So i just get worm castings put them in the top of my pot and water them?
You can, but top dressing can take a week to start becoming available. If you take a few cups and dump them in a bucket of water and stir it up every few hours for 24 hours then it unlocks the waiting period and it works immediately. Do you have any brown sugar?
True!. I get you now mate. Yup sure do
How much water do u reckon
I usually do 2 cups of castings to 5 gallons of water. With the brown sugar add a tablespoon to the 5 gallons.
Chemist warehouse sell it. Natural BlackStrap Molasses bro.
Half a cup to 15 litres of water.
A small micro mesh bag
2 cups of organic compost, 1 cup of worm castings ( bunnings)
Bubble it for 24 hrs … fkin bingo youre back in business
Once a week … add 1 heaped tablespoon of Dr Green Thumbs Bud and Bloom pk for flowering .
Problem solved.
No Nitrogen… just phosphorus and potassium in the Bud and Bloom
Ph with citric acid and baking soda
Thats alot of work when they only have 2 weeks to go and im selling my set up after. What if i just give them a huge feed of nutes im using the garden of eden pack
I wouldnt feed any more nutes then bro.
They will pull all the nutes out of the leaves now.
Just give them water .
Fuck theyve hardly even produced crystals
When you flushed the plant you removed the nutrients and it is now sucking nutrients out of the older leaves to put into the flowers and new leaves.
There are only 2 times you flush a plant. Maybe 3 if the cops are at the door and your getting rid of evidence.
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If the plant has been over fertilised and can’t take up nutrients, you can flush it to remove the nutrients and then start fertilising again straight away.
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A few days to a week or two before you harvest the plant, you flush it and don’t fertilise again. This removes unused nutrients from the soil and can reduce the weird taste that some people get from smoking the end product that has been grown with artificial fertiliser. Flushing before harvest is not essential but most people like to do this. If you are growing in hydroponics or coconut coir, you generally flush a few days before harvest. If you grow in potting mix or soil, you flush about 2 weeks before harvest.
If you are growing organically and haven’t added any artificial (man made) fertiliser, you don’t need to flush the plant before harvest.
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cmon… thats the last thing i needed to read
I already knew that but so called gurus told me i had salt build up. Which didnt make sense to me at all cos i havent over fed and now boom. Their fucked
Salt build up isn’t necessarily salt like sodium chloride that we put on chips. There are lots of mineral salts that can build up including calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, etc. If these build up in the soil it can cause problems and flushing can get rid of them. However, if you flush the plant and it doesn’t have a build up of nutrients, you get rid of the nutrients that are there and the plant starves and strips nutrients from the older leaves to put into the flowers.
If the pH of the water or soil is too high or too low, it can cause a similar result with the plant being unable to use the nutrients in the soil. Ideally the pH should be between 6.0 and 7.0.
I don’t think the plant is stuffed. I would just look after it (fertilise and water it) and see what happens. My last plant ended up looking like that due to lack of water and half the leaves dried out. The flowers were still fine.
Yeah they definitely gave me the wrong advice because one that was a tank is now yellow. And the already unhappy one is dieng quite quickly. Their definitely not under watered or under fed. I dont know what caused them to be upset in the first place
The biggest problem I have had with all sorts of plants over the last few years is root rot caused by bad potting mixes that work well for a couple of months and then they suddenly break down and collapse in on themselves. This stops air and water going through the potting mix and the plants wilt like they are lacking water and then die over the next week or two. I started adding coconut coir to the potting mix (50/50) and it made a huge difference. The plant roots can actually grow now instead of dying slowly.
The plants don’t need a lot of water and if the pot feels heavy then it probably doesn’t need watering. If you stick a finger in the potting mix a couple of inches below the top and it feels damp, it doesn’t need water.
If the plants aren’t being over watered and the potting mix is good (hasn’t broken down), then just fertilise then a couple of times a week and see how it goes. If you’re worried about too much fertiliser, use it at half strength, but do it a few times a week so the plant can get food again and hopefully recover.
As long as there are some green leaves and the leaves aren’t dry and crumbly, there is hope. ![]()
The medium is always a hard one to get right. I grow organic in living soil and now use Master Marks famous soil mix


