HumbleTreeFarmer [comrade/them]

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: July 24th, 2022
  • HumbleTreeFarmer [comrade/them]togardening•boy howdy I'm not having good luck growing weed
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    2 years ago

    potting soils like miracle gro that are loaded with fertilizers and will kill your seedlings with nutrient burn 100% of the time.

    I think people are too quick to judge miracle grow stuff because it worked fine for my first plant, both as soil and as fertilizer. I get that it might make it easier to burn plants but the soil worked fine and when I started adding fertilizer I just made sure to only add a very small amount (in addition to transplanting into a pot with ground egg shells and a little bit of epsom salt for added calcium and magnesium) and it seemed to do fine. Unfortunately my plant, though vigorous and healthy, was male and useless :bawllin-sad:

    And these last two attempts weren't even with miracle grow stuff but just generic "potting soil" that definitely seems like it's lower in quality, like, it's got more sticks/mulch and less "dirt"

    but the good news is WE GOT A SPROUT

    Are you pH buffering when you water?

    nah, someone suggested I add a little bit of lemon juice to lower the PH but that hasn't seemed to be necessary so far, water straight out of the tap was fine for my last plant. I didn't have any noticeable issues until flowering when some of the lower leaves started to yellow and drop off, but people said that's also normal anyway

  • HumbleTreeFarmer [comrade/them]togardening•boy howdy I'm not having good luck growing weed
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    2 years ago

    the first go around was only hard because my cat ate one of the seedlings in the like 1 hour I had it in front of a window before I got my lights, and then the survivor ended up being male but I couldn't tell for like, 2 months when I switched the lights to a flowering schedule

    I tried to make an extract of whatever >1% cannabinoids might have been in it but all I got was some weed flavored everclear :deeper-sadness:

    It’s really shitty that some states still ban weed.

    I read on the internet that the same farm bill loophole that allowed for delta 8 products has made it legal for delta 9 products to be sold as long as they're less than 0.3% THC by dry weight, so now there's like 10mg gummies and shit, but I haven't been able to confirm that

    if we're at this point though like just legalize it dang it

  • HumbleTreeFarmer [comrade/them]togardening•boy howdy I'm not having good luck growing weed
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    2 years ago

    I've been putting them in a small tupperware inside a moistened paper towel and leaving it in the AC/furnace closet because it stays pretty warm in there. They germinate alright, the only seed I've had so far that failed to germinate wasn't mature I think (it was light green and had no striations on it). They're just not sprouting. This seed might just need a bit more time, idk, but the seed before it I waited a week and had nothing. I planted it at a much shallower depth this time ( like [ ] deep). I think the soil is too dense or something, idk, it's a lot mulchier than the miracle grow stuff I used last time. Also for some reason it is incredibly hydrophobic (but I made sure to get it all wet before planting this time).

    The first two seeds I germinated a few months ago both sprouted no problem, but my cat decided to eat one and then the other was an accursed male :why-angel: