Heat has always been the biggest factor for me. Especially with growdots. If your having a deficiency or a problem, check your temps. I see a lot of growdot growers having problems and they're at 75 or lower. Try 83 and see what happens. I think temp is the big key to a solid grow. I use a 500 watt space heater on a controller and my setup rips. Thanks Scotty. Growdots are no joke.
I have some lighting hacks that make potent and tasty, not so much yield... I love these artsy plant hacks, and I truly believe that is where cannabis growing is heading,.... easier faster and higher quality is what I want, and low cost is a plus...
You want to talk about growing in the heat? I love down here and Southern New Mexico in the summer time. It gets to be a 110 to a 120°. I grew inside of course, was a 230 heating and cooling unit. I've got ACB D that I like that's called cream and cheese 24% THC and 18% C BD. It takes the numbness right out of My hands and feet.I've been a carpenter since 1978 I love your show.I'll learn all kinds of new things From. You thanks a lot, keep it up. Have a good day.
If your indoors with a solid environmental set up tent or room you can crush pulse hub is A1 but if your needing just a soil moisture sensor those ecowitts crush too for soil moisture content for dryback as long as you have a soil moisture sensor you can easily start crop steering 🖖🏼💯
I just wish I could show you how my stuff blew up on grow dots and recharge oh thanks for the RO water that's the first time anyone said anything about it your guys are awesome
The humidity is often 80% where I live, I wouldn't every let it get that high in my tent or emulate the summer except for the lights. I flip to 12/12 when my plants have reached half the height I want them to be and it works pretty good, I heard that on a video and put it into practice.
the crop steering that i understand the most is watering in the sense say you are in flowering and you want to keep stacking vs ripening you want to steer it towards stacking by more frequent smaller waterings vs less frequent larger waterings which steer the plant to ripen.. this was explained to me by ThcTitan
I have a question about the dutch watering system only supplying small shots of water at the surface constantly. Wouldn't this produce mainly feeder surface roots and not much root development deeper below the surface? To me, it would be better to try a SIP system that makes water, nutrients, and other additives available for a plant when needed and roots must wick moisture from a bottom reservoir, causing lots of root growth/development. Also, I want to read/learn about how to use water drybacks and its effect on plant growth. Keep sharing grow ideas, helps me continue to improve growing.
Assuming the nutrients and env (VPD, PPFD, CO2,Wind) are on point then small 1-2 gallon coco pots work wonders with crop steering irrigation methods. Coco is more forgiving than rockwool. Rockwool holds less water than coco so it dries back faster If rockwool gets too dry it develops hydrophobic areas & channels water. Coco cation exchange allows it to retain/exchange nutes very quickly. Coco oxygen holding capacity and aeration are ideal for crop steering. Changing pot size or medium changes everything but even if you're an organic no till guy crop steering environment targets & VWC sensors can still make you a better grower. Aroya, Pulse, Crop Link all have steering vids & white papers ....
Your water immediately wicks down to the bottom of the media . We call it gravity 😂😂😂 unless you cause channeling by putting on too many shots at once , or too large of shots close together . Drybacks duration is more important than dryback %. This being because dryback % in soiless media is pointless. In rockwool matric potential never goes pass -4 KPA no matter how dry it gets , while in natural soil fully saturated -20kpa or -40kpa. Plants dont exprience a wilting point until -1500kpa. which means the plant cant be put into drought stress in rockwool until there is no more water. So by focusing on the duration of a dryback we get the same response we would in soil without running any of the wilting risk.
I'm just over a week away from being at wk 8 on my Spectrum King 603 run -- things are looking great! I had to get another dehu to keep the humidity down. Nothing worse than bud rot right at the end. So glad Ohio finally has legal growing, nobody likes being a criminal
Maryland just got recreational.. as a "Medical" patient (One of the first here), I can legally grow up to 5 plants, which should do me and lots more justice! Plus I won't have to mess with a bunch of couch lock hybrid crap. Beyond ~20% THC likely means low sativa content and more couch lock. IMO
Wat he's not talking about with environmental heat causes humidity especially after water spikes. It's a delicate balance and finding parameters and fine tuning your grow.
hmm. thats a very simplified approach to break down crop steering to watering with small 'squirts. i am new to the cannabis growing topic- but engineer enough to share my perception of this suffisticated science. generally speaking - crop steering is the approach to pace, inhibit, prolonger and support the different grow stages of crop to provoke different growing patterns. that saying , cannabis growing was usually reduced to seedling, veg, flower, harvest 2 ashtray. however, with supporting or inhibiting growth patterns like stretching the overall appearence of the plant can be tweaked, for example to support training methods. usually this happens with stress. stressmanagemen triggering between reproductive and vegetative growing. my biggest inside in this, for example was, that in crop steering the creation of flowers is supported with stress- until the plant created the wished pattern. for example just few flowers and mainlining or many buds like child disease. crop steerer then turn back to vegetative growing to enlarge the size of the buds. that makes totally sense. this saying - its a technique that tops on total environmental controll - like in intense care. my dutch neighbours here in europe are FREAKs in doing crops on a daily basis on the highest level.mainly with tomatoes but hey. our favorite plant is not too different from that. total controll means co2, lightstress, ec level stress (rumors say up to level ec 4,5,6!!!!!!!!!) and the patients that where presented where allienated monster budded tarantulas. with many hair, angry eyes and temptening tongues. with buds easily as huge as the german dudes head who openly shared its insighst about his cbd ladies. thats holland craft. they controll everything with sensors and know their strain. then they can fit them in their faciliation. its not just sprinkling and simmulation of weathering. its rather working with plentyfullness and draw back cycles. starting with parameters like thirst after sunrise... when do we start watering- from the moment of first sunrise. so thats taking the whole daycycle. Thats rather an circadian approach. With goodnight ir or uv stress cycles and bitter torturing to release and harvest the plants resins-.. Its definetely worse trying, especially if the bud building profits from regular watering instead of full dryback strategy. then. maybe thats just gathered known methods. maybe its just the industrialised process with kpis and a more managerial regime. propably most wont come on that level of the dutch. but its open freak science.
I've always wet trimmed , nice resin sticky fingers to scrape off and smoke♥️🤣 .. never understood why ppl dry trim 🤷 tried once and it's harder to do as leaf dry and shrink into the buds and make it a fek on 🤷 and takes even longer to dry when leaving the plant intact and hanging it to dry 🙄 much easier chopping and trimming wet ..
I just put my first plant under my Mars Hydro light. I have it dialed in at 80% at 12/12. Added a co2 bag. I know that in the first three weeks Tera is going to stretch. I just heard a great tip, but have not tried it for myself yet. If you pinch softly and roll the stems that are starting to stretch…. They won’t. I guess we’ll find out in three weeks if it works lol.
“Kyle kush man chiropractics” a few days before flip and hygrohybrids “topping” a few days before flip with monitoring led height. Wanna go real pro, get a lot of blue in there with your leds (blue cmh bulbs have a good spread)
If you have a resivour for your water that feeds into your grow get a little fridge and make a worm that cycles the water via the fridge cooling the water to your desired temp. In Perth we get summer temps in the high 40c range at that water temp it's kills and mutates fems into males or hems . I'm about to finish my 1st summer grow NFT.And my little fridge hack worked an absolute treat. Air temp in tent 30c water temp 22c happy plants Happy Me. Love your work Scottie and highC ✌🏼
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I live in malta a really humid island, we have the most humidity in autumn and winter, its the other way round. We have highs of 80-90's daily. And harsh temp in summer 30-35 d Celsius daily for 2-3 months.
@scotty real I just did my third grow, it again was pretty bad.. insects have devastated me each time.. for my next grow ill be having multiple changes. 1: I purchased a carbon filter. 2: I'll be using nematodes instead of neem oil. 3: I'll be using 5 gallon mesh pots instead of 2 gallon plastic pots( I heard this will make my autos much bigger). 4: I have an apera PH pen now to ensure the quality ph of my next grow.. and finally 5: I'll be using ocean forest and happy frog for the first time, Vs using dollar generals infested soil. the question I have now, is how important is humidity, I don't generally experience mold at all in my home, except sometimes the bath tub.. my grow Is in a large tent though, I don't feel like I need humidity nor temperature control... am I missing a big opportunity for explosive growth via simply a humidifier? my apartment is kept under 74° at all times.
Humidity and temperature control is a large part of growing, if the humidity is to lower the stigmata on the leaves won't open as much and this will effect photosynthesis.
Do some research on "progressive light cycle duration reduction" Naturally in the wild, depending on the native latitude of a given cultivar,it has been said that every cultivar has a specific light cycle reduction curve that will give the best expression of its natural traits, and can improve ripening times and overall terpine synthesis 🧐 Ed Rosenthal talked about this briefly in his books many years ago and I rarely hear it mentioned these days, everyone seems to be focused on yield, yield, yield 😵💫
Ok run led grow lights but supplement the grow with hid ,timer only set to run the hottest middle of it's light cycle.,just a booster not run the whole time
You feed high strength during crop steering most guys feed the same strength the whole run and adjust their dry back to hit their desired EC, As Water evaporates EC Rises and vice versa
why on earth would i want to stretch out a plant in a grow tent? you don't, plants stretch when they first begin to flower even in the Sun Light, LED lights are brighter and might need to be higher, most ceilings are 8 feet , that's why a HPS light or T-5 work great for lower ceilings in tents, 4 weeks of veg about 1 foot tall, 2 months flower = about 2 more feet for 3 feet plus the bucket size for a total of 4 feet maybe five, that leaves just enoghf room for the light to be 2 feet away ..at finish.. for example a 600 watt dimmable HPS light in a 4x4 space 8 foot ceiling, LED lights , how high how bright ? who knows ,
If you got multiple strains going and you want them to finish on time together. Usually they all do not, so hit the slower ones (not showing color change) and still green with WINTERFROST (week 7) my grow store dude said he had good results for years doing this . Gonna try next run too. Great Stuff Scottie Real.......
40% humidity in flower is optimal. You don't need moisture causing fungus and mold issues in dense buds. I foliar feed once a week with organic silica. It makes your plants stronger and the leaves are thicker making them less susceptible to disease. I use yucca extract mixed with it to keep it active longer. The yucca helps with heat tolerance too. It's like 1/2 tsp. per gallon of each so it lasts a long time. EDIT: Stop giving them silica when flowering.
My plants hate low humidity. I’ve tried below 65% during veg and plants droop. As soon as I up the humidity to 70-75 the plant pray to the lights. Plus the humidity balances the heat in the tent. If I went that low temps would be way over 85 degrees. In flower I get to the lower 60s but 40s no way man. You guys must live in low humid areas so it might just be relevant for your environment. Even with a dehumidifier I couldn’t get humidity down to 40s
What's the best wattage for LED or does it matter as long as you got par dialed in. I was wondering I have 720 watts bar style with reds and blues could I get the same results with a 420 watt led
There are NO shortcuts to great cannabis. Been growing cannabis in Australia for almost 30 years, without the possibility of criminal penalties. There are no shortcuts to GREAT cannabis
Scotty starting a new grow indoors with autos going to try hempy buckets for first time grow dots and recharge seed planted in hempy but confused on watering at what stage do you water till you get runoff at seedling stage or wait till they get bigger roots thanks bro love the show
When they are small you might need to top water till it grows more roots, when they are small remember you are watering the plant not the pot, if you water the whole pot before it has enough roots it will not use up all that water.
