PadawanWarrior
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What do you mean go back to feeding at half strength?
Possible phosphorus and calcium deficiency
- Thread starter Jimi O'Connor
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Phytoplankton
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Apparently he had topped dressed? Possibly too heavily.
PadawanWarrior
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That's what I was saying. It looks like it's in too hot of soil that didn't have time to cook or he added the top dressing and it's causing issues. Locking out some nutes and having toxic amounts of other nutes. Looks like unbalanced soil.
At first I thought he said he didn't add anything and then it sounded like he did. I'm gonna wait until he answers my questions. Underwatering will also just make it worse, but I don't know how moist his soil is.
PadawanWarrior
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It does look like he might have some bugs though. I can't zoom in much but I saw some black stuff that looks like poop, and maybe a thrip.
Jimi O'Connor
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Yea i top dressed them with the 4-4-4, not the full recommend amount, less then half, on my first grow with this soil the nutrients ended up getting cashed before the grow was finished so im not letting that happen again.
Im pretty sure the plant was over waterd. I need to figure out how much to water with the recharge when using the self watering cloth pot trays. I could put the recharge in the trays but im afraid that the trays and the wicks will get funky so idk if i want to do that. On the other hand it will remove the guessing game of hiw much water to pour in with the recharge because it will most likely over water the soil.
Are you familiar with the ac infinity self watering trays? There's a link to a video
Jimi O'Connor
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Just an FYI I just top dressed with gaia green, it takes about 2.5 weeks till the nutrients are available in the soil so its not because i top dressed, its because im using self watering trays that never over or under water in my experience, I just poured in to much water when I added the recharge.
The plant in question was well waterd by the wicks, the tray was filled up a little over half way and the gage that measures how much water is in the trays kinda sticks you have to flick them to see how much water is actually in the trays. I didn't know that at the time when I probably over waterd them.
Does that make any sense?
Jimi O'Connor
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The "black stuff" is dirt from when i turned the plants upside down to transplant them. There's no bugs, i looked with a microphone under the leaves and all over trust me
Hollatchaboy
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You'd be better off watering by hand. 5-10% water to soil volume. Just before any runoff.