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ganzigunnu
ganzigunnustarted grow question 2 years ago
Blueberry Kush Auto day 56. 3 weeks into flower last two feeding 2ml calmag, 1 ml bio grow, 2 ml bio bloom basically. the microbes product raises ph to 7.5 and I feed without adjusting. Is it okay? it showed excess N so I didn't go up for more. and she has some blackparent dots.
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Leaves. Color - Yellow
Feeding. Chemical composition
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GrowingGrannie
GrowingGrannieanswered grow question 2 years ago
No, she's not demanding more N... she's telling you she has too much of it.... that and a pH that is much too high has caused a lockout of calcium and/or magnesium so no matter HOW much calmag you give her, she's not going to be able to get at it. Microbes regulate pH??? Never heard of that - and if that was the case, there'd be article after article on it and no one would be using PH-UP or PH-Down.. seriously. You need to get back to neutral on this grow - give it a good flush (run water pH'd to 6.2 at the rate of 3x the pot volume so if you're growing in a 3 gallon pot, you'd run 9 gallons of water through it). After it's dried out, you can resume your nutes but at 1/2 strength for the first feed... you can increase thereafter but only 1/2 strength first feed. And always pH your water, your nutes - between 6.0 and 6.5 is ideal. If you're dead set again PH-Up or -Down, look for alternatives like vinegar or lemon juice to lower the pH and baking soda to raise it... but growing weed needs a proper pH first and foremost.... Good luck...
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TheFattyMcCoy
TheFattyMcCoyanswered grow question 2 years ago
GrowingGrannie is 💯 percent right. Nute lock. Humic/fulvic acid to chelate those locked out nutes. Got to pH, we all learn the hard way, I sure did. I started using much larger pots and going proper living soil, getting soil tests from Logan Labs, and dialing in the pH, bottle nutes have its own challenges as well. Best of luck and will stay tuned!
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ganzigunnu
ganzigunnuanswered grow question 2 years ago
the plant you see on the first picture is an afghani during the final weeks. I always fed them with at least 0.2 EC calmag first then add nutrients. it was all green yesterday and today I saw her like this. With this grow I didn't adjust the ph almost all the time because people say ph up or down products mess with the microbial life and the microbes have the ability to lower it but not raise so when I see pH is between 6 and 7.5 ı just gave it to the plant and lately in the flowering as the nutrient solution changes I started to see multiple deficiencies. I think it's pH causing all of this
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Sciolistic_Steve
Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question 2 years ago
not the right progression.. that is starting as interveinal and not creeping upward. several things cause interveinal chlorosis. i would wager Mg-deficiency... those actually occur 4-6 weeks before any visible symptoms.. this is a tidbit you can use while reviewing past notes and feeding regimen to eliminate the possibility. also, you need to look back more than a month to know if this is why... or to relate it to a change in beahviour at that time related to Mg etc etc... i also see a little autumn coloration in a leaf - little red in that first pic... so the plant is at or near senescence stage. it may just be dying, though the pic3 clearly shows it's nowhere near the end. so, i'd definitely tweak your feed a bit as the canopy has a ways to go yet before it can go kaput. The last pic does look like N progression -- bottom up and tip-in. So ensure pH isn't a problem. when i see more than one symptom it's typically an imbalance of nutes with one locking out others or pH swing potentially doign the same thing. or, may jsut need both N and Mg. (consider the progression of the leaves seen in 4th pic given here.... if that started as interveinal, ignore the N-def option... N deficiency does not start as interveinal chlorosis.... it can sort look that way further into progression but the order in which it occured matters)
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