Scotty hello. Im new to this, was super excited about this but now i feel like quitting. Could you please help me, i transformed my shed into a growing room, did what you suggested 1 month veg straight to flower, and on both attempts all my plants were male, does it have to do with the lights? I cant believe 100% males on both attempts.
My worst case scenario so last night the power company does the schedule maintenance shut down at midnight. I did not know this was going to happen. I watered at 9 o’clock. The lights went out at midnight. I’m on a 6 to 6 schedule. I was worried that the plans would be sitting in water And the roots could be damaged the lights come back on at 4 AM. The lights are supposed to shut off at 6 AM. Should I have a left the lights off at 6 AM and let it ride or should I leave the lights on till 4 PM then correct? The lights in the next off cycle desperately needing to know 😭🥹😡 crop steering works but I like full throttle 💪👊🔥🤘 salts, and co2 pound it in there 👊💪🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@ScottyReal420 that’s what I was thinking but then did the opposite 😭 because I was having a freak out moment 😭 but we are in begin of week 3 of flower 😬 you should do a video on this how not to make the wrong decision with power outages ugh 😩 I guess the outcome of my decision will either be balls or buds 🙄 thanks for the reply 👊🤘and correct advice 👌
Sadly my harvest outdoors is more like rain rain rain, huge temperature swings from day to night, and then super cold like 60° and rainearly October to snow late October.
Long time hydro dwc guy. Thinking of trying coco and grow dots. I suck at soil and knowing how much to water and test run off crap. I love how big and fast dwc grows plants. Just tired of everything that goes into and if power goes out my pumps stop lol which has happened. Besides fabric bag. Canna coco. Recharge and grow dots do I need anything else? And what ph for coco? I’m on well water my ec is 0.5 . Thanks Scotty
When using Recharge with Grow Dots and coco balancing PH will not be a big issue, but if it is something you want to do you want it to be around 5.8. Besides that keep the coco moist and don't let it dry out or it could lead to salt build ups in the media that will lean to problems.
I'd like to know what you guys think of the given flowering time on websites that sell seeds. I've had stuff labled as 9-10 weeks seed to harvest and it took 15. How much variablility is there because of stress?
That’s all marketing, always check for 50 to 60 percent amber in the trycom crystals, I always go at least 3 weeks extra. Stressed plant needs a week to a month to get out of it once you find the problem. Depending how bad the stresser was. Example in Veg. too much magnesium had to flush it out, took a month for the random leaves to stop dying off. Have to wait a month before I flower for seed, Or fruit.
the flowering times on packs are often an average grow time from what the breeder and their testers saw in their grows. Everyone's environment will be a bit different and this can effect grow times.
Yeah I had a GG#4 auto from fastbuds with some sort of issue in flower maybe phosphorous deff. or overwatering. Never expected it to affect the finish time so much. Thanks for the tips.
For an inert media like coco you will want to use the heavy dose, besides weekly application of Recharge the only other supplement we recommend is some type of silica.
@@ScottyReal420 so far I’m liking what I see. I’m actually gearing up to test your buckets and dots vs the autopot and coco a & b system to see what is most friendly for new growers. Gonna make a series of it! Keep rocking Scotty someday we shall have an epic sesh 🤜🤛
due to changes in Canadian Laws our shipments are being seized at the boarder and not making it through, until we can figure this out we are unable to Ship to Canada.
Sorry for hijacking I have a question about hardening off my seedlings. do you think I would know this by now considering I have had three harvest before this but how long do you keep a humidity dome over a seedling ballpark two weeks?
Yeh. Take it off several times a day to exchange air till week 2 then keep it off for linger periods. I'd keep it on over sleepy Time though. Wee gentle airflow while it's off to help harden up
If you have a humidifier running I take the tops off as soon as the Cotyledons leaves are up .. I like to toughen them up early. Remember although it's a magical plant. It's still a weed none the less. Most seeds wanna live and grow. Good luck
as soon as you can, the seedlings can dampen off if there is to much humidity and will benefit from gentle air movement, this will all depend of the environment of your grow. if it is to dry you will have to leave it on longer and pop the top a few times a day.
Due to changes in Canadian Laws our orders are being seized at the boarder and not getting through. Until we can figure out this issue we are unable to sell our products in Canada.
assuming you have unlimited CO2 and Light in a Fog Ponic cabinet grow, I'm reading that the roots need CO2 as well. Any comment feeding the CO2 to the Roots first, then let the overflow hit the leaves on a up draft system? I'm sure I'll push it, but any idea how much is too much? Luckily here in Maryland I can always just buy, but I'm dissappointed in quality/consistency they push. The concept of the mid 70's (when I started) Mexican Speed weed has been lost in this world of hybrids. Attempting to acquire the finest sativa seeds which often include Panama or Hawaiian heritage. Comments on finest Sativa? Been fooled by the High THC couch lock Sativa "Hybrids" too many times, High Sativa contents are not as profitable.. THC sells which usually means a lot of indica couch lock heritage. Comments?
Addendum: Previously I did a closet 5 Gal Bucket Dirt grow with HPS lights. Excellent results (by chance?) for some cash only seeds from Holland! some recommended 24 hour lights, I believe near the end of flowering (which seems strange). Any comment on 24 hour lights ever in the grow cycle? The "Sativa" seeds.. got about 4 ft. tall, but manageable in a closet. What's the best way to accelerate flowering if these Sativa start getting too big? How about a comment on how to reliably pick "Mexican Speed Weed" from the Sativa "Hybrid" pile of stuff they push? They give the full THC/Terpene assay on the menu, but what constitutes the speed part has never been adequately explained.
