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Friday, May 27, 2016
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Spambie
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Langley, British Columbia
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Updated my above ground watering system. I have two options from above, one is an ultra fine mist that just cools when the days are hot and the other is a sprinkler system with rotor heads that throw small water droplets to irrigate the places my drip tape misses. I been playing around with a few growth hormones this year. The vigor i received from some trials have given me what appears to be 6 extra days ahead of my other plants. Their is a trade off with the growth i have been using as the plant was not rooting at the same speed of the forward growth, so i was alternating with my rooting hormones. The rooting hormones basically shut the forward growth down and focus on rooting this has to be done when you have a few cloudy days as the stress from direct sun would cause issues. It's a fine balance but i been playing around with these for years now and have a good system in place. For me growing the plant has always been very easy I know when to push them and I look at the forecast temps to see what they will be uptaking. If the temps are looking cold i run synthetic fertilizers to keep things going. Transitioning into fruit growth is where i always seem to have issues, after day 40 my numbers drop like a sack of rocks. I got a tip from Cecil this year that kinda of turned on light bulb for my patch. I have also been running real CO2 this year in two of my greenhouses and the results were so profound it's almost laughable. I was keeping them around 1800ppm during the day and they have now outgrown my greenhouses and since out in the 400ppm normal air they have drastically slowed down. For me automation is key since i can be gone for 5 to 7 days at a time for work. So having redundant systems in place to monitor my soil moisture is key.
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