Indoor Sun King
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I just recently bought bottle of "Botanicare Cal-Mag Plus" (1 USA Quart)
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greenwarrior321
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I just bought the same thing my hydro. Store guy I trust said to go with that brand as it is pretty ph netural.
Shaggn
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Wha s the best way o remove all root material using Cannazym. A) soaking the medium for a certain amount of days before reusing? or B) transplanting new clones into medium and adding Cannazym into the feed/water for the first 2 weeks? I'm personally thinking the latter as I don't have space to soak and rinse easily. Rinsing my perlite n the beginning was a real PITA and would like to avoid that route if I could lol Peace!!
WattSaver
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I should have explained better. It's not just a cal prob but a cal/mag most likely.
You are correct about the brown spots, but this only shows a little later on. The roots need the cal and with a young plant building roots is really important, if the roots can't draw up enough food then the plant will eat itself (lower yellow in young plants is an indication there might be a root problem) . Now the upper yellow is due to a mobile element like mag
Here a couple of blurbs on cal & mag
Magnesium (Mg) - Micronutrient and Mobile Element
Magnesium helps supports healthy veins while keeping a healthy leaf production and its structure. Magnesium is significant for chlorophyll-production and enzyme break downs. Magnesium which must be present in relatively large quantities for the plant to survive, but yet not to much to where it will cause the plant to show a toxicity.
Magnesium is one of the easiest deficiencies to tell the green veins along with the yellowness of the entire surrounding leave is a dead giveaway, but sometimes thats not always the case here. In case you have one of those where it doesnt show the green veins, sometimes leaf tips and edges may discolour and curl upward. The growing tips can turn lime green when the deficiency progresses to the top of the plant. The edges will feel like dry and crispy and usually affects the lower leaves in younger plants, then will affect the middle to upper half when it gets older, but It can also happen on older leaves as well. The deficiency will start at the tip then will take over the entire outer left and right sides of the leaves. The inner part will be yellow and or brownish in colour, followed by leaves falling without withering. The tips can also twist and turn as well as curving upwards as if you curl your tongues.
Excessive levels of magnesium in your plants will exhibit a buildup of toxic salts that will kill the leaves and lock out other nutrients like Calcium (Ca). Mg can get locked out by having too much Calcium, Chlorine or ammonium in your soil/water.
One of the worst problems a person can have is a magnesium def caused by a ph lockout. By giving it more magnesium to cure the problem when you are thinking you are doing good, but actually you are doing more harm then good. When the plants cant take in a nutrient because of the ph being off for that element, the plant will not absorb it but it will be in the soil therefore causing a buildup. A buildup will be noticed by the outer parts of the plant becoming whitish and or a yellowish color. The tips and part way in on the inner leaves will die and feel like glass. Parts affected by Magnesium deficiency are: space between the veins (Interveinal) of older leaves; may begin around interior perimeter of leaf.
Calcium (Ca) -Macro Nutrient and an Immobile element.
Calcium is another important element that helps the plants cell walls, cell division in making the plants stems, stalks, branches stronger, as well as contributing to root growth, mostly the newer root hairs, Calcium also helps enhancing the uptake of K in the the plants roots. Calcium moves really slow within the plant and tends to concentrate in roots and older growth.
When plants exhibit a Calcium deficiency the younger leaves are the first to show it as well as older leaves. The Leaf tips will die back, the tips may curl, and growth of the plant is stunted. The plant can show a weakness in the stems and branches, as well as a under developed root system that can lead to bacteria problems with roots dieing off. Having slow plant transpiration rates can aggravate the uptake of calcium. Make sure your soil isnt very acidic, for calcium gets harder to be absorbed through acidic soils, Which leads to having a plant that is deficient in Calcium. The leaf tips, edges and new growth will or may turn a yellow/brown colour that happen in spots and often surrounded by a sharp brown outlined edge and then the leaf tips die back. If too much calcium is given at an early stage of growth it can stunt the growth of your plants. Having to much of calcium will also flocculate when a concentrated form is combined with potassium. The parts affected by a calcium deficiency are the roots. Stem or petiole, young or old leaves.