I was just moving lights in veg for outdoor grow. I like to stretch plants while young. Less to lollipop. Then I move lights back down to get nodes closer. I increase air flow to make plant stronger too. This lets air flow around plant outside. Last year I even forced flowered before putting outdoor. I water tray from bottom. But have cold floor. Warm anaerobic is deadly to animals and plants. Cold anaerobic preserves stuff like meat, butter, and hides. I hate super market meat preserved in nitrogen. Nitrogenases are rapidly degraded by oxygen. For this reason, many bacteria cease production of the enzyme in the presence of oxygen. Many nitrogen-fixing organisms exist only in anaerobic conditions, respiring to draw down oxygen levels, or binding the oxygen with a protein such as leghemoglobin. The bacteria enrich the wood substrate with nitrogen through fixation, thus enabling deadwood decomposition by fungi.
Thank you for your wonderful work 🙂 WHY always MORE "POTENT" 😢 WHY NOT "CLEANER"/"CHEMICAL FREE" & MORE EFFICACIOUS, Brah 🙂 If teaching for POTENCY is done why can't teaching for "clean"/"chemical free"/efficacy ALSO be done plz, Hoss 🙂
@@ScottyReal420Cannot ONBOARD New Patients and welcome new people unless they can grow "clean" medicine = the market for the medicinal value of the plant is THOUSANDS OF YEARS with a market of nearly 8 billion 🙂The Potent DOGGASCAKE market is a SMALL FRACTION of that especially since few of us can titrate 24/7 🙂
@@ScottyReal420DOGGASCAKE is NOT selling in Thailand; it's failing: I talked to a man from France & he even complained that the USA flowers are TOO POTENT 🙂
@@ScottyReal420Chemically farmed INDOOR is going to lose & LOSE HUGE to "Chemical free" OUTDOOR bec. OUTDOOR has lower COGS & it's "clean" "chemical free"; INDOOR is going down like a 3 dollar Ho 🙂
FYI , you don't use a HPS during the stretch " unless you want to lengthen the internodal distance to fill out a space, or your plant is too compact " .. You should continue with your MH till the start of week 2-3 then switch to HPS. The total stretch should be no more than 6-12" for Indica - sativa respectively .. Considering the lanky messes I've seen LED's grow , don't throw stones at HPS users, when you use Chinese LED's .. lolol
Heat has always been the biggest factor for me. Especially with growdots. If your having a deficiency or a problem, check your temps. I see a lot of growdot growers having problems and they're at 75 or lower. Try 83 and see what happens. I think temp is the big key to a solid grow. I use a 500 watt space heater on a controller and my setup rips. Thanks Scotty. Growdots are no joke.
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This is very helpful thank you
I have some lighting hacks that make potent and tasty, not so much yield... I love these artsy plant hacks, and I truly believe that is where cannabis growing is heading,.... easier faster and higher quality is what I want, and low cost is a plus...
You want to talk about growing in the heat? I love down here and Southern New Mexico in the summer time. It gets to be a 110 to a 120°. I grew inside of course, was a 230 heating and cooling unit. I've got ACB D that I like that's called cream and cheese 24% THC and 18% C BD.
It takes the numbness right out of My hands and feet.I've been a carpenter since 1978 I love your show.I'll learn all kinds of new things From.
You thanks a lot, keep it up. Have a good day.
Been visiting new mexico lately. But seems the dispensary bud isn't like the flower I used to get before 2019. Any recommendations???
REALLY LOVE UR ENERGY SCOTTY!!! AND can't forget grambo!!!!
Thank You!
What about HI-C ? He can kick rocks
@@chuckbailey6835High-C won’t show his face on camera. So all my love goes to Grambo
If your indoors with a solid environmental set up tent or room you can crush pulse hub is A1 but if your needing just a soil moisture sensor those ecowitts crush too for soil moisture content for dryback as long as you have a soil moisture sensor you can easily start crop steering 🖖🏼💯
Scotty and Hi- c are a great combo.
Thank you!
I just wish I could show you how my stuff blew up on grow dots and recharge oh thanks for the RO water that's the first time anyone said anything about it your guys are awesome
a safe place where we could all share our grows would be great!
The humidity is often 80% where I live, I wouldn't every let it get that high in my tent or emulate the summer except for the lights. I flip to 12/12 when my plants have reached half the height I want them to be and it works pretty good, I heard that on a video and put it into practice.
the crop steering that i understand the most is watering in the sense say you are in flowering and you want to keep stacking vs ripening you want to steer it towards stacking by more frequent smaller waterings vs less frequent larger waterings which steer the plant to ripen.. this was explained to me by ThcTitan
Scotty always looks so focused when being asked a question 😂
I have a question about the dutch watering system only supplying small shots of water at the surface constantly. Wouldn't this produce mainly feeder surface roots and not much root development deeper below the surface? To me, it would be better to try a SIP system that makes water, nutrients, and other additives available for a plant when needed and roots must wick moisture from a bottom reservoir, causing lots of root growth/development. Also, I want to read/learn about how to use water drybacks and its effect on plant growth. Keep sharing grow ideas, helps me continue to improve growing.
when crop steering you will be water small amounts during the day but the goal is to reach about 10% runoff by the end of the day.
Assuming the nutrients and env (VPD, PPFD, CO2,Wind) are on point then small 1-2 gallon coco pots work wonders with crop steering irrigation methods. Coco is more forgiving than rockwool. Rockwool holds less water than coco so it dries back faster If rockwool gets too dry it develops hydrophobic areas & channels water. Coco cation exchange allows it to retain/exchange nutes very quickly. Coco oxygen holding capacity and aeration are ideal for crop steering. Changing pot size or medium changes everything but even if you're an organic no till guy crop steering environment targets & VWC sensors can still make you a better grower. Aroya, Pulse, Crop Link all have steering vids & white papers ....
