alright. thanks! i’m fixin to start flushing with just straight ph’d water and some molasses to help with the waters ability to hold the ph.
I think your plant is a lot better than you think
These folks won’t let you fail
I swear they (we) think of other’s plants as our own and find a way to get it to the finish line
You’ll be smoking that bud before you know it
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HaHa! That’s what I want to hear. Thanks! I have just got done flushing the one plant and can’t make the ph go above 6.3 with ph’d water at 10. I have flushed about 15 gallons thru it. I’m going to let it ride at that 6.3 and add back into it a gallon of nutes at 1/2 strength. Give it a few days to dry out and see where I’m at.
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Good luck and even though I’m a noob I know a thing or two, literally, so feel free to ask if you need advice
If I don’t know I’ll help find someone who does and I’m good for a laugh now and then
I nuked my first Auto grow with FF nutes. Bad. Looked just like this. I find autos to be so different from one seed to the next. Each plant has its own needs.
I feed my autos REALLY lightly.
Do you have any recharge? If I had this plant and flushed like you did, I’d throw in a gallon of plain tap water (if my tap water was good) with a teaspoon of recharge. It would help chelate whatever nutes were available and help it bounce back.
6.3 That’s great man!
Out of Curiosity what was the initial and end PH on the runoff TDS too.
Molasses has Ca and Mg and K pretty low but.
One thing I haven’t yet seen mentioned is that flowering plants burn through a lot more P/K than they did in the early stages of growth.
I got MOAB bloom fertilizer on some others’ suggestions around here and it suggests 1-2 tsp per 5gal water during the final few weeks of flower.
Magnesium and potassium deficiencies look similar to me, and if you’ve been feeding CalMag I’m less inclined to believe it needs more.
For what it’s worth, I also started with the FF trio liquid nutes and abandoned ship 1/3rd into my grow - felt like I spent a good $ on them and had to go back and buy four more supplements just to cure all the veg deficiencies and get rid of salt buildup. On Jack’s 321 now and pleased as punch. It works well with my lazy approach and hybrid soil/hydro habitat.
Ps I’m out of Likes but have been reading along. You’re in good hands with the growers around here.
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I also can’t speak enough about jacks and just how simple it is
I’m so glad I started wit it rather than something else
The first 5 gals of flush was the only one with molasses in it. The rest was ph’d water. initial ph at start was 6.0 , that was the runoff ph from last watering 3 days ago. ph of run off just now is at 6.3.
Run off ppm is 322 ppm(500) scale.
Thanks! I have also just abandoned ff trio. I had originally purchased bergmans fertilizer when I purchased the seeds. I used them for the first time at the last watering. Reason was that problem with the plant looked like maybe a potassium deficiency to me and trio has low levels of that according to the bottles. As i understand it anyway. The bergmans have much higher levels of the P and the K in it. Hence my move to the bergmans. I did not put cal-mag in this feeding. I think I have been putting way too much in it anyway. read the directions when i first got the bottle and somewhere along the way started screwing that up.
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Thank you too Mr. Wormwood! I have already ordered jacks. Just waiting on it too show up. Maybe tomorrow. But I am saving that to start my next grow which is going to be in coco coir. Just looks easier. Maybe quicker to mess up but also quicker to correct.
I don’t have any recharge. But if it’s something I’m going to need for coco then I will get it. Not goin to spend much more on this grow. Just wnt to make it to the finish line with this grow so I can move on to my next grow and hopefully do it a little better around next time.
They sell small sample sizes of Recharge. Go to Realgrowers dot com
gotcha. Thanks and I will check it out.
You’re at .6 EC if my math is correct and you should be at 1.8ish. 6.3PH now in runoff and assumed root/medium. I’d feed 1/2strength at 6.5PH, and see if that moves in the right direction, in a day or so on the newer growth.
With that low Ph tap water, I’d always aim at the high end of the soil range or a click or 2 higher.
Also I’d get a water sample tested for your sanity to see what kind of dissolved solids are and my suspicion “Are not” there. 4.8 is low, like rot the teeth out of your face low. CocaCola is near 5 and it’ll dissolve rust.
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That is exactly what I did. Minus the cal-mag and molasses. Now that I think about it, I didn’t have any problems initially starting to feed the plants. Seems like my issues started after I started using cal-mag and molasses. But I’m sure it was probably overkill on the cal-mag. I was using it every watering. I was told that since my water was so clear i should start adding cal-mag when I watered since my water was not adding anything. That may have been a mistake.
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ordered a 3 pack of those samples. will add them when they get here per directions.
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As opposed to what?
Muddy water?
LOL! I suppose. In other words, it just don’t have much of anything at all in it as opposed to tap water that may have some beneficial minerals or what ever in it. Said adding cal-mag to r/o water was normal.
my water is not r/o’d. But it has the same qualities I guess?
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