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Skip nutrients

Lodzik
Lodzikstarted grow question 1h ago
Is it a good idea to skip all nutrients for one watering and just use water with enzymes? Thanks for the advice! 🍀
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Ultraviolet
Ultravioletanswered grow question 38m ago
For new grower: Sure go right ahead. For anyone seeking more indepth: If the salt capacity of the medium has reached its limit then yes. If the medium has no capacity to store salt cations, then all a "empty" watering will do is starve the plant. If your plant has a robust CEC (storage capacity) then water with enzymes/humic/fulvic, this will assist the plant in cycling the CEC for its nutrional needs, but only if a CEC exists, how often you will get away with doing "just" water it depends on how much CEC the medium can hold. CEC does not contribute to direct EC, when EC is high and continues to rise each watering it can be beneficial to do a wayer only to assist in reducing the EC, but if tje CEC is full, adding enzymes or micro nutes or humic/fulvic will assist in cycling CEC to fill the active water/soil solution with EC. Really depends on what you are trying to achieve. How you approach nutrient delivery. 98% nutrients uptake directly from water/soil solution. 2% hotake directly from soil particles. If the ph range skews from 6.3-6.7, the plant will be unable to use hydrogen and proton pumps to cycle the cec itself. In that case you need to add "something" to the wayer to assist with shaking the cations off the colloids and into the active water solution. If not water will stay empty. Gluck
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RasendeRollo92
RasendeRollo92answered grow question 1h ago
Hi 🙋‍♂️ Die Dünger für 1-2 gießvorgänge wegzulassen ist keine schlechte Idee, Vorallem wenn du mineralisch düngst… Mineraldünger basieren meistens auf Nährsalzen, welche den PH-Wert des Bodens stark beeinflussen können. Die Idee vielleicht nur bei jedem zweiten gießvorgang zu düngen finde ich also nicht schlecht & mache ich in der Tat auch so… Ich mache es allerdings vom EC- Wert der Pflanzen abhängig — ist der EC hoch genug, gibt es keinen Dünger. Ich hoffe das hilft. Teste es einfach aus & die Erfahrung wird dir schon sagen ob es das richtige war, oder eben nicht :) Happy growing 🤞🏽👊👌
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