Jaykay
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My hesitation with flushing is its organic living soil and ideally I don't want to flush out the good stuff.Flushing never hurts. Flush it with Epsom salts 1 TBL/gsl
Why did you add calcium in the first place?So its my first run with organic soil growing with amendments. I foolishly added too much calcium. I began feeding mollasses but it coincided with a top dressing and in addition to the dolomite already in the soil it has now overfed with calcium.
It started with noticable brown/rust spots aswell as a K deficiency. The rust spots have grown and claimed a few older fan leaves and has spread to some medium size leaves around bud sites the spread has slowed down but not stopped. Buds still seem to be packing on some weight.
It's been a week now since the first signs and the buds are still putting on weight but have noticed a decrease in water uptake.
Should I flush or let it ride?
I always add a bit of med sized granules of dolomite lime as a slow release for cal/mag and to stabilize PH. I use mollasses as a carb/sugar to feed the soil/sweeten buds. And the gaia green dry amendment as a a slow release fert. The addition of mollasses during flower is what I believe disrupted the calmag levels.Why did you add calcium in the first place?
I'm considering flushing tomorrow if things are worse. If no change I'll let it ride I'm thinking. I feel that flushing could have a negative effect by activating more nutrients that are still in the soil. If this were a soiless grow with bottled nutes I would have flushed it awhile ago.It looks chronic. You need to flush out whatever you've done to it. Just riding it out will probably do othing but harm. Its your plant do whatever you want
It for sure is not from too much dolomite. Those granules have been in the soil since transplant before flowering and I didn't add much.As I said, If i were you, I'd flush it with water and pH down (pHed to 5.5 or 6), along with a touch of molasses or whatever sugar you normally feed your microbes. You can replenish with some microbes later.
I like to call the way I grow, organic-ish. I'm organic, but if I make a major fuck-up, like adding too much limestone/dolomite, I fix it by any means necessary. Your plants wont mind, but they will mind too much of that nice, "organically OK" dolomite, which has made them weak.
You're not growing microbes, your growing pot. Your pot is sick from too much dolomite in the soil. Don't worry about a bunch of one-celled motherfuckers who can easily be replaced in a day. Get your pH down. If you'd prefer to use vinegar, use vinegar, but don't forget the goal is weed.
Could you elaborate on why you think it'd be too much bi carbonates? There is already peat in my mix.I don't think it's too much calcium but that is symenatics. Looks like too much bi carbonates. Can you add some peat? Maybe five handfuls? That should neutralize it
Again.. it's not from too much dolomite! The granules have been in there for weeks now. The calcium in the mollasses is what I believe upset the balance with the timing of the top dressing of dry amendments.I would top dress gypsum to get calcium to the plant at the same time as adding the peat to drop the pH. Yes you have peat but you have too much dolomite aka Calcium/magnesium bicarbonates. Peat is around 5 to 5.5 pH without any liming.
There is actually already gypsum in my dry amendment. I've always used dolomite lime in small amounts with great success and as a necessity when I was using soiless medium.Mollasses is a waste imo but you aren't getting too much calcium because of it. Maybe too much potassium though which will lock out calcium.
Either way I would add peat to get your pH down and stop using mollasses. My advice on gypsum still stands but the plant is hurting at this point and won't recover this run. Stop using bicarbonates if you want my advice. Gypsum is superior. Check your water too
It's municipal tap water from an aquafier sourced from a fresh water great lake. It's a bit on the alkaline side at 7.5-8 ph but isn't considered "hard". I am unsure of ppm but it hasn't given me issues in the past.Where is you water coming from? Do you know the carbonates in it?
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