ToyzOfDesire

Id at least cut back on the nutes If I were to do this , id actually not fert the last week or 2 unless it showed it needed it, and mabey do it for a week and a half for soil instead of a week for hydro, I water my plants about every 3-6 days so in the last week or 2 id do what they are doing here and put that in soil, but make sure after that itll be growing for about 10 days and itll still need to be watered 1 or 2 times more and mabey,, mabey, if your babies are hungry lill devils and grow centimeters a day on most ends, I would feed it with that again lighter on the next watering.

I will be doing this now that I have seen this

HydroSan

Hi guys,

of all the wierd & wacky ideas i've read this one looks like it's worth a try, I'm not sure about lemon juice from the supermarket though, addatives & preservatives etc.

I use a powdered citric acid for wine making, i think that would be better.

If you also make the wine you can connect a hose from your fermentation vessel to your growroom for free C02, not news I know but every little helps.

Regards
HydroSan

ButterflyDreams

Wal-Mart Brand Lemon Juice from Concentrate.

Vitamin C - 2% of a 2000 calorie diet.

Contents - water, lemon juice concentrate, lemon oil, 1/40th of 1% Sodium Bisulfate, and 1/40th of 1% Sodium Bisulfite (preservatives)

NET Contents = 32 Fl. Oz. ( 1 qt ) 946 ml.

I think the sodium may negatively effect the plants. Would 1/40th od 9.46 ml (0.2365 ml ? ) be enough to cause the problems normally associated with Sodium?

I'll start the citric acid regimine as soon as I find some.

Smiles,
BD

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OzGrowa

For any folks in the USA there is an iced tea drink called 'Liptonice that comes in a foil packet, this is citric acid and sugar and can be used.

tryto avoid any sodium ions from making there way into the mix too, sodium is bad news for the ladies

Regds,
OzGrowa

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biologist

i have been using diluted molasses (source of citric acid and sugars)in my soil durring the flowering stage my plants now has a very faint mellow smell about it now. the plant is healthy and im happy and no one can smell my tree so its all golden

Couchlock

whats up, just wanted to know if you could use orange juice to add an orange flavor or any other citrus fruit?

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HashHound

I just wanted to warn everyone about some potential side effects of using this recipe. At the time I was using a 5 Gallon DWC and was in 4 weeks of veg when I added the mixture of citric acid and raw sugar. The very next day a thick layer of clear jelly (mold, fungus?) took over my entire bubbler. The airstones were covered in about an inch of this stuff, as was the entire root system. I ended up losing the plant to this. Since I used an organic sugar the first time, I tried again with some regular C&H raw sugar, and it had the same effect. I am not sure if the mixture introduced the mold/fungus or just escalated it.

I know that many people have used this recipe successfully, but I just want to advise everyone to test it out first to make sure that this doesn't happen to you. Trust me, it's quite scary to see your plant die like this.

If anyone has any idea of what this stuff is, I would be interested to know. It's a thick, slightly white jell that doesn't seem to be affected by copper fungicides. It is quite hard as well, kind of like a thick gelatin.

Alaric

Hey folks,

Know I'm a stranger here, and certainly not suggesting this doesn't work, but I am suggesting that adding organic stuff to a water culture environment scares the "heck" of of me because pythium often starts from there.

Also, if you can pull 2 per KW with GH nutes and ph up down---why take the risk? As for taste, ph adjusted water, 7-10 before harvest and bon apetite.

Stay safe,

Alaric

TheGreenMan

I don't know if/how well, this works I've not tried it myself.

As I read about it too late , it's now on my list of 'things to try next time'.

Once the crop is safely dried and cured (and not before), pop some in a jar.
On the inside of the jar lid use sellotape to stick down the edges of a piece of paper or tissue leaving the middle clear.
In the middle of the paper put a few drops of - well the version I read suggested vanilla essence.
I think the idea is to use some sort of concentrate/essence type stuff which will be potent enough to diffuse it's aroma into the jar full of Ganja (and therefore into the Ganja itself, der...), whilst not carrying so much volume of moisture as to risk starting off any rot or mould. Also on the lid it should not come into direct contact with the goodies.
I'm guessing there must be orange/lemon/lime(Mint?) essences available from baking shops and such places and you just have to find what ever tickles your fancy (!) and use that.(But not in the street where it might frighten the horses).

Hope it helps, good luck.

Green Man

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I'd love to hear from anyone who's tried this and knows if it works or not............
Oh and couchlock, it's generally not recommended to add or use anything like that to live plants or to produce which has not been completely dried and cured yet (I tried putting some stuff in a jar with some Vanilla pods when it wasn't dry yet (like an idiot), and it all went mouldy Mind you I ended up smoking it anyway..... . . . . .

TheGreenMan

I have a coupla questions.
First I made up a litre of this stuff and had it in a seethrough/blue bottle in a cupboard and some mould stuff started to grow in it. I poured it through some sieves a few times to get the gak out.
I was wondering if there is some way of stopping that stuff as it seems to be coming back again {actually I think I'll just chuck it out and mix up another smaller batch, like 1/2 or a 1/4 of a litre}

Anyway I'm not so-o-o much concerned about that as I am about this other thing.

I discovered in the aquarium dept. little tablets of Potassium Chlorate ~ "Oxygenating Tablets" ~ they're meant to be put in fish tanks but I figured, well if the roots love a drop of oxygen, put them in the res and maybe it'll work better than the H2o2, maybe it won't- maybe it's really bad sh!t and you should find out before trying it- I then thought, and have been trying to find out ever since.And I still am.
Now it may seem a tad off topic but in more than one thread I read that Potassium Chlorate mixed with Raw sugar has a habit of going BOOM
So I guess I could go out into a field with a bucket of nute solution, add some of the raw sugar citric acid recipe, and then add a couple of the tablets and see if I survive or blow up . . . . .
OR
Maybe someone out there knows something/anything about this please ? Also about whether or not Potassium Chlorate Aquarium Oxygenating Tablets are a good way to give the roots some of that stuff or is it best to use H2o2 or best to use both or one after the other or Freakin what ??

PLease tell me if you know, and if you don't know, then go and find out, and then come back and tell me, if you want to, please.

TYIA

Green Man