Your water immediately wicks down to the bottom of the media . We call it gravity 😂😂😂 unless you cause channeling by putting on too many shots at once , or too large of shots close together . Drybacks duration is more important than dryback %. This being because dryback % in soiless media is pointless. In rockwool matric potential never goes pass -4 KPA no matter how dry it gets , while in natural soil fully saturated -20kpa or -40kpa. Plants dont exprience a wilting point until -1500kpa. which means the plant cant be put into drought stress in rockwool until there is no more water. So by focusing on the duration of a dryback we get the same response we would in soil without running any of the wilting risk.
To each his own ... if you have some VWC sensors you don't need let me know.
New to Recharge and grow dots, I'm impressed so far keep it simple right?
Compliments from me today 😊 Just to let you know I'm listening & watching 😊
I really enjoy these short format video. Its great to take in little bits of information to work with
Great to hear!
I'm just over a week away from being at wk 8 on my Spectrum King 603 run -- things are looking great! I had to get another dehu to keep the humidity down. Nothing worse than bud rot right at the end. So glad Ohio finally has legal growing, nobody likes being a criminal
Hell yeah bro I'm in same boat. Thank God it's legal now.
Maryland just got recreational.. as a "Medical" patient (One of the first here), I can legally grow up to 5 plants, which should do me and lots more justice! Plus I won't have to mess with a bunch of couch lock hybrid crap. Beyond ~20% THC likely means low sativa content and more couch lock. IMO
Wat he's not talking about with environmental heat causes humidity especially after water spikes. It's a delicate balance and finding parameters and fine tuning your grow.
I do have a question, why don't I see growers add vertical LED lights on the sides for better penetration in addition to the top horizontal light?
hmm. thats a very simplified approach to break down crop steering to watering with small 'squirts. i am new to the cannabis growing topic- but engineer enough to share my perception of this suffisticated science. generally speaking - crop steering is the approach to pace, inhibit, prolonger and support the different grow stages of crop to provoke different growing patterns. that saying , cannabis growing was usually reduced to seedling, veg, flower, harvest 2 ashtray. however, with supporting or inhibiting growth patterns like stretching the overall appearence of the plant can be tweaked, for example to support training methods. usually this happens with stress. stressmanagemen triggering between reproductive and vegetative growing. my biggest inside in this, for example was, that in crop steering the creation of flowers is supported with stress- until the plant created the wished pattern. for example just few flowers and mainlining or many buds like child disease. crop steerer then turn back to vegetative growing to enlarge the size of the buds. that makes totally sense.
this saying - its a technique that tops on total environmental controll - like in intense care. my dutch neighbours here in europe are FREAKs in doing crops on a daily basis on the highest level.mainly with tomatoes but hey. our favorite plant is not too different from that.
total controll means co2, lightstress, ec level stress (rumors say up to level ec 4,5,6!!!!!!!!!) and the patients that where presented where allienated monster budded tarantulas. with many hair, angry eyes and temptening tongues. with buds easily as huge as the german dudes head who openly shared its insighst about his cbd ladies. thats holland craft. they controll everything with sensors and know their strain. then they can fit them in their faciliation. its not just sprinkling and simmulation of weathering. its rather working with plentyfullness and draw back cycles. starting with parameters like thirst after sunrise... when do we start watering- from the moment of first sunrise. so thats taking the whole daycycle. Thats rather an circadian approach. With goodnight ir or uv stress cycles and bitter torturing to release and harvest the plants resins-.. Its definetely worse trying, especially if the bud building profits from regular watering instead of full dryback strategy. then. maybe thats just gathered known methods. maybe its just the industrialised process with kpis and a more managerial regime. propably most wont come on that level of the dutch. but its open freak science.
Crop steering 👍👍
PEE CYCLING and/or ELECTROCULTURE
Anyone here already using it on their crops? I recommend those too.
Man you guys are the truth ! I love the info , and you guys make it simple 😊
Appreciate it!
Scottie is the man
What do you think is better wet trim or dry trim?
I've always wet trimmed , nice resin sticky fingers to scrape off and smoke♥️🤣 .. never understood why ppl dry trim 🤷 tried once and it's harder to do as leaf dry and shrink into the buds and make it a fek on 🤷 and takes even longer to dry when leaving the plant intact and hanging it to dry 🙄 much easier chopping and trimming wet ..
Best way steer plants is temp hotter in beginning and get cooler toward the end
I just put my first plant under my Mars Hydro light. I have it dialed in at 80% at 12/12. Added a co2 bag. I know that in the first three weeks Tera is going to stretch. I just heard a great tip, but have not tried it for myself yet. If you pinch softly and roll the stems that are starting to stretch…. They won’t. I guess we’ll find out in three weeks if it works lol.
“Kyle kush man chiropractics” a few days before flip and hygrohybrids “topping” a few days before flip with monitoring led height. Wanna go real pro, get a lot of blue in there with your leds (blue cmh bulbs have a good spread)
And lights off and on temps near same
Crop steering masters r the guys at aroya
They make the best VWC/EC substrate sensor
Yes they are the only ones I listen to for crop steering . I’ve watched every office hours shows
Sorry but they dont make the sensors. Sensors are teros made by meter group aroya uses their sensor with their program which tracks all the info
Just from watching your vids got me interested in grow dots. Just got a package in the mail can't wait to try them out
Hell yeah,
let us know what you think!
I did the same. "dots" on the way
Same here
Do grow dots grow small plants?
@@ScottyReal420 so far so good week 8 started yesterday shits healthy and happy. I hit them w recharge once a week.
