Nute burn or Deficiency. Day 63 Flowering

[AlChemist333]

Dont flush your good soil! Its alive and ready for the next run.Maybe it needs nothing but water next run.

So today I said fuck it and decided to flush my plants. After the first flush, I checked the PPM and pH of the runoff. The PPM of the run off was 3200 and the pH was 5.4. Not sure why my soil pH is so acidic, I pH to 6.5 every watering. I’ve notice that when I use molasses and water and I don’t use all of it and want to use the remaining volume for another watering, I’ll check the pH and the pH would be more acidic than when I pH’d it for the previous watering. Other than that I can’t think of anything that would I made my soil so acidic. After flushing with just plain water the pH rose to 6.3-6.4 ish. I’m going to let them sit for a few days and see how they do but with it being this late and flowering I might just reframe from adding more nutes. But I do need to determine what cause more soil pH to become so acidic.

 

[Redskare87]

So are you suggesting that I flush the amended soil I have?? Then starve them for a little then feed them again with slow release nutes at Week 10 of flower? They’re close to being finished. I’m more worried about destroying the eco system of my soil. Or am
I just over thinking?

I would just remove as much as possible and water as usual with plain water

 

[Redskare87]

So today I said fuck it and decided to flush my plants. After the first flush, I checked the PPM and pH of the runoff. The PPM of the run off was 3200 and the pH was 5.4. Not sure why my soil pH is so acidic, I pH to 6.5 every watering. I’ve notice that when I use molasses and water and I don’t use all of it and want to use the remaining volume for another watering, I’ll check the pH and the pH would be more acidic than when I pH’d it for the previous watering. Other than that I can’t think of anything that would I made my soil so acidic. After flushing with just plain water the pH rose to 6.3-6.4 ish. I’m going to let them sit for a few days and see how they do but with it being this late and flowering I might just reframe from adding more nutes. But I do need to determine what cause more soil pH to become so acidic.

It’s because you’re using RO water without ions to buffer the fertilizer in the soil, and your adding acid to RO water which will keep dropping ph way after you test it. Mix RO with your tap water to add ions next time

 

[myke]

Well im no pro but my thoughts are that all your nutes that you flushed out is why your ph is reading low.If i mixed my bottle nutes to 3000ppm the ph would be really low.So all you did was wash out the nutes.I could be way off so take it with a grain of salt.My question is now whats the plan?The soil has no food,roots are soaking wet.

 

[Redskare87]

Well im no pro but my thoughts are that all your nutes that you flushed out is why your ph is reading low.If i mixed my bottle nutes to 3000ppm the ph would be really low.So all you did was wash out the nutes.I could be way off so take it with a grain of salt.My question is now whats the plan?The soil has no food,roots are soaking wet.

Yeah that’s a good point, definitely a contributing factor I’m sure, that and dirt particles. I’d put a fan blowing on the top of the pots and keep a eye on the chomes after removing any top dressed kernels or its likely to keep burning and slowing the process

 

[myke]

Oh I got this mixed up with another thread. Part of growing in soil with dry amendments is being patient and learning from ea grow. At over 2 months of flower I don’t think yo can really change anything what’s done is done.learn from it. Move on. I thought this was an organic living soil grow so that’s why I was saying don’t flush as I thought you would want to re use the soil next run. Remember what you did this grow and learn. To speed up the learning curve have a few plants so you can experiment with the soil. Cheers.

 

[AlChemist333]

Oh I got this mixed up with another thread. Part of growing in soil with dry amendments is being patient and learning from ea grow. At over 2 months of flower I don’t think yo can really change anything what’s done is done.learn from it. Move on. I thought this was an organic living soil grow so that’s why I was saying don’t flush as I thought you would want to re use the soil next run. Remember what you did this grow and learn. To speed up the learning curve have a few plants so you can experiment with the soil. Cheers.

Yea man this has definitely been a learning experience for me. After I flushed the plants Naners started appearing everywhere. Went to check on the plants today and there are growing seeds for whatever reason. There were no male plants in the tent so they had to Hermia out on me. But it’s weird being that I’m on Day 65 of flower. And it’s too many to try to pick off but then again having seeds isn’t completely a bad thing. And my trichomes are still clear, they’re not even cloudy yet so I’m not sure what’s going on or what to do lol..

 

[Redskare87]

just pull off as many as you can and keep watching the trichs, if they start showing signs of pollination everywhere chop em.