It’s large enough to give me a lot of trouble. But not industrial large if that makes sense lol
Shop vac is a good idea, I just don’t have one and most seem expensive. Could be a future investment though, they’re useful.
Thank you
@Willk, you can purchase them as small as 1 gallon and fairly in expensive around here at wally world. We had an issue with stink bugs where I live and I purchased a 1 gallon just to vac them up for disposal. I used to be a contractor so I have some larger sizes also. If you use the smaller just make sure that you empty depending on how much liquid you are removing
I don’t believe we have met here yet, but with that I would like to Welcome you to our world of growing here at ILGM and to our community of awesoe foke which i’m sure you have already met.
@PurpNGold74 … I saw your post and well. yes there is…SOrRY CHIEF!
Anyway your answer is …
A magnesium Deficiency,
As manganese deficincies are mostly characterized
by interveinal chlorosis which is a yellowing of the leaves between the
veins with the veins remaining green. The browning spots is called marginal
necrosis which is usually caused by a calcuim or magnesium deficiency.
A magnesium deficiency can be quickly resolved by watering with 1 tablespoon
Epsom salts/gallon of water. Until you can correct nutrient lockout, try foliar
feeding. That way the plants get all the nitrogen and Mg they need. The plants
can be foliar fed using ½ teaspoon/quart of Epsom salts (first powdered and
dissolved in some hot water). When mixing up soil, use 2 teaspoon dolomite lime
per gallon of soil.
If the starting water is above 200 ppm, that is pretty hard water, that will
lock out mg with all of the calcium in the water. Either add a 1/4 teaspoon per
gallon of epsom salts or lime (both will effectively reduce the lockout or invest
into a reverse osmosis water filter.
Mg can get locked-up by too much Ca, Cl or ammonium nitrogen. Don’t overdo Mg or
you’ll lock up other nutrients.
Calcium deficiencies are difficult to distinguish visually as excess calcium may
produce deficiencies in magnesium and potassium.
B Safe
Will
Wow thank you! Great explanation, we haven’t met but I have read and used your posts. You helped me in the past.
Epsom salt then, should I still feed CalMag? Or switch to this. Also I have completed 3 weeks of flower now entering week 4, is foliar spray ok at this stage? I heard it could damage the flowers.
I do have both epsom salt and dolomite lime at home I mixed them in my soil for the recipe. I don’t think I added enough though. It was my first time mixing soil and a very small batch so I had to break things down. I think I used 1/2 tsp of epsom salt and one tsp of dolomite lime to my mix a whole bag of ocean forest.
Thank you for the great info
No just the Epson Salt and water and you should see in about 3 to 10 days a big turn around
Yooo G Man. Wats good dude. Didnt mean there was no deficiency. Just i could not recall thr one. Thanks for the save
Wasn’t saying anything cause your good and i mean " REAL GOOD "
You guys are the best
What they said, but really, yank that Bush out and make a way to sample your run off. Do the foliar magnesium treatment as @garrigan62 suggests and go easy on nutrients as that supersoil is pretty hearty stuff. Until you test the runoff PH ing your solution is like closing your eyes and play darts.
Will do, thank you
@garrigan62 @Myfriendis410 @Missiles @PurpNGold74
Today I managed to get all the water out of the bottom, could’t do it with a baster or anything else so my gf helped, I lifted up the plant she took out the tray. It was disgusting, mold, algae, you name it. I washed the tray and wiped clean. I didn’t think it would get that bad cause I thought the water would dry since there was a lot of room for air to flow. I was wrong. Im gonna have to do this every time I water. Which wasn’t that bad without the trellis net.
My EC meter is still on it’s way.
Today I watered with compost tea, I hadn’t fed them in a whole week and I had flushed with plain water three times, figured it was time to feed.
I used dolomite lime, flower girl, compost, casting, epsom salt, fishbone meal, humic acid, rock phosphate, seaweed extract and molasses. I PH down with distilled white vinegar. I think I overdid the tea this time.
I also mixed epsom salt in my sprayer for foliar feeding. No more calmag for now. I read into calcium toxicity and found the symptoms very similar. Freaked me out.
Trimmed all the sick leaves, and some of the extra ones. Overall looks well. Still see some yellowing, some burnt tips on bigger and older leaves. I hope she makes it, 4 more weeks to go.
FYI more like six weeks.
Go easy on your tea until you have a meter. PH’d water. As for foliar feeding with Epsom; unless there is a drastic issue it’s better to just water it in. Foliar sprays are prone to all kinds of other issues.
Noted. I’ll keep in mind.
I should make a simple tea next time. It was too much. It’s really tricky… your plant has too much of something that causes it to have too little of another things then you try to fix that and now you have excess of another… I’m struggling to figure out how to balance things.
Glad to hear you got that stagnant water out of there especially If it was as bad as you described 
I agree with Myfriendis410 until you get your meter and can get a good reading on her less is more right now.
When she gets this close to harvest. You will see yellowing It’s a sign that she is using her nitrogen not to worry
Ok my TDS meter is here, what does all this mean? What do I do?
I tested for some numbers, my tap is 385ppm which I don’t use for my plant or myself.
Nestle purified water is at 53ppm
Costco one gallon purified water that I water my plant is at 19ppm.
Is higher better? Lower? There isn’t a lot of info on the web, most people say they just ignore TDS all together.
And if someone could explain to me why this is important for growing cannabis I would appreciate it.
Those numbers all seem right in line. Most bottles or distilled water should be around that ppm. My well water starts out at 326 ppm. Is your tap water well or city?
City, I live in San Digo
If you use your tap water you will want to let it sit out for about 24 hrs to Aerate off the chlorine that is in it
Also here is a good thread that was done lately to explain ppm’s a little further and the importance