adding lime to soil w/ plants already in.(help needed)

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meant to post this link too. whoops.

http://boards.cannabis.com/plant-pro...hy-how-do.html

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[steezyd]

whewwww...and i thought today was my day off -lol

I flushed all the plants w/ 2 more gallons of water(3 total now) w/ ph'd 6.8 water and by the last gallon the run off was 6.0-6.2...

Ill still post pics of them tomorrow during "light on" hours, now the soil is super drenched...im assuming it wont even be close to dry until saturday...should I wait until top 2-3 inches are dry or close to it before watering?

and the grow chart reads like this

(Day1) (day2) (day3) (day4) (day5) (day6) (day7)
Week1 100-200 100-200 100-200 100-200 100-200 100-200 100-200
week2 200-350 200-350 200-350 200-350 200-350 200-350 200-350
week3 350-500 350-500 350-500 350-500 350-500 350-500 350-500
week4 500-750 500-750 500-750 500-750 500-750 500-750 500-750

week5 750-850
week6 850-1000
week7 1000-1200
week8 1000 - 1200
week9 800-1000
week10 600-800
week11 400-600
week12 0

should i follow that?

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that looks like it's a hydro feed chart. not positive though. what nutes are you actually using? it looks like they sale different brands on that site.

like i said, you should be feeding once, maybe twice a week (depending on strength). if you feed everyday you will over feed and over water. your PPMs aren't nearly important in soil as it is in hydro. in one feeding you can push your PPM to 2000 or 2200 (give or take). some strains are more tolerant to high PPMS, some are not. you might be able to push it a bit higher, but do it gradually.

good growing!


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[steezyd]

Im using CNS(brand name) - Grow,Ripe, Bloom mixed w/ Liquid karma...

I have to admit when u say feed them once-twice a week im shocked its that low...but at the same time I realize the advice i was given must of have been very shotty...I was told to feed them every day!...but the person who told me this also keeps the temp at 85 on purpose....so yea...I think Ill try twice a week...starting whenever the top 2-3 inches are dry...I just called two hydro stores to back up your info so im definably going that route...

here are some pics from today
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http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1554/10802.jpg
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you the man

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Im using CNS(brand name) - Grow,Ripe, Bloom mixed w/ Liquid karma...

I have to admit when u say feed them once-twice a week im shocked its that low...but at the same time I realize the advice i was given must of have been very shotty...I was told to feed them every day!...but the person who told me this also keeps the temp at 85 on purpose....so yea...I think Ill try twice a week...starting whenever the top 2-3 inches are dry...I just called two hydro stores to back up your info so im definably going that route...

you the man

it's pretty much common practice to feed plants in soil once/twice a week as described. a good way to tell if you ladies need to be fed/watered is to make a diamond with the thumb and forefinger from each hand. pick up the pot this way and lightly bounce it up and down. do this when you know it's dry and then right after you water. you will feel the difference. when it feels empty again it's time to feed/water.

use plain, pH'd water in between feedings. if you use reverse osmosis water you must use a calcium/magnesium supplement or molasses.


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[steezyd]

ok so things have been pretty solid so far,no curling plants are healthy for the most part...I gave them a higher ph/d (6.8-6.7) water for a week before resuming regular ph levels...I now think it might have been to soon to give them (6.5-6.4) ph'd water.

8 of the plants looked great, they really took well to the flushing...4 of the plants were hacked up a little more when they were clones and took a little longer to recover, I used the same amount of flushing solution on all of them(1/4 tsp per gallon) but the 4 weaker ones took the flushing solution a lil harder then they should have and were more of a pale green then true green like the other 8...but they are still recovering nicely.

The reason im posting now is because on 2-3 of plants there was some very slight brown spots which turned to rust spots over the weekend...I did some research and tested my runoff again...and its a litte low at 5.9-6.0...

The last time i gave them nuted water(350ppm) was last monday(10/11)...I was going to give them nuted water(500ppm) today but now I think that would be pointless if theres a ph problem since they might be in lockout...

so I was going to give them ph'd(6.8) RO water w/ cal mag today and the rest of the week to try and balance out the ph in the soil...

what do you think shake? I should probly mention this is my last 7 days of VEG...I really wanted to pump them w/ nutes and try and hit the 2ft mark(16inches now) but now i just want to get into flowering w/ everything ok

[steezyd]

Ill post pictures soon

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let's see those pics. i'll see what i think then.

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[steezyd]

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1...1010181403.jpg

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8...1010181401.jpg

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/8...1010181401.jpg

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looks like they need to be fed. how dry is the soil?

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