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Week 8
Flowering
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SparkyGrow SparkyGrow
22 days ago
Ok, I think I’ve found the issue and it’s totally my fault for not doing enough research on living soils. I have been watering my plants for nearly the entire grow with rain water collected off my shed roof. I assumed that rain water would be the best I could give them. Unfortunately it appears that science has other ideas. As far as I can work out from forums, rain water has so low ppm’s (TDS?) that it either strips the plant of nutrients or at least stops the plants from being able to take in nutrients. Therefore my plants are probably deficient in all they need 😞. I have top dressed and given a slurry of garden lime and tap water to hopefully give a boost of what they need most. As I don’t usually water until runoff I’m hoping the nutrients and bio diversity are all still in the soil ready for action. After a couple of days of tap water the problem doesn’t seem to be getting any worse and I think (hope) I’m seeing some improvement in the colour of the leaves 🤞
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Grow Questions
SparkyGrow
SparkyGrowstarted grow question 21 days ago
Has using rain water killed my living soil? Has anyone got experience of using living soil with rain water? Apparently the ppm is too low (just like RO water) for the plant to take in nutrients. So basically is my living soil now just soil or is the microbial life still there?
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Leaves. Curl down
Leaves. Color - Yellow
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 21 days ago
Looks like your having issues with some nutrients. I can see Calcium and maybe some Magnesium Iron and sulphur. Living soil is great, however it does need amending or it uses up all its available resources. The idea behind it is you feed the soil microbes who in turn feed the plant, This is believed to have better symbiosis and create a synergy between the plant and its soil and can lead to better abilities to fight off drought and diseases. but with out food for the microbes or the plant it runs out and in a pot this can happen fast. I find topdressing every 3-4 weeks helps but in transition to flower it needs a bit more. and unless the top dressing is getting mixed in well into the top later it is not going to decompose well. Plus if your disturbing the roots this can cause some issues so it almost always better to leave a few inches of head space in the pot so when you do top dress you have room to add in more soil and work in the amended into that new top layer. This is all not needed if you use liquid nutrition as it does not need to be broken down its good to go as is. It also looks like your plants are overwatered. and this can cause root issues that mimic a lot of issues. let em dry out more before giving more water or shelter them a bit if they outdoors, Next year add in more perlite to help it drain more effectively and not get water logged. Rain water is fine and should not be an issue unless you have very acidic rain PH below 5.5 or the thing your collecting it in is contaminated with something like bacteria fungi or chemicals. Good Luck!
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