Also this is the official chart for when youre using
calimagic. There's no chart for just tripart and
calimagic but it should be able to be absorved even though the low nitrogen makes me wonder if it works with the other supplements for optimal intake, because its sold as the "pro performace pack".
I had not seen that official GH Trio chart and now I'm a bit confused because that chart doesn't seem to even fit what's on the bottles of the Trio at all. For me in week seven, the bottle says Micro 10ml/gal, Grow 5ml/gal, Bloom 15ml/gal and
Calimagic just says 1 ml/l. However, I've actually been religiously following this chart I found on GWE since it seems to have been working so well:
I'm at the end of week 11 in this chart and the only thing I've done differently is that I've been giving them
CaliMagic all week, even though it says to discontinue it. I did that because the issue started showing up around the start of the week (I think I actually omitted it for one or two days).
What is the PH of your water with nutes? Might be a lock out rather than a deficiency due to lack of calcium and magnessium in the soil. Youre using a supplement that is precisely to avoid
calmag deficiencies and
floramicro also has
calmag so I highly doubt the ammount isnt there, its something else.
Prior to this week, I had been allowing the ph to drift up by .2 to 6.4 and then down by .2 to 5.6, which in my thinking would allow the plant to uptake any nutrient it needed while not causing too much of a change at any time. I did this throughout the grow. When the issue first started happening, I was on the way back up to about 6.0, which means I had fed below 6.0 for about four days. I'll admit I'm a little OCD, but I saw a chart where certain nutrients could only be absorbed at certain ph's. For the last four or five days I've been feeding around 6.3-6.4 thinking the low ph had locked out the nitrogen. When I finally tested the runoff a few days ago, it was 5.85, so I thought maybe I had the problem solved and could remedy it by feeding higher ph's, which I've been doing until the runoff has come up to 6.2, but the decay is still spreading.
you are not giving too much in the way of nutrients otherwise you would have tip burn , coco apparently holds onto a lot of calcium , and calcium competes for uptake on the roots with other nutrients, . i did this a few weeks ago and as soon as i added
calmag it cleared up immediatly
I actually having a little tip burn as of this morning. Your photo looks like all the photos I've seen of calcium deficiency, but mine looked a little different to start with. This is how it started a week ago:
See how it started in the center of the leaves in one splotch and then spread out? Not like the spots of brown caused by calcium def I see in your pic and so many others. This has made it really difficult to pin down for me.
The thing is, he is already using
calmag and a base that also comes with calcium and magnessium. Even the hard water version comes with calcium and magnessium (there's the soft water micro version that comes with even more). Which one are you using? And what type of water and PH?
I am using well water that is moderately hard with a ph of about 7.6. I'm just using the standard Trio--it doesn't mention water type or hardness. I'm using the GH ph Down.
So if you know you're feeding it enough calcium, environmental factors can get in the way of absorption.
I'm certain I'm giving them enough calcium, probably way more than they need, but I can't figure out what other nutrient or environmental factors to adjust--and that's even if it is calcium def.
I have to thank all of you. I'm an English and Creative Writing graduate so it is deeply ingrained in me to be very thorough and specific, even at the cost of wordiness. I am well used to seeing people's eyes glaze over at my ramblings--as I'm sure some of yours are now too.
