Foliar feeding frequency?
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Thanks for the advice. It was my understanding that treating the soil with lime will take longer to cure the problem. I'm in the 4th week of flower but I haven't noticed bud development slow down from it. I checked the ph of the runoff and it was 5.4 so I thought maybe it was locking out calcium. I flushed the 3 gallon container with 6 gallons of 7.0 water then added some dissolved lime that I measured the ph at 8 for hoping it would raise it but the runoff still measured at 5.45. I'm not really sure what else to do. This is my first grow.
topfuel29
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Do both, Foliar, and fix the pH of your soil. It shouldn't take to long to fix your soils pH
Even if your soil rebounds to pH 7.0 that's better than anything below 6.5 pH -IMO
ThorGanjason
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Just a piece of advice: dolomite lime is non-water soluble, and thus isn't readily available to the plant. If you are going to Foliar feed you ought to go with something water soluble like calcium nitrate, which will also give it nitrogen. If you're in flower a little nitrogen won't hurt but back off on anything else that has nitrogen if you do.
But yeah, if I'm not mistaken dolomitic lime takes time to be broken down by bacteria. And I'm not sure how long you've been growing, but to really utilize foliar feeding to its fullest you really need to get a good feel for how the nutes help (or burn) after feedings, how much water they use, etc. Fokiar feeding takes advantage of the plants ability to translocate nutrients throughout the plant (other than just from the roots to the top). But until you really get a feel for how much she sweats, how much she eats, etc I would just caution you to be careful, bc you can wind up getting problems quick. But I have seen people foliar feed with great results
But yeah, if I'm not mistaken dolomitic lime takes time to be broken down by bacteria. And I'm not sure how long you've been growing, but to really utilize foliar feeding to its fullest you really need to get a good feel for how the nutes help (or burn) after feedings, how much water they use, etc. Fokiar feeding takes advantage of the plants ability to translocate nutrients throughout the plant (other than just from the roots to the top). But until you really get a feel for how much she sweats, how much she eats, etc I would just caution you to be careful, bc you can wind up getting problems quick. But I have seen people foliar feed with great results
whats the best way to raise the ph? And how do I know what ph to use to bring it up to the right amount? Thanks for that chart btw.Do both, Foliar, and fix the pH of your soil. It shouldn't take to long to fix your soils pH
Even if your soil rebounds to pH 7.0 that's better than anything below 6.5 pH -IMO
bird mcbride
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I use plant ash to up the water ph in flood and drain hydro. Soil is an entirely different story. In soil the only safe way to change the ph is to transplant into some properly ph'd soil. I foliar feed every five to seven days regardless of the stage the plants are in, straight outta the res. Then I'll top up the res by spraying with fresh water for the budders. I do all this before I sweep and mop the floor. My moms are drain to waste(berry bushes).
I matched the problem from the pictures in a guide posted in a sticky for this section. The pictures looked exactly like the late stage calcium deficiency. My humidity is about 25%.
bird mcbride
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I'm so glad that someone put up that chart. It sure saves me a lot of arguing. They even got all the colors correct
I didn't think about it not being a soluble carbonate... I was just following the solution in the problems guide. It said to add 1 tsp of dolomite to 1 gallon of water and foliar feed. This is my first grow and I've never even smoked before to be honest. Was hoping to try it for the first time. So needless to say I'm a noob lol. I love plants though and these are exciting to grow. I def don't know how to do nutes though. I've just been using half strength and crossing my fingers lol.