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GrowingGramps
GrowingGrampsstarted grow question a day ago
Last few days spots are showing on the leaves and growth has become less. Any ideas what it can be? Feeding 3ml alga grow per 1,5l each time i water them.
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Leaves. Color - Mottling
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 20 hours ago
https://plagron.com/downloads/en/alga-grow-tds https://plagron.com/downloads/en/green-sensation-tds the tech specs on it don't list any Mg and Ca, soil typically has an abundance of these outdoors. Bagged soil may not be the same and a lot of them are comprised differently then the earth outside. And if its is available to the plants is another thing. You soil from images in your diary looks to be promix by plagron, its ingredients are peat moss and worm castings. Its lacking any aeration like perlite or vermiculite and I see this as a problem. I also find Peatmoss can become acidic over time and to much worm castings make it mud. Kind of a shit substrate in my opinion, If you added in around 30% perlite and treated it like soilless it could be ok. You should also link your diary to the questions for better access to information. growdiaries.com/diaries/249421-zamnesia-seeds-runtz-automatic-grow-journal-by-growinggramps/week/1386805 https://plagron.com/en/hobby/products/promix Worm castings can contain high amounts of Ca and Mg, however it all depends on what they are feeding the worms and how they where raised. they sate the medium has a ph and EC range so guessing its not a tightly controlled product. pH: 6.1 - 7.1 (1:1.5) EC: 0.4 - 1.1 mS/cm (1:1.5) You can and should use their grow schedule calculator. It will susgest/sell you more of their own crap, but you can use another brand that checks all the same boxes and does not cost as much. https://plagron.com/en/tools/grow-schedule-calculator It will only email it to you, so that's stupid, but guess it works to their advantage so they can spam yea later. They do not even recommend using alga-grow in their quick glance of things they advice when making the schedule. Odd. I find they have to many options and most of them are just trash from substrates to fertilizers to addativies. Its why I don't like this brand. They also have a bunch of BS about some of their products and claim it is liquid gold and "special carbon". Shity company and snake oil. Your going to want to add in something that is a more well rounded option for macros, NPK, secondary macros, SCaMg and micros, Might only need something with Ca and Mg as well as some microbes and or enzymes.
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Seedler
Seedleranswered grow question a day ago
hey! since this is really early and the soil looks really really wet on the pictures, i would guess that's the problem and that's why the plant is looking like that. You have really intense LED lighting on? Then that might be the reason the plant shows magnesium deficiencies, try using a calmag fertilizer. don't forget some fertilizers need quite some time until the plant can do anything with it. If you really feed 1.5 L of water for that small amount of a plant, then im sure thats the problem, you drowing the roots(water is in the soil for SO long, the plant can't absorb any oxygen) ant waterlogged (at least thats my opinion, good luck on your problem
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PenguPoop
PenguPoopanswered grow question a day ago
The soil looks pretty damp and there is already a layer from watering. Do you got holes in the bottom of your Buckets ?
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einamio
einamioanswered grow question a day ago
Hey growmie, that looks like a beginning of calmag deficiency although some might say it's too early at this stage to develop one. Interveinal cholorosis in older leaves might be a sign of this. I suggest trying adding some calmag with your next feed and monitor the symptoms. Also 3ml of algagrow per 1.5L sounds like a lot, I don't have Plagron schedules next to me at the moment but I highly recommend using 25-50% if the prescribed dosage for the first month at least. Autoflowers usually need much less nutrients. Good luck!
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