Too much Calcium will lead to other micronutrient deficiencies. Calcium fixation is caused by many types of mediums such as: clay soils, unbuffered coco and humus. The lime tends to bond to these soils very easily. The stems of the plant will not be able to hold the plant up and will exhibit a white brown in between the veins of the leaves when having too much calcium. Also having to much potassium and or nitrogen will cause a calcium lockout.
jela10
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Hi Shag! Since I have some and use it religiously during a grow, it says on directions for use that when reusing the growing medium, double the dose for one or two weeks. A single dose is 10ml/gal all through the grow, however my Canna grow charts don't show Cannazyme additions for the first 3-5 days for seed starts and rooting. Looks like it's not a big hit to ppm as even with Canna A&B and Rhizotonic in week 2 the ppm is only 550 on the Hanna meters (0.5 conversion). My roots are so prolific when I breakdown my buckets I just start with new medium so I have no experience in medium reuse with it. Checkout this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpTc_8FLGow
jela10
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As you may know I'm an RO water user due to the 800pm tap we get from a desert aquifer. I've always wondered why Canna and other nutrient lines say to add Cal/Mag first to your water, so I finally had the time and went in search of the reason. I was reading this week and found a really interesting link about buffering your water to stabilize pH. It appears that simply adding something acidic or alkaline to your water will adjust your pH but only on a temporary basis...as it will continually swing. But if you raise your pH first by adding an alkaline to bring it too high, then add an acid to bring it back low enough for your target, you have properly "buffered" the solution and it remains much more stable. So Cal/Mag being alkaline raises your pH then adding your base nutes drops it lower. So there is why I get lucky and never have to check my pH often....growing with coco taught me to go with 5ml/gal from the start and I've always added it first. BTW, even though I use a graduated syringe to measure my base nutes...for Cal/Mg I use this plastic squirt bottle that you see mustard in at cheap cafe's. I just shoot a teaspoon in the mixing jug to get things started...fast and convenient.
jela10
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Nizza, the rockwool grow cubes/coco combo is working out fine with the Sharksbreath....I water a lot more (dang-it) but couldn't ask for a finer pair of lady's. At just 19days of flower they hit 36" today....rocking the hempy again. The reservoir is all 3/4" rockwool cubes, the top is 30% rockwool/70% coco. Funny, the rockwool is so absorbent I can't get overflow with my normal feed quantity, and the bucket is light at 2.5 days with no leaf droop...blows me away. I've premeasured my nutes in little 3oz travel bottles so I can dump them in a mixing bucket at a moments notice just in case they start needing it every 2 days. Could just be a thirsty strain, not the medium....check out my knobby nodes down low (that sounds bad I know)
newworldicon
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Looking good mate, be proud!!
Shivaskunk
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Yeah, I think its a great idea to raise ph before adding anything.
With Hempy now I don't check my EC or ph every time as it seems almost idiot proof lol.
With Hempy now I don't check my EC or ph every time as it seems almost idiot proof lol.
As you may know I'm an RO water user due to the 800pm tap we get from a desert aquifer. I've always wondered why Canna and other nutrient lines say to add Cal/Mag first to your water, so I finally had the time and went in search of the reason. I was reading this week and found a really interesting link about buffering your water to stabilize pH. It appears that simply adding something acidic or alkaline to your water will adjust your pH but only on a temporary basis...as it will continually swing. But if you raise your pH first by adding an alkaline to bring it too high, then add an acid to bring it back low enough for your target, you have properly "buffered" the solution and it remains much more stable. So Cal/Mag being alkaline raises your pH then adding your base nutes drops it lower. So there is why I get lucky and never have to check my pH often....growing with coco taught me to go with 5ml/gal from the start and I've always added it first. BTW, even though I use a graduated syringe to measure my base nutes...for Cal/Mg I use this plastic squirt bottle that you see mustard in at cheap cafe's. I just shoot a teaspoon in the mixing jug to get things started...fast and convenient.
whocares100
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Just checking in all and he's still hanging in there...Today is his 58th Birthday and I'm thankful...
