Ninjadogma
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The first grow of a strain is where you learn the nutritional needs and the light limits for the specific plant. I am on my 3rd grow on my specific Apple Fritter and the first 3 plants got amended differently and I figured this out
You are correct that nitrogen is a mobile nutrient and that a fade would normally rob lowers. I have no answer for that. I have looked at the nutrients and as I suspected you are not using it to the feed chart. There is also a huge hole in nitrogen in the bloom tab and a complete lack of phosphorus in the grow tab. In addition this appears to be a chemical nutrient system that is readily available to the plant but as always that is dependant on a proper pH environment.
2 ways to get sideways on chemical nutes. Overuse can cause a lockout. pH out of range for uptake.
Any chance we had a bout of overwatering for a week or 2 in the history of the grow? Wet feet syndrome would explain this.
Chemical ferts in soil work fine but they have rules to follow. Normally a grower checks the incoming EC and the outgoing EC for trends when things go wrong. It will indicate a plant eating or a plant in lockout. When testing the outflow for EC is when you check your pot pH.
Lots of guys run chemicals at feed chart specs and never check anything and never have a problem. I is not one of those guys as I run organic top dress and ferts.
Good luck.
Went back to post the NPK and it looks like RQS translation of the page from German to English is hosed. I found it the first time I linked but the second time it went all German and dropped the information.
Aw come on Jim who doesn't like a good game of soil roulette? Start with a nutrient rich organic soil, put some good dry amends in along the way, and then mix your wet nutes and check your incoming and outgoing EC and pH numbers as you go and try and figure out what's all going on
Seriously anybody stumbling on this in the future dont try this, you're gonna probably have a really bad time figuring out what's what.
I think you've got it the other way around.I thought they were mineral nutrients that are instantly available to the plants since they don’t have to be converted by the microbes anymore?
Thats the reason ive been watering untill 20% runoff