If you have a resivour for your water that feeds into your grow get a little fridge and make a worm that cycles the water via the fridge cooling the water to your desired temp.
In Perth we get summer temps in the high 40c range at that water temp it's kills and mutates fems into males or hems . I'm about to finish my 1st summer grow NFT.And my little fridge hack worked an absolute treat. Air temp in tent 30c water temp 22c happy plants Happy Me.
Love your work Scottie and highC ✌🏼
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I live in malta a really humid island, we have the most humidity in autumn and winter, its the other way round. We have highs of 80-90's daily. And harsh temp in summer 30-35 d Celsius daily for 2-3 months.
Wow, I hope you have some good environmental controls.
You always so entertaining to listen and watch. I hope you have a great day brother and can't wait foe dgc tomorrow. Much love!
I appreciate that
@scotty real I just did my third grow, it again was pretty bad.. insects have devastated me each time.. for my next grow ill be having multiple changes. 1: I purchased a carbon filter. 2: I'll be using nematodes instead of neem oil. 3: I'll be using 5 gallon mesh pots instead of 2 gallon plastic pots( I heard this will make my autos much bigger). 4: I have an apera PH pen now to ensure the quality ph of my next grow.. and finally 5: I'll be using ocean forest and happy frog for the first time, Vs using dollar generals infested soil. the question I have now, is how important is humidity, I don't generally experience mold at all in my home, except sometimes the bath tub.. my grow Is in a large tent though, I don't feel like I need humidity nor temperature control... am I missing a big opportunity for explosive growth via simply a humidifier? my apartment is kept under 74° at all times.
Humidity and temperature control is a large part of growing, if the humidity is to lower the stigmata on the leaves won't open as much and this will effect photosynthesis.
@@ScottyReal420 thank you!
A Fat shout out to Scotty for getting me Off the jug Nutes💪you are my hero brother 👊
CO2 supplementation at 1500 ppms works great for me
New viewer, I like your style!!! Great job
Do some research on "progressive light cycle duration reduction" Naturally in the wild, depending on the native latitude of a given cultivar,it has been said that every cultivar has a specific light cycle reduction curve that will give the best expression of its natural traits, and can improve ripening times and overall terpine synthesis 🧐 Ed Rosenthal talked about this briefly in his books many years ago and I rarely hear it mentioned these days, everyone seems to be focused on yield, yield, yield 😵💫
Ok run led grow lights but supplement the grow with hid ,timer only set to run the hottest middle of it's light cycle.,just a booster not run the whole time
Great detail, love the show - thanks Scott
Than you!
You feed high strength during crop steering most guys feed the same strength the whole run and adjust their dry back to hit their desired EC,
As Water evaporates EC Rises and vice versa
Thanks for sharing.
I am going to grow dots and recharge on my next grow
Love ya man I'm a old school to
it amazes me, since weed, everyone is a pro gardener lol
why on earth would i want to stretch out a plant in a grow tent? you don't, plants stretch when they first begin to flower even in the Sun Light, LED lights are brighter and might need to be higher, most ceilings are 8 feet , that's why a HPS light or T-5 work great for lower ceilings in tents, 4 weeks of veg about 1 foot tall, 2 months flower = about 2 more feet for 3 feet plus the bucket size for a total of 4 feet maybe five, that leaves just enoghf room for the light to be 2 feet away ..at finish.. for example a 600 watt dimmable HPS light in a 4x4 space 8 foot ceiling, LED lights , how high how bright ? who knows ,
Immer wieder interessant
Another great video can't wait to attend the dgc cup this year
Can't wait!
Morning brother hitting some peanut breath this morn
Mmm sounds good! Enjoy!
Thanks Scotty! Great info!
You bet!
If you got multiple strains going and you want them to finish on time together. Usually they all do not, so hit the slower ones (not showing color change) and still green with WINTERFROST (week 7) my grow store dude said he had good results for years doing this . Gonna try next run too. Great Stuff Scottie Real.......
I love these videos Scotty!
Thank You!
Low 60s humidity in veg? That’s interesting, I’ve always kept 70s humidity for veg and 60s range in flower
40% humidity in flower is optimal. You don't need moisture causing fungus and mold issues in dense buds. I foliar feed once a week with organic silica. It makes your plants stronger and the leaves are thicker making them less susceptible to disease. I use yucca extract mixed with it to keep it active longer. The yucca helps with heat tolerance too. It's like 1/2 tsp. per gallon of each so it lasts a long time.
EDIT: Stop giving them silica when flowering.
I like to mine in mid 50s to 60 in Veg (55-60) In Flower, I keep mine @45-50
My plants hate low humidity. I’ve tried below 65% during veg and plants droop. As soon as I up the humidity to 70-75 the plant pray to the lights. Plus the humidity balances the heat in the tent. If I went that low temps would be way over 85 degrees. In flower I get to the lower 60s but 40s no way man. You guys must live in low humid areas so it might just be relevant for your environment. Even with a dehumidifier I couldn’t get humidity down to 40s
Vpd charts.
@@impact6508 You can't get humidity down to 40%? Hopefully you don't get powdery mildew or bud rot. I use a dehumidifier during flower to maintain 40%
What's the best wattage for LED or does it matter as long as you got par dialed in. I was wondering I have 720 watts bar style with reds and blues could I get the same results with a 420 watt led
There are NO shortcuts to great cannabis. Been growing cannabis in Australia for almost 30 years, without the possibility of criminal penalties. There are no shortcuts to GREAT cannabis
Idk if the plant thinks but they definitely respond
Scotty starting a new grow indoors with autos going to try hempy buckets for first time grow dots and recharge seed planted in hempy but confused on watering at what stage do you water till you get runoff at seedling stage or wait till they get bigger roots thanks bro love the show
seedlings dont need so much water that theres runoff
When they are small you might need to top water till it grows more roots, when they are small remember you are watering the plant not the pot, if you water the whole pot before it has enough roots it will not use up all that water.
