Fed Daily Lucas Ratio.. 700 ppm ph 6.0 RO ... ocean forrest
happy frog pro mix combo
What is your IPM regiment?
Happy frog may be too nutrient rich to run bottled nutes in veg. It's hard to tell if it's a nutrient imbalance or pestilence.
"Ingredients:
Composted forest humus,
sphagnum peat moss,
perlite,
earthworm castings,
bat guano,
humic acid (derived from
Leonardite),
oyster shell and
dolomite lime (for pH adjustment)."
I don't know why they're using oyster shell and dolomite. I'm thinking it's something with potassium, calcium, or magnesium. Too much of any of these will lock one another out.
Your bottled nutes are very acidic. Acidic enough to attach hydrogen ions to these immobile elements. When you compile the cal/mag or potassium from your bottled nutes you are overloading the plant.
This one gets complicated. I dont feel like reading word for word but too much mag locks out calcium and potassium. It's easy to achieve too much magnesium. Plants do not utilize as much as hydro companies would like you to believe. Too much calcium will lock up magnesium. They can also lock out potassium.
Your best bet if you are feeding bottles nutes is to use a mix that has no amendments to begin with such as HP
promix.
Or....do what I do go buy 3.6 cubic foot spangnum peat moss, Some decent bagged compost or EWC and some perlite or another. I would only amend with crab meal and oyster shell flour only for pH stabilization and the crustacean meals also contain chitin which increases a plants natural defenses against pests. IPM is still a must.
As far as effective foliar IPMs I recommend weekly
neem oil/silica/aloe/lemongrass oil. Make sure lights are out until it dries. The oil will allow the light to burn your plants.
Most "product" IPMs secretly contain certain nutrients such as sulfur, potassium, or magnesium in salt form which give your plants temporary vigor until the plant wants to naturally uptake nutrients in the soil that are in carbonate form.
It gets complicated. Check this chart
@DrMcSkunkins posted.
Home made soil Mix
Mix this in the following amounts:
- 1 part EWC or bagged compost
- 1 part spagnum peat
- 1 part aeration (perlite, rice hulls, uncharted biochar, etc.)
- Oyster shell flour (mix according to sources instructions)
- Crab shell meal (mix according to instructions)
Now you have a better and more balances mix of soil than
FFOF. You can use this for bottles but avoid cal/mag products. Between this mix and the oyster shell flour and crustacean meal you should have plenty of calcium. Mag deficiencies are not due to there not being enough available mag. They are causes by lockout due due excess calcium or potassium. However potassium and sulfur defficiency will decrease your plants ability to process nutrients of any kind.
People think if they add more the.plant is going.to turn into.the giant beanstalk but it's quite.the opposite. Stunted grow, poor root and.flower development are caused by nutrient imbalances way more often than not enough. It just has to be balanced.
