With my goals being being to both learn how I want to approach my future grows and hopefully have a good, tasty first yield, I am trying to combine a solid understanding of method and result. I would like to do this as organically as I can, though I want my dogma to be a bit more eastern(as in a practice and desire) as opposed to western(where the modality is immovable). The very word "organic" has evolved in what it really means over the last 20 years to where many of our local farmers who are the most concerned with providing healthy food for their community see the term and the way its regulated as not always being the best for either the people who eat the food or for the planet.
Each challenge has been a great learning point for me, and the wide range of information that I get to my questions has been helpful in finding my path forward. I like understanding things, and the knowledge and learning is every bit as important to me as the end product.
I called Botanicare to ask if their Calmag plus killed beneficial organisms. I talked to one of their tech people. He said that it would have no effect on beneficials unless it was severely over-applied. I also asked an organic science friend of mine about using PH up and down. Same--He said the issue would only be if the PH swung out of levels that the organisms could live in. Whether you use lemon juice(citric acid), vinegar(acetic acid) of PH down(acetic and phosphoric acid), they all do the same thing, and none of them affect the "organic" content more than the other.
In any case, I added some vinegar to get my PH down to around 6.5. I have a small amount of Calmag in the water, just in case it is a non PH calcium deficiency.
My plants are just hitting 4 weeks of flower. I need to stabilize the necrosis of these leaves so the G13 can go the full 10 or so weeks.
Its been a good 1 1/2 weeks since the symptoms started and the less invasive methods weren't working.
Thanks again for all info and help.