Scotty hello.
Im new to this, was super excited about this but now i feel like quitting.
Could you please help me, i transformed my shed into a growing room, did what you suggested 1 month veg straight to flower, and on both attempts all my plants were male, does it have to do with the lights? I cant believe 100% males on both attempts.
Very informative. Subbed.
My worst case scenario so last night the power company does the schedule maintenance shut down at midnight. I did not know this was going to happen. I watered at 9 o’clock. The lights went out at midnight. I’m on a 6 to 6 schedule. I was worried that the plans would be sitting in water And the roots could be damaged the lights come back on at 4 AM. The lights are supposed to shut off at 6 AM. Should I have a left the lights off at 6 AM and let it ride or should I leave the lights on till 4 PM then correct? The lights in the next off cycle desperately needing to know 😭🥹😡 crop steering works but I like full throttle 💪👊🔥🤘 salts, and co2 pound it in there 👊💪🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Best thing is to not mess with the light schedule, it is better to have a few extra hours of dark then to play with the light on time.
@@ScottyReal420 that’s what I was thinking but then did the opposite 😭 because I was having a freak out moment 😭 but we are in begin of week 3 of flower 😬 you should do a video on this how not to make the wrong decision with power outages ugh 😩 I guess the outcome of my decision will either be balls or buds 🙄 thanks for the reply 👊🤘and correct advice 👌
Sadly my harvest outdoors is more like rain rain rain, huge temperature swings from day to night, and then super cold like 60° and rainearly October to snow late October.
Damn, that sounds like a nightmare to deal with.
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No Stress in the veg
Hated to change that Big Bulb from Blue to Red by HPS 😅
Great info
Thanks for watching!
how do you use recharge when planting seeds. Can I put it in the water when soaking seeds?
Yes, absolutely
Time to buy some recharge baby!!!!
Hell Yeah!
Long time hydro dwc guy. Thinking of trying coco and grow dots. I suck at soil and knowing how much to water and test run off crap. I love how big and fast dwc grows plants. Just tired of everything that goes into and if power goes out my pumps stop lol which has happened. Besides fabric bag. Canna coco. Recharge and grow dots do I need anything else? And what ph for coco? I’m on well water my ec is 0.5 . Thanks Scotty
You might be making soil too complicated. I have never checked runoff or soil temp/ soil ph. The flavor of soil has been the best imo
When using Recharge with Grow Dots and coco balancing PH will not be a big issue, but if it is something you want to do you want it to be around 5.8. Besides that keep the coco moist and don't let it dry out or it could lead to salt build ups in the media that will lean to problems.
@@ScottyReal420 thanks Scotty
Thx brother 4 everything u do. Very Appreciated. Would luv 2 chat if u ever had time? Thx
I'd like to know what you guys think of the given flowering time on websites that sell seeds. I've had stuff labled as 9-10 weeks seed to harvest and it took 15. How much variablility is there because of stress?
That’s all marketing, always check for 50 to 60 percent amber in the trycom crystals, I always go at least 3 weeks extra. Stressed plant needs a week to a month to get out of it once you find the problem. Depending how bad the stresser was. Example in Veg. too much magnesium had to flush it out, took a month for the random leaves to stop dying off. Have to wait a month before I flower for seed, Or fruit.
the flowering times on packs are often an average grow time from what the breeder and their testers saw in their grows. Everyone's environment will be a bit different and this can effect grow times.
Yeah I had a GG#4 auto from fastbuds with some sort of issue in flower maybe phosphorous deff. or overwatering. Never expected it to affect the finish time so much. Thanks for the tips.
@@aychemarajust stop.
Hey DGC, I'm going to try Grow Dots in Coco Coir. Should I use light, moderate, or heavy amount of Grow Dots? Do i need to add any supplemental nutes?
For an inert media like coco you will want to use the heavy dose, besides weekly application of Recharge the only other supplement we recommend is some type of silica.
Bring them dots & recharge over to Europe Scotty my man!!! ❤
We are working on it!
@@ScottyReal420work harder, stick some in a box and pop a label on it fella.
My buckets and resupply of grow dots and recharge are on the way 🎉🎉🎉🎉
They don't ship to my country. Gutted.
@@eugene2876 damn that sucks man where ya live??
Hell Yeah, How have your grow Dot Grows been going?
@@ScottyReal420 so far I’m liking what I see. I’m actually gearing up to test your buckets and dots vs the autopot and coco a & b system to see what is most friendly for new growers. Gonna make a series of it! Keep rocking Scotty someday we shall have an epic sesh 🤜🤛
@jaycrush4909 Scotland my friend.
Indoor seems like a lot of work
Is this technique for autoflowers and photoperiods?
This is more for Photoperiod plants.
I used worm casting, pearlite and coco 20/20/60.. does the recharge work well with coco?
Recharge works well with anything bro
Yes. I'm doing exactly as you described and the recharge is working well.
Recharge works well with media based setups, only thing I don't recommend using it with it hydro systems like DWC or putting Recharge in a Reservoir.
@@ScottyReal420 I’m on week 6 of flower. But I’m going to get some for the next cycle of plants
Hey where can I get some recharge in Canada?I'm in Toronto area.Does your buddy get some out west
due to changes in Canadian Laws our shipments are being seized at the boarder and not making it through, until we can figure this out we are unable to Ship to Canada.
Sorry for hijacking I have a question about hardening off my seedlings. do you think I would know this by now considering I have had three harvest before this but how long do you keep a humidity dome over a seedling ballpark two weeks?
