seedling new growth slightly pale green. Nitrogen excess or deficiency?

mudballs

mudballs

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Oh depends on pot size and how hungry the plant's pheno is sometimes it's just once every 2 weeks you add a little top dressing sometimes I need a little more depends how your media developed through the grow. if you have to water very very often you have a more porous media with a lower cation exchange capacity and that must be accounted for by increasing the frequency of top dressing you don't go crazy. Once a week is not extreme but how much you put on could be extreme
 
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johnehazeharvester

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Thanks Mudballs. Makes sense. I was thinking 2 to 4 tablespoons per 5 gallon pot. It should have good cation exchange. I am currently reading Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition.
 
Hollatchaboy

Hollatchaboy

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Feeding schedule for dry amendments, has a lot to do with plant size, and soil volume. If you're trying to grow in a living organic soil, a large soil volume is ideal. Smaller soil volumes, you'll have a harder time keeping up with the plants nutrition demands, as it gets bigger, unless you supplement with a fish hydrolysate and seaweed fertilizer. It's not impossible with smaller containers, but it's more work, and you better know what you're doing.
 
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Nope_49595933949

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Hollatchaboy said:
Feeding schedule for dry amendments, has a lot to do with plant size, and soil volume. If you're trying to grow in a living organic soil, a large soil volume is ideal. Smaller soil volumes, you'll have a harder time keeping up with the plants nutrition demands, as it gets bigger, unless you supplement with a fish hydrolysate and seaweed fertilizer. It's not impossible with smaller containers, but it's more work, and you better know what you're doing.
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What do you consider to be smaller?
 
Hollatchaboy

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Nope_49595933949 said:
Cool, thanks. I think that's part of my issues I have. It's getting better but it's a real pain in the ass in a 5 gal fabric pot
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Look into sips. You can use a smaller volume of soil( like mine is 7 gallons). They keep your soil moisture level at almost perfect, and keeps the microbiology thriving.







A soil bed would be best though, but you gotta have the room for it.
 

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mudballs

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2-3tbsp per 5gal is good starter "amount" but no one but the grower can say when to repeat a top dressing in a 5g. I typically use 1-2tsp per 3g every weekish and its not hard
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mudballs

mudballs

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You know, think about a depleted micro nute way deep in a 40g tote.not so fast and easy to fix right?
That's my thinking...in a 5gal little faster to fix, in a 3g there is no fix needed
 
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