having a tray with 1/2" water in it and you set your pots in it?
Anymore info on this?
It would be amazing to be able to try grow dots and recharge but it’s so dam expensive where I am
Why don't you bypass Yr Electric metre ?
@@goinfishinalba9811 I already do!
Ipm. That has been a problem a few times. I was able to kick plants outdoors and hit with neem. Yet another reason I don't grow indoors in summer. I had 4 autos that were too far into bud to plant outdoors. But knew at 22-25 days when they showed sex I was NOT getting a good yield for auto. My water table is low this year. So had to dig a few new holes. Did use some recharge not all of it went to the sweet corn. Think the cedar root in gave clone #4 a peppery taste last year. I expanded that hole this year. And same clones. Ultimate purple fast photo x skunk hero x b2. Shows sex like an auto but photo dependent. Done earlier then regular photos for my environment and shorter grow season. We have had a lot of rain in upper great lakes too. Which hasn't made up for lack of snow. It's made floods.
Thanks, does it matter =photo versus auto?
What is the optimal humidity range and do you have a chart?
Hey Scotty. Is there a way to get some info on grow dots? Where do I get questions answered?
Join us at Realgrowlab.com, that is the best place to set answers and learn more.
Done all the mistakes, and this things happen.
You learn something new every cycle
I can see overwatering becoming a problem with heatwaves and getting off schedule but like you say lift the pot and you’ll be able to feel it
While in flower i always have problems w spider mites and im growing indoors 🤷🏾♂️.
Hello Scotty, Do snails and/slugs like chomping on cannabis plants, if so, what do I do about it safely?
Best regards from Scotland. 🙃
yes they can destroy the leaves, best way to keep them off is make some type of barrier that makes it had for them to get to the plant. like wood chip mulch or other things they can not travel on.
My most common and aggravating mistake for me is over and under watering very annoying but I give myself credit by being able to bring back mostly any sick plant I come across but after 6 yrs of indoor growing in living soil that is the mistake i commonly make I also have designs for self watering bucket system but a tip I’ve learned is using a small spray bottle and just water seedlings with that
i got 8 dwc buckets ATM, dont really mind it, just gotta add water every 2 days. but my diy earthbox grow was definitely less work.
I'm really struggling with over and under watering. Trying out CocoLoco right now but gonna try an actual coco run soon though, when I got the space for another plant.
Try adding in good soil to mix the coco at only 20 percent soil with perlite. Works really good
?? So when I water I should until it runs out?Because I have never watered, until runoff cause I hate having to suction the extra out of the catch tray, I do try not to overwater were I grow organically! I am a fairly new grower!!
Growing organically you will not need to water to run off.
@@ScottyReal420 Thank you very much for your knowledge, Rite here from central Maine!!
@Jack_Rabbit17 Ok thank you for the help!
Love your uploads man👍👍
So informative.
Personally I'm still running soil.
Lumatek lighting.
Advanced nutrients.
Ac infinity fans.
Struggling to get grow dots here in Ireland guy's!!
Definitely want to try
we are working on it!
Should of pollinated autos in basement but had other plants didn't want pollinated. Might have to build a cage in back yard at home next year. Just to put plants outdoors sooner to pollinate some before going up north. Don't think I got colloidal silver on autos soon enough.
Hey, uh, these grow dots, they sound like everlasting gobstoppers for plants...are they layered too?
Thank you.
I just love your videos Scott, you are a real dude……see what I did there😊.
Btw, I’m an organic guy and have been using recharge from day one and love it. Lately I’ve been thinking of using salts and thought….” Well recharge works so well, I wonder how grow dots will do” so today I bought my first bag of dots.
I only grow autos and was wondering how they do on shorter grow times like the 65-75 day strains. I would think maybe only use them on the 90 day haze type maybe?….
Got any advice on that?
They will still work will the short autos you just won't have them fade out as much at the end, but they work great on the 90day strains
What's your opinion on wood ash in small amounts?
