Rabeats2093
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Thanks for the input I appreciate it and oh yeah I should mention my soil is literally living soil lol
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HydroKid239
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I used bagged soil. Ff stuff. Not familiar, or even looked into living soil. Does that mean you don't need calmag or something?
Rabeats2093
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no idts anyway it’s horse manure that’s 5 years old I watered the other day and a couple worms came up along with one of those bugs that roll up into a ball
Rabeats2093
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If I have hard water does that provide plants with essential minerals to a extent cal.iron?
Doug Dawson
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If you have hard water than that classification starts at PH 8.5, that seems incredibly high. I know soil buffers some but that sounds like an issue. If using tap water you can likely lower your calmag and add some Epsom salt for magnesium. As a coco grower I would not take advice from me though, I don't grow in soil and don't want to steer you wrong. @PadawanWarrior grows in with some kind of no till soil, perhaps he has some soil advice?
HydroKid239
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It should. Whether it has enough for the plant is beyond my knowledge.
Rabeats2093
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Yeah no way to know unless I send a water sample was just curious thanks again man !
Rabeats2093
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Always did pretty good from the hose haha I mean I’ve been following a cut down version of fox farm nutrients feeding every other watering not gonna increase or decrease nutrients this run seems to be taking what I give it well
Doug Dawson
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Fair enough, as I say I don't want to steer you wrong as I am not a soil guy. I just think with the definition of hard water starting at a ph of 8.5 it is too high and could be locking things out. Take a look at this PH chart. A PH of 8.5 is leaving out most nutes and I don't know how good your soil corrects. Let's see what Padawan says regarding soil. I am sure a few adjustments will sort you out.
Rabeats2093
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No distress from them really unless this is just the start they r 61 days old and 18 days from flip yes I keep a log book...I really do enjoy this site and some people on here ..been a long time stalker now I’m a member
Doug Dawson
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Ok cool. Could just be to high a light intensity. Here are my 4 little girls about 64 days from seed.
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PadawanWarrior
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What type of water is it? Tap or well? It sounds like there's probably plenty of Ca if your pH is at 8.5.
And if you want a truly living soil, you need to lose the chemical nutes.
Rabeats2093
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I see someone that knows when to flip
insomnia65
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Anyone ideas on the plant in the second photo?
Rabeats2093
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It’s 60ft well gravity fed plus pump .I was just saying living because of the insects I have seen coming up to get air when I water .my soil is pretty much 5-6 yrs old horse and goat droppings with decomposed hay and some rotted tin . Black sand almost clumps for a second then falls back apart hold water pretty good
Rabeats2093
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Some insect getting a quick snack I suppose
Rabeats2093
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I was worried about running out of room so I was like yup trust your gut and flip them sluts
Dtownhellbilly
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I have hard well water, like 700 ppm hard. My ph out of the tap is 7.
im new to indoor growing but the research I’ve done is water as hard as mine can add to many minerals and lock out macro nutes.
PadawanWarrior
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Do you drink it?
Dtownhellbilly
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I grew up on well water so hard it turned blonde hair orange lol but here I drink it softened and filtered. I bypass the softner and dilute it with distilled water For the plants.