Organic grow. The only source of CalMag has been through compost tea with molasses and there is some glacial rock dust in the soil.
Some leaf stalks becoming slightly red/purple.
On the next transplant will be adding gypsum and dolomitic limestone (in a week). Adding compost tea today (with double molasses than usual and some glacial rock dust) to see if it helps the following symptoms:
What do you think is going wrong? I don’t pH my compost tea as the microbes are supposed to take care of that. Regular water I pH to 6.5.
Ive raised the kind led light twice to reduce the intensity. Could the discolored leaf be from light bleaching?
I've never actually seen that pattern on leaves before, so I don't know what it is. But I notice it's on lower leaves, which makes me doubt it has anything to do with light intensity.
Are you sure you don't have thrips? I would scope those lower leaves and look for movement. I would highly recommend getting some gypsum and a magnesium source if you aren't using compost. Compost will have mag but not much calcium. You need calcium. Plants consume a lot of it.
I have a half inch top dressing of expanded clay pebbles for decor, protection of microbes from the light, reduction of evaporation.
Underneath that I’m using 2-3 parts peat to 1 part compost with some amendments that didn’t have enough calmag.
Are you sure you don't have thrips? I would scope those lower leaves and look for movement. I would highly recommend getting some gypsum and a magnesium source if you aren't using compost. Compost will have mag but not much calcium. You need calcium. Plants consume a lot of it.
I checked and didn’t notice thrips. I just watered her with compost tea that had 6 tablespoon molasses to 4 gallons water. If that doesn’t help next watering I will try synthetic CalMag.
I don’t want to break my organic grow but I have heard claims from a commercial grow of synergy from using both organic and synthetic nutrients.
Use gypsum for calcium if it is soil. Works excellent and a better option for you. No more molasses though. Seems unnecessary and you may throw off your nutrients
I checked and didn’t notice thrips. I just watered her with compost tea that had 6 tablespoon molasses to 4 gallons water. If that doesn’t help next watering I will try synthetic CalMag.
I don’t want to break my organic grow but I have heard claims from a commercial grow of synergy from using both organic and synthetic nutrients.