what deficiency?

[Canadaloud]

Does anyone know what this is?

 

[02trueblue]

What kind of soil? Have you fed or sprayed anything? Need a little more info por favor

 

[Canadaloud]

What kind of soil? Have you fed or sprayed anything? Need a little more info por favor

Fox farms happy frog I amended Gaia 4-4-4 and I’ve been giving them a feeding every once in a while with bud juice ancient earth and rhizontonic

 

[THCMonster]

For how small they are you shouldnt have to give them any nutrients, expect maybe the rhizo

If you keep it up you will eventually lock them out!

Also the rust color spots are calcium deficiency, its not common in fox farm soil because they amend their dirt with dolomite lime, but fox farm dirt is meant to be just given plain water, nothing more until your plants actually need more food! Theres plenty in the soil from the start!

I recommend getting some cal-mag and watering with just plain water not even ph'd with cal mag added, only add the cal mag every other watering!

Keep feeding plain water until you see them turn the slightest lime green and then add nutrients to the water.

Just my opinion though

 

[Canadaloud]

Ya

For how small they are you shouldnt have to give them any nutrients, expect maybe the rhizo

If you keep it up you will eventually lock them out!

Also the rust color spots are calcium deficiency, its not common in fox farm soil because they amend their dirt with dolomite lime, but fox farm dirt is meant to be just given plain water, nothing more until your plants actually need more food! Theres plenty in the soil from the start!

I recommend getting some cal-mag and watering with just plain water not even ph'd with cal mag added, only add the cal mag every other watering!

Keep feeding plain water until you see them turn the slightest lime green and then add nutrients to the water.

Just my opinion though

Hey again! You helped me with my smaller plants. I haven’t given them nutes in a while. So you would say it’s a calcium deficiency? How should I approach this Issue. I don’t have cal mag but which type do you recommend preferably organic. I have bud juice which has high cal mag but also a high npk or I have ancient earth which is high in micro nutrients.

 

[THCMonster]

I would do the bud juice, but like i said you dont really need a lot of ppms when your dirt is Fox farm, i would go light, you actually dont need much micro nutrients because RHIZO actually breaks down to become micro nutrients, amino acids and vitamins. But if you use too much micro nutrients then you will get a toxicity from them!

Personally i would say get a seperate calmag product, but if your in a pinch then just go with the bud juice, try not to over do the ppms of it though!

You have to imagine the dirt has ppms of nutrients already in it, if you add additional nutrients in the water then those nutrients build up over time, since your plant uses NPKs the most the all thats left over is ppms of bullshit that your plant hasnt uptaken, thats when nutrient lockout or toxicity of nutrients start to happen.

If you have the ability to test the run off that comes out of your plant then see what the run off tests out at... You should be higher then 300-400ppms over what you feed into your plants, if you are over more then that then you are feeding your plant with too much nutrients.

You have to imagine there is a limit to how many ppms worth of food your plant can take up within a certain given amount of time!

Your run off should also be right around 6.2-6.5 for dirt, if it lower then that then thats when you start running into cal mag deficiency!

 

[02trueblue]

little different train of thought over here, but IMO less is more when plants are that young and I wouldn't add anything else. That soil should have everything that plant needs until it gets much larger.

I would just add some kelp and fulvic acid... it's like giving a vitamin shot to a malnourished plant. The fulvic acid helps the plant use what is there in the soil - instead of adding more nutrients and complicating the problem. The kelp will help the plant in numerous ways without adding more NPK.

A little bit of Mykos will help establish the roots and help the plant get Nitrogen without directly adding more N

 

[Munch517]

Deficiencies can show up because an excess of something else is causing lockout, I wouldn't bet on needing cal-mag to fix this. I'm with the others here saying less is more in that soil, you basically want to go with plain ph-corrected water for awhile. The tougher thing will be to time when you do need to start adding nutes and how much.

 

[Bubbalicious82]

Looking pretty dry as well. What's your RH?Wouldn't use any nutes until week 3 or even later. If need be, GH's Cal Magic works wonders. And if you're using RO water you'll definitely want to add Calmg. Hope you fix this issue and grow a nice beauty.

 

[Canadaloud]

Looking pretty dry as well. What's your RH?Wouldn't use any nutes until week 3 or even later. If need be, GH's Cal Magic works wonders. And if you're using RO water you'll definitely want to add Calmg. Hope you fix this issue and grow a nice beauty.

I’m not to sure About the rh but I think the in-line fan might keep it kinda low.

 

[Beachwalker]

I agree with the consensus, stop feeding for a while; they also look over watered and you also you haven't mentioned pH

 

[Canadaloud]

I agree with the consensus, stop feeding for a while; they also look over watered and you also you haven't mentioned pH

I water once every 3 days or so. I was ph ing the water at 6.5 but the runoff was about 5.5 so yesterday I gave it some rhizotonic cause it ups the ph.

 

[Beachwalker]

I water once every 3 days or so. I was ph ing the water at 6.5 but the runoff was about 5.5 so yesterday I gave it some rhizotonic cause it ups the ph.

I'm not sure why it's so low in fresh foxfarm? I would recommend you first recalibrate your pH meter and then search how to do a slurry test and post your pH & ppm results

 

[Canadaloud]

I'm not sure why it's so low in fresh foxfarm? I would recommend you first recalibrate your pH meter and then search how to do a slurry test and post your pH & ppm results

I use ph liquid test and I think it may be due to nute buildup from over feeding

 

[Mattyice]

Does anyone know what this is?

Lol looks like a plant to me

 

[Mattyice]

I personally don’t feed my plants anything. Good dirt mix tap water and they do great. I spend a lot of time with them loving on the girls. But I would say it’s too much for the little plant to be feeding it right now. Lay off on food and give her just water for a while see what happens, be sure not to over water . Best of luck to ya

 

[Beachwalker]

I use ph liquid test and I think it may be due to nute buildup from over feeding

Again, a slurry test will remove all questions. -good luck!

 

[Canadaloud]

Again, a slurry test will remove all questions. -good luck!

What is a slurry test and what will it determine?