I have only 4 plants in a 6.5'x6.5' greenhouse grow(8' of head room)that I started early May. They're in 15 gallon pots using COM stonington blend soil. I topped the plants I've been growing in my indoor tent as early as possible, and they grew maybe 24"-26" tall in my grow tent, looking like a menorah, with equal sized large branches all pretty much the same distance from the light. These plants in the greenhouse however are out of control. I have only 4, albeit in 15 gallon fabric pots. They're taller than me, despite being topped when young. It's awesome, but I'm worried about not having enough room! I wanted bigger plants in the greenhouse than last year, but this is just insane! Apparently they're loving the 15gal pots with stonington blend, and full sun every day. I should also mention the weather has allowed for almost zero cloudy days since May. I'm not sure what to do at this point, or if they get too big, maybe I should dissemble the greenhouse around them and hope for the best lol.
Shouldve bended them over when young, enjoy your harvest though 😅
Hello, my flower is drooping. Is it due to excessive watering? And what should I do? Can you help me? thanks
Growing out side watch out for tobacco worms And pray you don’t get too much rain too much rain means bud rot I found that blowing then off with leaf blower to dry off the buds and plant works pretty good
Does anyone have a chart or timeline for humidity and temp
vpdchart.com/
@@ScottyReal420 I mean like a timeline with the recommendations for temperatures and humidity for stages of the plant
@@urhallibut419
Temp and humidity drop in the winter or when ac is on in summer. Also vpd changes with temperature even if humidity is maintained
I'm grown outside I have a 10-foot plant that I topped what's the best way to finish growing outside
Is it 10-ft plant that I topped
My dawg scotty. Legit 💯
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This was helpful. Thanks guys
Im guilty of vegging too long and crowding my tent almost every run, lol!
Its just too much fun to vegg them and get some good trees
I run into this same thing and find myself folding branches at week 5-6 before they max and hit my light.
I vegged to long this grow
Well, yeah, it’s like you finally, got yourself a really good root foundation. It’s a hard to stop the veg that quick.
Root and fruit fellas ! Overcrowding is no fun at all lol.
its funny i started in coco with canna a+b and i kept overwatering my seedlings into dying. i was also not regulating humidity well enough and was too dry. then i switched to diy living soil and havent looked back. no more needing to measure fertilizer every watering, i don't even monitor my ph anymore and my tap water is too alkaline but I buffer ph with amendments instead!!
Need to do a show on pesticides and the company’s pushing bad products.Just watched vid on this subject this needs to be for awareness.
Can you use the dots hydroponiclly
would be great to have recharge available in germany too : )
I hear you man.
Can't get in Ireland either
We are working on it!
@@ScottyReal420 or NZ
My biggest mistake growing (and I still do it at times) is overcrowding. I say it's for less veg time between harvests, but I always wait to long to flower and get major overcrowding.
Good morning
Yea he’s correct. Mine are overcrowded. So i set up my HPS tent into a LED. Using HPS in the summer is crazy dumb. So i set up my tent for LED.
I have 17 plants and they are crowded. I will split them up.
Growing on the balcony. With summer outside it's hard not to overwater. Especially at an altitude of 2200 ft the UV radiation is so high that the leaves will hang within hours when not giving them water. Got fabric pots and still i feel i should go with less water. But how?
Can you reuse dirt that an old batch of plants died in for a new batch of plants but end up with a great new batch growing like the dirt is new?
Yes there shouldn't be any differene beside the absence of nitrogen in any healthy soil system. Once you're reinnoculating the soil and adding back in nutrients you can reuse the same media up to 5 times
@@lordfreizaa4013@scottyreal What is the best products to use to make your soil like brand new or better so this batch of plants don't die like the current batch? Bio-char or Cocoa bricks to help retain nutrients to disperse when plants need it?
My first grow in 4x4 I did 8🤦♂️ loads of larfy crap🤦♂️ top tip….vacuum pack the larf real tight. It’s not pretty but it all sticks together and grinds up fine👍 once ground you can’t tell.
Theres a few ways to avoid overwatering but coco with perlite etc takes care of that
I like to drip feed coco works best when i keep it wet. love canna coco
First year like at all and I got great results I'm stressing LOL about this very conversation I'm trying to hang method Sinbad jar or whatever you have that will hold are decently