Miss U moe...hope ya get back online soon
Miss U moe...hope ya get back online soon
Figong
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Agreed with this.. don't rush the cut / trim, take as much time as you need to dodge real life headaches while focusing on your lovely ladies, and Happy Birthday Moebius!I have a feeling that with a 180+ Moe may be busy trimming for a while
sky rocket
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Finally hempy family I've been reading on everyone else's fun and success wih hemps. Now it's my turn to show y'all some love. I took 84 cuttings 40 off one, 32 of another and 12 off the last one wich was the least productive one) all from 3 Pineapple Express moms in dwc. The even better part is that all my cuttings average 6 to 8 inches. I started them last Sunday in my 120 site ez clone cloner on 24/7. I'm debating on putting them in a 5 minutes off 1 minute on because the water was slightly warm and this is my first time rooting clones on 24/7. I used to do 1 min on 5 minutes off with great success. I'm going to fill the other 36 sites with super lemon haze ( I know it's a sativa and it may not do well in a sog) and some reserve privada holy grail kush. I'll put some pics once they start to root. So hopefully I will have 120 sog 2l's under 2x600's XXXL Magnum 8" hoods in a 5x9 gorilla tent by the end of the month.
Oh and I'm all going to sex my grand daddy purple so I can maybe have 120 gdp's on my 2nd run if all goes well on my first run. Also I will be ordering Hortilab seeds south star. I read that it should be good in a sog setup or I may just hold out and pop my current positronics sees blue rhino. Yeah I'm getting carried away with these seeds. I'm just too excited. My nutes will either be house of garden or dutch masters nutes. See y'all soon.
Oh and I'm all going to sex my grand daddy purple so I can maybe have 120 gdp's on my 2nd run if all goes well on my first run. Also I will be ordering Hortilab seeds south star. I read that it should be good in a sog setup or I may just hold out and pop my current positronics sees blue rhino. Yeah I'm getting carried away with these seeds. I'm just too excited. My nutes will either be house of garden or dutch masters nutes. See y'all soon.
Nizza
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ok i deleted my orig post, but what i am trying to do is make batches of nutes before i water, several days in advance. I have my air pumps and plan to do 3 containers, one pure water (with added s.o.s., cal-mag, pro-tekt, and KLN), one with veg nutes+added other things, and one with bloom nutes and added other things. If i think that one needs a lighter dose as im pouring it in there ill add an extra cup of the water, how does this sound??
before i was thinking of doing it all mathematical, with lines and mixing it all together at certain ratios, but struggled with the math and decided to K.I.S.S.
before i was thinking of doing it all mathematical, with lines and mixing it all together at certain ratios, but struggled with the math and decided to K.I.S.S.
Indoor Sun King
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I'm so happy because I have first hempy girl...yippee...just seen the preflowers...they are very small but clearly female...this is hempy "A" , the biggest of the bunch.
the bad news...hempy "D" is starting to look rather manish....I hope I'm calling this wrong but I have grown more males than females....a stat I'm not overly proud of
the bad news...hempy "D" is starting to look rather manish....I hope I'm calling this wrong but I have grown more males than females....a stat I'm not overly proud of
whocares100
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Well good day here today, Hubby spoke a bit and has not in awhile and drink some Pepsi..ate a little Ice Cream, but did enjoy the over 20 Birthday cards our friends sent him...
I taped them all to the mirror in the bedroom where he can see them, he said he hated looking in the mirror anyway so it was a good thing..the bad thing is Hospice nurse said he breath smelled like death...
I know at this time he may not survive and I'm ok with him being free and out of pain, it will not hurt any less for me to lose him .
I taped them all to the mirror in the bedroom where he can see them, he said he hated looking in the mirror anyway so it was a good thing..the bad thing is Hospice nurse said he breath smelled like death... I know at this time he may not survive and I'm ok with him being free and out of pain, it will not hurt any less for me to lose him .
Figong
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Out of principle, I refuse to use the like button - do know that my thoughts are with you and yours during this trying time.. and if you ever need someone to talk with at any point whatsoever, my inbox is always open.Well good day here today, Hubby spoke a bit and has not in awhile and drink some Pepsi..ate a little Ice Cream, but did enjoy the over 20 Birthday cards our friends sent him...View attachment 2608879 I taped them all to the mirror in the bedroom where he can see them, he said he hated looking in the mirror anyway so it was a good thing..the bad thing is Hospice nurse said he breath smelled like death...