Grownsince95 said:

Grownsince95 said:

My suggestion is don't change a thing. The plants look great. A little leaf wonkyness is completely normal when they're young and figuring shit out. Just something to keep an eye on.

One thing about the Lucas method...

GH trio is formulated as just that. 3 parts. It it designed to provide the majority of K through the grow and bloom, the micro has very little. Remove the grow from the equation and you are left getting all your N from the micro and all your K from the bloom while adding extra P the plant doesn't need.

When done correctly it can work really well just keep an eye out for K/Ca/Mg issues. These 3 are all closely related in their interactions and do best in specific ratios.

Looks like you're bottom feeding too so keep the EC on the lower end to avoid excess P buildup and toxicity.

Good luck and keep us posted!

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My suggestion is don't change a thing. The plants look great. A little leaf wonkyness is completely normal when they're young and figuring shit out. Just something to keep an eye on.

One thing about the Lucas method...

GH trio is formulated as just that. 3 parts. It it designed to provide the majority of K through the grow and bloom, the micro has very little. Remove the grow from the equation and you are left getting all your N from the micro and all your K from the bloom while adding extra P the plant doesn't need.

When done correctly it can work really well just keep an eye out for K/Ca/Mg issues. These 3 are all closely related in their interactions and do best in specific ratios.

Looks like you're bottom feeding too so keep the EC on the lower end to avoid excess P buildup and toxicity.

Good luck and keep us posted!

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Grownsince95 said:

Ok hopefully I can hit the points you asked about and explain it in a way that makes sense lol.

Ok first off I usually buffer my own coco because I'm cheap and buy it in bulk, but I guess when in doubt, a second buffering by you will not hurt at all, might even help. It's just annoying work.

The most important thing is your tap water. Are you familiar with every detail about it? This will guide your decisions on a lot of issues.

That brings me back to the salt buildup question, and the repotting. If you're like me and only ever want to do it once, the larger pot will have a lot of coco with no roots yet. Unfortunately you still have to treat this pot more like a DWC bucket than a pot of dirt because your thinking about the salt buildup is spot on. If you have the correct amount of perlite and you didn't pack down the coco when you planted there's always enough air in the pot (like DWC) to avoid suffocating them.

It seems so wasteful and annoying to water that way and it is. Many new growers try to get around it (including myself) but it's a dead end street.

As far as feeding goes I start the babies in the 400s and move up to about the 800s in peak flower depending on how they respond. I've never hit 1000.

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Trich99 said:

Thanks for breaking that all down man. I’m not 100% about the tap water to be honest. I thought I could get away with adding some calmag if I noticed a deficiency but maybe that’s not the way to approach it. I’ll send a sample off to get tested when I got some time. Just for clarification on the repotting though, you’re saying keep the whole pot saturated and water to runoff as usual?

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