hey bugeye,
got a quick question for you. In your gardens have you ever run across a strain that always shows Cal Mg def? Im working with black gold organic soil, cut with bat guano, perlite, castings, and compost. I been feeding AACT teas 2x a week with fish meal, kelp meal, castings, molassess, and alternate every other time with fruit bat guano and veg bat guano. I also throw them 4 ML/ gallon of Cal Mg from general organics. Its been the same thing I have done for well over a year now and my plants have always seemed to love it. Stay green like I want them to, and have robust growth and flowers. However I have run across one of my strains now that constantly shows cal mg def. and keeps losing the lowest sets of fan leaves. I was wondering what you would recommend? I don't want to flower a unhealthy plant, but at the same time, they are getting to be quite large now as I have kept delaying flower to see if this CAL mg issue is over. Oh by they way, they are in 5 gallon smart pots indoors under 600 Watt MH.
EDIT-noticed one other factor. I have 5 teens of this particular prob strain. Its actually one of my favs to flower to. I have wanted to test out different training techniques to see how it really effects yeild. Anyway, the ones that were mainlined/topped have shown the CAL MG def the longest and most consistently. The plant that was just allowed to "freely" grow has only minor shown the deficiency.
Thanks man!
papa