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Ok farmers, here's my question. Does anyone know how to monitor actuall nutrient uptake? I know you can just watch your ppm's falling, but I want to know what actuall nutrients are being used. I hate listening to people at the hydro shop saying things like my plants use a lot of p or k or so on.
I call bull shit. I think that myself and 95% of everyone else in this industry doesn't know shit about botany, chemistry, or the proper ways to test and monitor nutrient uptake. I grow bomb weed but I think you can get away with a whole lot of overfeed/underfeed and the plants will do ok if you don't really f it up. I have never gave my plants a cal mag supplement and done just fine. I have been using a cal mag supplement for 2 weeks and see no difference. Obviously the plants were getting enough before but are not getting toxic levels so they are maintaining just fine. Another example I have used big bud anywhere from .25 oz/gallon-.5oz/gallon and really see no difference. No burn, no bigger buds, just more money to me and more salts accumulating in the root zone.
So I want to test my water after I mix, and after feedings to see what is really being used by the plant. I would also like to be able to check my coco and see what is accumulating. I've always been told coco holds onto cal mag and there is no need for supplements, but I have no idea how true that is or how much that affects the genetics I'm running as they could or could not be using what is being supplied.
I already know to watch the plants and monitor for deficiencies or burn/ lock out. I'm not looking for that answer. The nute company's know how to build nute profiles on for a generic cannabis diet. How do they know at what time frame a plant uses more p and k and less n? I want to be able to say " ok I put in 250 ppm n, 250 ppm p and 250 k and check after a feed and see what is left, and what the plant is actually up taking. Just watching ppm's fall just means my plants are eating and tells me nothing else. Thanks and sorry for the long rant
I call bull shit. I think that myself and 95% of everyone else in this industry doesn't know shit about botany, chemistry, or the proper ways to test and monitor nutrient uptake. I grow bomb weed but I think you can get away with a whole lot of overfeed/underfeed and the plants will do ok if you don't really f it up. I have never gave my plants a cal mag supplement and done just fine. I have been using a cal mag supplement for 2 weeks and see no difference. Obviously the plants were getting enough before but are not getting toxic levels so they are maintaining just fine. Another example I have used big bud anywhere from .25 oz/gallon-.5oz/gallon and really see no difference. No burn, no bigger buds, just more money to me and more salts accumulating in the root zone.
So I want to test my water after I mix, and after feedings to see what is really being used by the plant. I would also like to be able to check my coco and see what is accumulating. I've always been told coco holds onto cal mag and there is no need for supplements, but I have no idea how true that is or how much that affects the genetics I'm running as they could or could not be using what is being supplied.
I already know to watch the plants and monitor for deficiencies or burn/ lock out. I'm not looking for that answer. The nute company's know how to build nute profiles on for a generic cannabis diet. How do they know at what time frame a plant uses more p and k and less n? I want to be able to say " ok I put in 250 ppm n, 250 ppm p and 250 k and check after a feed and see what is left, and what the plant is actually up taking. Just watching ppm's fall just means my plants are eating and tells me nothing else. Thanks and sorry for the long rant