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This weeks was stressful, one of my autopot valves were missing the silicone: flood, overfilled the rez because I walked away from the 60 gallon res being filled by the 50 gal per day RO filter.
Plants handled the transplant well, used nursery bags and then cut the bag and peeled to transplant.
Accurate numbers for nutes that I started soil with up to transplant:
Startrex: 75 g
Mycotrex: 5g, 2 in hole 3 mixed in
Bactrex: 1 tsp
Orgatrex 2ml in liter water given
2 bio tabs
1 tsp silicum flash
I broke the front left (FSxNCH)plants stem while trying to lst using clips, I taped it and it recovered. They seem okay. I worked on setting up a better system for my seedlings so they will start better instead of only growing quickly when they reach their final pot
I added another plant to the mix. Added some biotabs compost tea with 2-3 pinches of kelp. My plants have a nitrogen toxicity but I’m really hoping they’ll grow out of it and I won’t have to flush
I have some black spots appearing on my leaves that are really worrying me. It appeared on one of the F1s first and the leaf died quickly, curling up and turning brown. Next leaves up are covered in black dots that don’t wipe off. This is usually about the time things get harder for me. Biotabs says not to worry about ph so I’m eyeing my nutes. Debating on adding starting at 1ml/gal calmag to offset the RO water. Not sure though.
Looks like your are in need of some calmag. But a pH between 7 and 8 is no good. There is a pH range where the plants can absorb nutrients. Between 5.5 and 6.8 is where you want to be within. Personally i like to keep my water pH at 6.2. I mix in some pH down, and test. Mix in a little more, stir, test. And i repeat this till i get my pH where i want it. Sometimes it takes me 10 to 15 minutes to adjust my pH. I do it slowly so as to not cause nutrients to bind to one another and render them locked out to the plants.
Calibrate your pH pen. Make sure it's accurate because it's critically important to get it right.
Calibrate pen and correct pH before doing any other changes. Also measure runoff pH to get a feel for your soil pH. Different nutes uptake at different pH ranges. I like mine to bounce between 5.5 and 6.5. Using RO water, you're probably gonna want to start using a CalMag supplement too. That's what looks like the issue is with your plant, but adding CalMag won't help if your pH is running too high.
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