Detroit soil, typically feeding teas every third water so once a week or so. Plants seem to be budding well but losing all the green buds look decent lots of crystals but plants are pale in color and getting worse. Am I wasting electric here or will they finish out? Anything I can do to fix??? Please. Thank you
What am I missing/doing wrong?!?
- Thread starter WaterDog
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OGbobbyjohnsson
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Looks like under feeding my plants locked exaktly the same when i under fed
nurrgle
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Those girls need some food. I would recommend using a good bottled line for a few rounds before jumping into teas, they produce great results but require some experience.
If you worried about wasting electricity then defiantly go the bottle route u til you have your feet under you.
Good thing is you can go buy a bottle of bloom and base from someone and fix the problem. Might see a reduced yield but you’ll still harvest some dank.
If you worried about wasting electricity then defiantly go the bottle route u til you have your feet under you.
Good thing is you can go buy a bottle of bloom and base from someone and fix the problem. Might see a reduced yield but you’ll still harvest some dank.
Boatguy
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Top dress with ewc and compost.
This stuff is awesome too. https://www.amazon.com/Neptunes-Harvest-Seaweed-Blend-Fertilizer/dp/B000IS780Y?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1
This stuff is awesome too. https://www.amazon.com/Neptunes-Harvest-Seaweed-Blend-Fertilizer/dp/B000IS780Y?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1
Kushash
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Give us some details about the tea.
Do you make it or buy it?
How do you make it?
What else have you fed them aside from the tea?
When you water. How much water are you giving each plant?
etruthfx
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You should keep feeding grow nutes up until you see beginner buds forming before switching to bloom nutes. If you don't have enough Nitrogen in the plant to carry all the way through flowering they will start to yellow off prematurely. Either way yellowing is common as they start to finish so I would not worry about it.
etruthfx
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Teas are not enough and will actually impact you negatively if you are not feeding them because the plant is trying to use more nutes than are available
etruthfx
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It's like using Co2 without increasing the light or nutes, it's counter productive to increase microbial nutrient uptake with teas without compensating for nutes, essentially starving the plant.
etruthfx
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Don't quote me on this but over 90% of nutrient uptake is produced by the microbes. I'm not sure of the exact number but it's something close. That's why I use only RO water and never tap because I believe the chlorine and such strips the mycorrhizae
Boatguy
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I think this theory has been debunked on here somewhere. Water is chlorinated just enough to get it safely to your house, not enough chlorine to be antibacterial.
MICHI-CAN
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De chlorinate tap.The cal. mag and other trace elements and minerals are essential. Unless you want to play god and buy and mix try to recreate at home.
etruthfx
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I agree and that's where the VPD curve comes in because like you said transpiration is regulated by temp and humidity. Having all these things in line with the right genetics produces remarkable results. Of course feeding has to be dialed in aswell.
MICHI-CAN
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Unless you have my over sanitized city water. Off the charts. LOL.
etruthfx
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That's why you add CaliMag along with your Grow and sometimes very rarely need to use micro nutes such as FloraMicro though I never do and my plants do wonderful, no micro deficiencies whatsoever.
I live in Michigan where the water is notoriously bad. I have family members who use the City water and they swear by it, but to each their own. I know for a fact RO does not impact them negatively