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Magnesium deficiency correction with Epson salt while running autopots and Gaia Green

Whiteybulger1814
Whiteybulger1814started grow question a year ago
Ok I'm having a bit of magnesium deficiency and from my research I going to use Epson salt to correct it, I'm currently running my grow in autopots and I'm running full organic with Gaia Green and I want to know what people think for those who have experience, do I mix a batch in
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GrowingGrannie
GrowingGrannieanswered grow question a year ago
Well, a couple of things here. First of all, if you've ruled out all the reasons you may be seeing a magnesium deficiency (and there are several), simply adding epsom salts to your regimen is not going to magically provide your plant with more magnesium. All epsom salts does is to support the uptake of nutrients... it does several other things as well but none of them are related to magnesium. If you feel you have not been providing enough magnesium in your organic nutes, your best shot at correcting the problem is to use some dolomite lime... but Gaia Green has a good name and I would be suspicious if it DIDN'T have the proper amount of magnesium for a good grow. Honestly, I'd look at other reasons you've got the deficiency .... is your pH too low or too high? Is there an accumulation of salts that might have caused a lockout? Have you given calcium alone (not with magnesium)? Figure out the WHY first - then you can figure out the "what to do about it." Good luck!
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Sciolistic_Steve
Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question a year ago
as long as S isn't high, shouldn't run into any issues using magnesium-sulfate. you'd have to calculate what you feed and then consider how it occurs over time... so this will be a lot of trial and error on your part given your method of growing. You could work backward from what a soilless/hydro provides and figure out grams/week you need to add... my plants are happy around 80-85ppm Mg given every feed (100-110 ppm S). fwiw, i have very hard water and probably get some extra minerals from that too. i'm supplementing what is in my "Part A" base fertilizer with about 1g/gal of epsom salt. my total ppm is 85, but that again is a context of fertilizing every single irrigation with an ondemand concentration level of each molecule. YMWV - "will", not maybe... any foodgrade epsom salt willb e fine.. just make sure nothing added and just pure.. should have a guaranteed analyisis label saying it is 100% magnesium sulfate. e.g. a cheap equate brand from walmart, unscented is fine... don't have to overpay for it.. 6 $ for 8lbs and should last you 2 years or more.
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