Yeh. Take it off several times a day to exchange air till week 2 then keep it off for linger periods. I'd keep it on over sleepy Time though. Wee gentle airflow while it's off to help harden up
If you have a humidifier running I take the tops off as soon as the Cotyledons leaves are up .. I like to toughen them up early. Remember although it's a magical plant. It's still a weed none the less. Most seeds wanna live and grow. Good luck
as soon as you can, the seedlings can dampen off if there is to much humidity and will benefit from gentle air movement, this will all depend of the environment of your grow. if it is to dry you will have to leave it on longer and pop the top a few times a day.
ok so kinda a slow harden off then. appreciate it man!@@eugene2876
ok cool see I am worried about drying them out. but i guess I need to get them acclimated at some point. thanks man!!
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Ha Ha, i was number 420 on the "Like" numbers... LMAO!!!
Are you for real?
Winning!
@@ScottyReal420 just purchased a 4.5 acre farm in MD. I want to grow a few plants so i'm a new sub looking for advice. Thanks for what you do.
why only grow dot avaible on canada site?
Due to changes in Canadian Laws our orders are being seized at the boarder and not getting through. Until we can figure out this issue we are unable to sell our products in Canada.
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assuming you have unlimited CO2 and Light in a Fog Ponic cabinet grow, I'm reading that the roots need CO2 as well. Any comment feeding the CO2 to the Roots first, then let the overflow hit the leaves on a up draft system? I'm sure I'll push it, but any idea how much is too much? Luckily here in Maryland I can always just buy, but I'm dissappointed in quality/consistency they push. The concept of the mid 70's (when I started) Mexican Speed weed has been lost in this world of hybrids. Attempting to acquire the finest sativa seeds which often include Panama or Hawaiian heritage. Comments on finest Sativa? Been fooled by the High THC couch lock Sativa "Hybrids" too many times, High Sativa contents are not as profitable.. THC sells which usually means a lot of indica couch lock heritage. Comments?
Addendum: Previously I did a closet 5 Gal Bucket Dirt grow with HPS lights. Excellent results (by chance?) for some cash only seeds from Holland! some recommended 24 hour lights, I believe near the end of flowering (which seems strange). Any comment on 24 hour lights ever in the grow cycle? The "Sativa" seeds.. got about 4 ft. tall, but manageable in a closet. What's the best way to accelerate flowering if these Sativa start getting too big? How about a comment on how to reliably pick "Mexican Speed Weed" from the Sativa "Hybrid" pile of stuff they push? They give the full THC/Terpene assay on the menu, but what constitutes the speed part has never been adequately explained.
I was just moving lights in veg for outdoor grow. I like to stretch plants while young. Less to lollipop. Then I move lights back down to get nodes closer. I increase air flow to make plant stronger too. This lets air flow around plant outside. Last year I even forced flowered before putting outdoor. I water tray from bottom. But have cold floor. Warm anaerobic is deadly to animals and plants. Cold anaerobic preserves stuff like meat, butter, and hides. I hate super market meat preserved in nitrogen. Nitrogenases are rapidly degraded by oxygen. For this reason, many bacteria cease production of the enzyme in the presence of oxygen. Many nitrogen-fixing organisms exist only in anaerobic conditions, respiring to draw down oxygen levels, or binding the oxygen with a protein such as leghemoglobin. The bacteria enrich the wood substrate with nitrogen through fixation, thus enabling deadwood decomposition by fungi.
Thanks for the info!
Thank you for your wonderful work 🙂 WHY always MORE "POTENT" 😢 WHY NOT "CLEANER"/"CHEMICAL FREE" & MORE EFFICACIOUS, Brah 🙂 If teaching for POTENCY is done why can't teaching for "clean"/"chemical free"/efficacy ALSO be done plz, Hoss 🙂
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@@ScottyReal420Cannot ONBOARD New Patients and welcome new people unless they can grow "clean" medicine = the market for the medicinal value of the plant is THOUSANDS OF YEARS with a market of nearly 8 billion 🙂The Potent DOGGASCAKE market is a SMALL FRACTION of that especially since few of us can titrate 24/7 🙂
@@ScottyReal420DOGGASCAKE is NOT selling in Thailand; it's failing: I talked to a man from France & he even complained that the USA flowers are TOO POTENT 🙂
@@ScottyReal420Chemically farmed INDOOR is going to lose & LOSE HUGE to "Chemical free" OUTDOOR bec. OUTDOOR has lower COGS & it's "clean" "chemical free"; INDOOR is going down like a 3 dollar Ho 🙂
Man who ever is asking Scotty questions needs to learn how to talk into the microphone
I crop steer like a blind driver🤘🪴💚
Wtf I was unsubbed again youtube Has to stop that!!
You too? I thought I was losing my mind!
Yes it does!
Have done works do you cry when you cut down your girls
maybe a little, but shhhh don't tell anyone.😂
Scotty, you sure can lay it down. Not so bro science anymore 😅
Little shots 😂 now that takes all day to do that . Give it all it takes every day and nothing less otherwise your growing medium isn't right.
Little shots referring to automatic irrigation. Specifically drip irrigation
@@chadmez5981 now that sounds better but on hot days better be dripping constantly.
Bullshit
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FYI , you don't use a HPS during the stretch " unless you want to lengthen the internodal distance to fill out a space, or your plant is too compact " .. You should continue with your MH till the start of week 2-3 then switch to HPS. The total stretch should be no more than 6-12" for Indica - sativa respectively .. Considering the lanky messes I've seen LED's grow , don't throw stones at HPS users, when you use Chinese LED's .. lolol
Dude needs to dial it back a bit. Couldn't make it 20 seconds good lawd
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Not Crop Stirring As I Understand It...🤫🫣🤔