misting

[stinkyattic]

If you are misting STOP now. Cannabis dont like it. There are some technical reasons. You can burn your plant and cause troble with the plants biochem.
Im sure you will get more info soon but for now do not mist your plants.
Cya
Sweet Leaf Dreams

I wish people would not post responses to things they aren't even close to understanding.

You can't burn the plant by misting it with plain water.

Misting is a stress reducer and more... foliar feeding is great. Some insect problems can be alleviated by misting. Dust can be washed off the leaves. You can add neem to the mist and make your plants shiny and pest resistant.

You know, in cannabis' natural habitat- OUTDOORS- it RAINS too! Omigod!


**GROAN**

[Garden Knowm]

Is Foliar feeding necessary in your opinion Knowm?

"NECESSARY"

FUCK NO... not even close to "NECESSARY

LOL

JDOGG clearly has had success with foilar feeding... and I am not dogging his technique...

I personal think the risk outways the benifits...

did I say benifits... HHAHAHAHAHA..

: )

[Garden Knowm]

HI Stinky!

Funny you shuld bring that up... cause many many people and many many books say that misting with the lights on can burn your plants.. both indoor and outdoor..

theses are not just cannabis books ....I am talking about..
It is general consensus amongst most garden books.. do nt water in direct light.. IT WILlL BURN YOUR PLANTS

THAT BEING SAID.. i have never seen such a burn with my own eyes.. i have never even seen a picture of such a burn... and I have done some minor research on the subject... It is one of the mystery's of gardening.. LOL

iloveyou


either way.... you are walking a thin line by speaking so adamantly about a subject, while accusing others of being wrong.... LOL

cheers : )

[stinkyattic]

Hi Knowm,

I will concede that you can give your plants sunburn. However:

The poster seemed to mean chemical/fert burn when he/she said it would mess with the plant's biochemistry or whatnot. You can't give fert burn misting with plain water.

The burn that you can give your plants by watering in sunshine is small spots of sunburn where a droplet sat on the leaf. If you add a surfactant such as Safer soap, it breaks up the surface tension of the water and no droplets can form.

I have seen these sunburns with my own eyes, on my rose garden outdoors, when large droplets of dew have sat on the petals too long. You get pale polka-dots.

Misting even without a surfactant indoors, with the temperatures being what they should be, the droplets will be quite small and evaporate before causing damage.

WATERING on the other hand has the potential to put larger droplets on the leaves that can focus light like a magnifying glass and can sit there long enough to damage the plant before evaporating.

I haven't seen books say not to mist in bright light, but they DO say not to water in direct sun.

Clearer, I hope.

[m.g.]

also, please don't compare indoor growing with outdoors. there are very few similarities between the two and it'll just fuck up the new growers telling them stuff like it 'rains outdoors' or 'it's never totally dark outside, (so why should it be inside). there are few comparisons between the two other than the plant.

[9ski9]

I mist every day during veg. It raises the humidity, cleans leaves, etc...all good benefits. The trick is to use as fine a mist as possible. Large water droplets on the upper leaves can magnify the light and burn leaves. As I've posted before, I nearly killed a Japanese Cut-Leaf Maple by allowing water from a hose to stand on the leaves under the sun. Burned the Hell out of it.

But I stop during flower because---as has been said---there's a risk of mouldy buds because of the small spaces the fan doesn't reach. You want to mist, but you also want to be sure it evaporates in a reasonably short time.

[Jdog7000]

also, please don't compare indoor growing with outdoors. there are very few similarities between the two and it'll just fuck up the new growers telling them stuff like it 'rains outdoors' or 'it's never totally dark outside, (so why should it be inside). there are few comparisons between the two other than the plant.

This is very true.
Growing indoors is way more difficult.

I should have explained why misting works for me.
First of I mist with a tiny bit of organic grow formula.
Here's a quick example of the suuccess I've had lately.
I brought my Black Bubba Plant home the other day and it was a tad underfed.
I transplanted it and sprayed it about 3-4 times in a few days.
It not only healed the yellowing parts of the plant.
The whole plant looks healthier and less stressed.
I don't suggest doing it unless there is a problem.
Or about 2-3 time before flowering.

Then I got a clone of Oguana Kush in some RW that is sitting here waiting for a friend to trade for the Bubba Kush and Stuff.
It started getting rootbound in the RW Cune so I began to spray it for a few days.
All the yellow went away.
I stacked it ontop of another cube and they are doing fine.:thumbsup:

Just thought I'd give you guys some hard evidence that this works.
The important thing is to not spray your plants with chemical nutes.
This is what b urns your plants.
Use organic's for misting.
Alfalfa pellets work really well in veg.

[stinkyattic]

The important thing is to not spray your plants with chemical nutes.
This is what b urns your plants.
Use organic's for misting..

Right on.

Alfalfa pellets work really well in veg.

Okay, I've read about this being a common slow-release fertilizer that is good for guerilla growing and it's funny I was just thinking this week, hmm, wonder if they can be applied indoors?

Do you know offhand if they are useful for buffering pH as well?

[Jdog7000]

No, you need some lime in your soil or some ph controling up or down for that.

[stinkyattic]

Yeah, I'm using lime already mixed in with my seaweed compost but I read that cottonseed meal could buffer the soil. I'm going out on a limb here that the cottonseed and alfalfa might have somewhat similar effects...Is this just crap info?