green as grass
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I'm told the soil i'am in which is fox farm ocean forrest, I shouldn't need any calcium or silicate and so on just my teas
Supplements that are or aren't needed in soil
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Nullis
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You shouldn't need anything for at least a few weeks, depending on your setup and how far along your plants are. I don't know what is in your teas or what you do with them (just foliar or fertigate as well), but at some point I would advise topping with additional nutrients or beginning to use small doses of liquid fertilizer. I would say after roughly three weeks to have some dolomite lime, crushed oyster or egg shell available to mix into the top inch of the soil and water in thoroughly to keep the pH from dropping.
green as grass
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You just may have answered all my questions, i was wondering if i would have to add lime to ffof as it would flush out after awhile. at the end of my grows in bloom the ph is always so drastically low and now matter how much i flushed,, the flush always did more dammage in my opinion.
4 week into bloom is when i notice cal-mag def. and it progressively gets worse even with lots of flushing and 1/4 strength nutes. I started adding in cal-mag and it was making it worse or if not any better. Due to low ph.
I Started spraying with cal-mag 1/4 tsp per gallon and it did more damage than good, it made my leaves dry.
My ppms are always low when i feed. People started saying flush if your soil is too low in ph because of too much nutrients built up. When I tested my ppm runoff it was only at 4-600ppm range in a 2 gallon pot with 2 month old plants.
Even with fresh soil strait outta the bag the ph is low with 6.8 ph water only ran through it, it came out at 5.8. i use to like FFOF until i started getting rusty nails and dirty bloody band aid's. but over the last 2 years i have bought it the mix has gotten shittier and shittier.
I've used Fox Farm's nute line up as well as brewing my own teas, now onto H&G soil line up. Still have the same end results
4 week into bloom is when i notice cal-mag def. and it progressively gets worse even with lots of flushing and 1/4 strength nutes. I started adding in cal-mag and it was making it worse or if not any better. Due to low ph.
I Started spraying with cal-mag 1/4 tsp per gallon and it did more damage than good, it made my leaves dry.
My ppms are always low when i feed. People started saying flush if your soil is too low in ph because of too much nutrients built up. When I tested my ppm runoff it was only at 4-600ppm range in a 2 gallon pot with 2 month old plants.
Even with fresh soil strait outta the bag the ph is low with 6.8 ph water only ran through it, it came out at 5.8. i use to like FFOF until i started getting rusty nails and dirty bloody band aid's. but over the last 2 years i have bought it the mix has gotten shittier and shittier.
I've used Fox Farm's nute line up as well as brewing my own teas, now onto H&G soil line up. Still have the same end results
thephilospher
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i grind up eggshells and toss em in my soil before i even put plants in, along with diluted tea my
plants are fine, hmm interesting im gonna research this.
plants are fine, hmm interesting im gonna research this.